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

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Call for applications
Deadline: 15 April 2006

Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and
production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck
Academie. Candidates can either apply with a topic of their own or for
a project formulated by the institute itself. In order to realise these
projects, the Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure
artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions.

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Profile
The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production in the
fields of fine art, design and theory. Every year, 48 international
researchers realise their individual or collective projects in the artistic
and challenging environment that is the Jan van Eyck. The institute is not led
by predetermined leitmotivs. Artists, designers and theoreticians can submit
independently formulated proposals for research and/or production in the Fine
Art, Design and Theory department or candidates can apply for collective
research projects formulated by the Jan van Eyck (see below). The
miscellaneous nature of these research projects and productions makes the Jan
van Eyck into a multi-disciplinary institute. This also shows in the programme
of the institute. Researchers, departments and the institute organise various
weekly activities, to which special speakers are invited: lectures, seminars,
workshops, screenings, exhibitions, discussions,... 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
Researchers are advised by a team of artists, designers and theoreticians who
have won their spurs globally. They receive their own studio and a stipend.
Furthermore, researchers can make use of all kinds of facilities which support
their projects from first concept to public presentation: 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, pr and distribution).

Application
Candidates can apply for a department or a collective research project as
listed below. The one- or two-year research period at a department starts in
January 2007. The start and duration of research periods of collective
projects differ.
More information about the application procedure can be found at
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html

Contact
For practical questions concerning the application procedure or to request an
information brochure, please contact Leon Westenberg
(leon.westenbergjanvaneyck.nl).
For content-related questions on the Jan van Eyck Academie in general, its
departments or on the collective research projects, please contact
Kim Thehu (kim.thehujanvaneyck.nl).

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Departments
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Fine Art department
The Fine Art department encourages both personal and discursive exchange
amongst its researchers in order to establish a context of practice-oriented
discussion; a context that considers issue-orientation alongside other
artistic approaches, as well as being driven by processing, producing,
organizing and going public.
Advising researchers: Orla Barry, Aglaia Konrad, John Murphy, Hinrich Sachs
More information:
http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/fineart_statement.html

Design department
The Design department focuses on design as research, design as discourse,
design as publishing. It initiates and supports research projects in the areas
of cultural and corporate identity, mapping, print and new media publishing,
urban and regional identity, and book design. Coming from a focus on graphic
and communication design, the department is widening its scope to include
spatial, product and service design.
Advising researchers: Wim Cuyvers, Will Holder, Jouke Kleerebezem, Filiep
Tacq, Daniël van der Velden
More information:
http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/design_statement.html

Theory department
The Theory department offers a stimulating environment for critical inquiry
and intense debate to explore alternative ways of shaping intellectual
horizons. The department welcomes researchers who pursue their artistic and/or
intellectual vision anywhere on the interface of critical theory, philosophy,
aesthetics, and psychoanalysis with the visual arts.
Advising researchers: Norman Bryson, Sabeth Buchmann, Helmut Draxler, Stephan
Geene, Hanneke Grootenboer, Marc De Kesel
More information:
http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/theory_statement.html

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Collective research projects
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Traces of autism. Wander-research in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine
This research project concerns the making of an inventory of public space in
the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, based on journeys made through the area and following
a number of strict parameters. During the research the inner borders of the
Euregio will function as a reference line and a kind of reading axis. Gypsies,
refugees, migrants, drug addicts can possibly function as indicators, although
other indicators may come to the fore in the Euregio. The emphasis will be on
maps: on the one hand, existing maps will be collected, on the other, new maps
will be developed. During the entire research period, the French pedagogue
Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) will be considered a supporter, someone who walks
in the footsteps of the researchers, as he did for thirty years: following
autistic patients, without intervention, only registering, not even wanting to
'learn' anything.
Advising researcher: Wim Cuyvers
More information: www.janvaneyck.nl/tracesofautism

