CIRRUS is a Nordic-Baltic network of Art and Design higher education. There are 20 excellent art and design schools from the Nordics and the Baltics in the circle of this cooperation. The central activities of the partner institutions are art and design, including innovative activities, technical development and artistic practices.

Nature Design and Innovation II. Intensive course IMPRINT

NATURE, DESIGN AND INNOVATION II. IMPRINT

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Nordplus intensive course. A collaboration between Estonian Academy of Arts, University of Lapland and Iceland University of the Arts. 6 students from other network schools are welcome to join upon successful application.

People escape from the country to the city and soon they start bringing all this, that remained in the country to the city with them. If they can’t plant a tree in the living room, they put a nature photo wallpaper on their wall, listen to the nature sounds on their B&O and smell flowers from inscence candles.
We need nature to be in contact with the ancient roots of our kind and therefore, we try to imitate nature, while building up artificial environment. We need all this physically and emotinally.

During the workshop, we will look for new ways on how to use nature by innovatively building up new environments.
On the first two days we will go on light hiking in nature (bog and forest) to collect inspiration and material (mental, physical and digital). On last 3 days we will work on concepts and design prototypes in order to enrich artificial environment.

Leaders: Lennart Mänd, Merike Rehepapp (Estonian Academy of Arts) Runa Thors (Iceland University of the Arts), Pertti Aula (University of Lapland)
Time: 11.08.-16.08. 2019.
(Arrival: August 11, departure Aug 17).
Location: EKA, Tallinn and surroundings
Application requirements: Filled application (NB! links to portfolio and motivation statement are required)
Deadline for applying: 28.05.2019
Announcement of selected students: May 31, 2019
Load: 3 ECTS
Travel grant: 330 EUR (EKA will deliver to your home school who will deliver it further to you) You will be accommodated by EKA during the course along with the other students.
Number of seats for CIRRUS network schools: 6
Iceland, Lapland and EKA students may not apply in this round since they are selected separately.

CIRRUS seeds

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Course title: 
Together (porcelain painting workshop)

Teaching period: 06.06. – 13.06.2019  (5thJune – arrival, 14thJune – departure)
Teacher(s): prof. Dainis Lesins, asoc.prof. Liga Skarina, asoc.prof. Eugenia Loginova.
Guest lecturer prof. Sergey Rusakov  fromThe Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design

ECTS:  1.5
Level: BA / MA
Available places for CIRRUS students: 2

Requirements: to prepare some sketches of your design for painting on 2 porcelain plates (25cm) and 2 cups. Working tools (various brushes, palette scraper, pen with a nib and etc.) shall be taken along with you. Accommodation & working material cost for all participants – local & international: 180 EUR (see details below).

Application deadline: 01.05.2019. (results will be announced on 03.05.2019.)

How to apply:
Please send a short motivation letter (mention also your home university, study level, contacts) and some photos of your art works (could be portfolio, electronic version or web link) to the e-mail address: sympo.lv@gmail.com.

Course description:

Students’ porcelain painting praxis will take place within the framework of the International Porcelain painting symposium ‘Together’. The students will be given a unique possibility to be introduced to professional artists, their oeuvre.  Symposium participants come from different countries – Lithuania, Germany, USA, Poland, Spain, South Korea, Turkey, Russia and Latvia.

During the course the classical overglaze painting technique will be taught to the students.

It is envisaged to provide an intensive study course – lectures, workshops, professional practice and evening seminars by demonstration of individual presentations of participants.

Assignment:  The course is focused on overglaze painting. A simple shaped porcelain ware will be given and used.

Envisaged results:  Students are taught and are acquainted with the work process of overglaze porcelain painting technique.

IMPORTANT!

Additional information:

Venues of the symposium – a splendid and picturesque resort by the seaside in Jurmala.

Participation fee is compulsory for all the participants, for students (with discount): 180 EUR. It covers costs of accommodation in double room, working materials and firing. Catering is not provided, but each room is equipped with fridge, teapot, microwave.

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CIRRUS EXPRESS COURSE

Title of course: Design Jam
Teaching period: 4-14 June, 2019
Teacher: Martin Foessleitner
ECTS: 3

Number of available place for CIRRUS students:  2

Level: BA / MA
Venue: Art Academy of Latvia / Kalpaka bulvaris 13, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia

Language: English
Application deadline:  April 30, 2019
How to apply: Send ashort motivation and CVto inta.rubule@lma.lv
with subject title: Cirrus Design Jam
Decisions: announced by May 3, 2019
Grant available per student: 330Eur travel (Iceland 660Eur) + 70Eur weekly

Course description:

Imagine a jam session in music. You come together bringing your instruments, your skills, open mind. Someone sets up a theme, and you start to jam around it; you don’t over-analyse it, you don’t discuss it to the death, you jam. You bounce your ideas off other people and play around with what comes back. Together you build something which none of you could have built alone. And at the same time you are learning new ideas, discovering more about how you work and whom you best work with, sharpening your skills and having a great time. And who knows, maybe there are one or two ideas there which might make it to the next album.

Design Jam works just in the same way. But it’s not music you are jamming – it’s design. And it’s not just talking – you are here to turn your ideas into a concrete design, prototype and plan of action which you might want to make real. To prototype and plan it in a way that someone could go out and make it real, „creating platforms of social interactions“ knowing what resources they would need, what they should do, and who they should talk to? That’s the challenge of the jam. And finally re-checking and testing in real life.

Additional information:Teacher Martin Foessleitner (MBA Vienna University of Economics and Business) – founder and managing director of High-Performance Vienna GmBH (www.hi-pe.at); board member of International Institute for Information Design; board member of designaustria; jurymember of the European Design Award. Experience sharing and teaching at Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Danube University Krems and University of Applied Sciences St.Pölten in Austria.


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The workshop which is intended to commemorate Centenary of the BAUHAUS!

CIRRUS intensive workshop (Bauhaus—包豪斯バウハウス—Πивна́я)+Font
An international type experiment at the Faculty of Klaipėda, Vilnius Academy of Arts

The Faculty of Klaipeda (Vilnius Academy of Arts) are hosting joint Cirrus workshop 

(Bauhaus—包豪斯バウハウス—Πивна́я)+Font. 

1,5  ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 4

Level: BA students
Klaipeda, Lithuania
April 15th – 17th, 2019 (arrival April 14th, departure April 18th)

Workshop with presentations, practice and discussions

Language: English, with hands, feet, whatever it takes

Starting point

One hundred years of Bauhaus means one hundred years of a transregional, transcultural and transnational approach on design. In the 1920 and early 30s, the Bauhaus idea found its way to Shanghai, China’s world metropolis at the time, via Japan. Few people in the West are aware of the fact that in Asia, modern design methodology was synced to a process of re-thinking traditional values in visual culture in the quest for a contemporary cultural identity.

