Dear ELIA Newsletter reader,
We are very pleased to present to you in this Newsletter the NEU/NOW festival. As you could read in our previous newsflash, NEU/NOW is the pilot for a festival that will provide an innovative platform for talented graduating artists, virtual as well as in real space. ELIA member schools are now able to nominate their students through our website.
Also, we warmly invite you to partake in our 4th Teachers' Academy. Over four days in July, art teachers from all Europe and beyond will gather to share experience, join in workshops, and engage in storytelling , the theme of the event.
"Value is Vulnerable." Under that motto, our next Leadership Symposium will reflect on the role of art in times of crisis. Key decision-makers from leading and influential art schools worldwide will enter into discussion in Zurich, 2-4 December; registration has opened now.
Two weeks ago, the ministers responsible for education from 46 European countries met in Louvain-la-Neuve to agree on priorities for the European Higher Education Area up to 2020. What are the implications for us in the arts? This newsletter updates you on recent developments.
And finally, for 2010, we would like to welcome you to the Claiming Creativity Conference!
I wish you a pleasant read,
Warm regards,
Carla Delfos,
Executive Director ELIA
Art education in cultural transition
Chicago, 21-24 April 2010
In partnership with Columbia College Chicago, ELIA announces a joint international symposium.
Creativity is a word being employed freely these days, not just in the arts but in commerce, organizational behaviour, leadership theory, and many other areas. This 'liberal' or 'liberating' usage has raised significant questions for artists and art educators.
For example, how is the discourse on creativity being shaped, and by whom? How do we, as arts educators, maintain our leadership in this discourse and keep art and the making of art in all its forms at the forefront of these increasingly complex conversations? How does public policy at both the local and international levels situate the arts within culture and how has it changed? And how can we, as artists and arts educators, influence public policy toward legislative goals that recognize the integrity and significance of the arts?
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.
www.colum.edu
The ELIA General Assembly and Representative Board gathered in Amsterdam on 25-26 April. In this meeting, the annual accounts for 2008 were endorsed by the assembly.
Furthermore, it was decided for the next Board elections in 2010 to add a maximum of two additional, non European members. Proposals for nominations of non European Representative Board members will have to be supported by two European members. Non European members are elected by full European members only.
Click here >> for pictures of the event.
ELIA is proud to announce that Carla Delfos, Executive Director since its founding in 1990, will receive a Honorary Doctorate from Columbia College Chicago on 17 May 2009. Furthermore, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts will award Honorary Fellowship to Carla Delfos on 25 June.
Publication forthcoming
On 29 October - 1 November 2008, the 10th ELIA Biennial took place in Gothenburg. Under the title "reminder", ELIA is now preparing a publication to remind us all of what it was about. It includes the plenary speech of leading theatre director Peter Sellars as well as the keynote from Vladimir Sucha (European Commission). Each of the symposia had an 'observer' whose task was to supply an outside perspective; from ELIA, there are contributions by Chris Wainwright, Carla Delfos, and Sally Mometti."Reminder" will be distributed from June onward.
New ELIA publication
In 2007, students from ELIA member schools in seven countries participated in the film project "The Language of the Arts and Intercultural Dialogue". In a variety of styles, from documentary to drama, stop-trick and cartoon animation to wordless art film, each contributed a short film that dealt with the theme of intercultural dialogue from their own artistic and personal standpoint. As a learning process for what the artist is up to facing the challenges of the present, the project included two preparatory and one summing-up seminar, which addressed such issues as modernity in a multicultural world, the art of filmmaking, and the question: what is to be done?
Directed by Danish filmmaker Ove Nyholm, the result of this was the 45-minute film compilation ...I see you, which premiered at the film festival in Torino in November 2007, and was the subject of lively discussion at the The Arts as Dialogue? symposium in Gothenburg (10th ELIA Biennial).
ELIA has now issued a publication which both documents the project and provides further reflection on the topics at hand through interviews with the participants and articles by authors from different fields. It includes a dvd with the full ...I see you film and each individual contribution. Through this combination of art and theory, and its exploration of cultural diversity through the eyes of young filmmakers, it is both a contribution to often heated debates in an artistic voice and a tool for teaching.
Members can order a copy for € 10,-;
non-members for € 20 + shipping costs.
