Counterpoint: Motivation & Creation - lecture and workshop by Edith Gruson

The Visual Communications Department at the American University in Dubai is proud to host a graphic design lecture and workshop, Counterpoint: Motivation & Creation, led by the renowned exhibition designer Edith Gruson, co-founder of the Dutch design company Traast + Gruson. With Clients ranging from the Venice Architectural Biennial to Droog Design and Bang & Olufsen, Ms. Gruson has played a revolutionary role in defining the profession of exhibition designer. The lavishly illustrated publication ‘Exposed’ by Frame Birkhauser is a monograph on Traast + Gruson’s method and includes theoretical analyses of their work.

American University in Dubai
Lecture: Sunday, 1 March, 7:00pm
Location: AUD Auditorium, Admin Building

Al Mahattah Gallery - The first open art station in Palestine

Al Mahattah Gallery is a youth voluntary independent initiative, initiated by a group of young artists (Bashar Hroub, Hafez Omar, Rafat Asad, Misbah Deeb, Monther Jawabreh Mohammad Amous, & Abedel-Aziz Yasin ).

This initiative aims to create the first professional exhibiting hall for visual arts. This hall contributes to securing open spaces for local artists as well as international artists, in order to communicate with the Palestinian audience through exhibiting the artists creations according to a professional and contemporary artistic vision.

Contact Info

Email: info@almahattagallery.net

Website: http://www.almahattagallery.net

Location: Ramallah, Palestine

Situation Room: architecture as life, life as architecture

EXYZT presents Situation Room
Feb 20 2009 - Mar 31 2009

"Architecture [...] will be a means of modifying present conceptions of time and space... It will be a means of knowledge and a means of actions."

Gilles Ivain (alias Ivan Chtcheglov), 1958

We will act to defend architecture that is plural, used, complex, diverse, real and alive; architecture that is about action and interaction, formation and deformation, transformation and appropriation.

Situation Room as playground for [re] creation, collective action, active occupation, open demonstration, and social games will be intuitive, interactive and collective performance, showing an everyday life tools and knowledge Directory. For architecture of process, of fabrication, reaction and interaction, members of Exyzt will inhabit the gallery space, making use of the furnishings as though it were a domestic space.

More than showing past projects, we choose to set up a platform for creation and solidarity inviting people to transform the classic use of the gallery, to experiment diversity of programs and activities with basic cheap materials as moving boxes activated with the Storefront staff.

We propose a platform for action, defending an architecture that is alive. EXYZT shakes up the idea of architecture as an independent field. Working on experimental projects, EXYZT invites architecture, video, graphic-design, botany and any other concept to become devices of expression and creation.


Link : Situation Room

Call for Submissions: Politically Oriented Photography

The Left Forum is seeking images to show in continuous slide shows during its conference April 17–19, 2009 at Pace University in New York. Content can be anything with a progressive political aspect to it.

We will set up approximately 10 television sets throughout the halls of Pace University and divide the images among them in continuous loops, showing each image for 5 seconds. A list of artists and their websites will be available at the TV sets for people to take. Approximately 2,000 people will see your work.

HOW TO SUBMIT (click here)

INSTITUTO SACATAR residency program for artists - Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil

The Instituto Sacatar is an arts residency program on the island of Itaparica, across the bay from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Sacatar awards individuals (and, upon occasion, small groups) the time and space to pursue their creative work. Sacatar Fellows are provided a private room with attached bath, a separate studio and most meals at the Instituto’s beach-side estate. Sacatar Fellowships also include roundtrip airfare from the recipient’s closest international airport to Salvador, Brazil. Our staff provides logistical support to meet the artist’s goals during the residency. Residency sessions typically last eight weeks. 
 
Since 2001, Sacatar has provided residency Fellowships to 150 artists from over 40 countries. The Fellowships are extremely competitive. 

UPCOMING DEADLINE for 2009-2011:

The postmarked deadline for applications will be April 10, 2009, for Fellowships to be awarded between 2009 and 2011.

 
Full information is available at the website.

Application information here.

INSTITUTO SACATAR
Rua da Alegria, 10
Itaparica
Bahia 44460-000
BRASIL
tel ++ 55 (71) 3631 1834
fax ++55 (71) 3631 2069

SACATAR FOUNDATION
P.O. Box 2612
Pasadena
CA 91102-2612
UNITED STATES

Lecture by Marc Joseph Berg at AUD

Internationally renowned photographer Marc Joseph Berg will be giving a lecture about his work at the American University in Dubai. The opening of a new exhibition of AUD student photography at the Rotunda Gallery will immediately follow the lecture.

Lecture: February 22, Room C 227, 7 PM
Student photography exhibition: Rotunda Gallery, Building A, 7:45 PM

More information about the photographer can be found at: http://www.marc-joseph.com

Maris Bishofs at AUD

Introducing Maris Bishofs

Maris Bishofs, a noted and respected illustrator will be visiting the American University in Dubai in February. Maris made a name for himself with his original style of rendering and his unique conceptual interpretations of current affairs. His work has been seen on the covers of such high profile periodicals as The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, The Nation, Smart Money, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Barron’s, Rolling Stone and US News & World Report. First gaining recognition in the early nineteen-eighties, his successful career as an illustrator spans nearly forty years with ten books about him and his works.

Biography:

Bishofs was born in 1939 in Rujiena, Latvia in what was then the Soviet Union. In 1965 he became the first artist to graduate from the Latvian Art Academy with an interior design degree. In 1972 the artist fled Latvia to the Middle East where he worked and exhibited his art until he moved to Paris, France in the early 1980s. In 1984 he moved to New York City, to what would become a highly celebrated career as a commercial illustrator. In 2003, after nineteen years in New York, he moved back to Latvia, and continues even now to publish books featuring his own art. His first book entitled “The Exhibition” was published in1978. Since then, he has had no less than ten books published all featuring his own special brand of illustration. His latest, entitled; “The Book of Drawings” was published in 2007. In addition to books, Maris’ illustrations have been featured in solo exhibitions across the world, from North America to the Middle East, and from Western Europe to Eastern Europe.

Maris Bishofs - "Hangman",50 x 35 cm

Mixed Media, 1979

During his week to AUD:

Maris will hold two workshops for the Visual Communication students, a lecture, and an exhibition and reception open to the general public.

Workshop: February 10 & 11, 1:00-4:00 pm,
(open only to AUD VC students)

Lecture: February 12, 6:30 pm, Room C 227
(open to the general public)

Exhibition: February 12, 7:30 pm, Rotunda Gallery in A Building
(open to the general public)

for more information please contact:

Prof. Kenneth Curtis kcurtis@aud.edu
+971 4 318 3239