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ECAL x MINI: Rethinking the Wheel,14–21.05.2022,Munich Creative Business Week On the occasion of the Munich Creative Business Week from 14 to 21 May 2022, ECAL and MINI present "Rethinking the Wheel" – a series of projets on steering wheels. Will we be controlling our cars through voice recognition in future? With a soft toy? How about a pizza box? The digital transformation and electrification of cars has opened up a world of possibilities at the wheel. MINI s design team and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne have collaborated closely on a sophisticated design study to develop unexpected ideas for the future of steering wheels. Under the direction of ECAL tutors Camille Blin and Christophe Guberan, Master students in Product Design have addressed the topic and come up with spectacular designs, developing, improving and ultimately achieving their vision in ongoing consultation with Christian Bauer, Head of Interior Design at MINI. The result: nine innovative and surprising designs that question existing shapes and materials – and, as such, the way in which we might interact with our cars in the future – with a lot of creativity. Presentation video with the students General video Beat Baumgartner Danpeng Cai Giacomo De Paoli Antoine Jacquat Yoosung Kim Tsubasa Koshide Carolin Schelkle Borja Suqué Manuel Steffan MINI Pavillon Lenbachplatz 7a 80333 München www.mcbw.de
COLLABORATION WITH MEC-ART MECHANICAL MARVELS Craftsmanship in Movement: Celebrating Design and the Heritage of Switzerland s Masters of Mechanical Art On the occasion of Homo Faber a public exhibition of the finest European craftsmanship organised by the Michelangelo Foundation and staged at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice (Italy) from 10 April to 1st May 2022, ECAL presents a series of projects by Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship developed in collaboration with Association Mec-Art. Downolaod flyer with descriptions of the projects For a number of years, the MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship programme at ECAL has enabled its students to work in close collaboration with prestigious maisons to further their design education in numerous areas of excellence. The university s partnership with Association Mec-Art is fully in line with this approach, creating the opportunity for students to collaborate with artisans based in Sainte-Croix, the town in the French Swiss Jura which is home to all the know-how involved in the creation of art mechanics. Here, artisans perpetuate their time-honoured expertise in the mechanical arts, including music boxes and automatons—traditions recently added to UNESCO s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This ambitious project has brought together international students and world-renowned artisans in order to combine design, innovation and engineering. “Mechanical Marvels” features five interactive installations that mix visual and sound effects and enables visitors to operate the mechanical masterpieces by winding a crank, thereby bringing the various automatons to life. Horloger: Denis Flageollet Automatier: François Junod Horloger: Nicolas Court Technicien en mécanique: Boris Masur Marqueterie de bois: Bastien Chevalier Ebéniste: Luigi Mondia
Teacher Researchers Bellet Alain Bernau Kai Blin Camille Bovier François Cortat Matthieu Guberan Christophe Gunti Claus Keller Milo Keller Patrick Kropf Stéphane Moisdon Stéphanie Peško Radim Savoie Alice Vacheron Joël Walter Thibault Former Collaborators Anner Andrea Archer Luke Ashford Maxwell Augay Maxime Ayer Julien Baier Lionel Balgiu Alexandru Banchi Margherita Barbon …
7 TYPES OF AMBIGUITY — A PARADE by Arto Lindsay,05–25.05.2022,Cinema Studio, ECAL Arto Lindsay is an American artist, guitarist, singer and composer living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A genius of noise with collaboration as his main method, he has been working since the early 2000s on the carnival parade as a gigantic musical instrument. No one can predict in advance what will come out of it, with its mixture of unity and partiality, euphoria and frustration, performance art and celebration. The installation presented at the ECAL proposes an original development of his previous street parades. With a group of musicians from the bloco Afros of Salvador de Bahia, students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program and programmer Stefan Brunner, Lindsay overturns his own conventions of the parade: inside the ECAL s Studio Cinema, the public can walk through a spiral of loudspeakers broadcasting both the realistic recordings of the percussionists and their thousand distant, confused, probable reflections. Opening 04.05.22, 6-8pm Dates 05.05-25.05.22 Free access Opening hours Tuesday to Friday, 16h-19h Or by appointment : 7types@ecal.ch Location ECAL – Cinema Studio Av. du Temple 5, 1020 Renens www.visioncreationnewsound.ch In the framework of the research project Phantom Power conducted at the ECAL and with the support of the Réseau de Compétences Design & Arts Visuels de la HES-SO. In collaboration with La Becque, Arto Lindsay will also give a solo concert on 28.04.22 at 9pm at the RKC in Vevey : www.rocking-chair.ch With the support of : Fondation Leenaards, Fondation Casino Barrière de Montreux, Fondation Walter + Eve Kent, La Becque, Rocking Chair Visuel Notter+Vigne
Macula Workshop avec David Douard Questionner l économie des images et l idée d authorship à travers un exercice de manipulations d images digitales vers un objet physique. Remettre en question le rapport d une génération artistique « Google » qui se servait volontiers dans un gouffre d image internet pour les manipuler à foison. Aujourd hui ce rapport est contesté par de nouvelles technologies servant et à donner une valeur et une authenticité au détournement ( NFT ) David Douard propose ainsi un workshop de sérigraphie sur 3 jours comme un moment de jouissance productive où les enjeux seraient l appropriation par la superposition. C est une réflexion sur l image à capturer et sur la potentialité subjective d une image à travers le rapport au texte, la poésie ou le langage.
Exhibition "Time Design" with ECAL,14.04–08.05.2022,Pont de la Machine, Geneva On the occasion of the "Time Design" exhibition organised by Watches and Culture - Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie and presented from 14 April to 8 May 2022 at the Pont de la Machine in Geneva, students from ECAL Bachelor of Industrial Design programme have created the display (windows), highlighting a hundred pieces that illustrate the inventiveness and diversity of watch design. Presented as a preview at the Watches and Wonders exhibition for the specialists, the exhibition is now accessible to the general public in the Pont de la Machine in Geneva. Over nearly 180 m2, visitors are taken on a journey through watchmaking creativity, from the 17th century to the present day. The display designed by Elie Fazel and Valentin Sieber - during a course given by Christian Spiess as part of the Bachelor s degree in Industrial Design - reveal a hundred or so exceptional pieces that have marked the history of the watch, bearing witness to this great watchmaking tradition or to a futuristic design. The display windows as well as some pieces of furniture imagined by the two former ECAL students are inspired by the urban grid pattern characteristic of La Chaux-de-Fonds, the cradle of watchmaking. Each module is based on the same construction of thermo-lacquered aluminum gratings. In addition, ECAL has also made a selection of a hundred watch advertisements from the archives of Europastar magazine, which was published from 1940 to 2000. These are presented on a dedicated screen within the exhibition.