Workshop concept

Theory: Let us look at how the Bauhaus idea impacted on Japan, China, India, the Arab world… and how it helped resonate local visual tradition.

Practice: Let us create—with minimal means—an experimental multilingual typeface from the building blocks of Bauhaus. It can comprise both of letterforms or pictoral elements.

Timeframe

Monday 15th, 10am

1. Brief introduction of myself with some works (presentation, 30 minutes)

2. Introduction (presentation part 1): Bauhaus. An international phenomenon. The West. Migration of people and ideas, media revolution and the new interconnectedness (60 minutes).

3. Practice: Live experiment on paper and paper-cut: Roman and Cyrillic letters (shared tutorial, 30 minutes)

4. Practice and sharing of first individual results (end of day 1)

Tuesday 16th, 10am

1. Introduction (presentation part 2): Bauhaus. An international phenomenon. Asia (60 minutes).

2. Practice (end of day 2)

Wednesday 17th, 10am

1. Finishing of results, final presentation preparation

2. Final shared presentation and discussion of outcome, comparison of the spontaneous day 1 experiment with the final designs, summary (end of workshop)

ATTENTION! 

Those who are interested could stay one day longer (leave on 19th of April), and  could use the day building fonts and immerse a little into this field on a casual eye-to-eye basis.

Applications should include your name, surname, home school, study year and level, a Motivation statement (max 250 words), a link to your portfolio and CV.
All applications should be sent to ruta.jakstoniene@vda.lt

Deadline to apply: the 1st of April, 2019
Decisions on selection are announced by 3rd of April, 2019
The teacher of the workshop – Roman Wilhelm (*1976) is a substitute professor of typography at the Braunschweig University of the Arts, Germany. 

He studied under Prof. Fred Smeijers for a typeface design master’s degree at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. His multilingual typefaces are distributed by Arphic (Taiwan) and on Fontspring. 

He lives and works in Berlin.

More about lecturer: http://www.roman946.de

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Critical Image Workshop
Host: Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Design
Number of available places for CIRRUS students: 5
Level: BA
Requirements: Open for all CIRRUS institution students in the fields of communication, design and fine arts who are interested in gender and equality issues.
Application deadline: 15.3.2019
Grant available per student: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660) + 70 weekly allowance
How to apply: Please send a short motivation letter titled “Critical Image Application”
(max 350 words) describing why you are interested in taking part in this workshop to pauliina.pasanen@lamk.fi

Teachers:
Utu-Tuuli Jussila and Pauliina Vuorinen
Timetable:
6.–7.4.2019 + critique day 4.5 (on skype)

Workshop description
In this workshop we look at images from a feminist perspective. We think about how gender, race, class, age, sexuality and ability are being represented in the media and the visual arts. In other words, we practice an intersectional gaze. Through case examples and assignments we learn how to identify and dismantle normative representation of gender for example. Images maintain norms but they can also decode them. Images are never mere representations but they also produce reality. The images we make and choose have real effects in the society and that is something one should be aware of. In this course, we consider what is the author’s responsibility. Are there influencing possibilities. We also discuss who ultimately benefits from the norms. In addition to portraits and images of people, we also discuss how, for example, typography or other design choices can get gendered meanings.

The workshop will take place as a weekend course with a focus on discussions. Before the workshop, the participants read a few articles to familiarize them on the topic. On the basis of the workshop, the students will complete a final assignment that will be shown at the Henkilökuva aikakausmediassa Seminar in May.

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CERAMIC SHELL BRONZE CASTING – THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF FIRE AND THE FURNACE

 

The Faculty of Telšiai (Vilnius Academy of Arts) is hosting a Cirrus express course: “Ceramic shell bronze casting – The Transformative Power of Fire and the Furnace”.

Teachers: David Snoo Wilson and Tom Railton (Royal College of Art, UK)
Level: BA/MA
Teaching period: from the 8th April to 19th April 2019.
ECTS: 3 ECTS
Number of available place for Cirrus students: 4
Muziejaus st. 29a, Telšiai (270 km away from Vilnius), Lithuania

The Jewellery and Metal department of the Academy of Arts will host a workshop on the process of lost-wax casting in bronze, using the ceramic shell method. The course will be taught by David Snoo Wilson and Tom Railton, formerly of the Royal College of Art foundry. Students from all Cirrus institutions are invited to attend the course.

Course Content:

The materials will cost 15 Euro for each participant after arrival.

The course aims to provide an introduction an understanding to the methods and materials of ceramic shell bronze casting; students will be guided in safely taking their sculpted or cast wax form towards a finished, small bronze object or sculpture. This includes:

-Overview of the foundry process
-Mould making
-Wax working
-Using ceramic shell for investment
-How to set up a small foundry
-pouring of hot metal
-finishing and basic patination

The course is led over ten days, allowing time to experiment with materials and process, so the scale of the sculptures should be manageable within the time: the size of a hand or smaller. Students will develop their ideas, each applying the principles to their own practice towards a new work in the medium, discussing and displaying them together.

Students are asked to direct their work towards the chosen theme: ‘Alchemy and Foundry: The Transformative Power of Fire and the Furnace’. During the course, talks relating to the content will take place.

Applications should include your name, surname, home school, study year and level, a motivation statement (max 250 words), a link to your portfolio and CV and phone number.
All applications should be sent to r.vaitkute@gmail.com

Deadline to apply: the 6th of March, 2019
Decisions on selection are announced by 12thof March, 2019

About the teachers:

David Snoo Wilson is a founder and artist that has been teaching  bronze casting for the last 10 years, most recently at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Uniquely at the heart of his studio practice is the beautiful alchemy of melting metal. Specialising in bell casting and surrounding technology, he uses a mobile foundry to cast bells in many locations outside of the traditional industrial set up, creating a spectacle and a show.

Tom Railton is a multidisciplinary Sculptor who has exhibited internationally; he currently works for the Royal College of Art and teaches throughout the UK.
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Title of course: Re///Action
Teaching period: February 18-23, 2019
Teacher(s): Martin Foessleitner
ECTS: 1.5
Number of available place for CIRRUS students: 4
Level: BA and MA
Requirements:User Testing Support Course for Graduating Students (for those who are planning to graduate this year)

Application deadline:  January 25, 2019

How to apply:
Send ashort motivation and CV to inta.rubule@lma.lv with subject title:
“CIRRUS expressReAction”

Course description:Based on the individual topic of each students thesis,

we will have a close look on tools for capturing and understanding people´s behaviour and reaction but even before: how to design a participative design process, what is the impact of mock-ups, why does an iterative approach is so helpful, how to organize, do and present all documentation.
At the end each participant should have a customized toolbox for working.