The publication will be presented at the 4th ELIA Teachers’ Academy in Sofia, 1-4 July. You can preview it here >> and order it here >>
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2009
- 4th European Teachers' Academy, Sofia (Bulgaria), 1-4 July
- EUFRAD Summer School, Glasgow (UK), 4-6 September
- Presentation of Languages through Lenses at the Prix Europa Festival, Berlin (Germany), October
- ELIA Board Meeting, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 24-25 October
- NEU/NOW Festival, Vilnius (Lithuania) 19-22 November
- 4th ELIA Leadership Symposium, Zurich (Switzerland), 2-4 December
- Claiming Creativity Conference, Chicago (USA), 21-24 April
- 11th ELIA Biennial Conference, Nantes (France), Fall 2010
Following the success of the ELIA Teachers’ Academy in Barcelona (2003), in Rotterdam (2005) and in Brighton (2007), we are pleased to announce that the 4th ELIA Teachers’ Academy will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1–4 July 2009.
Hosted by the Bulgarian National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), the event is being organised in the framework of artesnet Europe (the ERASMUS Network for Higher Arts Education) and is supported by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme.
Aims
The ELIA Teachers’ Academy aims to contribute to the professional development of professors, teachers and researchers in higher arts education by facilitating their participation in – and engagement with – challenging experiences and debates set in an international context. Teachers’ Academy participants will:
- engage with innovative teaching and research methods at both national and international level
- acquire new insights into, and new ways of thinking about, current issues in higher arts education such as knowledge transfer, employability, professional practice, and industry-facing and flexible learning
- return home revitalised with professional energy and new contacts with colleagues.
The overarching theme of the 2009 ELIA Teachers’ Academy is ‘Storytelling’. Storytelling is a way of thinking; it is a way of grasping and understanding the inner and outer world. It is a way of connecting the facts of life with the emotional and rational paradigms that evoke, in equal measure, both our everyday opinions and attitudes and our most profound moments of initiation and catharsis. As a means of teaching and learning, storytelling is as old as civilisation itself. For teachers and students in the arts, it offers a unique opportunity to form and re-form cultural identities, provides an emphatic way of conceptualising, communicating and developing ideas. In today’s digital world, storytelling permeates online networks and virtual realities. The 2009 ELIA Teachers' Academy will explore and celebrate the many ways in which artistic storytelling integrates creativity, innovation, education and culture.
Programme
Teachers from institutions of higher arts education all over Europe and beyond, and from every art discipline, have been selected to give workshops and/or presentations. A new feature of the 2009 ELIA Teachers’ Academy will be a series of master classes offered by leading educational practitioners Dick Ross and Kristin Linklater. Thera Jonker, Utrecht School of the Arts, and Jarrod Francisco, Likeminds, will introduce and discuss their joint new initiative in theatre education.
Read more >>
Download programme >>
Also, ELIA will present its publications ...I see you. The Language of the Arts and Intercultural Dialogue and Reminder.
Registration
The 'early bird' fee has expired now. You can register only through the ELIA database; please follow the link on the Registration page.
A limited amount of travel grants is available for artesnet partners. Please contact for this.
www.eliateachersacademy.org
Download brochure >>
Deadline for applications: 10 June
ELIA is pleased to announce the pilot of a festival that will present the most exciting and creative NEU artistic talent NOW emerging across Europe in the frame of the NEU/NOW Festival. The first edition of the NEU/NOW Festival will be made possible by Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009.
The NEU/NOW Festival will provide an innovative platform for talented graduating artists – emerging from Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe – to present themselves to wider European audiences within a professional context. The Festival will feature the most excellent and/or innovative artistic talent now entering the professional arts arena in Europe and will be a showcase of young creative European talent.
The NEU/NOW Festival is:
- an online event and also a live festival that promotes artistic excellence through cutting edge presentations and activities in a wide range of art disciplines;
- an opportunity for selected young artists to show their work, meet each other and create new international partnerships;
- a place where audiences, producers and curators can see the most excellent artists and innovative projects emerging from the art schools and universities across Europe;
- a forum where emerging artists, producers, curators, cultural operators and policy makers can discuss future developments for the arts and share views on the cultural role of higher arts education institutions;
- a means of presenting an emerging generation of professional artists, drawn from across Europe, to the attention of a wide European audience.
Participation
The NEU/NOW Festival is open to graduating arts students and recent graduates (within one year of graduation) of higher arts institutions and universities associated to ELIA. Nominations can only come through institutions that are ELIA members or associated to ELIA and partner networks, from the 27 European Union Member States plus Norway, Iceland, Turkey and Liechtenstein. Students (as individuals or groups) will be nominated within one the following five categories:
- Design
- Film
- Music
- Theatre and Dance
- Visual Arts
The 4th ELIA Leadership Symposium will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on 2-4 December 2009, and hosted by the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
The theme of the symposium is “Value is Vulnerable”, inspired by a poem by the Dutch poet Lucebert. The relevance of this theme is underpinned by the current world crisis, which above all is a crisis of trust.
