TYPE DESIGN
Workshop with Thibault Brevet
with Thibault Brevet
Workshop with Thibault Brevet.
FINE ARTS
Untitled
with Philippe Decrauzat
PHOTOGRAPHY
Copy and paste
with MAP, Taiyo Onorato
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Pianeta PUCCI
Pianeta PUCCI, a virtual reality experience realised by Pietro Alberti, proposes a new way of exploring the prints and the colors of the brand. Through the use of virtual reality, the custommer has the opportunity to immerse oneself in a surrealistic interpretation of the Pucci universe - showcasting a deconstructed version of the historic palazzo Pucci, Emilio Pucci heritage headquarters, and its renaissance decor including busts highlighted in the iconic “Emilio Pink”. Elsewhere, elements of the florentine city appear including a “Puccified” duomo. pietroalberti.ch
FILM STUDIES
ECAL book 2018
FINE ARTS
Animation musicale
by Sunna Margrét Þórisdóttir, Christian Schulz
FILM STUDIES
Sayaka Mizuno – The invisible sanctuary
by Sayaka Mizuno
In Kyoto, the former imperial capital of Japan, Masayo Fujio and Nobuko Takahashi narrates the painful account of their life. Through their stories, mingled with that of the district, Suujin, the past of an invisible Japanese community that is still discriminated against today gradually surfaces again.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Tourism
with Nicolas Haeni, Robert Huber
Graphic designer Robert Huber and photographer Nicolas Haeni piloted a transversal workshop between the first years Bachelor Graphic Design and Photography. By joining their complementary skills, several groups of students selected a swiss tourism-related activity, offering an alternative and offbeat vision in edition form.
FILM STUDIES
Jorge Cadena – Sister Jarariju
by Jorge Cadena
In the middle of an austere landscape contaminated by a coal mine in northern Colombia, Viviana and Yandris, two teenage sisters of the Wayuu ethnic group, discover their traditions through ancestral rituals. At the death of their father and, in an act of audacity and courage, the sisters Jarariju leave their country.
FILM STUDIES
Robin Mognetti – We’ve not like spiders nets from grief’s saliv.
by Robin Mognetti
Suffering from insomnia, Nina, a young woman leaves Paris to return in Provence, in his hometown. Following the unexplained disappearance of his sister, stranges phenomena take place and seem to be addressed to her. One night, Nina sees something, an apparition that will lead her in her sister's footsteps.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma film sets
FILM STUDIES
Thomas Paulot – Heaven of the beasts
by Thomas Paulot
At night, the sky appears while the mysterious beast approaches. The astronomer and the hunter are pursuing the unknown.
FILM STUDIES
Hansaem Kim – Edge of the season
by Hansaem Kim
After the death of her father, Cloé and her mother go to their familial chalet on an isolated mountain to disperse his ashes. Between mourning and boredom, Cloé finds the courage to tell her mother that she does not want to see her anymore.
FILM STUDIES
Jules Pourchet – Off Piste
by Jules Pourchet
In the snowy peaks of Jura, a young man who is smooth in every respect is confronted with his own cowardice.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Workshop Clara Von Zweigbergk
with Clara Von Zweigbergk
Under the guidance of Clara Von Zweigbergk, the 2nd year students had to design paper or cardboard objects around the theme of celebrations: birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and any other type of festivities.
PHOTOGRAPHY
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.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Olivia Wünsche – Anima Mundi
with Vincent Jacquier, Jonathan Hares, Guy Meldem
Anima Mundi is a transmedia platform designed to revive some of the most fundamental philosophical virtues. The project carries out both theoretical and visual research about the «Deep Ecology» movement, which promotes the development of a physical, intellectual and, above all, emotional bond with nature. Different facets of the same content evolve across three mediums:the video-collage unveils an immersive and sensory experience while the book offers a personal study of conceptual matter. Both the book and video are published on a website.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Constellations
Constellations is a one-week workshop held by Béatrice Lartigue for the first year Bachelor M&ID students in November 2018. The idea behind the workshop is to explore the invisible physical process of electrical conduction. Using Touchboards, students explored different ways of giving form to this idea of electrical conduction by creating diverse projects using sound, video projection and/or installation.