Additional information:Teacher Martin Foessleitner (MBA Vienna University of Economics and Business) – founder and managing director of High-Performance Vienna GmBH; board member of International Institute for Information Design; board member of designaustria; jurymember of the European Design Award. Experience sharing and teaching at Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Danube University Krems and University of Applied Sciences St.Pölten in Austria.

 

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Foil printing workshop “Overprint”

Dates: 21 – 25 January 2019 in Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
Grant available: 330 EUR travel/660 EUR Iceland + weekly allowance 70 EUR
ECTS: 2

Short course description

The aim of workshop is to explore the possibilities of foil-print and foil-tooling technologies, as well re-using printed matter in creating an artist book. The students will be introduced to techniques such as hand tooling, cliché print, foil drawing, digital foil-print and other foil transferee possibilities.

Organization of the course

  • Presentation of techniques and materials
  • Practical tasks, experimenting, idea sketching
  • Making micro edition of artist-book in group work

Leaders: prof. Lennart Mänd (department of accessory design and bookbinding EKA), prof. Liina Siib (department of Graphic Art EKA)

Number of available places 2

Requirements: course is open to BA and MA students but applicants should have finished at least 1 year at the bachelor level in design or art.

Application deadline: 12th December, 2018

How to apply: Send your full name, name of home school and name of the program you study in and a motivation letter(max 1 page), digital portfolio or homepage or some samples of you previous work to lennart.mand@artun.ee

 

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Title of course: 
Together: Platform
Hosting school:Iceland Academy of the Arts
Teaching period: 1st April – 9th May, 2019
Teacher(s): Ari Marteinsson, Marteinn Sindri Jónsson
ECTS: 4
Number of available places for CIRRUS students: 7
Level: BA
Grant available per student EUR: 660 travel + 70 weekly

Requirements:Student applicants should have finished at least 1 year at the bachelor level in design or architecture.

Application deadline: 10th December, 2018

How to apply:Send your full name, name of home schooland name of the programmeyou study in + a letter of motivation(1 page), outlining relevant skills and discussing how the student would like to benefit from the course to  ari@usestudio.dk and marteinnsindri@lhi.is.

Course description:

The course Together: Platform is about social design and social change in a hyper-local context, departing from the notion that change starts at home.

In the course students develop platforms in the context of their own learning environments, aimed at social and cultural change. The course takes place in and around the building of the Department of Design and Architecture. Students learn to iterate questions about their own circumstances using methods aimed at shared ownership and collective action. Students work in small groups and develop contextualised projects engaged with social challenges within and without the immediate environment.
At the end of the course students, should

  • have developed a critical view on the role and responsibility of designers in society,
  • have the ability to effect change in society in relation to a research topic,
  • be able to participate in a critical discourse,
  • have the independence and communication skills to actively participate in a collaboration,
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DESIGN WITH LIGHT with Prof. Kacper Dolatowski (USA) in Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts

Interior Design Department at Vilnius Art Academy will host a workshop for senior course students of interior design and architecture in Nida Art Colony and invites interested students from all Cirrus institutions to attend the course.

Title of course: Design with Light Workshop period: October 17 – 21

Teacher: Kacper Dolatowski, PhD Industrial and Product Design, Principal at Axon Design Inc., Adjunct Professor _ Fashion Institute of Technology of State University of New York, Visiting Professor Savannah Colledge of Art and Design,
former Senior Designer – Manager Tiffany & Co.

Number of available places for Cirrus students 4

Course Content

The course is aiming to extend theoretical knowledge on interior and architectural lighting, including overview of lighting design techniques, tools and methods and comprehensive application study for both residential and commercial applications – mixture of lectures on theories for light accompanied by hands-on training with floor plans and elevations. Some aspects of theatrical and stage light design process will also be reviewed.

Organization of the Course

  •   Lectures, presentations
  •   Practical tasks: idea sketching, lighting design exercises on ready-made plans, basics forconstructing a lighting unit in architectural space
  •   Acquaintance with the impact of light quality on human wellbeing
  •   Participants are supposed to handle software for architectural design and bring theirpersonal facilities for computer design and sketching (laptops, sketchbooks, drawing tools, etc.)

Preliminary Schedule

  •   Arrival October 17th till 6 PM, Introductory presentationNida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts http://nidacolony.lt _E. A. Jonušo str. 3, LT- 93127 Neringa, Lithuania, +370 469 20 370 _https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vilniaus+dail%C4%97s+akademijos+Nidos+meno+kolo nija/@55.2997748,20.9837252,17.01z/data=!4m10!1m2!2m1!1snida+Jonu%C5%A1o+3!3m6!1s0x 46e497ef3ca5c3c5:0x61603c6667970b2c!5m1!1s2018-10-21!8m2!3d55.2998068!4d20.9865669
  •   October 18th – 20th morning – theory, afternoon – practice, discussions
  •   October 21st – leaving back to Vilnius till 1PMExternal participants will be accepted based on application and motivation letter. Please send your application to Elena Černiauskaitė (elena.cerniauskaite@vda.lt) no later than the 11th of October, 2018. The selected applicants will be informed about further details on the 12th of October, 2018.

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CIRRUS EXPRESS Ceramics + Print

Title of course: Printed view on Ceramics “Discovieries from Nida“

Place: VAA Nida Art Colony (E. A. Jonušo str. 3, LT-93127 Neringa, Lithuania)

Teacher(s): Assoc. Prof. Dalia Laučkaitė-Jakimavičienė(LT), Prof. Rytas Jakimavičius (LT); visiting teachers: Assoc. Prof. Dainis Pundurs (LV), Prof.in Dr. Kerstin Abraham(DE)

Teaching period: 2018, September 18-28

ECTS: 1,5

Application deadline:  June 22nd, 2018

Number of available place for Cirrus students: 3

Level: (BA)

How to apply: please send the portfolio to Assoc. Prof. Dalia Laučkaitė-Jakimavičienėby e-mail: dalia.lauckaite@gmail.com      

The results regarding the applications will be sent to the applicants by email, on the 2ndof July, 2018.

