Students from the 2nd year bachelor industrial design at ECAL were asked to think about office objects and how to integrate them. A selection of 18 projects was presented at the 2011 Salone del Mobile in Milan. The final result of this partnership is a small collection of objects, produced and distributed by the Italian manufacturer Alessi : «Frana» by Christophe Guberan, «Firezo» by Julie Richoz and scotch dispenser «Film» by Maria-Anne le Corre
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
with Arnault Weber
Projets de diplômes 2010
FINE ARTS
6.12.2010, Conférences de Xavier Veilhan, Catherine Millet et Hans-Ulrich Obrist Symposium MASTER ECAL : « IT’S ONLY JUST BEGUN » Il semblerait aujourd’hui que les notions de carrière, de célébrité, d’ascension, d’intégration dominent la sphère de l’art. La question “en être ou ne pas en être? “ aurait remplacé toutes les autres. Pourtant, il existe bien d’autres réalités, des récits parallèles, une manière différente de raconter l’histoire de ces artistes, critiques, commissaires qui voyaient l’art et l’exposition comme un terrain de jeu, de conquête, d’inventions premières. L’école étant le lieu par excellence de toutes sortes de projections, folles et dérisoires, extravagantes et triviales, c’est aussi le meilleur contexte pour transmettre un peu de l’histoire réelle et clandestine de ces origines, des grands et des petits commencements. L’idée de cette journée de symposium, qui ne revient à aucune thématique, est de donner aux étudiants des classes de Master l’opportunité d’entendre et de partager le récit de quelques-unes de ces trajectoires uniques qui ont marqué les dernières décennies. Où l’on comprend comment le jeune Hans Ulrich Obrist, alors étudiant en économie, loin d’imaginer qu’il serait un jour qualifié de « meta-curator », décide d’aller à la rencontre des artistes de son temps. Une mise en mouvement qui deviendra une méthode. Peter Fischli et David Weiss se souviennent avec lui de leur rencontre et de ces débuts héroïques des années 90. Dans l’œuvre de Xavier Veilhan, l'universalisme formel, qui semble renvoyer à l'idéal de l'art classique, se trouve contrebalancé par la singularité des dispositifs de mise en scène des œuvres, des situations et des environnements construits, par la modernité des sujets et par les procédés high-tech utilisés qui convoquent des images de la société de production industrielle et de consommation dans des univers étranges et équivoques. Catherine Millet, qui n’avait pas encore réalisé le succès phénoménal de “La vie sexuelle de Catherine M”, un des plus beaux romans des dix dernières années, se souvient de ses débuts de critique d’art, de la formation d’ art press , modèle et contre modèle d’une presse spécialisée amenée à disparaître, et s’interroge sur l’évolution de la pratique et de l’écriture critique.
FINE ARTS
Enlarge your practice Séminaire avec Jean-Max Colard le 6 à partir de 14h et le 7 décembre de 9h à 17h. E présence de Stéphanie Moisdon Séminaire avec Sylvie Fleury, Fabrice Gygi et Karim Noureldin, le 7 et 8 décembre 2010 Jean-Max Colard, né en 1968 , vit et travaille à Paris. Il est un critique d'art français, également commissaire d'exposition et maître de conférences en littérature française. Responsable de la page arts du magazine Les Inrockuptibles, il collabore par ailleurs au magazine Artforum, à la revue 02. Commissaire d'exposition, il s'est notamment illustré à la Galerie Vallois avec l'exposition Œuvres encombrantes , au CAPC, à la Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, et à l'espace Attitudes de Genève pour l'exposition Offshore . Il a co-curaté plusieurs expositions, notamment Sol Système avec Patrice Joly (Centre d'art Passerelle de Brest) et Enlarge your practice avec Claire Moulène et Mathilde Villeneuve, exposition présentée à la Friche-Belle de Marseille. Il a été pendant deux ans le commissaire associé de Christian Bernard pour les deux éditions du Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse. Avec l'artiste Thomas Lélu, Jean-Max Colard a fait le livre After publié en 2006 par Sternberg Press qui a donné lieu à une exposition à la Villa Arson. Spécialiste de la poésie française du xvi e siècle, major de l' École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud , agrégé de Lettres Modernes et docteur ès Lettres, maître de conférences à l’Université de Lille 3 où il enseigne notamment la littérature française de la Renaissance. Parallèlement, il travaille à une recherche extra-universitaire sur les relations entre le Nouveau Roman et l’art contemporain, pour laquelle il a obtenu une résidence à l’Akademie Solitude de Stuttgart et une allocation de recherche délivrée par le Centre national des arts plastiques.
