ARTISTS

Artists in Residence UK

These awards are intended to support the residency of an artist of any kind or nationality in a UK institution in order to foster a creative collaboration between the artist and the staff and/or students of that institution. The term ‘artist’ encompasses visual artists, creative writers, musicians, poets and other producers of original creative work.   The scheme is intended to bring artists into research and study environments where creative art is not part of the normal cu...

'ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE' - AUSTRIA

Societatea culturala KulturKontakt Austria, prin programul ''Artists in Residence'', ofera trei burse, de cate 1.000 de euro, in Austria, pentru plasticieni si fotografi sub 40 de ani, din statele Europei Centrale, de Est si Sud-Est. Bursele au durata de trei luni si ofera, pe langa bani, un atelier de creatie, cazare si asigurare de sanatate. Dosarul de concurs este compus dintr-un CV si cinci-zece lucrari, prezentate intr-un pliant, catalog sau ca fotografii. Data limita pentru aplicatii...

Various Artists Collection #1

SPUNE PE SCURT are placerea sa va invite sambata 21 August, la Terasa Clubului Fabrica, incepand cu ora 17:00, la VARIOUS ARTISTS COLLECTION #01, o expozitie de arta urbana dedicata tinerilor artisti. Sabina Tupan - pictura, Octav Ungureanu (smokingcoolcat) - comics si Roxana Enache - fotografie, asteapta parerile, laudele sau criticile voastre. Intrarea este libera. Iata si cateva detalii legate de cei 3 artisti: SABINA TUPAN Studenta in Marea Britanie in anul doi la sectia Print...

Sambata asta, Niste Baieti continua turneul national de punk la Busteni

Turneul national de punk rock Fara Paradeala, Viata E Nasoala al celor de la Niste Baieti se indreapta  spre Busteni, a doua destinatie de pe harta road-concert-ului care promoveza cel mai recent album al formatiei, Fara muzichie, viatza e pustiu!   Niste baieti canta la Busteni sambata, 8 octombrie, de la 9 seara, cand vor incinge atmosfera in Inside Bar din str. Matei Basarab nr.33, la baza Partiei Kalinderu, cu deja cunoscutele slagare romanesti ale anilor ’80, rearanja...

Design and the City

A course in urban studies, "Design and the City" introduces students to the analysis of the city and to its relation to design. By doing this, the course aims at examining design outside the conventional associations to 'produced goods' or 'built environment'.   The course will explore how design influences the city, its planning and the life of its inhabitants. We will introduce some major theoretical points about creative industries, art, economy and urban space as well as ex...

Graffiti. Drimz

Spectacol coprodus impreuna cu Fundatia Universal Artists Unforgettable.Este o poveste de cartier, compusa din destinele intersectate ale unor adolescenti, pe canavaua tragediei unei familii care se destrama pentru ca nu poate tine piept realitatii. Cele 13 scene ale piesei se petrec intr-o vineri noaptea, cand un baiat incearca sa atraga atentia unei fete, desenand un graffiti pe un perete de scoala.O mama alcoolica, o vaduva care tine un restaurant, un tata ratat si o bunica bolnava de Alzhei...

From Van Gogh to Picasso: Modern European and Dutch Art

In the 19th and 20th century there was a crisis in art. Being able to paint a convincing image of a mythical goddess leaning against a broken column was no longer a guarantee for success.It is the period of the -isms, such as Impressionism, Cubism and Expressionism. But despite the obvious differences between these movements, each of them strove for the same thing: to create an art more truthful than ever before.Approximately 40 contact hours.As you will see in the day-to-day programme, the cou...

A Journey Through Dutch Art

Take up residence in the beautiful city of Utrecht for four weeks and experience the highlights of over 400 years of Dutch art first hand. This course covers many of the country's most renowned museums, artists and cities, and the interactive activities for a large part take place in front of the original art works.The first half of the course focuses on Dutch Art of the Golden Age, the time of legendary painters such as Rembrandt and Vermeer. Until recently, most art from this period was seen ...

The American Novel Since 1945

By Amy Hungerford - Yale UniversityLicence: Open Yale Courses Terms of UseCourse Description: In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and thematic developments of the novel in this period, focusing on the relationship between writers and readers, the conditions of publishing, innovations in the novel's form, fiction's engagement with history, and the changing place of literature in American culture. The ...

Electronic Arts: Game Development

By Nick Earl - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Organizational Structure: General Manager at EA Nick Earl, General Manager of Electronic Arts Redwood Shores Studio, talks about how the General Manager's job is to run one of EA's six studios, which are the places where they actually build the product. The GM administers and manages the portfolio of products at the site. Eac...

