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SYNC SCREEN

with Charlotte Krieger, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Florian Pittet (Sigmasix), Vincent Jacquier, Julien Gurtner, Matthieu Minguet, Cédric Duchêne, EPFL+ECAL Lab, Giacomo Bastianelli

For a week, the first-year visual communications students worked on an installation consisting of 15 screens, accompanied by a 360° sound system developed by EPFL+ECAL Lab. This chandelier, five metres in diameter and suspended from a height of three metres, served as a support for their experiments. Using music specially composed and spatialised for the occasion, the students explored the dynamics of sound both visually and in movement.

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Hyperlab

with Vincent Jacquier, Angelo Benedetto, Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Clément Rouzaud

In collaboration with the HYPEROUEST music festival, ECAL students were given the opportunity to design a visual installation in the room adjacent to the festival's ephemeral club, located on the Veillon wasteland in Crissier. For this project, 1st-year students worked in groups, mixing Bachelors in Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design and Photography. Their main objective was to create powerful and creative visual sequences around the central theme of "HYPER". At the same time, second-year students in the Graphic Design option enriched this project by developing the exhibition's visual identity. These interdisciplinary collaborations stimulated exchanges and encouraged visual cohesion, connecting the different ideas and reinforcing the "laboratory" and experimental aspect of the project.

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Workshop Stefanie Moshammer

with Stéfanie Moshammer

« For this workshop there are no rules but I want you to tell me a story. I prefer to see a few images with a good concept, rather than too many images without any idea. » S.M With this invitation, the students worked on the territory of the city of Renens in search of places, people and traces of a history that is not simply a series of beautiful images.

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Workshop Paolo Wood

with Paolo Wood

It has been established that photography is a language. With all its limitations and peculiarities, but a language anyway. Photography is often a relatively poor language that constantly repeats the same nouns and verbs. In the documentary tradition, the range of subjects treated is quite limited and recurrent, and for this reason, in order to make photographs, one must learn and master this language: its vocabulary, its grammar and its history.

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Earth is Already Crying

with Anouk Kruithof

"Earth is already crying" workshop d'une semaine avec l'artiste Anouk Kruithof.

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Humans Have Bodies

with Maya Rochat

Humans Have Bodies, workshop with the Swiss artist Maya Rochat. Projects realised by the first year students of the Photography unit during a one week workshop. The workshop was based on the novel "Sapiens" by historian and author Yuval Noah Harari. "100.000 years ago, the earth was inhabited by at least six different species of hominids. Only one survived. We, the Homo Sapiens" Each student had to interpret a chapter of the book relatively to her/his personal work.

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Workshop Novembre Magazine

with Nicolas Coulomb, Florence Tétier

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Undo

with Shirana Shahbazi

For one week, artist and photographer Shirana Shahbazi asked the 3rd year students in the Bachelor Photography to revisit their work. By changing, re-editing and destroy existing forms and materials, the students were able to broaden the scope of possibilities in the various production processes. The title "Undo" invites students to get rid of their methodology and explore beyond their own borders, through a more refined approach to the concept of form.

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Improvisation is shit

with Melanie Bonajo

"Improvisation is shit" is a performance workshop introducing role-play and improvisation techniques led by Melanie Bonajo at ECAL. During the workshop the students are challenged to negotiate again what it means to be human by way of our relationship to technology and systems of control. The onset of the digital era and the steady increase in globalised secular values has led to sexuality as a sphere of daily life being more visible and more available than ever. Nevertheless, it seems as though people are losing the ability to make meaningful connections even in physically intimate circumstances. What does it say about our society that many people would rather meet and then ghost a hook up rather than pay someone for a conscious orgasm? And what does it say if Capitalism is making money off of our loneliness and incapacities to source our own intimacy?

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BRUTAL 003

with Nicolas Poillot

To celebrate the Paris Photo 2019 edition, the Bachelor Photography students of ECAL, under the artistic direction of Nicolas Poillot, translated the music of the producer IKAZ BOI into images. The visuals, sometimes smooth and neat, sometimes dark and rough, were produced by listening to the new project BRUTAL 3: an  intimate album oscillating between romance and darkness composed with instrumental tracks only. Exclusively, 500 unpublished and numbered vinyl copies were created especially for this occasion. For two days, ECAL invests the Au Roi gallery, inviting spectators to a sound and visual journey, in an ephemeral sensory space generated by a synchronous video installation. HD Images Cocktail: 07.11.19 from 19h00 to 21h30 (by invitation only) Exhibition: from 08.11.19 to 09.11.19 from 10h00 to 20h00 Place: Au Roi, 75, rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi, 75011 Paris After: Brutal Party Curators: Nicolas Poillot & Milo Keller Students: Mina Albespy, Faustine Ardaine, Maëwenn Bourcelot, Sarah Coppet, Gaël Corboz, Noé Cotter, Matthieu Croizier, Alexandra Dautel, Charlotte Favre, Laurent Fiorentino, Norida Ho, Gohan Keller, Achille Laplante - The Brown, Pavo Marinovic, Santiago Martinez, Mindaugas Matulis, Anouk Maupu, Maxime Pouillot, Margot Sparkes, Tara Ulmann, Valentin Woeffray Partners: Know-How, Heineken, Elipson www.ecal.ch www.nicolaspoillot.com www.auroi.fr