A worldview is shattered. The widely held sense of who one can or cannot trust may no longer be valid. In today’s world, a global dialogue about social value systems is more relevant than ever: the economic value systems are under strain. Globalisation is challenging traditional values and calling for new ones. What does all this mean for the values implicit in the arts?
In Zurich, key decision-makers from leading and influential art schools worldwide will enter into discussion with representatives of prominent opera-houses, theatres, art galleries and private collections about the validity of traditional and innovative values as generated by artists and art institutions, in relation to the future of our societies.
Themes
The 2009 ELIA Leadership Symposium will revolve around the following five themes:
- A Continuum of Cooperation and Competition
- Arts in Economic Times: Arts, Economy and Ethics
- Art Schools as Counterpart / Counterpoint to the Art Market and Creative Enterprise
- The Value of Alliances and Mergers and the Vulnerability of Art Institutions
- The Art / Science Paradigm
To ensure an optimal level of interaction, representation, focus and collegiality, participation will be limited to 80 leaders and key decision makers. Delegates will be senior figures from a diverse but representative set of arts and design institutions throughout the world. Collectively, the delegates will demonstrate:
- a range of professional, cultural and institutional backgrounds
- active engagement in key issues and debates affecting higher arts education and cultural management
- a willingness to contribute to and lead debates, share experience and practices, and carry forward initiatives that emerge from the Symposium.
On 1 April, artesnet sent the full documentation of its activities so far to the European Commission. You can click here to download the public part of the interim report.
The network explores key issues important for higher arts education at this stage of the Bologna process and looks ahead after 2010 at which issues remain or become priorities in the coming years in a rapidly changing European context of new employment opportunities for artists in the ‘Economy of Culture’, knowledge-based society and national/European qualifications frameworks. The network’s focus is very much on how we see the role of higher arts education further develop in European societies and the futures of our students and teachers. At the same time we shape that future in a truly European working environment through collaborative work.
Half way through the project period examples of Creative Partnership have been collected on a best practice basis reviewed at ‘knowledge circle’ meetings and a broad discussion at various international events has been facilitated. The online social network established showed ways of working which are at the heart of the ongoing discussion about ‘participation’. Within the field of Qualification Frameworks, the quality assurance pilot programme is on the way to further professionalising through training of experts from the sector and a self evaluation visit to Turkey revealed an enormous regional potential, providing the experts and involved partners with a truly mutual learning experience resulting in a local agenda for change and trans-national partnerships with Romania, Norway, UK and Czech Republic.
Hacettepe University, Ankara
Quality Enhancement in the Arts in a European Context
The working conference on Quality Assurance & Enhancement in Higher Arts Education in a European Context in Ankara last March has been a wonderful mutual learning experience. The feedback that both participants and speakers have provided was very positive and enthusiastic.
The delegates' interest in the overall theme and contents of the conference resulted in vivid discussions and an open sphere of sharing best practice, discussing European and national efforts for a qualifications framework for Higher Arts Education and working in depth on self-evaluation experiences and the writing of learning outcomes. The warm hospitality of our hosts and the Turkish delegates and the open atmosphere in which delegates could meet and exchange with critical friends gave an extra dimension to the conference. On behalf of artesnet we would like to express our sincere gratitude towards the conference host, Hacettepe University and its staff. We heard artesnet partners say "The best artesnet workshop so far!"
Click here >> for an overview of presentations.
Click here >> for pictures of the conference.
Artesnet is very pleased to welcome the following new partners:
- Deichtorhallen Hamburg (Germany)
- Facultad de Bellas Artes de Granada (Spain)
- ISIA - Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche, Florence (Italy)
- Palazzo Spinelli, Florence (Italy)
- Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm (Sweden)
- Danshögskolan, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Glasgow School of Art (UK)
At the City and Art Conference in Istanbul, 6-8 March 2009, two new internet portals were launched:
artacademia.net
virtual network and e-zone for academies of arts and design
artcitizens.net
virtual network and e-zine for young artists and designers
Project partners are:
- Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Malmö University School of Arts and Communication
- University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Gerald Bast, ELIA Vice President and Dean of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, warns Austrian Parliament for the risk of a massive loss of "know-how" in the arts as a result of the economic crisis, and urges them to invest massively in creative innovation. € 100 million, Bast claims, are needed in extra investments to further
- interdisciplinary research
- creative industries
- social design
- cultural city development.
Deadline for applications: 9 June
EESI, the Ecole Européenne de l'Image in Angoulême and Poitiers, is looking for a new directeur général.