CIRRUS grant available: 330 travel (660 Iceland) EUR + weekly allowance 70 EUR

 

The course focuses on transferring printed imageon ceramic surfaces as well as on theoretical and practical knowledge of overglaze materials, traditional and innovative third firing techniques of ceramic surface treatment; various ways to experiment and search for new possibilities of application of the aforesaid methods; to develop perception of formal and conceptual link between a form and surface.

During the practice students work withoverglaze materialsand acquire knowledge of traditional and innovative methods (painting, drawing, decals, transfer of digital image on ceramics). Emphasis is laid on computer rendered laser print decals and ways of their production.

Students take photos of objects found in Nida, surrounding landscapes (main theme – Discovieries from Nida, that is – from various things found on the beach – stones, plants, objects discarded from ships,  „treasures“ or garbage, to „discoveries“ in the wider meaning – found landscapes or found ideas).Using Adobe Photoshop (or other software) students prepare and print their own ceramic decals. Students adopt principles of overglaze collage combining various techniques. The aim is to show a lot of possibilities using print on ceramics in different manners and how these methods develop ideas and open up new visual languages.

 

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EXPRESS: EXCAVATIONS OF NIDA

CIRRUS EXPRESS „Excavations of Nida“

Title of course: „Excavations of Nida“
Place: VAA Nida Art Colony (E. A. Jonušo str. 3, LT-93127 Neringa, Lithuania)
Teaching period: 2018, June 11 –17
Teacher(s): Assoc. Prof. Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė (LT), Assoc. Prof. Lina Jonikė (LT) Assoc. Prof. Krista Leesi (EE)
ECTS: 1,5
Number of available place for Cirrus students: 4
Level: (BA)
Application deadline: 15th of May, 2018
How to apply: please send the portfolio to Assoc. Prof. Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė by e-mail: monika.grasiene@vda.lt

Course description:
Cirrus express course is based on collaboration between Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty Textile Department and Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Textile Design.
During the creative workshop we will develop functional textile/design ideas that are related to Nida’s stories/”fossils”, i.e. legends, local tales, emotions, humour, tourism, etc. Collecting, gathering, archiving, processing and creative interpretation of local experiences will take on new forms of textile design. During the workshop we will practice the techniques of collaboration work in groups, observation, experience sharing and application. During the express course we will combine and share cultural stereotypes, idea development, textile design, creative research, and practices of international reproduction. We will have an open discussions and presentations of designed objects. The presentation of designed objects/prototypes will take place in Nida and Nida Art Colony’s spaces.

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Vilnius Academy of Art is hosting a Cirrus express workshop“SCULPTURAL RESEARCH” on draping, sculpting, pattern-making in Nida Art Colony.
Tutors: Dainius Bendikas (IAA),
Jurgita Jankutė-Mirinavičienė (VAA).
Level: BA/MA
Teaching period: 24th May – 04th June, 2018.
Address: E. A. Jonušo str. 3, LT-93127 Neringa, Lithuania
Number of available place for Cirrus students: 6
Students from all Cirrus institutions are invited to attend the course.
CIRRUS/Nordplus grant available: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR) + 70 EUR weekly.

Objective:
– To introduce and transmit the knowledge, values, techniques and an extensive creative process to
a new generation of young designers through direct methodology.
– To showcase new opportunities and constructive experimentation as a source of new creativity.
– To improve and support the professional development of design students as emerging designers.
– Improve their contextual and creative relevance while acquiring new development tools and
orientationon research, documentation, draping, pattern-making and most importantly design based
constructive thinking.

Course Content:
The workshop is an intense two-week
hands-on program for fashion and costume designers dedicated to break out of the traditional silhouette.

The course is aiming to provide knowledge about methods and techniques related to silhouette
development – draping, sculpting, creative pattern-making.
The course will provide information on:
– How to create a concept for further design development.
– How to use sculpting material;
– How to combine concept and form.
– How to advance and breakdown the object.
– How to pattern-make the V1 object.
The course will take up twelve days allowing time to experiment with the process. Over this period
students work will be transformed from the Idea to a dimensional object, to finished constructed object
consisting of patterns.
The complexity of the sculptures should be manageable within the time. Students are asked to direct
their work towards their own concept for the main theme. During the course talks relating to the content
will take place.

About the teacher:

Dainius Bendikas is a designer and holds a degree in fashion design. An Adjunct in the Fashion Design Department of Iceland University of Arts. His teaching emphasis are on conceptual, technical and functional aspects of fashion, object and product development. Creative and constructive innovation and experimental approach towards objects while synchronizing overall creative direction.
Dainius has been creating, instructing and organizing various programs and activities for students by way of courses, collaborations and workshops. Dainius has 7 years of professional experience working with various brands as head designer, product developer, creative direction consultant and has experience in various manufacturing processes.