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programmes, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required on registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also checked by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses …
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programmes, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required on registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also checked by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses …
ECAL at Visions du Réel: Marco Bellocchio masterclass + Films,07–17.04.2022,Visions du Réel, Nyon ECAL Masterclass at Visions du Réel: Marco Bellocchio – Director, screenwriter, producer, Rome. Marco Bellocchio Director, screenwriter, producer, Rome Tuesday 12 Apri 2022 at 2pm Théâtre de Marens, Nyon In partnership with Cinémathèque suisse and ECAL, the Italian director, screenwriter and producer Marco Bellocchio will give a masterclass open to the public during Visions du Réel in Nyon. This time of exchange will be an opportunity to explore a work of impressive freedom that interweaves fiction and documentary, the intimate and the collective. Moderated by film critic Enrico Magrelli and Rebecca De Pas, member of the selection committee. To see the masterclass, which is also available online, obtain tickets and consult the programme: Visions du Réel During Visions du Réel from 7 to 17 April 2022, two films from the ECAL Film Department will be in competition as well as several films made by ECAL alumni and personalities. Opening Scenes Section - Casting di un padre by Giulia Goy, film from the Documentary workshop as part of the Bachelor Cinéma, 2021 International Medium & Short Film Competition - Ramboy by Matthias Joulaud & Lucien Roux, Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD diploma film (Matthias Joulaud), 2022 - Initial by Hugo Radi, Bachelor Cinema graduate, 2016 National Competition - Ardente·x·s by Patrick Muroni, Bachelor Cinema graduate, 2017. Camera: Augustin Losserand, Bachelor Cinema graduate (Image Option), 2016. Sound: Timothée Zurbuchen, Bachelor Cinema graduate, 2015 -Couvre-feu. Journal de Monique Saint-Hélier (1940-44) by Rachel Noël, Bachelor Cinema academic assistant. Edition: Andreea Vescan, Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD graduate, 2018. - La Cour des grands by Louise Carrin, Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD graduate, 2018 Burning Lights - Ghost Fair Trade by Laurence Bonvin (Bachelor Photography lecturer) & Cheikh Ndiaye Programme: Visions du Réel
Alter Ego Realized in collaboration with Musée de la Main UNIL-CHUV, Lausanne for the exhibition « Intelligence Artificielle. Nos reflets dans la machine ». By revisiting the shape of the mirror, “Alter Ego” questions the notion of digital reflection. It highlights, in a playful way, image analysis by artificial intelligence. Project lead: Pauline Saglio, Gaël Hugo Development and finalization of projects: Sébastien Matos, Paul Lëon
The center occupies a 100m 2 area accommodated with meeting space, computer space, projection space. It serves as a showplace for new concepts in design, communications systems, and collaborative research. The goal is to ignite a new energy and connectivity within our visual communication departments. Partners USM , Loterie Romande , Canton de Vaud , EPFL+ECAL Lab Related programs BA Graph…
The EPFL+ECAL Lab is a unit of the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in cooperation with ECAL. Its mission is to foster innovation at a crossroads between technology, design and architecture. The Lab bases its activities along three axes: giving new meaning to technologies developed in the labs, fuelling innovation by widening the scope of designers’ work and forming new links betwe…
HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH Symposium : HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH This symposium is the first stage of the research project How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth. It questions “youth” as a conceptual, aesthetic, andpolitical figure born with modernity in the visual arts, popular culture, and the humanities. At the same time, this project proposes to examine the implications ofthe problematic category of "youth" in contemporary art and thought. By exploring the processes in which youth is constituted through its forms of representation, thisproject intends to render intelligible the aesthetic and political dimensions of youth, and to grasp it as a historical allegory allowing for a reconsideration of thecontemporary in the light of its most lively site. What image(s) does the notion of youth carry with it? What idea does it have of itself? How can we talk about it beyond ingrained ideas and the fantasies that society projects on it (at least in Western culture), making it simultaneously a force, a market, an age, a culture, a piece of a history which which we only began writing inthe twentieth-century, and which today has reached its critical stage? In recent history, the notion of youth has so often been conflated with “bringing down the house” that we now expect everything from it: to reinvent us, to shake us up, to carry us, to succeed in what others have failed at (establishing the most open communities possible), to build bridges for the future, to be radical, to be uncompromising where anyone outside of youth has already given up, to be desirable where others are overwhelmed. But with what means? If not those that young people make themselves, for themselves, with elements that they alone will have chosen? With their culture, their places, their clandestinity. Because that which is not yet over happens in the shadows of the world. Youth is a secret. “How Soon Is Now?”, The Smiths once asked. When is it, now? 9.30am Welcome, Stéphanie Moisdon Introduction, Philippe Azoury and Vincent Normand 10am Ludivine Bantigny : Representing Youth / Experiencing It. A Historical Perspective 11.30am Agnès Gayraud : "Will You Love Me When I m Sixty Four?" Pop Music as an Art of Ages 12.30pm Ludivine Bantigny and Agnès Gayraud in conversation 1pm Lunch break 2pm The Rave Continuum. Researching Plot and Politics of "Europe s Last Youth Culture" Persis Bekkering 3pm Break 3.30pm About Bébé Colère Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel 4.30pm Conclusion Apéro — Ludivine Bantigny Representing Youth / Experiencing It. A Historical Perspective The representations, discourses and other obsessions about "youth" often say less about young people than about the authorities that forge them: politicians, institutions, media, artists... In themselves, these representations are interesting: they express anxieties, doubts and hopes, but also strong opinions, sometimes peremptory visions that often translate fantasies. In such a landscape, cinema in particular is an excellent medium when it projects its lights and cameras on youth. It is these ways of telling the story of youth that this presentation addresses. But it does not stop there. For beyond the representations, what remains the most fascinating are the modalities of socialization that young people know and come across, in all their diversity. In this sense, this presentation will also question the relationship to time, historicity as an awareness of taking part in history and situating oneself in it, age identities, and generational belonging. Agnès Gayraud "Will You Love Me When I m Sixty Four?" Pop Music as an Art of Ages Folklore has long been interpreted as the "childhood of art", a form of expression invented by popular classes and considered as the living vestige of humanity s childhood. From its outset, recorded folk music has been appreciated as a form of "primaverism", the conviction that things in their prime are the most valuable, that authenticity stems not only from the origin but from the beginning. A recording fixes individual voices and their organic idiosyncrasies at the moment of their expression, and in so doing, it captures the aura of a primitive past. The fixed expressivity of recorded voices represents countless individual incarnations, and this has made pop music the most powerful musical art form to bear witness to all ages of life, not just childhood or youth. Rather than associating pop music with a particular stage of life, with a phase of inexperience (innocence, naivety, regression or youth), it is tempting to question its rooting in the expression of ages in general. Contemporary musicians such as Angèle, Oklou, and Arca accurately represent post-adolescence, sexual maturity, and the pleasure of finally flirting with the pornographic category of "adult" content, all while reflecting on youthism, contemporary ageism, and sexist domination. Here, individual embodiment takes as its theme its own situated expression. In contrast to these younger artists, Bob Dylan sang later in his life,"It s not dark yet but it s getting there". This priority given to the expression of individuality at various ages (one s body, one s sexuality, one s race, which make sense only by situating a generation in terms of someone s legal and physiological age), is what binds deeply popular recorded music to what the history of western musical art has at some point thought to have overcome during the 20th century: the romantic confidence in situated individualities, in particular incarnations, in singularities. In the contemporary artistic field, reflexive forms of art only recognize their historical age. Individual age is not a key to understanding the content of their gesture, one deciphers it rather in light of their epoch. Popular music, to the contrary, presents itself as a musical art powerfully carried by the expressiveness of the ages, even if it means sometimes to render eternal a youth whose legal status as such proceeds from the whole liberal system. Persis Bekkering The Rave