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Zone Grise

with Taiyo Onorato

For their first workshop at ECAL, the first year Bachelor Photography students were given the opportunity to work with the Swiss photographer duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. After receiving 20Kg of clay each, they began their plastic exploration with the creation of a mask, a recognizable and anthropomorphic form. By gradually moving away from figuration, the clay, gradually transforming into an image, has been the founding element of formal, intuitive and experimental explorations. The results have been published in the form of a book and an ephemeral installation in a closed and fragile space where the frenzy of creation seems frozen in time.

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Mise en Espace

with Anja Schori

This semester, ECAL had the opportunity to welcome the Swiss artist Anja Schori for a one-week workshop. The students developed a project that interacts with the school space, exploring the issue of the spatialization of photography. Their work studies and analyses the way in which photography is transformed and adopts an installative, even sculptural, character. By using architecture, infrastructure, objects, materials, light, etc., students transform the 2D image into a three-dimensional subject related to its exhibition space. The final result does not show images on the wall, but images that have gone through a transformation process.

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Workshop Renate Buser

with Renate Buser, Milo Keller

For a week, the Swiss artist Renate Buser led a workshop with students in first year Bachelor Photography. The ECAL building, a former factory converted into an art school in 2006 by architect Bernhard Tschumi, was the starting point for their photographic explorations. The rules of the game: two black and white films per student and darkroom prints that helped define the initial framework. By taking advantage of the constraints, the varied results illustrate the creativity of the students who experiment with options in shooting, drawing and installation.

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Workshop Antony Cairns

with Antony Cairns

For one week Ecals bachelor students had the chance to work with photographer and artist Antony Cairns. The workshops aim was to investigate a variety of processes within the history of photography. Since the invention of the medium, photography has shared a close relationship with technology. Students had the chance to explore a range of forgotten techniques and machines to create artworks around the theme of time while researching its connection to other art pieces, films, books, and images that shared the same theme. Cairns' practice has been hugely inspired by cyberpunk science fiction and Futurology. These subject matters led him to explore new ways to interpret the photographic medium.

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Workshop with Camille Vivier

with Camille Vivier

The workshop held by fashion photographer Camille Vivier with the second year Bachelor Photography students has immersed in the world of the peep show, oscillating between eroticism, voyeurism, gender and beauty. The students had the chance to study the mixed light but also the pose of the body and the staging, in a cinematographic atmosphere, warm, soft, smoky and foggy.

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Workshop Thomas Albdorf

with Thomas Albdorf

Workshop held by Austrian photographer Thomas Albdorf with the first year bachelor in photography students. Under the title "Working from memories", Albdorf introduced the students into his approach in image making and  asked them to find ways to react to recent technological developments in image production. with the photographic tools that largely determine the photographers practice, be it camera-based photography, photorealistic 3D-rendering or still lives in front of a mostly flat constructed scenery.

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Workshop Christian Patterson

with Christian Patterson

For a week, the New York based photographer Christian Patterson worked with the first year students in photography of ECAL on the edit, sequence, layout and design of a book. Starting off from pre-existing books, the students developed together with Christian Patterson their own book in a book.

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Workshop Antje Peters

with Antje Peters

interlacing the image - process 1st step create and shoot three still lifes without focusing on a certain product or object. in other words : create ‘abstract images’ through various ingredients. you could use: paper, fluids, photoshop, paint, cloth, etc. 2nd step create objects out of the 3 abstract still life images you shot earlier. think about the presentation of the photograph in the space. try to stretch the general concept of the two dimensional image, the photograph (not just a print on the wall). find and explain the connection between image, object and presentation. 3rd step re-shoot the objects you created, your ‘products’, in the studio. be inspired by and try to stretch the visual clichés of online-shop and catalogue photography.