Jurgita Jankutė-Mirinavičienė is a theater set and costume designer. She created scenography and costumes for different plays and contemporary dance performances at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, National Drama Theatre, State Small Theatre of Vilnius, others. She teaches History of Costume and Costume Construction at Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Applications should include:
Full Name;
Home school;
Study year and level;
A motivation statement (max 250 words);
Pattern-making experience (description);
A link to your portfolio and CV and phone number.
All applications should be sent to db@dainiusbendikas.com
Deadline to apply: the 27th of Apr, 2018
Decisions on selection are announced by 1st of May, 2018
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TRANSFORMATION (ceramics wood firing workshop)Teaching period:  15.05. – 22.05.2018 (14th May – arrival, 23rd May – departure)
Teacher(s):  Prof. Dainis Lesins, Asoc.prof. Dainis Pundurs, Asoc.prof. Ainars Rimicans, Asoc.prof. Liga Skarina, Asoc.prof. Eugenia Loginova / Art Academy of Latvia
ECTS: 3
Number of available places for CIRRUS students: 5
Level: BA / MA
Requirements: to prepare two project drawings for your design objects upon the arrival. One month prior to the symposium, the participants will receive detailed information about the assignment.Application deadline: 30.03.2018. The results will be announced on 03.04.2018.How to apply:
Application should include your name, surname, home school, study year and level, phone number and e-mail, a short motivation letter and some photos of your art works (portfolio, link or website) to the e-mail address with subject CIRRUS express: sympo.lv@gmail.com.CIRRUS/Nordplus grant available: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR) + 70 EUR weeklyCourse description:The course is envisaged as a international student symposium, during which an intensive programme will be carried out. It includes lectures, workshops, professional practice, wood kiln firings (two different technologies: one black – smoked low temperature firing, other – high temperature soda wood firing), attendance of museums, galleries and the participation at the Pop-Up exhibition of the symposium works at the Art Academy of Latvia.Assignment: inspired by the sample of the given pitcher from the historical Latvian folk pottery, the participant has to create self-made design object – a pitcher, the design pearl of the 21st century. One month prior to the symposium, the participants will receive detailed information about the assignment and the photo of the given Pitcher.Envisaged results: students will obtain the knowledge in the field of ceramics design and wood firing technologies by practically developing the project in ceramics. The project works will be displayed at the exhibition.Additional information:Venues of the symposium – Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, City centre. Organizers do not offer accommodations.
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NEW CIRRUS course in Lithuania. 6 seats available.
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CERAMIC SHELL BRONZE CASTING – THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF FIRE AND THE FURNACE 
The Faculty of Telšiai (Vilnius Academy of Arts) is hosting a Cirrus express course “Ceramic shell bronze casting – The Transformative Power of Fire and the Furnace”.
Teacher: David Snoo Wilson (Royal College of Art, UK)
Level: BA/MA
Teaching period: from the 14th of May to the 24th of May 2018 ECTS: 3 ECTS Number of available place for Cirrus students: 4
Muziejaus st. 29a, Telšiai (270 km away from Vilnius), Lithuania
CIRRUS/Nordplus grant available: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR) + 70 EUR weekly
The Jewelry and metal department of the Academy of Arts, will host a workshop on ceramic shell bronze casting. The course will be taught by David Snoo Wilson of the Royal College of Art foundry. Students from all Cirrus institutions are invited to attend the course.Course Content The course is aiming to provide knowledge about methods and materials related to ceramic shell bronze casting. However, the materials will cost 15 Eur for each participant after arrival. The course will provide information on:-How to use the material ceramic shell; -How to set up a small foundry; -Overview of the foundry process; -Mold making; -Wax working.The course will take up ten days allowing time to experiment with materials and process. Over this period the students work will be transferred from wax to finished bronze sculpture. The size of the bronze sculptures should be manageable within the time. So a large hand size or smaller. Students are asked to direct their work towards, Alchemy and Foundry: The Transformative Power of Fire and the Furnace. During the course talks relating to the content will take place. 2Applications should include your name, surname, home school, study year and level, a motivation statement (max 250 words), a link to your portfolio and CV and phone number. All applications should be sent to r.vaitkute@gmail.com Deadline to apply: the 16th of March, 2018 Decisions on selection are announced by 26th of March, 2018 About the teacher David Snoo Wilson is a founder and artist that has been teaching bronze casting for the last 10 years, most recently at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Uniquely at the heart of his studio practice is the beautiful alchemy of melting metal. Specialising in bell casting and surrounding technology, he utilise a mobile foundry to cast bells in various location outside of the traditional industrial set up to create a spectacle and a show._____________CIRRUS intensive workshop “Triangles – letters, type, languages and cultures“ in Klaipėda.

The Faculty of Klaipeda (Vilnius Academy of Arts) is hosting a joint Cirrus workshop “Triangles – letters, type, languages and cultures“

1,5 ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 3

Klaipeda, Lithuania
March 12th – 16th, 2018 (arrival March 11th, departure March 17th)

Workshop starting point

The technology of writing is a key factor of human society, and the development of specific writing systems crucially define local identities. Contemporary media being unthinkable without fonts, typeface designers and lettering artists are at the helm of a continuing process of cultural identity building, across borders and political spheres. In Klaipėda, the first printed Lithuanian book was recently on display. Printed in what was then the city of Königsberg by a Prussian letterpress, it is an example of simple technology transfer. Although blackletter lost its position as a reading typeface style even in Germany, vivid traces of the „broken script“ are still present in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, the UK, France… the following lettering workshop deals with the question, whether Roman, Cyrillic and blackletter can be imagined and developed together, like an imaginary triangle, at the same time.

Workshop concept

Take a flat pen, write three scripts together. Blend them, combine them, set them apart from each other. Bring them alive together. Let them speak to each other.

Starting from a spontaneous impulse, we will develop a simple set of typefaces in the Roman, Cyrillic and Blackletter. No full set of characters has to be finished in the short timeframe, though. Everyone is free to chose the tools at hand: a pen, collage, pencil and drawing board, or digital tools such as Illustrator, FontLab or the Glyphs app. Full assistance is guaranteed for all these tools.

The final outcome can be a sheet of calligraphic writing, a lettering sample, or a simple digital type specimen. The final discussion will address the experience of a multi-script approach to lettering practice.

3 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools.

The workshops are open to students of various graphic specialties also for students, interested into calligraphy, lettering and multi-script typeface design.
Level: BA students
The teacher of the workshop Roman Wilhelm (*1976) a Berlin-based visual communication designer.

A Berlin-based visual communication designer, Roman studied at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale) in Germany, and under Professor Fred Smeijers for a typeface design master’s degree at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. He was a member of the Multilingual Typography Research Group led by Professor Ruedi Baur at the Zurich University of the Arts, apart from conducting lettering classes and workshops throughout Europe and Asia. A fluent Chinese speaker, his work focuses on cross-cultural mediation, bilingual typography and typeface design. A frequent visitor of Asia, he has taught at various academies such as the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, as well as the Seoul National University. In 2015, he was an artist in residence at the Hong Kong Baptist University and participated at the Typojanchi Biennale in Seoul. Roman was a presenter at the AtypI conferences in Hong Kong (2012) and Warsaw (2016).

His passion for language and writing has led to a strong immersion into calligraphy, lettering and multi-script typeface design.

You can find additional information about lecturers here: http://www.roman946.de/

Application process:  Apply by sending a short motivational letter and a link to your portoflio to the lecturer Virginijus Bakas virginijus.bakas@vda.lt by the of 15th February, 2018
Decisions on selection are announced by February 19th, 2018 

Timetable

 

Monday 12th

10.30-11.00 Brief introduction of R.Wilhelm (presentation with some works)
11.00-11.30 Spontaneous start. Try to hand-letter, hand-draw or hand-collage a word in Latin, Cyrillic and blackletter script without any reference or help, quick and dirty
11.30-12.00 Shared discussion of the outcome
12.00-13.00 The lunch break
13.00-14.00 Introduction (presentation). Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Prussia – depiction of a regiona media system through the centuries. Letterpress, migration of people and ideas, media revolution and the new interconnectedness.
14.00-14.30 Practice. Live on paper: Roman letters
14.30-15.30 Practice and sharing of first individual results

Tuesday 13th

10.30-11.30 Roman type, design elements
11.30-12.00 Practice. Live on paper: Blackletters – Fraktur (shared tutorial)
12.00-13.00 The lunch break
13.00-14.00 Practice and sharing of individual results

 

Wednesday 14th

10.30-11.30 Blackletter type, design elements
11.30–12.30 Practice and sharing of individual results
13.30 There is a planned excursion „Cartography“
https://www.mlimuziejus.lt/en/cartography/

 

Thursday 15 th

10.30- 12.00 Outlook. Local typographic and visual culture, language and identity, examples from China and Europe. Regional identity, roots, nationalism, colonialism and the potential of responsive media
12.00-13.00 The lunch break
13.00-14.00 Practice and sharing of individual results 

Friday 16th

10.30 Finishing of results, final presentation preparation
End of workshop. Final shared presentation and discussion of outcome, comparison of the spontaneous day one experiment with the final designs.