PHOTOGRAPHY
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.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Workshop Gilles de Brock
by Pauline Baldinetti, Inés Barrionuevo, Emilie Bouchet, Emma Chapuis, Isabel Garcia Argos, Hugo Hectus, Elena Najdovski, Julie Neuhaus, Thaïs Nguyen Huu, Lynne Nougou, Laetitia Paroz, Guillaume Pavia, Ares Pedroli, Amanda Puna, Julie Ryser, Samuel Schmidt, Timo Tiffert, Laura Trummer, Adeline Vermot
Screenprinting workshop supervised by Gilles de brock, assisted by Sylvain Croci-Torti
FILM STUDIES
Pauline Deutsch – The night at the port
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
Émile is a security guard in the port of Strasbourg. One night, while he's on his tour of inspection, he has a strange encounter with a young woman sitting at the edge of the water…
FILM STUDIES
Juliette Menthonnex – Anywhere
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
Mia, a former trapeze artist from Florida finds herself at the head of a small circus with her husband in German-speaking Switzerland. Despite an exhausting nomadic lifestyle, Mia has faith in the circus tradition and patience while passing on this cultural heritage to her daughter Simone.
FILM STUDIES
Louis Hans-Moevi – Intercontinental
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
Sarjo is fired from the laundry of a luxury hotel where he was working. At night, before leaving this place for good, he steals an access card and enters into the clients corridors of the building.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma film sets
FILM STUDIES
Lour Rambert Preiss – Stone Age
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
In a vast stone quarry, an explosion reveals an object from the past.
FILM STUDIES
Antoine Flahaut – Wasteland
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis, Emmanuel Salinger
Jérôme has failed his High-School leaving exams. He spend the day with his best friend, David before to go to a party.
FILM STUDIES
Yatoni Roy Cantu – La Source
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
In the middle of the darkness of a chalet of a past century, between the cracks and the dirt of an old mirror, somebody appears. It is Lisbeth. She moves forward in her dressing gown with precaution, trying not to wake Anne who is still sleeping. In front of her reflection, she discovers her shoulder. The skin is cracked, darkened and in blood. The disease is back.
FILM STUDIES
Garage
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
At the edge of a rail traffic, in an abandoned garage four people of different backgrounds live in a perfect harmony.
FILM STUDIES
Mariama Baldé – The price of the ticket
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
Gabriel, a 14 year-old graffiti maker meets Tony at the swiss-italian border…
FILM STUDIES
Benjamin Bucher – Hunters
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
Two men in their sixties spend day and night in a camper. They hunt meteorological balloons coming down to earth. These objects don’t have a value for the scientists anymore, but do become the reason for a treasure hunt.
FINE ARTS
Workshop Thomas Tilly
with Thomas Tilly
FINE ARTS
Workshop Mario de Vega
with Mario de Vega
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Workshop Studio Feixen
by Marvin Armand, Sidonie Bays, Guillaume Besson, Arnaud Claret, Elise Connor, Jean Ducret, Loïc Dupasquier, Astrid Durand, Basile Fournier, Leah Hardy, Lucas Haussener, Bruno Jolliet, Alexandre Lescieux, Niki Paltenghi, Noé Proton, Aurore Péry, Lou Rais, Jean Reynaud, Arthur Seguin, Andréa Uldry
FOUNDATION YEAR
Année Propédeutique et Centre de formation BCV/BCL
ECAL/Année Propédeutique et Centre de formation BCV/BCL – une 15 ème exposition qui marque une collaboration de longue date La collaboration entre l’écal et le Centre de formation de la BCV et des Banques Cantonales Latines (BCL) remonte à plus de 25 ans et cette année nous avons le plaisir d’organiser la 15 ème exposition dans le cadre de notre partenariat. Pour le Centre de Formation BCV/BCL qui, dans son secteur d’activité, forme en permanence une centaine de jeunes gens aux métiers de la banque, c’est toujours un plaisir de pouvoir offrir une plate-forme visible à un groupe d’étudiants de l’écal. Les œuvres de cette nouvelle exposition resteront accrochées dans les couloirs et salons du Centre de formation BCV/BCL durant 3 à 4 ans, à la vue et au passage de milliers de collaborateurs des banques cantonales de Suisse romande qui régulièrement viennent en formation dans ces locaux. Une belle occasion pour eux d’admirer ces travaux qui révèlent le talent très prometteur dont font déjà preuve les jeunes étudiants de l’Année Propédeutique de l’écal. L’époque actuelle est aussi à la compétition et qui dit compétition dit récompenses aux lauréats. Trois étudiants, dont les œuvres ont été sélectionnées par un jury regroupant des représentants de l’écal et de la BCV, ont reçu un prix en espèces. Dans ce concours, il y a donc des étudiants primés, mais en fait tous en sont ressortis grandis. En effet, au travers de cet exercice, chacun aura pu tirer des enseignements et enrichir, par cette expérience supplémentaire, son bagage de compétences. En cela, tous auront été gagnants. Cette collaboration entre le Centre de formation BCV/BCL et l’écal, même si elle est importante, n’est pas exclusive dans le rôle que la BCV accorde au soutien de l’art contemporain. En effet, la collection d’art BCV compte plus de 2000 œuvres produites par des artistes vivant, ayant vécu ou travaillant dans le canton de Vaud. Depuis plus de quarante ans, elle s’est enrichie chaque année de nouvelles acquisitions dont certaines ont été réalisées par d’anciens étudiants de l’écal. Axée sur la période contemporaine, sa collection d’art permet à la BCV de soutenir la création locale. Nous sommes très reconnaissants envers les professeurs de l’écal qui se sont investis auprès de leurs étudiants afin que cette nouvelle exposition puisse avoir lieu. Nos plus sincères remerciements vont également à son Directeur, Monsieur Alexis Georgacopoulos, pour nous avoir ouvert ses portes, ainsi qu’à Madame Catherine Othenin-Girard, historienne de l’art et conservatrice de la collection d’art BCV, pour son soutien et sa présence dans l’organisation. Christian Donzé Directeur du Centre de formation BCV/BCL Vernissage et remise des prix en présence de: Jacques de Watteville, Président du conseil d'administration de la BCV Christian Donze, Directeur du centre de formation BCV/BCL Alexis Georgacopoulos, Directeur de l'ECAL
