Dear ELIA members and friends,
It's been an eventful year. We're pleased to send you the last newsletter of 2009, with wishes for an equally eventful 2010.
For there are new events upcoming. In April, we will organize a large-scale international symposium Claiming Creativity together with Columbia College Chicago. In October, the 11th ELIA Biennial in Nantes; the call for papers is still open. And we're again inviting students to take part in Languages through Lenses.
And it has been an eventful year indeed. It's been only two weeks since the Leadership Symposium took place in Zurich, and the Neu/Now Festival, one month ago in Vilnius, still goes on online. We've almost ceased to think of our new office as our new office, even though we moved only in September. Papers and pictures from this year's Teachers' Academy are online at last, and so is ...I see you. And if you read the artesnet newsletter, you'll find even more to look back upon.
So we're happy to look back and to look forward into the new decade. In 2010, we will be 20 years old...
And we're happy to wish you all the best now and in the coming year, in a creative, an eventful, a memorable, and a new 2010.
Warm regards,
Carla Delfos
ELIA Executive Director
From January 2010 all new membership applications must be supported by nominations from two existing members. The ELIA Membership Liaison can help facilitate this if required.
Nomination form for new members >>
ELIA is offering to make a 5% reduction in the 2010 standard fees for members who respond to their forthcoming invoice by the end of February. The invoice will be sent by post and email at the beginning of January.
Letter to all members >>
(members will also receive this by email)
Amsterdam, 25 October 2009
At the ELIA Board Meeting last October, it was unanimously decided to grant Honorary Membership to Maarten Regouin, ELIA President from 2004-2006. Maarten Regouin is former Director of St. Joost Academy and Head of the Faculty of Arts, Hanze University Groningen. Last year, he retired as Professor of International Relations.
Last week, we sent out the artesnet Newsletter, with an overview of all that has been done in the past year and all that lies ahead. In particular we are inviting (or rather urging) all artesnet partners to come to the all partners meeting in Porto, 7-8 May, and to take along colleagues engaged in new developments in higher arts education.
www.artesnet.eu
Zurich, Switzerland, 29-30 April 2010
Meeting organized by Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) under the auspices of ELIA
As artistic research is still a rather young discipline, most of the debates surrounding it have so far been concerned with questions of definition: the new field has to be mapped in both epistemological and aesthetic terms, and established politically and institutionally. Consequently, the issue of quality has often remained in the background – although it arises regularly as soon as PhD research or applications for research funding have to be evaluated. Therefore, a canonical body of artistic research projects has yet to emerge. References to such projects are rare and in many instances, accessibility to their documentation proves to be difficult. The connection between the debate on quality and concrete examples of artistic research projects is still rather tenuous.
The programme includes case studies as well as theoretical reflections. Through a critical discussion of examples from all disciplines, the conference aims for a better understanding and more general criteria of what constitutes excellence in artistic research.
Download full programme
The proceedings of last year's conference have appeared beginning of December as Zurich Yearbook of the Arts: Art and Artistic Research | Kunst und Kunstlerische Forschung.
Queries: Fiona Siegenthaler, fiona.siegenthaler [at] zhdk.ch
Conference leader: Prof. dr. Corina Caduff, ZHdK
eliaartschools.wordpress.com
Anyone who has or hasn't been in Vilnius for the Neu/Now Festival can read at length about in nine articles of live blogging from the Neu/Now festival. To continue the series "What's going on?", there is an article about the Ligeti Academy, and an interview with Chris Wainwright on the CCW graduate school, positioning artistic research, and the role of ELIA. And ELIAblog, too, sends it season's greetings.
2010
- Deadline: Call for papers 11th ELIA Biennial, 18 January
- Deadline: Languages through Lenses applications, 1 March
- Claiming Creativity Conference, Chicago (USA), 21-24 April
- Artistic Research: Evaluation and Canon Formation, Zurich (Switzerland), 29-30 April
- artesnet Conference, Porto (Portugal), 8-9 May
- 11th ELIA Biennial Conference, Nantes (France), 27-30 October 2010
Call for papers and presentations
Deadline: 18 January 2010
Following the success of the ELIA Biennial Conference in Gothenburg in 2008 (hosted by the University of Gothenburg), we are pleased to announce that the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux – Art de Nantes Metropole has invited ELIA to hold its 11th Biennial Conference in the elegant and dynamic city of Nantes, France. The conference will take place at the Lieu Unique (LU), located in the middle of Nantes and surrounded by the city’s art schools and cultural institutions.
Under the title (h)eART(h) - l’art au coeur du territoire, five perspectives on the role of the Arts and Higher Art Education could be addressed and feed the different symposia and discipline sessions:
- Arts at the heart of the "way of living", questioning behaviours.
- Arts encourage the emergence of contributors in place of consumers.
- Arts name and identify territories.
- Arts meet science and question environments.
- Arts reinvent and "moralize" customs.
To submit proposals, please consult www.eliabiennial.com for more info on themes and sessions, requirements for abstracts and guidelines for submission.