Continuum. Researching Plot and Politics of "Europe s Last Youth Culture" As much as any experience fails to be adequately grasped by language, the experience of the rave presents the storyteller with a specific, intriguing challenge. As the narrator in Rainald Goetz experimental novel Rave (1998) remembers: "It was the wordless time, when we were always looking around with our big eyes so strangely in every possible situation, shaking our heads, and could almost never say anything but: speechless – pf –" The rave, at its best, is a wordless suspension of time; a limit experience; an event blurring linear understandings of time and space, proposing its own logic. As music theorist Simon Reynolds once quoted the (unbelievably perfect) shouts of an MC at a hardcore party: We ve lost the plot . What does this mean if one tries to translate the rave into narrative? How to grasp its thwarted, warped, halted temporality? For her last novel Exces, part of which is published in English as the novella Last Utopia, writer Persis Bekkering has attempted to find an answer to these problems. The questions of narrative structure and temporality of the rave may look like purely formal ones, but they are closely tied to bigger, historical or even philosophical questions: how to understand the rave and the emergence of rave culture, at the end of the 1980s, in its time? Why did it emerge at that peculiar historical moment, when the end of history and telos of progress was famously declared, utopian ideologies lost their claim, and capitalism entered a new phase? And what did the rave propose to it: resistance or acceleration? Maybe both? In her presentation, Bekkering takes us through a meandering journey along her ongoing artistic and literary research, sharing images, texts, fragments and shouts in the dark, from her archive. Throughout the various parts and fragments, one can hear the constant drone of the search for the aesthetic expression of the permanent presence of crisis in our time. Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel About Bébé Colère Screening of the film followed by a round table discussion. For more than ten years now, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel have been weaving together a body of work that has no equivalent within French cinema. Whether through their first feature film Jessica forever (2018), or through their numerous short and medium-length films, (Martin pleure, 2017; Notre héritage, 2015; or Tant qu il nous restera des fusils à pompe, 2014, which won the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival), they follow the destiny of their own generation (they are both less than 35 years old). This is a generation which feeds on heroism through the virtual, a generation that met porn before love and online violence before friendship, a generation for which the video game is its lost paradise. Yet they draw from it, and this is their strength, a form of romanticism, which never wants to believe in the end of emotions. Their lyricism is unprecedented because it comes after: after the images, after the clichés, after the disillusionment, after they have been told that “no, really, sorry, there is nothing left to expect from anything, everything has been played out”. In the spring of 2020, when the earth had just come to a halt due to the Covid pandemic, Jonathan and Caroline retreated to Corsica where they dreamed of an unseen body that escaped from a video game: Bébé Colère [Baby Anger]. Bébé Colère denies his parents, Bébé Colère has no friends, Bébé Colère vomits the world and feeds on emptiness. In 13 minutes, Bébé Colère is an irreducible work that paints a portrait of a 2.0 youth caught in disarray. A post-human body, which has denied its origins and only sees the future through the features of an avatar. Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel will discuss the possibility of romanticism today, and the conditions that allow them to invent new characters, generating their own disordered chronology. They will also talk about their aesthetic relationship with video games: the baby in Bébé Colère is a pre-programmed asset purchased online to be animated and then integrated into the film. In close collaboration with Lucien Krampf, they are also currently developing a project conceived inside a game engine. In their work, they consider the game as a new narrative track while also using pre-existing elements. The conversation will take place in French. — Ludivine Bantigny is a historian, teacher and researcher attached to the Laboratory of History of the University of Rouen-Normandy. She works on the history of commitments, social movements, insurrections and revolutions, but has also devoted numerous books and articles to the history of youth and generations. She has published Le Plus Bel Âge ? Jeunes et jeunesse en France de l aube des « Trente Glorieuses » à la guerre d Algérie (Fayard, 2007), La France à l heure du monde (Seuil, 2017, rééd. 2019), 1968. De grands soirs en petits matins (Seuil, 2018, rééd. 2020), Révolution (Anamosa, 2019), « La plus belle avenue du monde ». Une histoire sociale et politique des Champs-Élysées (La Découverte, 2020) and La Commune au présent. Une correspondance par-delà le temps (La Découverte, 2021). Persis Bekkering is a metamorphic writer, engaging with a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines. She is interested in the emotional landscape of the contemporary, searching for new narrative forms that reflect a present permanently marked by crisis. Her recent publications include (fictocritical) essays, art criticism and fiction. Her debut novel Een heldenleven (The Life of a Hero), published in 2018, was shortlisted for the ANV Debut Prize. Her second novel Exces, shortlisted for the BNG Bank Prize for Literature, was published in 2021, part of which has been translated in English as Last Utopia by the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Recent and forthcoming publications include texts for M HKA Antwerp, Girls Like Us, Extra Extra and NRC Handelsblad. With choreographer Ula Sickle she worked as dramaturg on the concert performances The Sadness (2020) and Echoic Choir (2021). She also teaches at the Creative Writing department of ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. Agnès Gayraud was born in Tarbes in 1979. Under the name La Féline, she is the author and composer of several pop records released since 2014 by Kwaidan Records, including the albums Adieu l enfance, Triomphe, and Vie Future, as well as other contributions under the moniker GRIVE. She published a book of aesthetic philosophy, Dialectic of Pop (Urbanomic, 2019), dealing with the expressive changes induced by the advent of recorded popular music since the beginning of the twentieth century. She is currently professor of art and theory at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Jonathan Vinel, born in Toulouse in 1988, studied editing at the Fémis. Caroline Poggi, born in 1990 in Ajaccio, studied at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) and at the University of Corsica (CREATACC degree). They have directed several films, separately (Chiens for Caroline, Notre amour est assez puissant for Jonathan) and together. Their short film Tant qu il nous reste des fusils à pompe received the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. They then directed Notre héritage, also selected at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015, followed by their first feature film Jessica Forever in 2018. They are currently working on their second feature film entitled Eat the Night. — Concept and organization: Philippe Azoury, Vincent Normand, Shirin Yousefi For registration or further information please contact: shirin.yousefi@ecal.ch — How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth is a research project supported by ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and HES-SO/University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland.
Master Fine Arts symposium at ECAL,28.03.2022,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Master Fine Arts Symposium: How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth. ECAL Master Fine Arts Symposium How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth Monday 28 March 2022 9am - 5pm IKEA Auditorium HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH This symposium is the first stage of the research project How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth. It questions “youth” as a conceptual, aesthetic, and political figure born with modernity in the visual arts, popular culture, and the humanities. At the same time, this project proposes to examine the implications of the problematic category of “youth” in contemporary art and thought. By exploring the processes in which youth is constituted through its forms of representation, this project intends to render intelligible the aesthetic and political dimensions of youth, and to grasp it as a historical allegory allowing for a reconsideration of the contemporary in the light of its most lively site. 9am Welcome coffee 9.30am Welcome, Stéphanie Moisdon Introduction, Philippe Azoury and Vincent Normand 10am Representing Youth / Experiencing It. A Historical Perspective Ludivine Bantigny 11am Break 11.30am “Will You Love Me When I m Sixty Four?” Pop Music as an Art of Ages Agnès Gayraud 12.30pm Ludivine Bantigny and Agnès Gayraud in conversation 1pm Lunch break 2pm The Rave Continuum. Researching Plot and Politics of “Europe s Last Youth Culture” Persis Bekkering 3pm Break 3.30pm About Bébé Colère Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel 4.30pm Conclusion Apéro For registration or information shirin.yousefi@ecal.ch Ludivine Bantigny is a historian, teacher and researcher attached to the Laboratory of History of the University of Rouen-Normandy. She works on the history of