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Workshop Peter Knapp

by 2 BAPH

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Workshop Stefan Burger

by 2 BAPH

Burrowstagram - asocial media today "Once i dug a hole in the ground close by the Karlsruhe Palace, with a swiss knife, in the middle of a meadow. The hole had the dimensions of 25 cm depths to a diameter of 15 cm. Holes are important in photography. With 1/4 liter of sparkling mineral water and a hand full of the excavated earth I mixed a soft and creamy fluid with which i lubricated my left foot. Tenderly i slipped the foot into the burrow and left it there for 37 days, eyes closed i listened to the sound of the birds and the wind in the trees."

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Workshop Lucas Blalock

with Lucas Blalock

"Imagine for a moment that photography is not a good copier but a rather a fairly poor one that is constantly needing to be propped up through formal play, association, and intervention. What does it mean to make a copy? Why do we do it? What is a good copy? One answer to this proposition, that the photograph is a bad copy, would be to make another kind of copy that was better. This is an entirely valid position. However, in today’s world the photograph is an important type of copy because it is able to travel through networks at an extremely high speed and not lose its most important qualities. During the workshop, students was asked to attend to a site within the city and use the tools of contemporary photographic making (the camera, the computer, the studio, and the printer) to draw out their relationships to these environs in more palpable ways. This means shooting out in the world or bringing things back subjects from outside and photographing them in the studio, all the while processing." Lucas Blalock

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Summer University Rio de Janeiro

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with Viktoria Binschtok

Hashtags: #myneedlessitem #perfectday #measananimal #yellowsecret #wtf/bw

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The Embarrassment Show

with Milo Keller, Erik Kessels

After ECAL in June 2015 and Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam in September 2015, ECAL Bachelor Photography students present "The Embarrassment Show", an exhibition curated by Erik Kessels, cofounder & creative director of KesselsKramer (Amsterdam), at the  NRW-Forum Düsseldorf  from 20 November to 10 January. --------- The Embarrassment Show A workshop and exhibition curated by Erik Kessels cofounder & creative director KesselsKramer (Amsterdam), with Bachelor Photography students. “Embarrassment is important. If you’re not willing to humiliate yourself, make mistakes and downright fuck up, you should consider working in a cubicle farm. It’s safer there. Because as a creative person, you’ll be called an idiot at least once a day. That’s okay. Making mistakes and risking embarrassment, even failure, is how you make progress. Without it, you’ll be stuck in the same old safe zone: not embarrassed, but not better either. In other words: boring. So if we want to do this thing we love – making stuff – we mustn’t be afraid of looking stupid. In this workshop and exhibition I stretched the abilities of 2nd year ECAL Bachelor Photography students to the limit. By embarrassing themselves they are able to tell a personal, often awkward and risky story. This gives them an opportunity to explore an area of photography which they would probably not have dared to touch.”  Erik Kessels

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Almost Nothing / Aura

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Workshop Survival Camp

with Thomas Mailaender

During this workshop, the artist and the second-year Bachelor students spent a week living in a forest in western Lausanne. The shock of being deprived of the usual comforts such as running water, electricity and heating motivated the students to produce an enormous quantity of images. Cooking over an open fire, sleeping under the stars, hunting and fishing were all part of their daily lives, and provided the perfect backdrop for visual experimentation. The responses were manifold, from still to moving images, some dealing directly with delirious contemporary camping. The common denominators of all the works are humor and off-beatness. During Paris Photo, the results are presented in the form of an installation in the unusual urban setting of Les Voûtes. After the week-long workshop in Switzerland, all the students worked with Thomas Mailaender on the design and production of the exhibition. The students experienced a week of installation in total immersion: they lived in the exhibition as they built it. The images are presented in a raw environment, a sort of village, a makeshift camp. This whole process enabled them to confront not only the shooting process, but also the question of producing and exhibiting the images to the public. The exhibition is accompanied by a two-color catalogue-journal produced by the students and printed at the ECAL.

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Choli Cholie

by 2 BAPH

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Night Less

with Nicolas Haeni

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Too many pictures!!!

with Olaf Breuning

Olaf Breuning, artist and photographer, New York Born in Schaffhausen (Switzerland), Olaf Breuning exhibited in the most prestigious museums and galleries around the world. His eclectic work - installations, films, photographs, drawings - draws in the visual codes of popular culture, video clips, advertising, films, series Z (among his influences filmmakers like John Carpenter and John Waters, als well as Doug Aitken or the early work of Matthew Barney). He creates a hybrid aesthetic where the strange mixes humor, abolishing the boundaries between elite and popular cultures.

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Workshop with Harri Peccinotti

with Harri Peccinotti

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Making Books

with Christian Patterson