2011-2012 Re-reading Public Images
Framework & tutorials: Florian Göttke. Guests: Eric Kluitenberg, Susanne Kriemann, Arnoud Holleman, Tony Chakar, Akinbode Akinbiye, Fay Nicolson, Alfredo Cramerotti, Jean-Charles Tall and Viye Diba.
Images are part of our vocabulary that we use to communicate with. We show our position and our identity, not just as individuals but also as groups. With images we take part in the debate about our society. In this DAI project we will investigate images that take part in this public debate. We will critically read the images and trace their hidden personal, ideological and political messages.
In the DAI project Re-reading Public Images we investigated images that appear in public space with the aim to analyze them and trace their ideological and political messages. We worked not only with images in the narrow sense (like murals, statues or posters) but included architecture, graffiti and media images as well.
Every month a professional from the field presented practices that address the publicness of images. Their presentations and the following discussions offered us insights into the nature of public space and the working of images, as well as different artistic strategies to deal with images in a public sense.
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Program : week by week
19 April 2012
Special guests: Fay Nicolson, Alfredo Cramerotti
10:00 Fay and Alfredo will introduce themselves and their work in relation to Public Images introducing the brief
11:00 time to work on the brief, gather more information, resources and prepare, discuss with Alfredo and Fay individually
13:30 continue to prepare the Secular Service
14:30 performing the Services (5min max per student) discussing the Secular Services
22 March 2012
Special guest: Akinbode Akinbiyi
9 February 2012
Special guest: Tony Chakar
12 January 2012
Special guest: Arnoud Holleman
1 december 2011
Special guest: Susanne Kriemann 10:00 work presentation by Susanne Kriemann 14:00 Talking Public Images – presentations by Rui and Susan
15:00 discussing the text by Peio Aguirre Semiotic Ghosts: Science Fiction and Historicism
In her presentation Susanne Kriemann will talk about the main themes as well as the intricacies of her works 'Ashes and broken brickwork of a logical theory' and 'One Time One Million'. Further, she will introduce some key questions of her new work 'A silent crazy jungle under glass', which deals with the archive and its inner destructive forces, the notions of storing and deleting knowledge, of saving information of the past and rewriting this past in fictive entities and the idea of an archive as the most abstract thing imaginable to document. Here, the text by Peio Aguirre gives some context, and we will discuss the terms 'semiotic ghosts'. Susanne Kriemann invites the students to bring some of their work samples.
20 October 2011
Special guest: Eric Kluitenberg
Images are part of our vocabulary that we use to communicate with. We show our position and our identity, not just as individuals but also as groups. With images we take part in the debate about our society. In this DAI project we will investigate images that take part in this public debate. We will critically read the images and trace their hidden personal, ideological and political messages.
10.00 Introduction to the Re-reading Public Images by Florian Göttke
Presentation and discussion by our guest Eric Kluitenberg