commitments, social movements, insurrections and revolutions, but has also devoted numerous books and articles to the history of youth and generations. She has published Le Plus Bel Âge ? Jeunes et jeunesse en France de l aube des « Trente Glorieuses » à la guerre d Algérie (Fayard, 2007), La France à l heure du monde (Seuil, 2017, rééd. 2019), 1968. De grands soirs en petits matins (Seuil, 2018, rééd. 2020), Révolution (Anamosa, 2019), « La plus belle avenue du monde ». Une histoire sociale et politique des Champs-Élysées (La Découverte, 2020) and La Commune au présent. Une correspondance par-delà le temps (La Découverte, 2021). Persis Bekkering is a metamorphic writer, engaging with a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines. She is interested in the emotional landscape of the contemporary, searching for new narrative forms that reflect a present permanently marked by crisis. Her recent publications include (fictocritical) essays, art criticism and fiction. Her debut novel Een heldenleven (The Life of a Hero), published in 2018, was shortlisted for the ANV Debut Prize. Her second novel Exces, shortlisted for the BNG Bank Prize for Literature, was published in 2021, part of which has been translated in English as Last Utopia by the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Recent and forthcoming publications include texts for M HKA Antwerp, Girls Like Us, Extra Extra and NRC Handelsblad. With choreographer Ula Sickle she worked as dramaturg on the concert performances The Sadness (2020) and Echoic Choir (2021). She also teaches at the Creative Writing department of ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. Agnès Gayraud was born in Tarbes in 1979. Under the name La Féline, she is the author and composer of several pop records released since 2014 by Kwaidan Records, including the albums Adieu l enfance, Triomphe, and Vie Future, as well as other contributions under the moniker GRIVE. She published a book of aesthetic philosophy, Dialectic of Pop (Urbanomic, 2019), dealing with the expressive changes induced by the advent of recorded popular music since the beginning of the twentieth century. She is currently professor of art and theory at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Jonathan Vinel, born in Toulouse in 1988, studied editing at the Fémis. Caroline Poggi, born in 1990 in Ajaccio, studied at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) and at the University of Corsica (CREATACC degree). They have directed several films, separately (Chiens for Caroline, Notre amour est assez puissant for Jonathan) and together. Their short film Tant qu il nous reste des fusils à pompe received the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. They then directed Notre héritage, also selected at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015, followed by their first feature film Jessica Forever in 2018. They are currently working on their second feature film entitled Eat the Night. ECAL Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33 www.ecal.ch How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth is a research project supported by ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and HES-SO/University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland. Concept and organization Philippe Azoury, Vincent Normand, Shirin Yousefi
ECAL Conference: Joan Fontcuberta,23.03.2022,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Joan Fontcuberta – Visual artist & photographer, Barcelona. Joan Fontcuberta Visual artist & photographer, Barcelona Wednesday 23 March 2022 at 6pm IKEA auditorium, ECAL As part of a workshop with the students of the Bachelor Photography programme of ECAL. In addition to his work as a visual artist oriented towards the field of photography, Joan Fontcuberta (born in Barcelona in 1955) develops a plural activity as a teacher, critic, curator and historian. Through the manipulation of the photographic image, he questions the effects of reality and the capacity of truth produced by the technological image. In a logic of denunciation of authoritarian discourses in the context of information, he dismantles, through different series - Herbarium, Fauna, Sputnik, Les Sirènes de Digne, Miracles et cie... - the language specific to the disciplines of science, information and other vectors of knowledge. In his latest projects, he is interested in the nature and function of the image in digital culture. Visiting professor at institutions such as Harvard or Le Fresnoy, he has written numerous essays, including Le boîtier de Pandore, Spanish National Prize for Literature - essay category in 2011. He has also had solo exhibitions at MoMA (New York), MIT (Cambridge - USA), the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris) and the Science Museum (London). Many of his works are in public collections such as the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Met (New York), the National Gallery of Art (Ottawa) or the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid). ECAL Avenue du Temple 5 1020 Renens www.ecal.ch
What s The Prompt? During a week workshop given by Cyril Diagne, second year students explored the integration of machine learning tools in their creative process. By limiting the coding step in favour of using the concept of Prompt they experimented with Diffusion Models such as GPT3, Clip or DALL-E to create texts, images and videos. Comparing the way our brain seems to make our dreams and the way some AI models work, Elina Crespi used some Diffusion Model to represent her dreams. DREAMS Comparing the way our brain seems to make our dreams and the way some AI models work, Elina Crespi used some Diffusion Model to represent her dreams. By Elina Crespi LAMINAR SPACES After Midnight shows what the minutes, hours, days, months and years after the end of the world might look like. In 2021, the “Doomsay Clock” in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists shows that we are 100 seconds away from a possible end of the world on a 24-hour scale. Arthur Lucchesi imagined what the end of the world might look like after that time. By Arthur Lucchesi Rebirth By working hand in hand with several AIs (for the visuals, the music, the voice-over and the subtitles), Adryan Barilliet created a new mythology narrating the creation of a world after the fusion between divine and machine. By Adryan Barilliet THE Utopian City Tickie created a dialogue with the AI to ask it what a utopian city would be like. She collected the conversations and images and archived them into a website. By Tickie Bindner Au pied de la lettre Niki created an interactive quiz in which the user must find the French expression represented by the images. By Niki Zaal Explorations Jeanne used machine learning to give her access to universes in her favorite books that are poorly documented visually. With text inputs, she explored different environments like the forest, the ocean and the sky to create animated lock screens for smartphones. By Jeanne Weber
Switzerland is a privileged country in terms of know-how in the field of luxury and craftsmanship. Building on this tradition, this Master of Advanced Studies is for the holders of a Bachelor or Master’s degree wishing to further their knowledge in industrial design and investigate sectors of excellence as diverse as fine watchmaking, tableware or specific techniques using noble materials. Thr…
Designers play a vital role in innovation. They turn emerging technologies into something that makes sense to the user and becomes part of everyday life. They also provide answers to the challenges raised by such advanced technology. They devise new usage scenarios, explore innovative forms of expression and ensure that novel ideas fit in with the users’ social and cultural environment. This chal…
ECAL encourages creative activities which, although not originally identified as R&D, can lead to original research problems in the fields of visual and applied arts. R&D department maintains narrow links with regional and national bodies. He is a member of the Réseau de Compétences Design et Arts Visuels de la HES-SO (RCDAV), the Swiss Design Network (SDN) and the Swiss Art Research N…
Developing a personal cinematographic vision, understanding the filmmaking process and apprehending the stakes of production so as to pave the way for graduates to smoothly join professional circles – such are the main objectives of this programme. This Master course, which is unique in Europe, is aimed at the holders of a Bachelor’s degree, or with equivalent experience, wishing to further their…
Discovering the various fields and movements of contemporary art by developing one’s own artistic expression. Such is the opportunity offered by this Bachelor programme to young, passionate artists wishing to perfect their technique, experiment with discourse and consolidate a critical stance. Students benefit from practical and theoretical supervision provided by major actors of the contemporary…
The Bachelor's degree in cinema offers an introduction to the many different professions involved in filmmaking. Students are introduced to film writing, directing and acting, as well as shooting, sound, editing and post-production techniques, thanks to rigorous guidance from recognized professionals in all fields. In addition, a wide variety of theoretical approaches and numerous masterclasse…
At the start of the 2016 academic year, ECAL is proud to have introduced its Master’s degree in Photography. Relying on massive use of photographic images – a key element in today’s visual communication – this two-year program, unique in Switzerland, gives students with a related Bachelor’s degree an opportunity to develop projects in the long term. It especially pushes the boundaries of applied …