The announcement, in French, can be found on www.eesi.fr
An Interdisciplinary Search for new Images, Sounds, Spaces and Figures
University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
26 September - 11 October / 14 - 29 November 2009
Now in its sixth year, KlangKunstBühne again ventures into the zones where music, theatre and visual art meet. It is aimed at all artistic disciplines. Over the course of a week, participants experience the possibilities of moving beyond the borders of their disiciplines. Through the work with renowned international artists, new knowledge and abilities are acquired in previously unexplored areas and the possibilities of participants' own artistic expression are broadened.
For more information, please contact:
klangkunstbuehne [at] udk-berlin.de
www.klangkunstbuehne.de
a request to all ELIA members
Academia Evolucion, an institute for fashion, interior & communications design located in Prishtina, Kosova, is applying for help from ELIA member schools to share in their electronic libraries. As Kosova is still gradually rebuilding, there is a general lack of resources for academic and other libraries in artistic subjects. The academy would therefore greatly be helped with access to other institutions’ online libraries, particularly in the field of fashion, to give the students a chance to be more creative at the same time receive more knowledge of the field they are studying in.
Please contact Bardhyl Latifi
www.academiaevolucion.com
ELIA welcomes the following new members:
- The Moscow State University of Industrial and Applied Arts (Russia)
- T.C. Maltepe University, Istanbul (Turkey)
- International Theatre School Festival, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan (Poland)
The Ministers responsible for higher education from 46 European countries met 28/29 April in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium to agree on priorities for the European Higher Education Area up to 2020. Please read the full text on www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronderwijs/bologna
The agenda of the Louvain-La-Neuve Bologna Summit on Bologna beyond 2010 shows how existing priorities move on and sets priorities that will have new impacts on higher arts education. "By and large the Bologna process worked out well for higher arts education", says John Butler, head of Art, Birmingham City University and initiator and leader of the Artesnet quality enhancement peer review pilot programme, author of several ELIA Bologna position papers. "It did not happen without problems and in some countries higher arts education institutes still struggle with the changes. But the standardisation we feared so much in 2001 did not take place. Higher arts education has become more transparent but is as diverse as ever and we intend to keep it that way."
For John Butler it is important to remember that the current emphasis on research in higher arts education could only develop because of the decision of the European Ministers in Berlin to include the doctoral level as the third cycle in the Bologna Process.
John Butler is not optimistic about the new emphasis on mobility. He fears that students will be less inclined to travel because of language difficulties, the financial crisis and the direct effect of travelling on the environment in terms of our carbon footprints. He argues in favour of a stronger focus on curriculum and research collaborations, staff mobility and using new technology in creating virtual learning environments and virtual mobility.
The key priorities of the European educational ministers in a nutshell:
- Social dimension
The Ministers want to widen participation and better foster the potential of underrepresented groups in higher education. Lifelong learning and employability in the form of flexible learning paths, part-time studies, work-based routes is part of that approach.
- Mobility
In 2020 at least 20% of those graduating should have had a study period abroad. Joint degrees should become common practice. The communiqué also specifically refers to staff mobility and to open international recruitment to attract highly qualified teachers and researchers and mention access to social security and portability of pensions.
- Research
In order to foster ‘innovation and creativity’ the ministers emphasize the importance of research, including research based on applied science. The number of people with research competences should increase.
- Transparency tools
The Ministers make a cautious and ‘veiled’ move to ‘classification’ and possibly also ‘ranking’ of higher education institutes, calling it ‘multi-disciplinary transparency tools’. This has been a controversial issue within the preparation of the text. Several initiatives are going on at the moment to develop such mechanisms. Read more about one of these initiatives…
- Ongoing priorities
Quality enhancement and national qualification frameworks become more embedded in new national and European structures.
Recently, a register (EQAR) has been set up through a separate association, providing a basis for governments to allow higher education institutions to choose between different agencies from the Register, if that is compatible with national arrangements. The EQAR is operational from the end of 2008 and started to publish a list of quality assurance agencies that comply substantially with the European standards and guidelines for quality assurance.
More countries will follow with the year 2012 as a new deadline.
The next regular ministerial conference will take place in Bucharest, Romania in April 2012. A 10-year anniversary conference in March 2010 will be hosted by Vienna and Budapest.
Official Bologna site >>
On March 13th 2009, the Swedish government submitted the bill Doctoral studies with specialisation and quality to the Swedish Parliament.
In the bill Doctoral studies with specialisation and quality (2008/09:134), the Government makes proposals concerning the conditions for awarding degrees at doctoral level that are designed to increase specialisation and diversification among higher education institutions and to ensure better quality assurance. Fine and applied arts studies at doctoral level are also to receive their own degree category under the Government's proposals to enable them to develop on their own terms.