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Workshop Jonathan Olivares
with Jonathan Olivares
Jonathan Olivares asked the 3rd year students to identify an object or subject of interest and consider a room built around it. The room purpose, materials contents and construction all stem from themes found within the selected object or subject. The room should be 130 Square meters, free standing, transferable to any location or context, and could serve as an exhibition, installation or habitable interior.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Image Vevey × Confrérie des Vignerons
with Jonas Marguet, Milo Keller
From Lavaux to the Chablais region of Vaud, the world of wine was reinterpreted for a semester by students in their 2nd year of the Bachelor of Photography programme at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne, in collaboration with the Confrérie des Vignerons. Under the guidance of Jonas Marguet, photographer and teacher, the students used clues gathered in the field from the winegrowers. Selected and presented as part of the Festival Images Vevey, Elisa Ribeiro's 'Nuisibles' series sheds light on an unexpected aspect of winegrowing. She paints a gallery of portraits of insects that ravage vines, using a scanning electron microscope. By reappropriating a scientific tool for artistic purposes, she reveals the extraordinary, invisible to the naked eye. This work questions the very foundations of the photographic image, the process of taking the picture being carried out here by means of a beam of electrons. These tiny pests appear like giant monsters, presented in large light boxes that evoke the illumination of microscopic observation. Musée de la Confrérie des Vignerons Rue du Château 2 1800 Vevey www.confreriedesvignerons.ch www.images.ch
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Summer University Istanbul
with Chris Kabel, Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard
For their graduation trip, the 3rd year students went to Istanbul. Accompanied by Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard and Chris Kabel and collaborating with students from Bilgi University, they had to create souvenirs of the city. Some were able to collaborate directly with local craftspeople. The projects were exhibited at the Istanbul Design Biennial at the end of this trip and had the chance to see their ECAL x Mac Guffin project also exhibited there at that time.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Credo
with Matthieu Gafsou
The aim of the Centre intercantonal d’information sur les croyances (CIC) is to map the religious diversity of our regions and to explain in a neutral way how the cantonal communities function. The director, Brigitte Knobel, contacted the ECAL to create a visual cartography of the communities. Second-year students were asked to photograph the project. They worked throughout the year on an assigned religious community, selected beforehand according to geographical and diversity criteria.
FINE ARTS
Summer University Tehran
with Luc Andrié, Stéphane Kropf
Some thoughts and starting points for an art event about Ta’ârof to be held at Bon Gah Thinking the interrelations within the art world, taking as a starting point an Iranian artist run space inviting a visiting Swiss art school wishing to understand (or underscore…) if and how Ta’ârof may be of any help to try to build a temporary community, and make art. Drawing on some recent UN General Assembly speeches, that Trick or Treat is the ultimate geopolitical strategy tool, where USA is working towards a « more just and peaceful future ». Assuming that Switzerland is a neutral country and thereafter represents consular and diplomatic interests of USA in Iran. Taking in consideration that the art community doesn’t differ from society in general: it is just a reductio ad absurdum. Artists tend to recognize each other globally, assuming some kind of moral superiority towards the rest of society, or at least pretending to understand the complex tissues of relationships and power relations that makes (and destroys) a community. But fundamentally there is almost no solidarity within the artists. Ta’ârof continually questions hierarchy, be it the artist towards other artists, the artist towards the spectator and so on. Ta’ârof plays the game of an ideal society, like art, where the artist is benevolent and humble towards the spectator. Ta’ârof shows that every word always tends to have a hidden desire.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Teaching the Machine
with Gene Kogan
This workshop was a hands-on introduction to machine learning with a focus on creating artistic and interactive applications. Machine learning is a field dedicated to teaching computers how to perform tasks given examples and human oversight and has been used by artists, musicians, and designers to add a dimension of machine intelligence and interaction to their work. The students focused on the core algorithms used for discovering patterns in complex multimedia data, including images, sounds, and text. They learned how to use neural networks to create real-time, cross-modal interactions for use in video, installation, live music performance, and physical computing. They were provided a suite of tools and code for clustering, visualizing, and searching through large collections of multimedia.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Satisfaction 2019
with Mario Von Rickenbach
Satisfying webtoys coded by 1st year Bachelor students in Media & Interaction Design as part of a week-long workshop given by Mario von Rickenbach.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Nora Smith – I Fall In Love With Everyone
by Nora Smith
I Fall in Love with Everyone shows a vision of sexuality experienced as an emancipation of the private space into the public one, where the body is fluid and sensitive. Explicit pictures meet unreal ones, using the pornographic context to present a different expression of desire and self-objectification, made-to-be perfect 3D bodies diluted into tangible ones sharing passionate and respectful relationships. Then the organic shapes of a sexuality made of emotions and fusions eventually appear. This short movie explores fantasies, claims non-normative bodies and sexual dissidence.