At the start of the 2016 academic year, ECAL is proud to have introduced a new Master’s degree in Type Design. Unique in Switzerland, this two-year program gives graduate students with a Bachelor in Graphic Design an opportunity to develop projects in the long term. This training provides privileged access to one of the flagship disciplines in Swiss graphic design, relying on ECAL’s expertise in …
As a decisive turning point in a career or as a follow-up to a Bachelor in Industrial Design, this Master's program is for students wishing to focus on two fundamental aspects of a designer’s practice: personal research as well as the professional handling of commissions for clients, companies or producers. Besides the steadily ongoing refinement of design research abilities and practical desi…
Collectif I (6 ECTS) POOLCH I (6 ECTS) Séminaire de Master I (3 ECTS) Pratiques et recherches II Préparation à la Master Thesis (12 ECTS) Projections I (12 ECTS) Symposium (6 ECTS) Séminaire de Master II (3 ECTS) Pratiques et recherches I Préparation à la Master Thesis (9 ECTS) Projections I (12 ECTS) POOLCH II (6 …
From artistic photography to commissioned work, via still-life, documentary, portrait or fashion, this programme is for students passionate about photography as a medium and wishing to sharpen their eye and refine their technique. Prospective, pragmatic and experimental, this Bachelor course is provided in the framework of the Visual Communication Department, which concurrently offers crossover c…
ECAL Masterclass: Nabil Ayouch,09.03.2022, 17:30,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Masterclass: Nabil Ayouch – Director, Sarcelles/Casablanca ECAL Masterclass Nabil Ayouch Director, Paris/Casablanca Wednesday 9 March at 5.30 pm IKEA auditorium, ECAL As part of the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva (FIFDH) and co-presented with the Cinémathèque suisse and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA) - Platform 10 Moderation: Pauline Gygax The masterclass at ECAL will be followed by the screening of "Haut et fort" at 8pm at the Cinémathèque suisse. Nabil Ayouch is one of the most important filmmakers of his generation. Held in conjunction with the official selection of "Haut et fort" ("Casablanca Beats") at the FIFDH, this Masterclass is devoted to his bold, ever-changing work, which constantly explores and questions the margins of Moroccan society. His first feature film, "Mektoub", became the first film to represent Morocco at the Oscars in 1997. "Ali Zaoua, Prince of the Street" (2000), "Much Loved" (2016) and "Razzia" (2018) have also enjoyed successful careers internationally. Nabil Ayouch is also the founder of the Moroccan Coalition for Cultural Diversity (2003) and Meda Films Development (2006), which supports producers and scriptwriters South of the Mediterranean. ECAL Avenue du Temple 5 1020 Renens
ECAL's building is a former industrial plant which was converted by the architect Bernard Tschumi in 2007 to provide the school with a surface of approximately 17,000 m². It has an impressive technical infrastructure and first-rate equipment. Three auditoriums of 352, 106 and 60 seats, a cinema studio, four photographic studios, 24 editing booths, a state-of-the-art computer park, a model…
ECAL Masters Tour 2022,16–18.02.2022,Bern, Lugano, Zürich In a relaxed and friendly atmosphere (drinks offered), we are happy to welcome you for portfolio reviews – do not forget to bring your files – and to answer all your questions related to some of our Masters. ECAL Master Tour 2022 Fine Arts, Photography, Product Design and Type Design In a relaxed and friendly atmosphere (drinks offered), we are happy to welcome you for portfolio reviews – do not forget to bring your files – and to answer all your questions related to some of our Masters. BERN Wednesday 16 February, 17h00 - 19h30 Restaurant Bar Löscher, Viktoriastrasse 70, 3013 Bern DE/EN/FR – www.loescher.be Master Fine Arts Stéphanie Moisdon – Head of programme Shirin Yousefi – Assistant Master Photography Florian Amoser – Artistic associate Master Product Design Maxwell Ashford– Assistant Master Type Design Matthieu Cortat – Head of programme ----- LUGANO Thursday 17 February, 17h00 - 20h00 Teatro delle Radici, Viale Cassarate 4, 6900 Lugano IT/EN/FR – www.teatrodelleradici.net Master Fine Arts Lucas Erin – Assistant Master Photography Milo Keller – Head of programme Robin Bervini – Assistant Master Product Design Margo Clavier – Assistant Master Type Design Sophie Wietlisbach– Assistant From 16 to 18 February, a VR experience by Robin Bervini, MA Photography graduate, will be displayed at Teatro Pan (opposite Teatro delle Radici). In collaboration with Biennale dell immagine di Chiasso. ----- ZURICH Friday 18 February, 18h00 - 20h00 Atelier Christian Spiess, Fabrikstrasse 17, 8005 Zürich DE/EN/FR – www.christian-spiess.com Master Fine Arts Lucas Erin – Assistant Shirin Yousefi – Assistant Master Photography Sara Bastai – Assistant Master Product Design Camille Blin - Head of programme Maxwell Ashford– Assistant Master Type Design Nicolas Bernklau – Assistant
Creativity, motivation, energy and curiosity are the main ingredients to enter our Propaedeutic Year. This preparatory stage is aimed at students who wish to work in the fields of art or design and allows them to acquire the necessary skills for a Bachelor's program. During one year, this training offers the possibility to holders of a Maturité or a Baccalauréat to familiarize themselves with the…
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ECAL is located in Renens, in the heart of the Lausanne agglomeration. With a population of more than 20,000, Renens is the capital of the West Lausanne district and one of the most important cities in the canton of Vaud. Until the end of the 19th century, Renens was only an agricultural village. It was then transformed into a real industrial city, thanks in particular to the railway. At the …
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful learning and working environment for our students and staff members, regardless of their sex, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, age or any other characteristics that rightly or wrongly place individuals in a social group. Egality & inclusion at ECAL As an art university, we encourage our students to look at cultural pro…
Independent art spaces All stars Art et Fiction Ateliers Bellevaux Bureaucracy Studies Circuit Dim Sun La Love Machine La Placette L’imprimerie Locus Solus Sillicon Malley standard/deluxe Tunnel Tunnel Urgent Paradise Vitrine 13 Valentin 61 The independent spaces also show a great vitality and often welcome artists and designers who have graduated fr…
Find housing Due to the relatively difficult housing situation in Lausanne and its surroundings, it can take several months to find a studio/apartment or a room. Students are therefore advised to make their arrangements well in advance, and if possible as soon as they are admitted. The price of renting a studio/apartment or a room usually starts at CHF 600/month. In addition, most agencies and …
Annual costs (in Swiss francs CHF)Domiciled in Vaud (cf. point 1) 1'000.-Domiciled in a canton having ratified the Convention C-FE (cf. points 1&2) 20'300.-Domiciled in another canton (cf. points 1&3) 20'300.-Domiciled abroad (cf. points 1&4) 20'300.-* If a reduction is granted 8'120.-YEARLY COST Registration fee (for all) 150.-Contribution to study fee (for all including MSAD students) 550.-** Su…
ECAL x Fondation Martin Bodmer - Scripts of the World,24.01–20.03.2022,Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny (GE) ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne and the Fondation Martin Bodmer have joined forces to celebrate typographic creation and the scripts of the world. ECAL will present original projects in contemporary typography and graphic design, from its Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programmes, comparing them with Fondation Martin Bodmer s UNESCO listed heritage through a series of lectures, events and workshops on Sunday afternoons on 6 February, 27 February and 20 March 2022. 6 February 2022, 14:00-18:00 The Scripts of Aram: Syriac-Aramaic Typefaces (FR/EN) Registration At the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Switzerland and Liechtenstein office of the UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, collaborated with the students of the ECAL Master Type Design on a case: the Syriac script. Historically used to transcribe languages over a vast geographical area, Syriac is today mainly used as the liturgical script of Eastern Christians. Speakers of Modern Aramaic languages live in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, but compose mainly a worldwide diaspora. While only a few digital fonts exist, providing contemporary and innovative typefaces would contribute to broadening the possibilities for the language to thrive, as well as to cultivate community ties. This day proposes to celebrate Syriac writing and Aramaic culture through the collections of the Martin Bodmer Foundation, typography projects of the ECAL and various reflections on writing, its power, its relationship to politics, language and identity. Conferences 14:30 Politics and type design, Syriac script: a case study (FR) by Matthieu Cortat, head of MA Type Design, ECAL 15:00 About the publication "Aram" (FR) by Elena Baranowski, student MA Type Design, ECAL 15:15 Syriac in the collections of the Fondation Martin Bodmer (FR) by Nicolas Ducimetière, vice-director, Fondation Martin Bodmer 15:45 Break 16:15 Critical Regionalism in Type Design - A survey of moments in history when social, political, economic systems change in parallel with typography (EN) by Nicolas Bernklau, assistant MA Type Design, ECAL 16:35 Aramean communities in Switzerland today (EN) by Melki Toprak, president, and Tony Ürek, secretary, Federation of Arameans in Switzerland 17:00 Concert of the ARAM Ensemble, A view on Syriac traditions, led