"This bill enables the Swedish research community in the arts to gain in strength, to develop and to grow," says Anna Lindal, Dean of the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden."The artistic doctoral degree that is suggested and the connection this has to the proclamation of a future national research school in artistic subjects gives additional vitality to this internationally expanding field."
The bill suggests that a doctoral student who has defended a doctoral thesis can be awarded an artistic doctoral degree. Today’s degree, a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in an artistic subject, would still remain in force but the new could be an alternative.
Press release >> from the Swedish Ministry of Education and Research
Further information >> on doctoral studies at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg
A first overview on research at Swiss Universities of the Arts has been conducted to evaluate the past developments and to make recommendations for sustainable future research funding. The report, mandated by the Rectors‘ Conference of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences KFH, includes information about the institutional organization and specific research approaches in the disciplines of Fine Arts, Design, Film, Theatre, Dance, Music, Conservation and Restoration, and Creative Writing. Research became part of the legal mandate of Swiss Universities of the Arts with the implementation of an extensive reform of higher education in the 1990s. Currently, 43 research units at six (out of eight) Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts conduct research in the arts.
The report acknowledges the possibilities of a broad range of research activities during the last ten years. At the same time, difficulties with existing funding programs are outlined and a strong statement for the establishment of a research funding system adequate for the needs of Swiss Universities of the Arts is made. Particularly, funding should focus more on supporting research questions arising directly from art practices and teaching. Further emphasis is put on promoting young researchers in the arts and the necessity therefore to create PhD programs at Swiss Universities of the Arts.
The report is available for download in German and French on the KFH website:
www.kfh.ch
A Practical Guide to 100 Academic Networks World-Wide
ACA publication
A visible sign of the growing cooperation in higher education world-wide is the increasing number of associations, consortia, networks, etc. in the field. Their aims, history and activities, however, are less tangible for outsiders. Why were they founded? Who and where are their members? How can they be contacted? What do they do, i.e. what is their lifeblood?
A new publication by the Academic Cooperation Association, the Handbook of International Associations in Higher Education strives to answer these questions by systematically presenting one hundred higher education associations from various continents as well as their global counterparts. Most importantly, the publication seeks to showcase the interrelation among the various networks and, by doing so, to provide information for future cooperation, partnerships and true networking.
The Handbook of International Associations in Higher Education can only be ordered by e-mail at info [at] aca-secretariat.be, at a price of € 28.50 + shipping costs.
www.aca-secretariat.be
Two studies, four pilot projects
The European Parliament voted for more emphasis on mobility of artists. This is now taking shape in studies and pilot projects on cultural mobility. Two studies, commissioned by the European Commission have now been published and four pilot projects run until 2011. More pilot projects are foreseen.
Studies:
- The ERICarts Institute collected information on mobility trends in different regions of Europe and existing mobility schemes. It developed a classification of the main types and objectives of mobility schemes and tried to assess impact/effectiveness.
Read more >> - The just published ECOTEC study examined needs of artists and cultural workers and identified gaps in the functioning of existing information systems. It concluded that attempts to build a single integrated information system would not only be hugely expensive and doomed to fail, but more importantly it would not be able to ‘store’ the knowledge and action practices that artists and networks use already to facilitate their mobility.
Read more >>
- e.mobility, Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes (France)
- Space, Office National de Diffusion Artistique (France)
- Practics, Teatterin Tiedotuskeskus Ry (Finland)
- Changing Room, Trans Europe Halles (Sweden) and Sibelius Academy (Finland).
For more information please contact truus.ophuysen [at] elia-artschools.org
23-25 September 2009, Solstrand, Norway
Call for proposals
deadline: 13 May
The Bergen Academy of the Arts invites practitioners from all art disciplines, including design and the performing arts, to submit proposals for presentations at the sixth Sensuous Knowledge Conference.
Under the heading "Reflection, Relevance, Responsibility" this year’s conference will focus upon three important aspects of artistic research. Often critical reflection is put forward as one of the differences between artistic practice and artistic research, and promoted as an alternative to the scientific conventions of thinking and writing. However, very little investigation has been done by us on the notion of reflection – what is it expected to contain and convey? With the rapid and unforeseen global changes to our existence, surely we have to look up from our own, potentially narcissistic reflection where we only see ourselves mirrored.
The annual international Sensuous Knowledge conferences, arranged since 2003 by Bergen National Academy of the Arts (Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, KHiB) and supported by The Research Council of Norway, are known for their distinctive format: About 70 artists and designers involved in higher art and design education meet for three days in the spectacular surroundings at Solstrand, close to Bergen.