PRODUCT DESIGN
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Adrien Rovero
Semester project with Adrien Rovero.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Alexis Georgacopoulos
Toys especially design for kids aboard airplanes. Project in collaboration with Swiss airline (CH).
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Projets du département de Design industriel et de produits présentés dans le cadre du Salon international du meuble de Milan 2010
FILM STUDIES
with Frédéric Mermoud
Despite his marginal and extrovert looks, Jérémie is a shy teenager who keeps a heavy secret: his homosexuality. While trying to find his way between his classmate and sexual fantasy Damien and his very generous but protective mother Gina, his life is about to change...
FILM STUDIES
with Frédéric Mermoud
Vincent celebrates his bachelor party. He counts on the presence of his brother, Jerome, but the latter, tired of nightly drinking, does not pay him any more attention.
FILM STUDIES
with Valérie Donzelli
Why tell the truth if a lie can help me achieve my aims ? Here the doctrine of Yigael, youthful inner-city Don Juan that too often forgets that lying is an art.
FILM STUDIES
with Lionel Baier, Thomas Isler, Nino Kirtadze
In an isolated village in the Mexican desert, Griselda lives with the wind, silence and suspended time. She looks at life with humanity and pragmatism. Her husband emigrated to the United States, and like other women in the village, the children and the old, Griselda lives in a state of waiting…
FILM STUDIES
with Jean-Stéphane Bron
Childhood pictures, the departure from Zaire when I was 10, my friends Watumu, Angi and Amosi, the big shift from a culture to another, identity, memories and footage...
FILM STUDIES
with Jean-Stéphane Bron
What's in a name? Raphaël is trying to meet the man after whom he is named, a former cycling star.
FILM STUDIES
by Louise Carrin
Amanda trains daily in a boxing club. Through these moments of break and surpassing herself, she confronts this male universe and discovers a world that escapes her.
FILM STUDIES
by Michele Pennetta
Roberto lives in a Fiat Panda parked close to the ruins of what once was the post office while Felice still lives in his damaged home. They are the last inhabitants of the ghost village of Camarda which was totally ruined and abandoned following the earthquake of the 6th of April...
FILM STUDIES
by Claudia Reynicke
Agnes is 15 years old and her sexual awakening is in full bloom. Abandoned by her mother, she tries to find a balance between the isolated life with her grandparents in the mountains and her boyfriend, who proposes her to go away with him...