by Jalal Polus Gajo, soloist, with Ammar Ai Toumi, percussionist Carles Dorador, oud Liqaa Marooki, soloist Marie Wahida, soloist Fadi Wahida, Qanun preceded by an introduction by Véronique Nebel, board member, Laus Plena Foundation (ANG) Workshop 14:00 - 18:00 Gutenberg press with Yvan Hostettler Syriac-Aramaic script with the Aramean Federation of Switzerland 27 February 2022, 14:00-18:00 (FR) Typographic Art: From the Major Names to the Revival Registration This day will take you through the history of typeface design, from the major names to the collection of the Martin Bodmer Foundation, then confronting it with the contemporary practice of revival. With this technique, a typeface is digitally redesigned from a historical typeface, or serves as a template from which a new design is developed, more or less faithfully to its source. The success of these digital fonts and their distribution are interesting mechanisms, which will also be discussed, mirroring the long history of typography, reflected in the collections of the Martin Bodmer Foundation. Conferences 15:00 The major names in typography by Nicolas Ducimetière, vice-director, Martin Bodmer Foundation 15:45 Break 16:15 Revival: digital typography and its relationship to historical models by François Rappo, type designer and typographer, Lausanne with an introduction by Angelo Benedetto, head of BA Graphic Design, ECAL followed by a contribution by Gilles Gavillet, graphic designer and founder, Optimo and Gavillet & Cie on the distribution of revivals by a foundry followed by a Q&A session with all guest speakers Workshop 14:00 - 18:00 19th century press with Nicolas Regamey, Atelier Typo de la Cité 20 March 2022, 14:00-18:00 (FR/EN) Languages and Cultures: Inventing a Materiality Registration A selection of editorial and typographic projects will be presented by their authors, all students or alumni of the Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programmes at ECAL. Whether it is about Cypriot dialects, a Lukumí-Español dictionary, Chinese characters drawn with the help of artificial intelligence tools, the crossing of Hebrew and German in Hebrew Yiddish, Lebanese multilingualism or the history of Cyrillic writing in Russia, these innovative and personal projects are as many different ways of contributing to the perpetuation of a culture, of a language, through their transmission but also, to their possible evolutions. Conferences 14:30 Introduction (FR) by Angelo Benedetto, head of BA Graphic Design, ECAL 14:45 Κυπριώτικο Σκετς / [kipri otiko skets] / Cypriot Sketch (FR) by Clio Hadjigeorgiou, assistant BA Graphic Design, ECAL 15:00 Diccionario Lukumí-Español (FR) by Laura Issé-Tusevo, graphic designer, BA Graphic Design alumna, ECAL 15:15 Written communication in Lebanon, between Arabic, French and English (EN) by Karima Deghayli and Norma Elzoghbi, students MA Type Design, ECAL 15:30 Break 16:00 AIZI. Artificial Intelligence for Chinese type design (EN) by Shuhui Shi, type designer, MA Type Design alumna, ECAL 16:15 Cyrilic and the politics of writing (EN) by Sergei Rasskazov, student MA Type Design, ECAL 16:30 Yiddish Displayed (EN) by Noam Benatar, MA Type Design student, ECAL 16:45 Conclusion (FR/EN) by Irene Vlachou, type designer and visiting professor, ECAL & Matthieu Cortat, head of MA Type Design, ECAL followed by a Q&A session with all guest speakers Workshop 14:00 - 18:00 Intaglio printing with Alessandro Longo, Verssso General information Confirm your participation - free but registration is required via rsvp links above. Venue: Fondation Martin Bodmer, Route Martin-Bodmer 19, 1223 Cologny (Genève). Access to Fondation Martin Bodmer is subject to the current health regulations: 2G certificate and mandatory mask. This event marks the 200th anniversary of ECAL (1821-2021) and is organised by ECAL and Fondation Martin Bodmer with the support of: Fédération des Araméens en Suisse, World Council of Arameans, UNHCR, Fondation Laus Plena, Swiss Graphic Designers.
ECAL Masterclass: Mathieu Amalric,18.01.2022,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Masterclass: Mathieu Amalric, actor, director, Paris Masterclass ECAL Mathieu Amalric Acteur, réalisateur, Paris Mardi 18 janvier 2022 à 18h Auditoire IKEA, ECAL Modération par les étudiant·e·s du Département Cinéma de l ECAL. La masterclass sera suivie à 20h30 de la projection de son huitième long-métrage Serre Moi Fort (2021) au Cinéma CityClub à Pully. Né à Neuilly-sur-Seine en 1965, Mathieu Amalric exerce tour à tour comme acteur et comme réalisateur. Depuis son premier rôle au cinéma en 1984 (Les Favoris de la lune d Otar Iosseliani), il suit une trajectoire rapide et très variée, jouant régulièrement sous la direction de Bertrand Bonello, Alain Resnais, Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu et Arnaud Desplechin, dont il est un des acteurs emblématiques. Figure du cinéma d auteur français, Mathieu Amalric promène aussi son visage de caméléon et sa diction très personnelle dans de grandes productions internationales telles que Munich (2005) de Steven Spielberg, James Bond – Quantum of Solace (2008) de Marc Forster, Cosmopolis (2012) de David Cronenberg, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) de Wes Anderson. Il est récompensé par deux César du meilleur acteur en 2005 et 2008 pour Rois et Reine d Arnaud Desplechin et Le Scaphandre et le papillon de Julian Schnabel. En tant que réalisateur, il se fait remarquer entre autres grâce à Tournée (2010), La Chambre bleue (2014) et Barbara (2017). Ces événements sont soumis aux règles sanitaires en vigueur. ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne Avenue du Temple 5 CH–1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33 www.ecal.ch
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VR Sequences 2022 VR Music Video projects created by second-year students in the Bachelor of Media & Interaction Design program. La page blanche Taking inspiration from a 1970s building, a virtual architecture has been created, emphasizing the drawing experience. The viewer becomes immersed in this house where the lines come to life, reimagining an original space. The sketch extends beyond its paper, allowing a hybrid drawing to envelop the viewer. By Elina Crespi and Martino De GrandisIncident "Incident" is an immersive VR project exploring 3D worlds. Inspired by the "Max Headroom incident," where a broadcast was hijacked, the artists aim to recreate the unsettling sensation of losing control over screens. By Paul Dorsaz and Julien CauletVRONIC The sequence introduces VRonique, the main character and guide, in Le Salon . This project marks an early exploration of VR sequences and motion capture, evident in the character s intentional jittery movements and the non-finalized render quality. Created in collaboration with Graphic Designer Thomas Neyroud and Photographer Louis Michel, VRonique offers a glimpse into a future that blurs reality and the virtual world. By Adryan Barilliet
Service Design - 2022 During the Service Design course, the 3rd year of the Graphic Design, Photography and Media & Interaction Design bachelors had to create multi-media projects. A collaboration of the Visual Communication department which had as subject the SDGs (*Sustainable Development Goals). The theme was called "For a good cause, make the SDGs a reality" and its objective was to allow students to develop a cause that is close to their hearts. Each project consists of at least two different media, one primary and one secondary. These projects could take any form that the students deemed relevant, be it a website, editions, posters, a video sequence or virtual reality. 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with more than 169 targets signed by all UN member states for the 2030 Agenda. They reconcile the economic, social and ecological dimensions of sustainable development and place the fight against poverty and sustainable development on the same agenda for the first time. This means that all states are called upon to play an equal role in finding common solutions to the world s pressing challenges. Switzerland is also required to implement the goals at the national level. In addition, incentives must be created to encourage non-governmental actors to make an increasingly active contribution to sustainable development.What are the SDGs?MELTING POINTS Leaflet / poster & website The Melting Points project is initially composed of a series of leaflets with the aim of warning and reporting on the environmental situation of glaciers in Switzerland. Rather than communicating the urgency of the situation, we decided to evoke the mass disappearance of certain glaciers, thus accentuating a process that has already begun and is partly irreversible. This printed dimension of the project serves as a bridge between an ephemeral physical object and a constantly evolving website. The latter is based on the analogy of the obituary, listing the disappeared, threatened and non-threatened glaciers while emphasizing the nostalgia and memory of these places. By Martial Grin , Hugo Le Corre , Basil PérotTHE CORAL RESCUE PROJECT Journal & instagram The coral rescue project deals with issues concerning aquatic life. We decided to look at the extinction of corals, which has accelerated in recent decades. This journal describes 14 solutions to help save them, alone or together. It is foldable and includes illustrations and QR codes to find out more about the cause. The edition is guided by an instagram page of GIFs, which helps us understand and reach out to more people. By Aurore Huberty , Iris Moine , Anaelle Iglesias CarballoESSENCE Edition & instagram The Essence project consists of a series of magazines dealing with subjects that are interested in families of natural products such as mushrooms, algae, fruit skins and many others that have the capacity to become biomaterials. The