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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Diplomas

by Maria Beltran, Emmanuelle Besson, Camille Blin, Nina Breuker, Gregory Brunisholz, Adrien Bugari, Michel Charlot, Thomas Dromelet, Béatrice Durandard, Adrien Fasel, Jonathan Gehri, Vanessa Gerotto, Tiphaine Golaz, Martin Haldimann, Vladimir Jaccard, Michal Korolec, Laure Krayenbühl, Simon Lécureux, Emmanuel Mbessé, Lisa Ochsenbein, Valérie Pache, Sofya Angel Penedo, Julien Renault, Julien Rosina, Delphine Rumo, Valérie Sauvin, Christian Spiess, Laurence Stoffel, Arnault Weber

Diploma projects of 2009.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Race Game

with Andreas Gysin

FINE ARTS

Oscar Tuazon

2009, Séminaire avec Oscar Tuazon, artiste Né à Seattle, Etats-Unis, en 1975. Vit et travaille à Paris et à Tacoma, Etats-Unis. À l’aube des années 2000, Oscar Tuazon conçoit une sculpture élémentaire dite minimaliste. Emmenant la sculpture au seuil de l’architecture, certaines de ses œuvres ont l’aspect de maquettes à grande échelle : projets d’habitation, constructions précaires ou ruines. De cette indétermination de genre naît une tension physique, essentiellement spatio-temporelle. Diplômé de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux, Oscar Tuazon poursuit ses études en art au célèbre programme d’atelier du Whitney Museum of American Art. Dès 2006 il participe au projet éditorial Metronome (Paris) et, l’année suivante, à la fondation du collectif bellevillois Castillo-Corrales et aux Modules du Palais de Tokyo. Collaborant fréquemment avec son frère Eli Hansen, Oscar Tuazon a conçu d’importants projets pour le Centre international d'art et du paysage (Vassivière), La Kunsthalle (Bern) ou encore le Centre d'Art Contemporain (Pougues-les-Eaux).

Walking the Edit

FILM STUDIES

Il movimento

with Lionel Baier, Thomas Isler

The “habitués” of the bar “Il Movimento” meet regularly to discuss, drink and to forget their worries. This tiny bar is particularly cosy with a warm and charming ambience...

FILM STUDIES

Cotonov Vanished

with Jean-Louis Comolli, José Michel Bühler, Claudio Pazienza

A way of approaching the exercise of portrait, Cotonov Vanished returns to the dazzling career of a young and brilliant Russian interpreter embarked in the Cold War who, one day, mysteriously disappeared...

FILM STUDIES

Filmer la parole

with Jean-Louis Comolli, José Michel Bühler, Claudio Pazienza

During this workshop, each student is asked to make a film during this period around the question of speech: fiction, essay, documentary, whatever. The word, the voice and behind them the body in all its occurrences, functions, forms and status are at the heart of these productions.

FILM STUDIES

Copycat

with Lionel Baier

In this workshop, students worked with the opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho" to create a remake.

FILM STUDIES

Backstage Romeo and Juliet

with Thomas Isler

Directed with the students of the Master cinema ECAL x HEAD, Backstage Romeo and Juliet is an immersion in the backstage of a ballet at the Grand Theater of Geneva during a performance.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Mads Freund Brunse – GREEN OIL-X

by Mads Freund Brunse

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Vincent Devaud – KRAUTROCK INQUIRY

by Vincent Devaud

PHOTOGRAPHY

David Favrod – Gaijin

by David Favrod

“For a Swiss, I am a Japanese and for a Japanese I am a Swiss or rather a gaijin.» My name is David "Takashi" Favrod. I was born on the 2nd of July 1982 in Kobe, Japan, of a Japanese mother and a Swiss father. When I was 6 months old, my parents decided to come and live in Switzerland, more precisely in Vionnaz, a little village in lower Valais. As my father had to travel for his work a lot, I was mainly brought up by my mother who taught me her principles and her culture. When I was 18, I asked for double nationality at the Japanese embassy, but they refused, because it is only given to Japanese women who wish to obtain their husband’s nationality. It is from this feeling of rejection and also from a desire to prove that I am as Japanese as I am Swiss that this work was created. “Gaijin” is a fictional narrative, a tool for my quest for identity, where self-portraits imply an intimate and solitary relationship that I have with myself. The mirror image is frozen in a figurative alter ego that serves as an anchor point. The aim of this work is to create “my own Japan”, in Switzerland, from memories of my journeys when I was small, my mother’s stories, popular and traditional culture and my grandparents war narratives.“

PHOTOGRAPHY

Thomas Rousset – Praberians

by Thomas Rousset

“This artistic project is the result of four years of research developed around a unique place: the village of Prabert. My photos offer an ambiguous overlapping of representations and realities, a mixture that is constantly flirting with the limits of real life and imagination, and result in a staging device that plays with the codes of both fairytales and realism. Here routine and strangeness dovetail, the Here and the Elsewhere become indistinguishable, tracks are covered up, time and space slowly crumble. The framework rests on the setting, often dipping in Fellini for inspiration in its colors or Kusturica in its folly. The situations showcased are absurd and create a picturesque and playful world. The subjects, who often take the central position in terms of composition, seem to come from a different time or culture. Their adornments and costumes only reinforce this melting pot of traditions. Animals also hold a very significant role, through ritual or even sacred function. This blend of references creates intense activity, symbolizing the coming together, the thresholds and crossroads in the creation of a new society. The objects that are enhanced here speak of the effort behind organization and solidarity. Cultures are hence rethought and transformed into bridges. Borders are no longer considered as walls but rather as areas of contact. “Praberians” is therefore a resolutely utopian world, and this series, the result of a sudden awareness of how shallow the notion of community is in our contemporary Western world.“

PHOTOGRAPHY

Nicolas Haeni – And if we dance?

by Nicolas Haeni

“This magazine contains the remedy for boredom: the boredom suffered by this generation of bourgeois left-wingers or golden youth who lack nothing and who, to make their daily lives more exciting, create new games, delusions and costumes... With all the necessary self-mockery, you offer a solution to passivity, perhaps a new way for the people concerned to express themselves, to rebel or to find a space/time in which the freedom to do as they please allows them to blossom. It's also a way of saying no to work, to the lucrative activity that society wants us to take part in. So man does everything he can to avoid toil, and seeks to create new excuses to escape it by devising new diversions. He sets up this new universe using society's material environment. Doing nothing is also a form of revolt, an opposition to the established system. And the act of creating gives human beings the possibility of realizing themselves, of satisfying their deepest fantasies.“

Christophe Coënon – Theoretical thesis

with André-Vladimir Heiz

Hic et nunc Photography Photographic and literary journey along the Seine-North channel where get involved methodological reflections and autobiographical narrative

Michel Charlot – Theoretical thesis