Paris: Literature and Culture 1780 - 1914

Walter Benjamin famously described Paris as the 'capital of the nineteenth century'. Nineteenth-century Paris witnessed an explosion of creativity as writers, painters, photographers, musicians and artists in every genre sought to give expressive form to the nature of modern life they saw developing around them.   In this course we will read and examine some of the most important writings and works of this era. Students will explore close reading of texts, art works and musical pieces a...

History of Art: Artistic Relations Between Italy and the Netherlands

Vermeer? Da Vinci? Both geniuses, most people would say today, both equally deserving to be printed on posters (and the occasional placemat) all over the world. Today, both Italian Renaissance art and Dutch Golden Age art have conquered their prime positions in the art history books. But in the 16th and 17th centuries, the 'Northern' style of painting was seen as very different from the 'Southern' one, even though artists from both traditions influenced each other, there were ongoing disputes a...

Globalizing Art and Politics in the Northern Hemisphere

Global forms of distribution and reception have influenced how news, political issues as well as art from the Nordic countries have reached a new global public. This summer school - based on both lectures and excursions - will investigate as a case how contemporary Nordic artists explore the potentials of new globalised media platforms. Related issues to the aesthetic framing of globalization are multiculturalism, cultural hybridity, mediated distant suffering and postnationalism. Course offere...

From Van Gogh to Picasso: Modern European and Dutch Art

In the 19th and 20th century there was a crisis in art. Being able to paint a convincing image of a mythical goddess leaning against a broken column was no longer a guarantee for success.It is the period of the -isms, such as Impressionism, Cubism and Expressionism.   But despite the obvious differences between these movements, each of them strove for the same thing: to create an art more truthful than ever before. Vincent van Gogh looked for the truth in hypnotically swirling brushstro...

From Ancient Sculpture to Action Painting: Art of the Western World

Historical survey of ancient to contemporary Western Art including painting, sculpture, graphics and, for the modern and contemporary portions, photography, performance, video and other relevant media. The course will consider the historical context of art movements as well as explore the methods used to create art. We will discuss related issues such as the art market, and visit museums in Berlin   Students will gain understanding of the development of art in the Western world and learn...

Creating a Solo Performance: Berlin Cabaret

This course is an acting course that introduces the student to the research, writing and performance techniques of cabaret performers. Kabarett is the German word for "cabaret" but has two different meanings. The first meaning is the same as in English, describing a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theater (often the word "Cabaret" is used in German for this as well to distinguish this form). The latter describes a kind of political satire.   ...

Avant-garde French Literature

Artists, poets, film makers and cultural critics all struggled to understand the place of the arts amidst the radical change of the twentieth century. As a course in literary and cultural history the course will concentrate on the art works, films and novels and films created in Paris in the last hundred years.   The course will foreground the works of the literary avant-garde and their often playful experiments in literary and artistic form. Breton's 'Manifeste du surrealisme' begins d...

Art in Germany From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century

The course will introduce Berlin's outstanding art collections, with their wide range of masterpieces from late medieval times to the present day. We shall focus throughout on the particular circumstances that shaped the production and reception of German art, especially during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.   During this long period, the formation of a German nation state and the problematic notion of a German national identity became intimately connected to the question of a ...

Art History

The Art History Summer School is the only programme at the University of Cambridge in the history of art open to those who are not full-time students of the University. It is devised particularly for those who already have some knowledge or experience in art history, although many participants from other backgrounds have gained a great deal from it in the past.The Art History Summer School has a reputation for lively discussion and exchange of ideas, which continue far beyond the schedul...

A Journey Through Dutch Art

Take up residence in the beautiful city of Utrecht for four weeks and experience the highlights of over 400 years of Dutch art first hand. This course covers many of the country's most renowned museums, artists and cities, and the interactive activities for a large part take place in front of the original art works.   The first half of the course focuses on Dutch Art of the Golden Age, the time of legendary painters such as Rembrandt and Vermeer. Until recently, most art from this period...

Fine Art & Experimental Media

Programme Description An English-language new media art degree - Only at Prague College! Earn an internationally recognized British Bachelors degree in Fine Art Become a multimedia practitioner and artist...

M.A. / Master in Media and Communication

Programme Description The Media and Communications program of the European Graduate School, facilitating creative breakthroughs and theoretical paradigm shifts, brings together master's and doctoral students...

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication (BFA) with a Concentration in Photography

Programme Description The life of a photographer can be as varied as the subjects they capture. But all successful professional photographers share certain traits: they must posses both a keen eye and technical...