project is to be understood as a natural, artistic and avant-garde magazine. It includes recipes to make at home, articles, interviews, artworks and workshops as well as various photo pages. By Marion Marquet , Yolane Rais , Loris Briguet DISCOURS DE HAINE en ligne Edition & chrome extension Based on a study conducted by Dr. Lea Stahel at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Zurich in 2020. The Hate speech online edition aims to raise awareness, especially among young people, about the problem of hate speech on the Internet. Based on 8 points, this study deciphers the phenomenon and its problems in Switzerland. The project also includes Rate Hate, a Chrome extension designed to combat hate and hate speech on the Internet. With this application you can evaluate the hate content of a website and modify its content accordingly. The goal of Rate Hate is to transform hate speech into graphic visuals in order to divert and criticize its content. By Achille Masson , Camille Spiller , Raphaël CarruzzoLAISSER DISPARAÎTRE OU FAIRE DISPARAÎTRE Edition, moving poster & VR short film Laisser disparaître ou faire disparaître exposes the conflicts of interest between our desire to preserve the planet and our addiction to comfort. To act for the good of all or to protect one s own interests? In the privileged context inherent to Switzerland, eco-anxiety is soaring and, paradoxically, comfort is gradually reaching its peak. Feelings oscillate between guilt, denial and justification of acts that contribute to the deterioration of our Earth, of the ties that bind us and of our values. Through interviews and surveys, the edition gathers current concerns from subjects of various ages, the vast majority of whom are Swiss. They answer the questions: "What are you afraid of disappearing?" and "What comfort are you not ready to give up? Some systems of thought are developed in order to offer a varied range of opinions. One of them is narrated by a voice-over and a succession of images in a poignant VR experience. Moving posters highlight various issues such as travel, over-consumption and imports. Capturing a world in corrosion, the project is to be understood as the testimony of a concerned society. By , Hydro—Hegemony Website & edition Hydro-Hegemony presents water conflicts from 3000 BC to the 21st century, showing how water is the lifeblood of ecosystems; global environmental changes, especially climate change, further intensify competition between competing uses and users, leading to conflict and war. By , , ADELPHE Edition & Documentary video The ADELPHE project aims to represent the genders equally in order to raise awareness about this still taboo subject. The easily printable and distributable fanzine format allows easy access for anyone not directly concerned with gender issues. The video teaser allows for quick accessibility and digital visibility in order to introduce the subject of the fanzine. By Julie Corday , Tania Praz , Charlotte ViglinoREUSE REPURPOSE RECYCLE Magazine & video REUSE REPURPOSE RECYCLE has as its main support a magazine that highlights and sensitizes its readers to the current problem of consumerism, through the promotion of a lifestyle based on second-hand consumption. The book is aimed at a young and committed public and takes advantage of the current thrifting trend. In this first issue, the basics of the issue are discussed and the tone is set for the issues to follow. The magazine is supported by a series of three teaser videos that invite the public to consult the book and pique their curiosity. By Samara Krähenbühl , Nina Treichler , Mara Wohlfahrt
Workshop Rousseau mandate Study trip of the Master in Film students in Val de Travers, on the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, to work on the first stages of the Mandate proposed by the MLR - Maison Rousseau et Littérature, Geneva. Study trip of the Master in Film students in Val de Travers, on the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, to work on the first stages of the Mandate proposed by the MLR - Maison Rousseau et Littérature, Geneva. The films made in the frame of the Mandate are part of the Museum s permanent exhibition, which can be seen on site in Geneva. Informations here https://m-r-l.ch/parcours-rousseau
Launch of AIZI – a unique database of Chinese characters,08.12.2021,www.aizi.ch Developed by a team composed of both designers (ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne) and engineers (EPFL – The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), the AIZI research project offers a unique database of Chinese characters – consisted of 93,876 entries – in order to help type designers draw Chinese typefaces: www.aizi.ch www.aizi.ch Despite being used by some 900 million native speakers, the Chinese writing system currently relies on a small number of digital typefaces, in print or on screen. This is partly due to the quantity of characters. There is no official figure, but some dictionaries reach up to 106,230 glyphs, with the Unicode standard featuring “only” 20,902 glyphs. A Chinese scholar knows over 13,000 and being able to read a mere quarter of this figure is nothing to be ashamed of in contemporary China. For a designer, creating a Chinese typeface can easily take more than a year and represents a far greater investment, both in time and money, than a Latin (or Greek, or Cyrillic) one. These practical difficulties also limit foreigners interest in Chinese type design, as the task seems insurmountable. Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) help Chinese type design overcome its current limitations? Is it possible to teach a Machine Learning programme about the rules of Chinese composition and design in order to enable it to create the thousands of glyphs required for a typeface? “The initial idea behind the AIZI research project was to define a reduced set of basic “seed” characters that could be used as training data for an AI system, with the ultimate goals of democratising the design of Chinese typefaces and access to script for beginners and foreigners and to expand the stylistic range for a writing system that is largely dominated by traditional brush-based calligraphic shapes. Eventually, this could lead to greater quality in the production of fonts for Chinese script”, explains Shuhui Shi, who launched the project as part of the ECAL Master Type Design. Rooted in traditional structures, the system that has been developed analyses and rationalises the construction of glyphs and has resulted in a database – available in open access on www.aizi.ch – that could be used to train AIZI algorithms as well as any other future AI tools. The database contains 93,876 entries and is geared towards type designers, providing them with the reference needed to draw a set of Hanzi, even if they do not speak or read Chinese. AIZI was developed by a team composed of both designers (ECAL) and engineers (EPFL). As part of the ECAL Master Type Design programme, Shuhui Shi, initiator of the project, was in charge of the design part in collaboration with Kai Bernau, under the supervision of Matthieu Cortat. The Machine Learning process and algorithms were developed by Wei Wang, under the supervision of Mathieu Salzmann from the EPFL Computer Vision Laboratory. Information Shuhui Shi – Head of project, ECAL: shuhui.shi.ss@gmail.com Matthieu Cortat, Head of Master Type Design, ECAL: matthieu.cortat@ecal.ch – www.ecal.ch Mathieu Salzmann – Senior Researcher, Computer Vision Laboratory, EPFL: mathieu.salzmann@epfl.ch – www.epfl.ch/labs/cvlab/
ECAL Conference: Philippe Jarrigeon,08.12.2021,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Philippe Jarrigeon – Photographer, Paris A l occasion de la sortie du livre «PLAY» (publié chez RVB Books) – la première monographie de Philippe Jarrigeon retraçant 15 ans de sa carrière. Philippe Jarrigeon Photographe, Paris Mercredi 8 décembre 2021 à 18h En conversation avec Nathalie Herschdorfer, enseignante et directrice du Musée des beaux-arts du Locle. Né en France, Philippe Jarrigeon est diplômé de l ECAL en Bachelor Photographie, où il enseigne également depuis 2008. Il expose notamment au Festival international de la mode et de la photographie à Hyères (France) et au Fotomuseum de Winterthur (2008), puis à la Galerie des Galeries – Galeries Lafayette Haussmann (2014) avec le projet«Grand Magasin», une exposition photographique célébrant le 25e prix de l ANDAM. Il collabore également avec de nombreux magazines internationaux, dont Double, Dazed, M Le Monde, The New York Times, Interview, Vogue Paris, Vogue US et W. Il travaille régulièrement pour des marques de mode et de luxe comme Chanel, Hermès, Proenza Schouler, Patou, Tiffany & Co. ainsi qu avec des artistes tels que Snoop Dogg, dont il signe la couverture de l album «Bush» (2015), Pharrell Williams ou encore Juliette Armanet, dont il réalise le clip vidéo, «L Amour en Solitaire» (2018). En 2009, il fonde avec Sylvain Menétrey sa propre publication: «Dorade, revue galante, photographie et formes critiques» qui devient rapidement une plateforme avant-gardiste, où contribuent des artistes tels que Camille Vivier, Théo Mercier, Brice Dellsperger, Nina Childress ou encore Natacha Lesueur. En 2012, Dorade a remporté le prestigieux Swiss Design Award et le prix du meilleur magazine culturel décerné par le Club des Directeurs Artistiques. www.philippejarrigeon.com ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33
Automated Photography Worshop In this one week intensive workshop, digital curator Marco de Mutiis tasked the students with creating a photographic project through a process of gameification, or with otherwise automated processes. In this one week intensive workshop, digital curator Marco de Mutiis tasked the students with creating a photographic project through a process of gameification, or with otherwise automated processes.