FILM STUDIES
with Frédéric Mermoud
An elderly man from a middle-class family finds himself forced to pass the time with a new companion.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
with Augustin Scott de Martinville
Under the direction of Augustin Scott de Martinville, watch brand Hublot asked students from the Masters of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship to design a series of kitchen knives.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
with Fernando and Humberto Campana
Founded in 1865, Reuge has an incomparable experience and history in the field of music boxes. As a result of the workshop held under the direction of the famous Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana with the students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship, a series of projects were produced by the Swiss brand.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
with Ronan Bouroullec
For this new collaboration with the prestigious Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet, the students had the opportunity to create a collection of leather bags, inspired by the brand's own codes and timelessness. Led by French designer Ronan Bouroullec, the challenge was to combine aesthetics and functionality. Among the projects developed and prototyped were a briefcase that folds into an elegant clutch and a bag inspired by the world of sailing and the iconic watch Royal Oak.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
by Guillaume Chuard
“ The Zansio project is principally an ethnographic and ethnologic study. By showing the culture, the ritual and the power of a generic company, I aim to underline its primitivism and tribalism. My work is presented in tow parts: a trade show (performance) symbolizing the front stage and a corporate behavior guideline (book) representing the back stage of this society… ” Guillaume Chuard
GRAPHIC DESIGN
by Joachim Felix Correia
“ CTX AIR est une compagnie d’aviation spécialisée dans le transport de personnes vers des événements à travers l’Europe (spectacles, concerts, matchs sportifs et expositions artistiques). Le prix du billet comporte non seulement le transport aller-retour en avion, mais également le ticket d’entrée de l’événement choisi. L’offre proposée par cette compagnie est révolutionnaire, puisque pour la première fois, un avion amène la personne à l’événement, attend que ce dernier se termine, puis ramène la personne chez elle. ” Joachim Felix Correia
GRAPHIC DESIGN
by Anne-Laure Fuchs
“ I made a personal experience that I documented. I lived alone for 5 days shut in an empty bunker room. I wanted to suggest the idea of being trapped but it is something closer to voluntary confinement. I had a limited set of materials with me as constraints. The physical conditioning and the psychological conditions generate compositions. Anxiety can create repetitive behaviors and a kind of obsession that resulted here in the installations. I also considered the wall in the same way a designer considers the blank page, and the confinement and limited working materials as an illustration of the constraints one finds in design.” Anne-Laure Fuchs
GRAPHIC DESIGN
by Laurence Kubski
“ Il y a une année, un article paru dans la presse avait attiré mon attention. Il décrivait la situation d'une ville au nord de la Suède, Kiruna, qui était contrainte de se déplacer de 4km. La relocalisation était causée par son emplacement au-dessus d'une mine de fer, dont l'expansion menace les fondations de la ville. Le diplôme était pour moi un parfait prétexte pour explorer la situation d'un point de vue urbanistique et social, et créer un objet de commémoration pour cette ville promise à la destruction. ” Laurence Kubski
GRAPHIC DESIGN
by Renato Zülli
“ The catalogue was created for a fictive company, which is decorating office spaces with abstract art. büro deko believes that the proper pairing between art and design can emphasize the essence and intention of a space. Offering a clear and complete product range, in order to facilitate choice and acquisition, büro deko is the worthwhile alternative to the classic art market. büro deko artworks were designed to provide harmony, progress and especially productivity. Artworks because art works! ” Renato Zülli
PHOTOGRAPHY
by Romain Hügli
This work tempts to have a critical view on the evolution of the human societies from an ideal to a dystopian universe through Second Life, a virtual world governed by the same capitalist appropriation mechanisms of the real life, but sliding slowly to an dysfunctional society. To create these images, I have taken the already made buildings by the users of Second Life - ideal living places, architectures and sets - that I have set up in three dimensions and then photographed.
PHOTOGRAPHY
by Lisa Roehrich
“ Limbo is a project realised in Lebanon during May 2010. It’s composeb by 14 portraits filmed like Andy Warhol’s «screentest». The portrait’s characters are young lebaneses, all coming from different social environments. I met them walking around the country. My process consisted, while making pictures, in making them feel enough comfortable in ordrer they can decide of the way they wanted to represent them selves. Those 14 young people share the fact that they lived the 2006 war, without having the same feeling about the conflicts. Their religion or non-religion implicates a huge diversity of opinions. “
PHOTOGRAPHY
by Charles Negre
“These images are lies. What credibility has the photographic principle that says that an image should be faithful to reality? Our perception goes back and fourth between the illusion and its interpretation. Illusion warns and questions.The landscape is an interpretation of a space.The scale models are turned into landscapes through their representation ; from one space’s interpretation born feelings. What is our relationship with nature? Understand it, preserve it, reproduce it. The unknown and the virginity have disappeared from our apprehension of nature. Through those images, I create a fake natural reproductible world. The process of production of the images are like dioramas, trying to imitate the living, often idealized. It is a creation led by an utopia ; the quest of the terra incognita. The serie is the representation of a limited universe, a cosmos. The fog, like a drape, reveals or hides those spaces. This torment, creator and destructor in the same time is the show of a genesis. We get out of the cave, going from obscurity to lightness. The point is the memory of having been lost in time and space.“
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
with Marti Guixé
The aim of this workshop was to develop ideas for pralines for the Swiss brand Nestlé Gold. The students worked on specific chocolate shapes and packaging to create real arrangements.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
In addition to the different collaborations during their year at ECAL, the students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship are encouraged to work on a project of their own, more experimental and personal.
