Esther Deen on Thu, 25 May 2006 09:30:12 +0200 (CEST)
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[Nettime-nl] Jan van Toorn and Camiel van WInkel I June 1.
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Lecture by Jan van Toorn
In conservation with Camiel van Winkel
Every last Thursday of the month, the Professorship of Art
& Public Space and all the departments at the Gerrit
Rietveld Academie organise a lecture: Het Lokaal/The
Classroom. By joining forces in this way, they can invite
a more theoretically trained speaker from outside the
academy, a person with a specific interest in the public
domain.
Thursday June 1.
Lecture by Jan van Toorn
Afterwards in conversation with Camiel van Winkel
Place: Classroom 1.04, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Time: 17.30
Reservation: esther.deen@rietveldacademie.nl
Jan van Toorn studied graphic design at the Amsterdam
school of printing [1948-1949] and the Institute of arts
and crafts [Ivkno, later Gerrit Rietveld Academie] in
Amsterdam [1950-1953]. He has been a freelance designer in
visual communication since 1957. The emotional charge of
van Toorn?s designs stems from his interest in
investigating visual meaning and the social role of the
profession as opposed to purely practical requirements.His
radical teaching and practice were highly influential on
the younger generation of dutch designers. He taught for
many years graphic design and visual communication at
various academies and universities in The Netherlands and
abroad.From 1991 until 1998 he was director of the Jan van
Eyck academy in Maastricht, transforming it into an
international postgraduate centre for fine art, design and
theory. In this context he organized ?Design beyond
design, critical reflection and the practice of visual
communication,? a conference devoted to the discrepancy
between the socio-cultural and symbolic reality of the
information-economy in 1997.He is associate professor in
the ma programme of graphic design, Rhode Island school of
design, Providence Usa, since 1989.Since 1972, he is
member of the Alliance graphique internationale.
Camiel van Winkel is an art historian. He regularly
publishes critiques and essays in a variety of periodicals
and catalogues. He was recently appointed as Lecturer in
Visual Art at the College of Fine Arts and Design/AKV/St.
Joost in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. From 1995 to 2000 he
was editor of Archis: Magazine for Architecture, the City
and Visual Culture. From 2000 to 2004 he was editor of the
Flemish-Dutch art periodical De Witte Raaf. In 2000 he was
awarded the Jan Bart Klaster Prize for art criticism for
his book Moderne leegte. Over kunst en openbaarheid ('The
Modern Void. On Art and the Public Condition').He recently
published his book The Regime of Visibility, 2006.
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