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PHOTOGRAPHY

Image Archives

with Joe Hamilton, MAP

Image Archives Description: In this workshop, students will dive into the depths of online image archives and explore the potential for using found imagery as a material. Aesthetic, material, and political concerns surrounding images archives will be discussed. Students will get hands-on experience searching for images online, building their own image archives and exploring possible outcomes towards a final presentation. The workshop will conclude with an exhibition of final artworks. Objectives: Explore and discuss the world of image archives available online. Experiment with—and think critically about—methods of collecting, issues of ownership, techniques of manipulation, material and presentation. Create and exhibit an artwork that makes use of these learnings.

DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP

Collaboration with Vacheron Constantin 2016

with Formafantasma

The Art of Celestial Mechanics For the third year of the partnership between Vacheron Constantin and ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL/University of Art and Design), 16 Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship students worked on the theme of astronomy and telling the time, in particular as related to Celestial Mechanics. The students were tasked with drawing inspiration from three ancestral instruments whose common denominator is the relationship between the Sun and the Earth (the armillary sphere, the astrolabe and the astronomical ring) and revisiting them in a conceptual, contemporary manner.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Atlas du design graphique à l'ECAL

with Joost Grootens & Dimitri Jeannottat (Studio Joost Grootens)

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Communication Machines - Workshop by Niklas Roy

with Niklas Roy

During a one week, we investigated the role of devices and protocols in our communication behaviors in order to come up with new communication devices, beyond the smartphone. We started out with some low-tech experiments, where we tried to transmit messages in morse code by pulling on a rope. A subsequent brainstorming session structured our thoughts and knowledge about communication methods, contents, and devices in general. www.niklasroy.com

FILM STUDIES

Diplomas Screening 2016

At the Swiss Film Archive

FINE ARTS

Workshop with Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri

PRODUCT DESIGN

Maiensäss

with Christian Spiess

FINE ARTS

Master Class with Pierre Bismuth

Pierre Bismuth a présenté à l’ECAL son premier long métrage en tant que réalisateur Where is Rocky II ? Né à Neuilly-sur-Seine en 1963, Pierre Bismuth est un artiste contemporain qui s’intéresse à la règle comme manifestation essentielle de l’activité humaine. Son travail, qui couvre des champs de connaissance très divers, se nourrit des lois inhérentes de chaque système auquel il s’intéresse, dans le but de trouver leur point de rupture. En 2005, il remporte avec Michel Gondry et Charlie Kaufman l’Oscar du meilleur scénario original pour son synopsis de  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . Where is Rocky II ? (93') 2016 Un détective privé et un duo de scénaristes hollywoodiens sont engagés dans un défi autour de l’existence d’un mystérieux objet créé et caché dans le désert, il y a 40 ans, par l’artiste américain Ed Ruscha. En traitant la matière documentaire comme s’il s’agissait d’une fiction, Pierre Bismuth réalise ce qu’il appelle une fausse-fiction.

FILM STUDIES

Mumbai Grand Voyage workshop

Each year, students of the Master's program undertake a "Great Trip" to discover the territory of a filmmaker. In 2016, they went to Mumbai with the director and producer Anurag Kashyap.

FINE ARTS

Los Angeles 2016

by Virginia Ariu, Catarina Bota Leal, Charlotte Bourgeois, Loucia Carlier, Gabriele Garavaglia, Sarah Abigail Janjic, Vinzenz Meyner, Matteo Pomati, Ilaria Vinci, Shirin Yousefi

Summer University 2016, Los Angeles Stephanie Moisdon, Bei Schlingelhoff, Will Benedict, Emanuele Marcuccio. Studio visits, galleries and institutions: Oscar Tuazon. Lari Pittman, Silke Otto Knapp, Piero Golia studio monument with Andrew Berardini, Paul Pascal Theriault, Alex Hubbard, Nikolas Gambaroff, David Lennard, Gary Leonard, Chris Kraus, Puppies Puppies, CalArts with Darcy Huebler and Thomas Lawson, 356 Mission rd with Alexandra Tuttle, Tom of Finland Foundation, LACMA, MOCA, Regen Project, Maccarone, Sprüth Magers, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel.

FILM STUDIES

Summer University Montréal

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Swiss Data

with Cyril Diagne, Vincent Jacquier

A series of interactive data-visualizations around swiss culture and the swissnex activity. Designed by Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students of ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, the projects were initiated during a one-week trip to San Francisco in March 2016. They present a novel and entertaining way to display various data. Commissioned by swissnex San Francisco.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Summer Time City Lights - Alexander Van Pelt

with Sami Benhadj

A music video realised by Elise Migraine and Anna Kasareva during a second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor for the music “Summer Time City Lights” by Alexander Van Pelt.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Larytta - Les Bambous [Official Music Video]

with Sami Benhadj

A music video realised by Erika Marthins and Giacomo Bastianelli during the second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor for the music “Les Bambous” by Larytta.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