PHOTOGRAPHY
by Julien Chavaillaz
“ODA (Operation Department Alpha), is a reflection on the representation of war. I realized a documentary about american troops based in Afghanistan. Drawing my inspiration from pictures broadcasted by a number of media, I photographed war as I imagined it, and possibly as it unfolds in the collective imaginary. In fact, all was stage setting made in Switzerland and France with ultra realistic airsoft players. In parallel, I worked on a mode of appropriation of the image of the soldier and of his attributes. My idea was to transpose them into the universe of videogames, in reference to the role-playing game broadcasted by the American Army on the internet. Finally, I gathered together both approaches with the aim of creating a work, which would sway between reality and fiction. This, in turn, would open threads of reflection on war and its representation, and on the issue of truth and falsity in war reporting.“
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet, Angelo Benedetto
Interactive installation - Milan Furniture Fair 2010 Sunglasses by Industrial Design Department for Visilab.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Gaël Hugo
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
with Luc Bergeron, Rémy Jacquet
Semester projects from the 1st year Industrial Design students who participated in the 2010 contest Lista Office Design Award 2010.
Be seen Graphic design Study on the relation between the graphic devices and the display of the gossip magazine
FILM STUDIES
with Frédéric Mermoud
In front of the school where he teaches, Olivier is approached by a girl who is panhandling. He recognizes Angela, his youthful love. Embarrassed, she disappears...
Design thoughts Industrial design How to determine personal criteria to estimate good and bad design
FINE ARTS
21.01.2010, Séminaire de Tris Vonna-Michell, artiste A l'occasion de sa venue à Lausanne l'artiste anglais Tris Vonna-Michell va investir la galerie 1m3 durant tout un après-midi avec les étudiants du Master European Art Ensemble de l'ECAL. Le processus et les résultats de ce workshop seront temporairement activés dans le contexte de la galerie 1m3 à partir de 15h jusque dans la soirée. "Photography is my punishment", titre d'une performance conçue par l'artiste à l'occasion d'Artissima, foire d'Art contemporain de Turin (novembre 2009), sonne comme une phrase programmatique pour cet artiste qui abandonne très tôt le médium photographique ou, du moins, le soumet à un projet plus englobant, celui d'un récit sans cesse renouvelé et réadapté en fonction des contextes dans lesquels il est invité à intervenir. Ce storyteller fonctionne par association d'idées, mélangeant des faits passés avec des éléments puisés dans son environnement immédiat. Les images et objets manipulés par l'artiste fonctionnent comme une archive perpétuelle et viennent se superposer à ses récits comme autant de signes sans signifiants propres. Influencé par toute une tradition de la poésie sonore, il fait volontiers référence au poète Henri Chopin et à son emploi de la parole comme médium. Cette parole est, chez Tris Vonna-Michell, saccadée, intense, précipitée et souvent fulgurante. Peu importe le temps du récit, ce qui compte c'est son immédiateté. Tris Vonna-Michell est représenté par la galerie Jan Mot à Bruxelles. Il vit et travaille à Stockholm.