 

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4.2.-10.2.2018 in Vilnius
Urban Gaming WorkshopUrban Gaming workshop is a Cirrus Intensive Course organized in Vilnius by Aalto University, Vilnius Academy of Arts and the Icelandic Academy of Arts.The workshop theme is public space communication and intervention by means of participatory games and act of playing – in other words, benign gamification of urban and social design. In the workshops, the participants will create concepts for different kinds of participatory games taking place in public space. By site-specific approach, the communication can be delivered to the specific part of the city concerned or the whole city.The teachers in charge of the course are Tarja Nieminen, Ausra Lisauskiene, Sam Rees and Lode CoenWe are looking for five (5) participants from CIRRUS schools (other than the organizing ones, that is) to participate in the workshop. The course is targeted to visual communication, graphic design, media, design and architecture students, but also others are welcome to express their interest. Both BA and MA students can participate. Aalto University will arrange flight tickets and accommodation, and there will be a number of meals included.The call for participants is open 27.11.-5.12.2017 and if you are interested send Tarja Nieminen (tarja.nieminen@aalto.fi) a motivation letter and either a pdf portfolio of about three relevant projects (please mind the size of the file) or link to your net  portfolio. The selection criteria are the motivation and building a multidisciplinary group with diverse skills and experience.The results will be announced on 8.12.2017 and all students will be informed on them. Those selected to participate will receive information on what to do next.If you have any questions on the application process, please be in touch with Hanna Karkku (hanna.karkku@aalto.fi).


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Digital weaving

The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, will host a workshop in digital weaving, and invites students from all Cirrus institutions to attend the course.

Title of course: Digital Weaving
Teaching period: 5 February – 2 March 2018
Teacher(s): Jon Pettersen
ECTS: 6
Number of available place for Cirrus students: 2
Level: BA/MA
CIRRUS grant available: 330 travel (660 Iceland) EUR + weekly allowance 70 EUR

The course is aiming to provide extended knowledge about methods related to digital weaving. The course will provide:
• Skills in independent use of software and looms (TC-1 / TC-2 / Digital Jacquard)
• Insight into how we can exploit opportunities for systematic experiments
• Background for adaptation to industrial methods and external production

Course Content
• Development of ideas and visual starting points for further processing into woven expressions.
• Theory on principles and testing of methods for creating motive / pattern / texture / volume.
• Introduction and use in bindings and composition in 2 or more thread systems.
• Testing opportunities for variation in yarn types, density, texture and colors.
• Introduction and specialized use of software: Weavepoint, Photoshop, Nedgraphics (Texelle / Product Creator).

Organization of the course
Participants should make a project description, plan the work and collaborate on the implementation of the project. The work must be documented and presented for the group.

The Department of Fine Art collaborates with one of the leading weaving companies in Norway, and if the timing fits into their program, the course participants will, at the end of the course, be given the opportunity to produce works prepared during the course at Innvik AS in Stryn.

External participants will be accepted based on application and motivation letter. Please send your application to tale.vik@uib.no no later than 24 November.
For more information about the course, contact the course teacher, associate professor Jon Pettersen: jon.pettersen@uib.no

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Poster design workshop with graphic designer Esa Ojala (Helsinki, Finland) 2017 November 20 – 24th (arrival on 19th of November and departure on 25th of November)
CIRRUS seats: 3
VAA Vilnius faculty, Graphic design department, Maironio str. 3, Vilnius, Lithuania
Level: BA students
2 ECTS
CIRRUS grant: 330 EUR travel (660 Iceland) + 70 EUR weekly allowance
Please send a motivation letter to Asta Jackute by e-mail:  asta.jackute@vda.ltApplication deadline: 9th of November, 2017.
Decisions on selection are announced by November 10th, 2017.
 Graphic Design department of Vilnius Academy of Arts is hosting Cirrus express course/workshop on poster design. The workshop consists of joint lectures. Students will create a contemporary posters using different materials and techniques.3 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools.About lecturerEsa Ojala (https://goo.gl/p47SXv) is one of the founders of the Finnish design school creating the projects of visual communication design that meets the highest international standards.
The designer leads international workshops at Finnish design schools, including Aalto University, and awarded for the merits of Finnish design and culture throughout the world (State Design Award 1990; Best Graphic Designer of the Year 2000, etc.), which published important essays on contemporary graphic design (Essa Ojala’s POSTERS 2000; Esa Ojala IDENTITIES (2006).Timetable Monday 20th09:00 – 12:00 Presentation lecture of the workshop.12:00 – 13:00 A break.13:00 – 17:00 Students are working Tuesday 21st Wednesday 22nd Thursday 23rd  09:00 – 12:00 A brief discussions and work in creative process.12:00 – 13:00 A break.13:00 – 17:00 Students are workingFriday 24th09:00 – 12:00 Workshop continues12:00 – 13:00 A break13:00 – 17:00 The continuation of the work; final talk and presentation on the final works. Closing of the workshop.
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Practical Theory Workshop “Visual Narrative” with visual artist, graphic designer Gediminas Šiaulys (Vilnius, Lithuania)2017 November 20 – 24th (arrival on 19th of November and departure on 25th of November)CIRRUS seats: 3
VAA Vilnius faculty, Graphic design department, Maironio str. 3, Vilnius, Lithuania
Level: BA students
CIRRUS grant: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660) + 70 weekly allowance
2 ECTSPlease send a motivation letter to Asta Jackute by e-mail:  asta.jackute@vda.ltApplication deadline: 9th of November, 2017.
Decisions on selection are announced by November 10th, 2017.
 Graphic Design department of Vilnius Academy of Arts is hosting Cirrus express course/workshop on Practical theory workshop. Students will create visual scenarios and stories using different innovative visual methods.3 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools.About lecturerGediminas Šiaulys (www.gedsia.com ; behance.net/gedsia) is an animation director, visual artist and a co-founder of a studio PetPunk (Vilnius, Lithuania). The artist’s primary areas of interest lie in animation, tactile crafts and various experiments within these fields. This leads to authentic work that is visually and aesthetically challenging, yet peculiarly subtle. Gediminas’ works gained recognition by world’s leading art & design magazines and became “New Eastern European Design” synonym. In 2009 Canadian Boards magazine included PetPunk in top 6 of “New Wave of Designers”, while in 2010 UK’s leading design magazine Computer Arts featured PetPunk as “The New Wave of Animation”.
Gediminas Šiaulys together with Petpunk are the first Lithuanians to win the “Young Guns” prize by the Art Directors Club in New York and have been invited to numerous international festivals such as the European Design Conference (Stockholm), Visuelt (Oslo), PICTOPLASMA (Berlin), Onedotzero (London), Anima (Brussels), Arsenale (Florence), Holland Animation Film Festival (Utrecht), 5th Istanbul Animation Festival (Istanbul), Huesca Film Festival (Huesca), Off Motion Festival (Krakow), DesignFLUX 2007 (Paris).Timetable Monday 20th09:00 – 12:00 Presentation lecture of the workshop.12:00 – 13:00 A break.13:00 – 17:00 Students are working Tuesday 21st Wednesday 22nd Thursday 23rd  09:00 – 12:00 A brief discussions and work in creative process.12:00 – 13:00 A break.13:00 – 17:00 Students are workingFriday 24th09:00 – 12:00 Workshop continues12:00 – 13:00 A break13:00 – 17:00 The continuation of the work; final talk and presentation on the final works. Closing of the workshop.