Proposals should be sent before 13 May to:
sensuous.knowledge [at] khib.no >>
Download call >>
www.sensuousknowledge.org
Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland
19-21 November 2009
Deadline for proposals: 15 May
How does artistic research change us?
Artistic research does not only produce knowledge; it also changes us as individual and collective beings – artists, pedagogues, spectators, citizens, consumers. In what ways can this kind of change be the object of research? Could the change itself serve as a criterion for the relevance of the research? We invite researchers to join the colloquium and to participate in the discussion by sharing their experiences on the transformative dimensions of their artistic research practice.
The colloquium will be organised to take account of the special features of various artistic research practices: the concrete set up; cooperative action and collective reflection; the role and place of the observers or participants.
The colloquium will take place over three days. On Thursday, presenters will have the possibility to hold day-long workshops for other colloquium participants and the doctoral students of the Performing Arts Research Centre. Friday and Saturday are reserved for all kinds of presentations, including the possible presentation of the workshops, and discussions.
We kindly encourage you to submit presentation, demonstration and workshop proposals on your practice and your experience with artistic research related to the performing arts. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should include 50 words of biographical detail on the presenter.
Please send proposals via email to Research Coordinator Annika Fredriksson at Annika.Fredriksson [at] teak.fi no later than 15 May 2009.
www.teak.fi
11-14 June 2009, Tbilisi, Georgia
The Shota Rustaveli Georgian State University of Theatre and Film presents the international Student Film Festival "Amirani".
The Festival invites students, upcoming filmmakers, to take part in this festival, which will give them the opportunity to meet with future colleagues from different countries, present their works and to take part in master classes, workshops, debates and discussions.
It aims to became a meeting point for the Film schools and Professors for exchanges of teaching skills and debating the problems.
Festival Aims
- Provide support for students in their career development and professional skills.
- Popularization of the work of students.
- Give the opportunities to create a common sphere supporting cultural and professional development at both local and international level.
- Provide incentives for young artists to devote more attention and responsibility to obtaining their future professions and create new and worthy pieces of art.
- Development of the relation between the generations in film industry.
- Ways to stimulate innovations in the educational process.
- Communication and exchange of skills between Georgian and foreign young professionals.
- Further exchanges and co projects between film schools and professors.
Contact Levan Khetaguri >>
Call for applications
Deadline 23 May 2009
The European Cultural Foundation, the Riksbankens Jublileumsfond and the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres ENCATC open the application process for the 6th Cultural Policy Research Award 2009.
Designed to stimulate academic and applied cultural policy research and to explore, through comparative cross-national research, issues at stake in contemporary Europe, and possibly anticipate new cultural policy orientations, the CPRA has also the ambition to contribute to the process of creating an "infrastructure", a network of scholars who are competent in doing comparative research projects in cultural policy.
Open to young - 35 or under - academics, researchers and policymakers from all European countries, the Award was launched for the first time in 2004 and has been running as a pilot project for four years (2004-2007). Issues covered so far range from the raison d'être of a European cultural policy, creative industries in South-East Europe, comparison of trends in funding, governance and organizational structure of live classical music organizations, and issues of diversity within the cultural industries (focus on architecture, fashion and music).
For the year 2009, applications must be submitted until 23 May 2009 through the online application form on the CPR Award website. Before applying, candidates are strongly advised to consult the website for advice on how to prepare their applications. The winner of the CPR Award 2009, worth Euro 10,000, will be publicly announced at the International ENCATC Annual Conference taking place in Barcelona, Spain from 21st to 24th October 2009.
www.encatc.org
Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
9 October 2009
Call for applications
Deadline: 30 June
An international symposium for art researchers and research students on an advanced level. A platform for discussion of what kind of texts and writing are developed within the field of art research. Not criticism, not scientific texts. But texts for analysis, documentation, and development of art projects and art research projects. New kinds of essay writing? Let's explore the field together, along the following parallel themes:
- Musical & literary composition/poetry/prose
- Design
- Visual arts
We want to privilege work and discussion between the active participants and will only admit a limited number of listeners.
Please send in your application with a sketch of your presentation (1 page) no later than 30 June 2009 to:
Johan Öberg, research secretary at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg
The fact that the symposium will focus on text doesn’t mean that sound, image, form etc. is excluded from the presentations.
The final paper should be 10 000 characters.
The selected contributions will be published in one of the three magazines Artmonitor, MaHKUzine, Art&Research. Proposals will be selected by the editors of the inviting magazines/organisers.
