Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-academic Institute for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory

Call for applications
Deadline: 15 April 2005

The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production
in the fields of Fine Art, Design and Theory, based in Maastricht, in
the south of the Netherlands. The academy invites artists, designers
and theoreticians to submit research or production proposals. In order
to realise these projects, the academy offers the necessary
made-to-measure artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions and
develops contacts with external partners.

Research, production, presentation, discussion The Jan van Eyck
Academie offers space and time to let go of predetermined processes
and to explore new inroads which may lead to unexpected results:
unconventional productions, such as temporary projects in the public
arena, fictional designs or speculative thought experiments. This
experimental attitude towards research and production implies that the
academy is not led by predetermined leitmotivs. The subject matters of
the various research projects of its international artists, designers
and theoreticians are heterogeneous (see examples below).

These miscellaneous projects form the basis for several events which
are organized each week: presentations, discussions, lectures,
seminars, screenings, exhibitions,… External interested parties are
welcome to attend these activities. The result is a dynamic and
critical exchange between the different agents from within and outside
of the Jan van Eyck.

Facilities:
Artists, designers and theoreticians who submitted a project proposal
and were subsequently selected become researchers at the Jan van Eyck.
In order to realise their projects researchers have their own studios,
receive a grant and can make use of the facilities: the library, the
documentation centre, various workshops (wood and other materials;
graphic techniques; photography; digital text and image processing and
editing; time-based media) and the production bureau (assistance with
print work, editing and all other productions). They can also appeal
to the institute for pr assistance relating to their projects or for
the distribution of their productions.
The researchers can furthermore call upon the support of artistic
advisors: the advising researchers. The following advising researchers
are active in the Jan van Eyck Academie: Orla Barry, Norman Bryson,
Sabeth Buchmann, Wim Cuyvers, Helmut Draxler, Stephan Geene, Marc De
Kesel, Jouke Kleerebezem, Aglaia Konrad, Eva Meyer, John Murphy,
Hinrich Sachs, Filiep Tacq, Daniël van der Velden and Annelys de Vet.

Application:
Artists, designers and theoreticians who wish to apply for a one or
two year research period, starting in January 2006, can send in their
research proposal before 15 April 2005. See for application details
www.janvaneyck.nl.

More information:
More information on the Jan van Eyck Academie in general or about
research projects and productions is available at
www.janvaneyck.nl.For practical questions concerning the application
procedure, please contact: Leon Westenberg
(leon.westenberg@janvaneyck.nl). For content-related questions please
contact: Kim Thehu (kim.thehu@janvaneyck.nl)

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Current research projects and productions
(selection)

Collective projects:
Research proposals can also be submitted within the framework of the
following projects.

- ‘Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique’ – Research platform that
does not consider Lacanian theory as a dogmatic closed system, but as
an open set of tools helping to form a critical look on current
(post-)modern culture.
More info: www.janvaneyck.nl/~clic

- ‘Film and bio-politic’ – The impact of the avant-garde notion of
life on 20th century art and film is being researched along the lines
of bio-political categories. Does film participate in the ‘paradigm of
production of life’? And is film, then, reproductive, even simulative,
or rather productive?
More info: www.bbooks.de/jve/

- ‘On the television work of Jef Cornelis’ – Research on the
television films on fine art, architecture and literature of Flemish
film maker Jef Cornelis. Attention will be paid to the special
stylistic properties of his works, the unique documentary value of his
films, the exceptional production conditions and the problems of
representation of art on television in general.
More info: www.janvaneyck.nl/033researchinfo/cornelis.html

- ‘The tomorrow book. Navigating to, within and beyond the book’ – The
future of the book will be researched from a multi-disciplinary
standpoint: editing, typography, book design, publishing and
distribution.
More info: www.charlesnypels.nl

- ‘UbiScribe’ – The research project and on-line publication platform
investigates authoring and publishing in the age of personalization.
Its aim is to build a research catalogue and body of publications.
More info: www.ubiscribe.net

Fine art:

- Nikolaus Gansterer (AT) – Research and reconstruction of processes
within cultural communication and social networks. Or how is the
diagrammatic view developed and used in contemporary science and theory?
- Will Kwan (CA) – Research on the matrix of social assistance
agencies, community associations and public institutions that
structure the lives of individuals living in Maastricht and tracking
its connections to the global infrastructure of contemporary bio-politics.
- Stefanie Seibold (DE) – By exploring the means and possibilities of
performance, alternative spaces are created which allow for a narration
of different (sexual and gender) identities.
- Inga Zimprich (DK) – Think tank. Research into the parallels between
open-source programming and social and artistic collaborative practices.

Design:

- Min Choi & Sulki Choi (KR) – Compiling an anthology of writings,
which investigates the complex aspects of ‘information design’ – the
design of charts, graphs, diagrams, and maps.
- Tina Clausmeyer (DE) – Mapping conspiratorial spaces. A network
analysis of surveillance patterns and visualization of Stasi’s secret
meeting places from 1980-89 in the former GDR.
- Vinca Kruk (NL) – Developing a historical approach to identity
design by, among other things, designing a visual identity for
companies or organizations which no longer exist.
- Ingrid Stojnic (HR) – Development of a web dictionary for Chinese
language. Research deals with organizing and classifying data,
visualizing words in their context and developing an adequate,
intuitive and user-friendly interface.

Theory:

- Stéphanie Benzaquen (FR): Documenting, visualizing and
contextualizing mass murders by investigating its representations in
culture, realms of memory, news media, academic essays and official
actions.
- Gideon Boie & Matthias Pauwels (BE) – The open city, or the urban
logic of post-capitalism. The contradictions of the ideological
construct of the 'open city' are revealed by analysing several
concrete ‘third-way’ solutions for the outcasts of the European
metropolis.
- Jonathan Dronsfield (GB) – How, if at all, has contemporary art
taken an ‘ethical turn’? What is at stake when contemporary artists,
theoreticians and curators appeal to the ethical as a justification or
rationale or premise or aim of their work?
- Ils Huygens (BE) – By critically analyzing contemporary theories on
haptic vision, tactility and Deleuzian sensation, a creative
film-philosophical model will be established for analyzing emotional
and sensational aspects of cinematic experience.

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Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands
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