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The Faculty of Klaipeda (Vilnius Academy of Arts) are  hosting joint Cirrus workshop “Extended drawing” in-between architecture/printmaking/research in Klaipeda.

1,5 ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 6
CIRRUS/Nordplus grant available: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR) + 70 EUR weekly allowance

Klaipeda, Lithuania
November 27th – December 1st, 2017 (arrival 26th, departure 2nd)

 

The workshop aims to reveal possibilities and potentialities in between architectural research and graphical research from a craftman’s point of view – through drawing and making that is. By combing architectural design thinking, drawing and graphical reproduction we will look for a new kind – extended – craft or practice. The experiments which will lead to this result will reveal possibilities of “extending” as a valid way to find new ideas, techniques and practices.

During this workshop we will make and explore a basic spatial structure, look for ways of communicating its qualities and inquire possible ways of imagining those qualities on a two dimsnional carrier. By combining drawing and reproduction we will reinterpret the final outlook of the structure. The workshop involves collaborative reasoning, making, drawing and printing. The final product of the workshop will evolve during the sessions by collaboratively negotiating the final outlook of the presentation/exhibition.

The workshop, combines reflection (research) – practice and production and will be divided into the three parts:

part 1 (wrong) perspective(s);

part 2 graphical techniques and reproduction ;

part 3 (re)presentatiion concluded with a critical/reflective open exhibition.

6 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools.

The workshop are open to students from disciplines: Interior design, Graphic design, Architecture and sculpture/ 3D design.

Level: BA students
The teacher of the workshop is dr. arch. Robin Schaeverbeke, lecturer Mixed Media KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture.

Application process:  fill application due October 23rd, 2017
Decisions on selection will be announced by November 6th, 2017

Apply with a short motivational letter and a link to your portoflio to the lecturer Vaidotas Dapkevicius vaidotas.dapkevicius@vda.lt

 

About lecturer

Robin Schaeverbeke (Bruges, januari 1974) got fascinated by architecture through a training as a

draughtsman within Beaux-Arts methods of (architectural) drawing at the Academy Of Fine Arts, Bruges.

From there on he moved to Ghent and Brussels to take on the study of Master within Architecture graduating in 1998 at the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture. Left Belgium for Rotterdam in 1999 to

develop designing and graphical skills within several Dutch offices. From 2004 onwards he took the

opportunity to teach, redevelop and research directions for drawing courses at the Sint-Lucas School of

Architecture, Brussels, Belgium. In August 2016 Robin successfully defended his PhD dissertation

“Extended Drawing” wherein he explores the concept of extension as valuable way to progress in

transformative fields of practice.

His active and passive interest in musical improvisation led to a thesis which explores the concept of improvisation in design and drawing processes.

You can find additional information about lecturer here: www.mmblog.be

 

Timetable

Monday 27 th

10.00 – 10.30 Presentation of the workshops

10.30 -12.00 Collective building of first structure

12.00- 13.00 Lunch break

13.00 –15.00 Plotting a first plan

15.00 –15.30 Break

15.30 -17.00 Photographic analysis of the structure + exploring possible perspectives

17.00 –17.30 Roundup day 1

Tuesday 28th

10.00 -10.30 Presentation (wrong perspectives)

10.30 -12.00 Drawing and exploring wrong perspectives

12.00 -13.00 Lunch break

13.00 -15.00 Tracing shadows and lines (01)

15.00 – 15.30 Break

15.30 -17.00 Refining the drawings (02)

17.00 -17.30 Roundup day 2

 

Wednesday 29 th

10.00 -10.30 Presentation of printing techniques

10.30 -12.30 Preparation of the files and plates

12.00 -13.00 Lunch break

13.00 -17.00 Open printing sessions

17.00 -17.30 Roundup day 3

Thursday 30 th

10.00 -12.00 Open drawing/printing sessions (planning the exhibition)

12.00 -13.00 Lunch break

13.00- 17.00 Finalisation drawings and prints

17.00 -17.30 Roundup day 4

Friday 01st

10.00- 12.30 Final presentations/exhibition open review

12.00-13.00 Lunch break and roundup workshop

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CIRRUS intensive workshop “Animation and Space – a blender’s guide to meshes in real-time video” in Klaipeda

The Faculty of Klaipeda (Vilnius Academy of Arts) are  hosting joint Cirrus workshop “Animation and Space – a blender’s guide to meshes in real-time video.”