Conference fee: 40 €
Organizers are three European magazines for art research:
- MaHKUzine - Utrecht School of the Arts (Henk Slager)
- ArtMonitor - University of Gothenburg (Johan Öberg, Mika Hannula)
- Art&Research - The Glasgow School of Art (Ross Birrell)
johan.oberg [at] konst.gu.se
International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009
31 October - 29 November, Yokohama, Japan
Deadline for submissions: 31 July
A pioneer project of "Creative City Yokohama", CREAM competition craves a new visual expression, or works that cross the borderlines between different genres of art such as contemporary art, film, performing art, music and etc., and therefore inspire and influence the future generations.
ifamy.jp
Deadline: 26 June
Design is increasingly seen as an activity that drives innovation and competitiveness by allowing companies to bring to the market innovative products and services that correspond better to user needs. Moreover, design is a European strength with tradition, and a bridge between creativity and innovation. The European Commission launched a public consultation on design and innovation. The working document Design as a driver of user-centred innovation, analyses the contribution of design to innovation and shows that companies that invest in design tend to be more innovative, more profitable and grow faster than those who do not. The aim of the public consultation on design and innovation is to find out what could be done at EU level to further support the use of design innovation. It is open for organisations and private persons until 26 June 2009.
Read more >>
Innovation through internationalisation
Warsaw, Poland, 13-15 May 2009
Hosted by the University of Warsaw, and organized in collaboration with the Perspektywy Foundation, the 2009 Annual Conference of the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) will take place in Warsaw, Poland from 14-15 May 2009, with a pre-conference programme on 13 May.
Internationalisation, once a marginal concern at best suitable for Sunday speeches, has now become a firm component of national and institutional higher education strategies in most countries in Europe. So has ‘innovation’. What are the relations between the two concepts? Is innovation conceivable without internationalisation? How does internationalisation contribute to higher education renewal strategies already today, and in which way should it do so in the future? These are some of the overriding questions the Warsaw ACA Annual Conference will address. It will do so by focusing on particular thematic areas, among them foreign languages; marketing, recruitment and mobility; international rankings; ethics and the intercultural dialogue, and transnational education, and the Bologna Process.
www.aca-secretariat.be
Higher education, Enterprises and Regions: Partnerships for Innovation and Development throughout Europe
Prague, Czech Republic, 21 - 22 May 2009
Hosted by the University of Economics, Prague, the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education is organizing its annual conference on 21-22 May.
The theme very well reflects the concerns of European professional higher education, which in a globalised world, does not want to lose one of its particularities, which is its orientation to regional development, by creating or joining regional knowledge centres,and training specialists for profit and non-profit sectors of employment.
It also wants to lay a focus on creativity, and how to stimulate it in higher education, an attitude that is needed to meet the Lisbon challenges, in correlation with the European Union’s theme for 2009, which is about Creativity and Innovation.
From a more general perspective the Conference theme also reflects new trends in higher education, as they have emerged from the recent discussions in the Bologna Follow Up Group about the way European higher education has to move forward in the post Bologna era (as from 2010).
www.eurashe.eu
London, UK, 27 - 30 May 2009
Hosted by Ravensbourne College, the Cumulus 2009 Conference will take place at London’s O2 Arena on 27-30 May 2009.
Leading figures from creativity, innovation, broadcast media, education and design will come together at the O2 to explore the big challenges and future opportunities facing these sectors and uncover current thinking in a dogma-free zone. The O2 will host a gathering of international thinkers, opinion formers, practitioners and educationalists. 600 delegates are expected to attend from across the globe to take part, debate, collaborate and hear inspirational addresses by Sir Ken Robinson, Lord David Puttnam, Mike Altendorf (Conchango), Suranga Chandratillake (Blinkx San Francisco), Dr Angela Dumas, D&AD, OgilvyOne Digital Innovation Lab and onedotzero.
The key debates will address what these sectors and higher education will look like in 2015 and beyond, and ask, “Do we have the skills in business and education to manage this change and the challenges it poses?” We can safely predict that advancements in communication and design technologies will continue exponentially and hurtle ahead at warp speed. The external challenges facing the creative and education sectors will not diminish, and the design and communication sectors will need to adapt to unpredictable developments in unpredictable ways.
www.cumuluslondon20o9.com
Bringing into question cultural policies
Grenoble, France, 28 - 29 May 2009
European conference organized by the Observatoire des Politiques Culturelles
Culture, as it occupies in many ways an increasingly important place in the daily life of European citizens, appears as a domain with very blurred borders. From this, the social sciences aim to make sense of the cultural dynamics at work within societies.
The European conference ‘Culture, territories and society in Europe – Bringing in to question cultural policies’, organised by the Observatory of Cultural Policies on the occasion of the 20th anniversary, will look at new questions relating to the articulation of culture, territories and society. It aims to promote the work of young European researchers, to better identify the role of research in the development of a knowledge society, and to encourage debate on its contribution to public decision-making and professional action.