Exhibition of the Encouragement Award winners – City of Renens 2021,02.12.2021,La Ferme des Tilleuls, Renens Pour la 9e année consécutive, la Ville de Renens a attribué le Prix d encouragement à des étudiant·e·s de l ECAL. Mayara Yamada, étudiante en Master Arts Visuels, et Jamy Herrmann, étudiant en Bachelor Media & Interaction Design, se sont ainsi distingué·e·s par la qualité de leur travail. Là où le mot température est devenu synonyme de changements climatiques, d épidémies fiévreuses, d incendies et de tensions politiques, il est ramené à sa représentation la plus concrète. Une énergie créatrice de lumière et de vie. Depuis 2020, le rapport au corps a été marqué par un changement profond et sa chaleur est devenue taboue. Il est temps de mettre en valeur la possibilité de se réchauffer et de se rapprocher, de célébrer nos êtres bouillonnants en ravivant les foyers qu ils sont. Il est peut-être temps de s enflammer à nouveau. Vernissage & Performance: Jeudi 02 décembre 2021 à 18h Création sonore en collaboration avec Cigarra Sur inscription (places limitées): lfdt@fermedestilleuls.ch Exposition 03 ー 19 décembre 2021 Mercredi ー Dimanche 11 : 00 ー 18 : 00 La Ferme des Tilleuls rue de Lausanne 52 1020 Renens www.renens.ch www.fermedestilleuls.ch Visual: Jamy Herrmann & Mayara Yamada
"Dream House" exhibition by La Monte Young – Marian Zazeela – Jung Hee Choi,26.11.2021–28.01.2022,Gallery l elac, Renens DREAM HOUSE by La Monte Young – Marian Zazeela – Jung Hee Choi. DREAM HOUSE La Monte Young – Marian Zazeela – Jung Hee Choi 26.11.21-28.01.22 – l elac gallery The "Dream House" is a sound and light environment by composer La Monte Young, visual artist Marian Zazeela and artist/musician Jung Hee Choi. This seminal installation and multi-sensory experience was originally conceptualized in 1962 and first presented in 1969. Since then, the "Dream House" has been realized in permanent installations and also shorter term iterations such as this Swiss premiere version at the ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne. With sounds composed by Young and Choi in a setting of the visual works of Zazeela and Choi, it is highly conducive to introspection and meditation. Opening reception 25.11.21, 18h-20h Dates Wednesday to Friday, 13h-20h Saturday, 13h-17h Or by request : dreamhouse@ecal.ch Closed 24.12.21-09.01.22 l elac gallery Av. du Temple 5, 1020 Renens www.visioncreationnewsound.ch www.ecal.ch With the support of :Réseau de Compétences Design & Arts Visuels (RCDAV) from HES-SO, Leenaards Foudation, Sandoz Foundation, Hirslanden Group, Ruinart, MAC-Lyon. This installation is part of the 200th anniversary of the ECAL (1821-2021) and the research project "Phantom Power". Visual: Notter+Vigne
Higurashi book launch In Summer 2019, thirteen students from the ECAL Master s in Photography programme supervised by Milo Keller travelled to Japan to work on thirteen individual projects in collaboration with Japanese photographer Taisuke Koyama within the framework of the Tokyo Photographic Research project. The students artworks range from still and moving images to computer-generated photographic visuals and explore multiple facets of the Japanese megalopolis which is, once again, undergoing major transformation in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Some projects focus on aspects specific to the city, from the destruction of small residential houses to the construction of the gigantic Olympic Village and the conquest of new territories by the sea. Other works investigate distinctive Japanese culture such as home-cooked food, the appetite for designing humanoid robots, the blending of child and adult worlds in manga, pachinko gambling, the reinvention of ikebana and young girls as ‘rising stars. Finally, the works seek to visually represent more abstract concepts such as loneliness, emptiness and intimacy in a city that, due to its density, size and power, offers a challenging, fascinating and extremely stimulating complexity to the eyes of the thirteen photographers. Higurashi has been presented at Espace Commines in Paris in November 2021, inside the exhibition Automated Photography during Paris Photo. Head of Photography Milo Keller Invited Teacher Taisuke Koyama Assistants Florian Amoser Calum Douglas Graphic Design Thomas Le Provost Typefaces Craft by ECAL/Benoit Brun & Raphaël De la Morinerie ITC Garamond Std Head of Culture and Communications Embassy of Switzerland in Japan Jonas Pulver DGES/Summer University Maxline Stettler Photography Students Emidio Battipaglia Robin Bervini Jasmine Deporta Anja Karolina Furrer Alessia Gunawan Christian Harker Jung-Ting Hu Johanna Hullár Philipp Klak Doruk Kumkumoglu Igor Pjörrt Jelly Luise Gedvile Tamosiunaite Publisher ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne higurashi.zone Higurashi is available at ecal-shop.ch . In Summer 2019, thirteen students from the ECAL Master s in Photography programme supervised by Milo Keller travelled to Japan to work on thirteen individual projects in collaboration with Japanese photographer Taisuke Koyama within the framework of the Tokyo Photographic Research project. The students artworks range from still and moving images to computer-generated photographic visuals and explore multiple facets of the Japanese megalopolis which is, once again, undergoing major transformation in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Some projects focus on aspects specific to the city, from the destruction of small residential houses to the construction of the gigantic Olympic Village and the conquest of new territories by the sea. Other works investigate distinctive Japanese culture such as home-cooked food, the appetite for designing humanoid robots, the blending of child and adult worlds in manga, pachinko gambling, the reinvention of ikebana and young girls as ‘rising stars. Finally, the works seek to visually represent more abstract concepts such as loneliness, emptiness and intimacy in a city that, due to its density, size and power, offers a challenging, fascinating and extremely stimulating complexity to the eyes of the thirteen photographers. Higurashi has been presented at Espace Commines in Paris in November 2021, inside the exhibition Automated Photography during Paris Photo.Head of PhotographyMilo KellerInvited TeacherTaisuke KoyamaAssistantsFlorian AmoserCalum DouglasGraphic DesignThomas Le ProvostTypefacesCraft by ECAL/Benoit Brun& Raphaël De la MorinerieITC Garamond StdHead of Culture andCommunications Embassyof Switzerland in JapanJonas PulverDGES/Summer UniversityMaxline StettlerPhotography StudentsEmidio BattipagliaRobin BerviniJasmine DeportaAnja Karolina FurrerAlessia GunawanChristian HarkerJung-Ting HuJohanna HullárPhilipp KlakDoruk KumkumogluIgor PjörrtJelly LuiseGedvile TamosiunaitePublisherECAL/University of Artand Design Lausannehigurashi.zoneHigurashi is available at ecal-shop.ch.
Workshop Stefanie 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. « 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.MWith 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.StudientsBommer Johanna, Croxatto MatildeMarachly Sarah, Cardaci GilianCorminboeuf Carla, Bevilacqua LéaRawyler Cyriane, Folkesson JennicaKaiser Leonie, Spreyz SamuelHochstätter Lorane, Lesueur MathildeDelpozzo Emanuele, De Grandis MartinoMichel Louis, Sblandano LeaPaschoud Léo, von Allmen AnnaBonard Stéphane, Masson Barnabé