SELECT * WHERE {landform = island} FILTER {population = 0}

with Diego Bontognali, Nicole Udry

The index of the deserted islands is a request adressed to wikipedias database. 855  entries recorded by its contributors on uninhabited islands. Data, points on the map, vectoriel shapes stimulate concrete spaces and offer refuge to imagination. A repertory of graphic codes has been defined to stake out this narrative. Fabricated by the means available (photographs, cyanotypes, symbols) images include the unknown, report fictitious explorations lulled by the enumeration and repetition.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

documenta space in time

with Gilles Gavillet, Nicole Udry

documenta space in time is an editorial archive work on one of the most important art  events, Kassel documenta. The book compiles the ten first editions of documenta at the Museum Fridericianum, from 1955 to 1997. We approached this work as an archeology of the archive, with different stratum of research and highlights. This work has allowed us to focus on our interest in books publishing, he confronted us with passion to issues related to the publication of an archive and its graphic and editorial responses.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Drei Nächte

with Gilles Gavillet, Nicole Udry

In this painting, we can count no less than eight boner sex members,  one of the character, entirely naked like the others, is dealing simultaneously with two men and one animal. Indeed, this character, down on his knee is not only sodomizing the animal but he is also grabbing the animal sex member in erection. Furthermore, the lower back character, or even its bump, is being caressed by another man, which in turn has his member in erection held by another one towards the first one’s mouth. As for the sodomized animal, its tongue is directed towards the bump of another man, who also have his sex in erection. Even the animals’ tongues shapes and representations evoke more the sex member in erection than actual tongues.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Matthieu Huegi – MH Genesis Display&Text

by Matthieu Huegi

Genesis is a serif font family constituted of two versions: Display and Text. Each  version includes a set of five weights: Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black. This new typeface is the result of a reflection on contemporary design and its links with the past, offering a new form that corresponds to present and future applications and use of serif typefaces.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Lara Défayes – FOMO Survival Kit

with Alain Bellet, Cyril Diagne, Cédric Duchêne, Christophe Guignard, Gaël Hugo

The FOMO is a new word in our dictionnary. But what does it mean ? FOMO stands for “Fear Of Missing Out”. It is a compulsive concern that one might miss an opportunity or satisfying event for example, often aroused by our close relationship with social media websites. Imagine yourself alone in the wild city, going through a well deserved digital detox but yet hungry for new social interactions. Is there any way to find your path to the next event planned in your calendar ? FOMO Survival Kit offer you an urban survival kit that will take you to all the events you intend to go. Through a unique set of three connected object, you will be able to know the essential parameters of any social event, who, when and where.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Alexandra Chernopazova –

with Gilles Gavillet, Nicole Udry

The visual identity for the Swiss Museum of Games, the unique museum of board  games in Europe. While creating a visual identity, my goal was to design an instantly recognizable, colorful and contemporary style, that reflects its personality. Inspired by gameplay experience and wonderful atmosphere of playing process I started creating a typography based on combinations of geometric shapes and colors. Due to this project, I could experiment and discover new typographical forms and create a tool "Alphabet". This tool allowed me to create a graphical language and communication.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Mirko Stanchieri – Pyrite

with Alain Bellet, Cyril Diagne, Cédric Duchêne, Christophe Guignard, Gaël Hugo

Pyrite is a puzzle game available on a tablet. The goal is simple: the player must reach a target randomly positioned in space by building a path and this in a limited number of shots. The view is an isometric projection which makes in particularly complicated and singles it out. In addition, the player’s levels and used paths freeze, creating new obstacles and increasing the game’s complexity. This project and its minimal universe is a continuation of the aesthetics that I have experienced at ECAL since the beginning of my studies.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Nasthasya Reuter – In search of the Tatzelwurm

with Ian Party, Nicole Udry

A massive reptilian body, about 80 cm long, two single forelegs, a large neck and a  thick tail. Here is the description made of the Tatzelwurm. It was provided from several witnesses who confirmed a glance at the animal, in deserted areas of the Swiss mountains. However, until this day no one was able to prove its existence. À La Recherche Du Tatzelwurm explores the trace of the mysterious reptile in an investigation mixing archives and fictional elements. Within this association, I was able to blur the borders between fiction and reality.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Vincent Sauvaire – Perpetuel

by Vincent Sauvaire

The idea behind this project is to bring together the world of graphic design and clockmaking  through typographical design: to create letters specifically for the watch face and the circle that is defined by the hands. The aim is to give movement to the face through letters. Each number is drawn as a symbol according to its position and the angle corresponding to its individual line. Any chosen face can then be adapted to each complications. To conclude, this project enabled me to focus on the art of detail and the graphic designer’s status in the world of clock-making.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Océane Bacher – A N I M A