Logo Parc. Challenging the aesthetics of economy
Logo Parc is a design research project for public space. Its main focus of
interest is the Zuidas (South Axis) in Amsterdam; a prestigious area of
high-rise office blocks, residential and cultural facilities on both sides of
the A10 motorway. The Zuidas is considered a new typology of city, dedicated
to the symbolic representation of economy, information, knowledge and
mobility. Logo Parc is driven by a critical interest in the representation of
power and economy; both to deconstruct it, and to create it. As a machine for
comments, ideas and visions for the Zuidas, the project aims to fuel
discussion as well as trigger actual design issues, operating freely in an
area in between architectural, spatial and communication design.
Logo Parc is a joint project of Jan van Eyck Academie, Lectoraat Kunst en
Publieke Ruimte, Gerrit Rietveld Academy / Amsterdam University, and Premsela
Dutch Design Foundation.
Advising researcher: Daniël van der Velden
More information: www.janvaneyck.nl/~logoparc

The tomorrow book
The research project The tomorrow book intends to query the future of the book
from a multi-disciplinary standpoint. In doing so, the following aspects will
be treated: editing, typography, book design, publishing and distribution.
Convinced of the fact that the book will never cease to exist, The tomorrow
book focuses on the specific qualities of the book as a medium. The umbrella
theme of the project The tomorrow book is navigation to, within and beyond the
book.
The tomorrow book is a joint research project of the Jan van Eyck Academie and
the Charles Nypels Foundation.
Advising researchers: Will Holder, Filiep Tacq
More information: www.charlesnypels.nl/tomorrow.html

UbiScribe
The research project and on-line publication platform UbiScribe researches
into the explosive development of many forms of multi-medial and
multi-disciplinary chronicles such as weblogs, blogs, vlogs and photologs. It
focuses on new modes of authoring and of on-line and off-line publishing, in
which networked information and communication support the conception,
production and distribution of original publishing formats in whatever media.
Apart from stimulating research on personal(ised) publishing (hardware,
software and content), UbiScribe investigates so-called 'content management
systems' and how
they are applied in artistic production.
Advising researcher: Jouke Kleerebezem
More information: www.ubiscribe.net

The pensive image
The pensive image is a research project on thinking images. This project
studies the extent to which images (painting, photography, cinema etc.) are
able to philosophize on the status of their own representation, and on the
nature of vision. The project is based on the hypothesis that monocular models
of vision such as perspective and the camera have shaped our binocular
perception of the world. Following Hubert Damisch, W.J.T. Mitchell, among
others, The pensive image aims at formulating a theory as to how images
'think' about vision through a study of images that 'look back' at us, viewers.
Advising researcher: Hanneke Grootenboer
More information: www.janvaneyck.nl/thepensiveimage

Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique
The Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique (CLiC) gathers
researchers who are interested in Lacanian theory and consider it an open set
of tools that enable researchers to critically consider contemporary
(post-)modern culture. CLiC intends to activate the psychoanalytical - and
especially Lacanian - background of many current philosophers and critics,
such as Agamben, Badiou, Jameson, Laclau, Mouffe, Negri, Derrida, Nancy,
Rancière, Žižek and Zupancic. Insight into the Lacanian background of these
theories is indispensable to discover the very core of their critical
potentialities, which is why a confrontation with and a reading of the
Lacanian text is one of CLiC's main objectives.
Advising researcher: Marc De Kesel
More information: www.janvaneyck.nl/~clic

Citygraphy. 19th century and 21st century topographic photography in Maastricht
Citygraphy examines the role of 19th century photography in the consciousness
and perception of the European city as a historic focal point - a fulcrum
subject to the powers of modernization. Contrasts between urban centres and
expanding suburbs, between handicraft and industrial production, between
transport by water and over land, between conservation and redevelopment,
between restoration as both a form of protection and of rebuilding, between
the interests of residents and those of visitors all determine the overall
politics of life. What role did the visual image play in all of this, and in
particular, what was the role of photography

The research project Citygraphy is a commission for a photographer/researcher.
The commission concerns the development of a personal photographic vision of
21st century Maastricht, taking the 19th century city images of Maastricht as
a starting point.
Citygraphy is a joint project of the Jan van Eyck Academie and Hogeschool St.
Lukas Brussel and is subsidized by Stichting Werner Mantz.
Artistic coordinator: Dirk Lauwaert
More information: www.janvaneyck.nl/citygraphy

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