Download the full call >>
www.eliabiennial.com
Chicago, 21-24 April 2008
In partnership with Columbia College Chicago, ELIA announces a joint international symposium that adresses the role of the arts and its "claim to creativity", in relation to other forms of creativity and society at large.
The symposium Claiming Creativity will take place in Chicago, America's architectural capital. The audience will be composed of practitioners and policy makers from all over the world, and will include workshops, panel discussions with some of the world's leading experts on creativity in the arts and industry, and selected presentations.
The workshops will focus, in several simultaneous groups, on the following topics:
- Creativity and the economy
- Art, science and technology
- Art and the environment
- Creativity and research
- Art, culture and social change
- Early-Bird Registration
(before February 10)
$ 575 (USD) / € 395 - Standard Registration
$ 750 (USD) / €525 - Participant Discounted Registration
(Only web forum and workshop presenters)
$450 (USD) / €295
You can register directly here >>
European video competition - Videos about languages in Europe
Call for students
Deadline: 1 March 2010
What are we looking for?
We are looking for witty video clips to motivate for language learning. Let's turn the challenge into opportunities - for each of us.
Theme:
- benefits of knowing foreign languages
and/or - richness the diversity of languages represents
- easily understandable to a broad public with different backgrounds and mother tongues - without dubbing our subtitles
- understandable in itself - without further explanations
- attract the attention of the viewer
- motivate people to learn languages and /or
- raise interest in other people/cultures/languages
And finally: Take a look from a new and fresh angle, surprise us. Make us curious. Make us longing for new languages and cultures. Use emotions and fun!
www.languages-lenses.eu
Deadline: 26 February
The EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission) has sent out a call for proposals for Erasmus Networks and multilateral projects. The deadline for both rounds of applications is 26 February.
Erasmus Networks are subdivided into the following two subactions:
- Academic Networks are designed to promote innovation in a specific discipline, set of disciplines or multidisciplinary area. They require participation of at least 31 institutions from all 31 LLP participating countries.
- Structural Networks are designed to help improve and modernise a specific aspect of higher education organisation, management, governance or funding. They require participation of at least 5 institutions from 5 different LLP participating countries.
- Curriculum development projects are designed to support the process of innovation and upgrading in higher education teaching. They may be proposed in any academic discipline.
- Projects focused on cooperation between Universities/HEIs and Enterprises aim to bring together these two worlds in order to promote entrepreneurship, creative thinking and innovative approaches as part of the curriculum for students and as a skill for teachers/researchers. This fruitful cooperation thereby reinforces the link between studies and employment needs.
- Modernisation of Higher Education projects seek to give a new impulse to the modernisation of higher education systems in Europe so as to ensure that they respond better to the needs of society today. These projects aim at developing strategies for modernising curricula, improving governance and optimising funding of Higher education institutions.
- Virtual campuses projects aim at a better integration of the virtual dimension in higher education. These projects support the development of content, services, pedagogies and practices based on ICT tools.
Deadline: 30 April
Erasmus Mundus is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education that aims to enhance the quality of European higher education and to promote dialogue and understanding between people and cultures through cooperation with Third-Countries. In addition, it contributes to the development of human resources and the international cooperation capacity of Higher education institutions in third countries by increasing mobility between the European Union and these countries. This Call for Proposals aims to support projects under all three Actions of the programme:
- Action 1: Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes
- Action 1A: Erasmus Mundus Master Courses (EMMC)
- Action 1B: Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates (EMJD)
- Action 2: Erasmus Mundus Partnerships
- Action 2 – STRAND 1: Partnerships with countries covered by the ENPI, DCI, EDF and IPA instruments (former External Cooperation Window)
- Action 2 – STRAND 2: Partnerships with countries and territories covered by the Industrialised Countries Instrument (ICI)
- Action 3: Promotion of European higher education
- Projects to enhance the Attractiveness of European higher education
Read more >>
ELIA is very interested in initiatives from members and other cultural agents in the field of Higher Arts Education. If you are preparing a proposal in any of these actions in which ELIA could play a role or which would be important for us to note, please contact truus.ophuysen [at] elia-artschools.org
The artist as researcher
The Hague, 5-6 February
Visible Sounds
Interrelationships among music, dance and the visual arts
Jerusalem, 21-25 February
2nd Biennale Dance Education / Tanzplan Deutschland
Essen, 2-8 March
5th CLTAD conference: Challenging the Curriculum
Exploring discipline boundaries in art, design and media
Berlin, 12-13 April
2nd International INVITE Conference
The Education of Instrumental and Vocal Teachers – Developing Professional Competences
Dublin, 16-17 April
Borderline: Pushing design over the limit
Genk, 26-30 May
In Pursuit of Luxury
London, 18 June
Traces: Sustainable Art Education
InSEA European Congress 2010
Rovaniemi, 21-24 June
New creators for better city and better life
Shanghai, 7-10 September
2010 Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial
Saint-Étienne, 17 November - 5 December
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