with Gilles Gavillet, Jonathan Hares

ANIMA is a catalog of images and ideas inviting to imagine an unfinished film about the  afterlife. Through concepts such as encryption, symbolism, surrealism, randomness and infinite, the book is a puzzle to decipher. By an infinite combination of pages, there may be a  multitude of possible books, films, stories... This editorial research allowed me to question the medium of the book in its  structure  and reading.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Pablo Perez – AudioSight

with Alain Bellet, Cyril Diagne, Cédric Duchêne, Christophe Guignard, Gaël Hugo

AudioSight is a musical game on smartphone that has  the specific feature of not using the screen. The game’s principle is based solely on the sound the user hears using headphones. The only interaction between the game and the player is the latter’s head movements. The theme of sound in space, both real and virtual, is a topic that fascinates me - especially in the current context of democratisation of virtual reality, where our sensory perception switches between the virtual world and reality.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Alexia Léchot – Deltu

with Alain Bellet, Cyril Diagne, Cédric Duchêne, Christophe Guignard, Gaël Hugo

Deltu is a delta robot with a personality that interacts with humans via two iPads. Depending on its mood, it plays with the user who is faced with an artificial intelligence simulation, who appreciates the small pleasures of life, sometimes too much. The relationship we have with robots/AI that have been created to enhance our performance, but have become a source of learning, is unique and exciting. The android’s place in society has not yet been de ned and remains to be determined; for me it is the best source of inspiration.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

ECAL presents 3 photographers at Circulation(s)

by Maxime Guyon

CAL is the only school invited by the Festival Circulation(s) at the 104 in Paris until the 7 of August. “Skeuomorphic” is a body of work created by three ECAL Bachelor Photography graduates, Jacques-Aurélien Brun, Maxime Guyon and Jean-Vincent Simonet, and set designed with Marceau Avogadro and Anaïs Benoit Dignac, Bachelor Industrial Design graduates. An observational practice of the physical and contextual form of the photography medium has took place in the past year. Whether they record abstract visuals, re-appropriate commercial aesthetic discourse or playing with a whole delightful digitized chaos, the three artists here ended their process with the question of the persistently shifting modes of the photography media today. Their natural collaboration came in the investigation of physicality in photography. The apprehension of the image as an object dissipate the initial narratives from the three distinct bodies of work, but also attempts to expand the visual experiment on the current extreme ubiquity context that undergoes this medium. www.festival-circulations.com/about-us/ www.104.fr

PHOTOGRAPHY

Under the sen

PHOTOGRAPHY

Stéphane Mocan – Whispers

by Stéphane Mocan

“When doomed to death, I will attend you like a nocturnal  fury. I will attack your faces and brooding up your restless breasts, I will deprive you of repose by terror.” Horace Whispers is the imaging of my sleep paralysis. Nightmares I experienced in an awakened state, these nocturnal anxieties threw me in a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep, exposing my mind to terrifying hallucinations. I have transcribed these dreams through disturbing photographs, portraits with a lingering presence and tormented landscapes. This work is part of my imagination turned into reality.

TYPE DESIGN

Simon Mager – Rima, Diploma Project by Simon Mager

by Simon Mager

Rima is a sans serif typeface formulating a contemporary approach to the classical grotesque genre and investigating the balance between the sober and the playful. With its compact proportions, Rima is conceived for continuous reading as well as for display use. Its subtly tapered stems and top-heavy build impose a particular look in larger sizes, while adding a more organic taste to the typical grotesque model, when set in text size. Each weight reveals an individual flavour, flavour at the same time maintaining an overall coherent look throughout the family.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Calypso Mahieu – Le cabaret du néant

by Calypso Mahieu

Le Cabaret du Néant is a mysterious place where cynicism  and occultism co-existed. Visitors were welcomed in a macabre decor with skeletons, damned souls' sculptures and many other monstrosities. These frightful figures announced the charming peep-shows and performances where people came to test their destiny for one night. The cabaret doesn't exist anymore and my work interprets this nefarious place through aesthetic research and a work of stagings where the web media virtualizes this historic place of Pigalle and brings it back to life in the digital age.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Zoé Aubry – Comfort Zone

by Zoé Aubry

Comfort Zone is a video installation that questions in  a hypnotically way the ambiguous boundary between resisting and breaking up. These images create a space where pressure, rhythm and the everyday confront each other, which challenges the viewer’s endurance. My parallel interest for electromagnetic waves originates from their double nature both invisible and in concrete interaction with living beings, which echoes the feeling of social pressure. Between a body being deformed by wind and the immobility of a suffocated face, temporality is altered through performed actions.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Jules Moskovtchenko – Comparative Archaeology

by Jules Moskovtchenko

This project is a form of comparative archaeology in which  artefacts from the Upper Palaeolithic era are facing artefacts produced by contemporary society. Comparative archaeology is used when clues are missing in the study of a society: we then compare it to one better known so as to establish differences and similarities. This subject has been developed by appropriation, as an excavation work in the huge production of our society. A selection of images and objects offers a re-examination of our production.