TYPE DESIGN
Type Poster Workshop with Dafi Kühne
with Dafi Kühne, MATD
PHOTOGRAPHY
Anastasia Mityukova – Project Iceworm
by Anastasia Mityukova
In 1959, the US Army built a military base under the Greenland ice cap to deploy missiles. Due to global warming, nuclear waste left behind after the base was abandoned is resurfacing, threatening the Thule Inuit ecosystem. This installation (a composition of cyanotypes, collages, archives, aerial views, video) and the book break down events and transgressions: a colonial attitude, destruction and pollution, showing an inaccessible and invisible reality.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Olivia Schenker – Reply to your ad
by Olivia Schenker
« Fetishism has long been trapped in the shackles of sexual deviance, and these minorities would still rather keep silent about their paraphilia. Internet then became the shelter for a secret but surprisingly wide community. For one year, I posted several classified ads offering to anonymously photograph anyone who wanted their secret fantasy to be captured. This collaborative project explores various unconfessed fetishes, in which the camera becomes the object of desire between two strangers. »
PHOTOGRAPHY
Julien Deceroi – Protogen, Inc.
by Julien Deceroi
Protogen, Inc. questions genetic manipulations by relating to aesthetics from advertising and scientific codes while emphasising the superiority of the natural world. These hybridizations explore the possibilities of a new controversial technology: CRISPR CAS9. This installation attests to the will of humanity to emulate the Creator while letting the spectator decide whether it constitutes a threat or an opportunity. Protogen, Inc., enables to explore new scientific practices while redefining the vision of ultra-technical sciences.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Emma Panchot – Galbanum
by Emma Panchot
« The Nif series of photographs results from my meeting with young Mediterranean men in Marseille. The city facing the African continent has always been a port to exiles. In the Nif portraits the experience of these young men is transposed into a fictional universe that aims to explore, through my fascination for the male body, meridional identity constructions of masculinity. My images have been hybridized by dressing these sunbathed bodies with clothes, plants and trash to give them a feminine polarity. »
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ardita Meha – Hvala mama
by Ardita Meha
« I was a two-year-old as we had to flee the city of Zvornik in Bosnia. In 1995 my father arrived in Switzerland as a refugee. We joined him only in 1996. As a child, I used to imagine a story around a reproduction of Renoir's painting Bal du moulin de la Galette. The story was about my grandmother, my mother and my father as they first met, and about a painter who had died during the war. I would stage vivid memories I didn't have, with the idea of war always present unconsciously. In my family everyone kept silent about our story. But their gestures never lied. »
PHOTOGRAPHY
Isabelle Stauffer – Cavity
by Isabelle Stauffer
« The functioning of the mouth is not limited to its utilitarian roles (nutrition, communication). In Cavity, I wanted to bring a fresh look at its functions and representations. While it is associated with pleasure and kissing, as the border between the inside and the outside, the mouth has an erogenous dimension that I sought to explore in order to treat its symbolic, emotional, sexual and impulsive aspects. »
PHOTOGRAPHY
Vincent Levrat – Galbanum
by Vincent Levrat
« Through their emptiness and lack of function, wastelands are impervious to the social norm. In that sense, they can be considered as spaces of freedom, in which imagination can be expressed completely freely. I therefore occupied a wasteland, in order to make it my kingdom, a space of endless possibilities. It became a playground, in which I celebrated physical experimentation, craftsmanship and materiality, and escaped from the virtual and technological world. Worthless materials found on site were conducive to creative activity, once they had been triggered by the virtue of infantile naivety. »