Website >> (in French)
Entrepreneurship, workspace and the local creative economy
Huddersfield, UK, 6 - 9 July 2009
The Creative Clusters SummerSchool is four days of intensive up-skilling designed for regeneration and development managers, consultants and researchers building the creative economy at the local level:
- Managed workspaces for creative businesses
- Business support programmes for creative entrepreneurs
- Local and regional strategies for the creative economy
The course is intensely practical, and will draw on the extensive expertise and experience of creative industries regeneration in the Yorkshire region. Participants will become familiar with well-tried development tools through guided visits to model projects such as the Workstation (Sheffield) and Dean Clough (Halifax), through focus groups with entrepreneurs and interaction with experienced professionals. There will be continuous consideration of how these solutions might be customised for participants' own localities.
www.creativeclusters.com
Chicago, USA, 15 – 18 July 2009
Deadline for registrations: 15 March
Creative entrepreneurship as an area of academic study is just beginning to establish roots in academia. Research and education in creative entrepreneurship are in the early stages. Also, there is some question as to what extent entrepreneurship can be taught. At the same time, it has become evident that creative entrepreneurship, particularly in the US, is one of the keys to economic growth and creation of new jobs in the creative sector. At art schools and universities, many are starting to believe that traditional art curricula should include an entrepreneurship component.
The conference Creative Entrepreneurship and Education in Cultural Life is hosted by the Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Department of Columbia College Chicago. The conference serves as a meeting place for academics and practitioners seeking to:
- Understand the latest developments in creative entrepreneurship while engaging in productive dialogue and learning from each other’s experience.
- Discuss the practical approaches to teaching creative entrepreneurship and developing efficient creative entrepreneurship curricula.
- Explore what has been done and how in the area of creative entrepreneurship in the US.
28 - 31 July 2009
Venice, Italy
The International Conference on the Arts in Society and the International Journal of the Arts in Society provide an intellectual platform for the arts and art practices, and enable an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. They are intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world - in studios and classrooms, in galleries and museums, on stage, on the streets and in communities.
The theme of this year's Conference is Art and Transnationalism. It focuses dialogue on the arts and art practices that may be situated within the context of international art expositions, festivals and biennials which are engaged with the transnational production of art and its global distribution networks.
The 2009 Arts Conference will coincide with the Venice Biennale, and will be held in conjunction with featured exhibitions and programs.
www.Arts-Conference.com
International Conference on the Creative Economy
Helsinki, Finland, 9-10 September 2009
If there were four things that enabled a better future for the creative economy, what would they be?
Creative Economy and Beyond is an international conference examining the role of the creative industries in the economy, held in Helsinki on the 9th and 10th of September 2009 at the Cable Factory cultural centre.
The Creative Economy and Beyond conference challenges experts in the field to present their ideas for a sound basis for the concept of a creative economy and to discuss the future of creativity and innovation. It aims to provide a global and multidisciplinary forum for a variety of perspectives such as management, leadership, cultural studies, policy making and design. In addition to the latest research, the program will also include case presentations on successful creative industries business ventures and global perspectives on the creative industries. The rich conference programme is ensured through collaboration with Helsinki Design Week -festival.
The conference is aimed for researchers, policy makers, education providers, developers and businesses interested in the development of a creative economy.
www.ceb.fi
Meeting of Cultures: Making Meaning Through the Arts
Johannesburg, South Africa, 22-25 September 2009
Co-hosted by IFACCA and the Arts Council of South Africa, the 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture takes place in Johannesburg, 22-25 September. The context for the theme is a world which is increasingly divided by ‘cultural’ rather than political ideology, where feelings of being threatened by ‘other’ are largely based on ignorance about ‘other’. Increased globalisation, through economic integration, is often criticised for ‘homogenising’ the views and interests of economic and militarily powerful nations, at the same time that diversity and the desire to build ‘multicultural’ societies has become increasingly important. The implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Promotion and Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is just one example of this.
Notwithstanding the recent collapse of communism and apartheid, the world remains – and is in fact, increasingly – divided, with adverse implications for global relations, for nations and for communities within nations. Such divisions – at least in how they are expressed or perceived – have taken on a more ‘cultural’ form.
The arts – music, theatre, dance, literature, film, visual arts and craft etc – are seen by some as a possible bridge between cultures, to provide safe, non-threatening points of entry into understanding ‘other’.
A major component of the preparation for the Summit is a survey being conducted on IFACCA’s behalf by ERICarts: ‘Achieving Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts and Culture?’
www.artsummit.org
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