1,5 ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 3
CIRRUS grant: 330/660 (Iceland) travel + 70 EUR weekly allowance

Klaipeda (Daržų st.18), Lithuania
October 23 – 25, 2017 (arrival October 22nd, departure October 26th)

During this workshop students will get an insight into using blender as a formidable open source alternative to programs that are either vastly expensive or that are only available through subscriptions that bind the user to a product and that create long term costs that are problematic for artists to deal with in their professional life. While blender offers a huge spectrum of possible areas to work in we would focus on the specifics of combining real world with animated elements, thus providing a tool for design and fine art students to work with on future projects that are either study related (ie film projects in the area of animation) or wider set (ie creating visuals for architectural or sculptural applications).

In the three days of our visit we’ll provide the basic set of skills for using blender on any computer system students bring to the class, showing step by step the different stages of creating a scene, integrating video layers, working with tracking systems and so on.

Emphasis is put on working phases that offer ample time for students to transfer the shown steps to their own project.

3 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools.

The workshop are open to students from disciplines: all artistic disciplines

Every participating student should bring his/her own computer. The most recent version of blender should already be installed (www. blender.org)

Level: BA students
The teachers of the workshop are: Oliver Wetterauer (Teacher, Digital Media, Fine Art) and Volker Menke (Teacher, Digital Media, Architecture) State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart.

Applications should include your name, surname, home school, study year and level, a motivation statement (max 250 words), a link to your portfolio and CV and phone number.
All applications should be sent to
ruta.gotika@gmail.com

Deadline to apply: October 2, 2017
Decisions on selection are announced by October 9, 2017

About lecturers

Oliver Wetterauer. Since Oliver Wetterauer got a  degree of Arts in Fine and Performing Arts in 1995 he had a teacher position Media lab of the fine arts at the department Stuttgart Art Academy (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart). O.Wetterauer participates at the Art exhibitions constantly. He also gives lectures around the world: the University of Southampton Winchester School of Art, the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, the Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Tallinn and many more. 

Volker Menke. Since Volker Menke got a degree at University of Applied Sciences, Civil Engineering in 1999 he had a position scientific Assistant: Labor für Bauinformatik (laboratory computer science for civil Engineering), Detmold 1999-2000. Since 2000 V.Menke has a teacher position at the Architecture department Stuttgart Art Academy (CAD Labor für Architektur at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart).

You can find additional information about lecturers here:

www.meintrautesheim.de
http://adobealternativen.abk-stuttgart.de/engl/

 Workshop “Animation and Space – a blender’s guide to meshes in real-time video” timetable

 

Monday 23 rd

10 am – 12 pm Presentation of the workshop / modelling
12 pm – 13 pm break
13 pm – 17 pm modelling 2 / materials

Tuesday 24th

10 am – 12 pm modelling 3 / materials and textures
12 pm – 13 pm break
13 pm – 17 pm textures 2 / rigging / animation 

Wednesday 25 th
10 am – 12 pm camera tracking – guided
12 pm – 13 pm break
14 pm – 17 pm individual small project with camera tracking

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CIRRUS Express course
Printmaking on textile: process and methods
University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design 
Course period: 11.9-29.9.2017
Course leaders: Ingrid Aarset, Tone Saastad, Kari Dyrdal and Lise Finne
Course level: BA/MA
Number of places for Cirrus students: 2
ECTS: 4,5
Apply by sending a brief motivation letter and work examples (max 3) to Ingrid.Aarset@uib.no no later than 1 August.
CIRRUS grant: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR) + weekly allowance 70 EUR
Course description

The aim is to show a lot of possibilities when processing textiles, using printrelated techniques in different manners and to show how this processing developes ideas and open up for new visual languages. There will be lectures on art projects related to the medium.

The course will provide a basic introduction to the use of fiber reactives dyes, specifically developed for textile materials, pigment dyes, resist printing, discharge printing, digital printing with fiberreactive dyes, devoré and monoprinting with silkscreens.

There will be theoretical introductions to each new theme followed by practical tutorials in the studios. The students will acquire individual experience and get to know the workshops very well.

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THE POSTER AS AN ART FORM. EXPRESS COURSE IN ICELAND

EXPRESS COURSE IN ICELAND ACADEMY OF ARTS
Title course
:  THE POSTER AS AN ART FORM
Course period: 25.09. – 29.09.2017
ECTS: 2
Number of places for CIRRUS students: 2
Responsible teacher: Prof. Gudmundur Oddur Magnússon / goddur@lhi.is
Requirements: the course is suitable for visual communication students as well as fine art (printmaking). Minimum year 2 bachelor. Master students are welcome as well.
Application: Send your full name, name of your home school and study programmme + examples of work (max 3 images) to goddur@lhi.is no later than August 10, 2017
Grant: 660 EUR travel + 70 EUR weekly allowance

Description:
One week intensive workshop in poster design/making, organised by Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik with the non-profit organization Stowarzyszenie Ogrody Sztuki and the Poster Gallery in Kraków. Exhibitions of the Polish Poster will be will be in Reykjavik at three locations opened at same time as the workshop.

Workshop leaders will be:
Monika Starowicz
http://aspkat.edu.pl/pedagodzy/monika-starowicz
http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex337sta/ex337sta.htm

Sebastian Kubica
http://sebastiankubica.pl/en/home/
http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex139kub/ex139kub.htm

Leszek Żebrowski
https://zebrowski.dphoto.com/
http://aswsw.eu/wsw/kadra/dr-hab-leszek-zebrowski-prof-as/
http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex20_zeb/zeb00.htm

poster polish 2
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CIRRUS students are welcome to apply to four Estonian Academy of Arts Summer Academy 2017 courses:Clay 3D Printing
Toys For Elephants
Numbers and Cognition
Flooded
Deadline: June 5, 2017

Information about application requirements, dates and ECTS is written at the web pages of the courses. Instead of inserting “a letter from your university to prove that you are a student” you should write in the application box “CIRRUS student”, so in case you are accepted, your coordinator will sign the application form and we’ll have a confirmation this way.Max 2 CIRRUS seats per course is granted (grant EUR 330 / EUR 660 Iceland travel + 70 EUR weekly allowance). However, if there are living costs announced, then these apply to CIRRUS students as well._____________________________________
VILNIUS ACADEMY OF ARTS:
Poster design workshop “LIKE A RUSTY NAIL ON A SHINY BLACK MERCEDES” with graphic designer Lahav Halevy (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel)
2017 April 24 – 28th (arrival on 23rd of April and departure on 29th of April)CIRRUS seats: 2
VAA Vilnius faculty, Graphic design department, Maironio str. 3, Vilnius, Lithuania
Level: BA students
1,5 ECTS
Please send a motivation letter to Asta Jackute by e-mail: asta.jackute@vda.lt
Application deadline: 11th of April, 2017.
Decisions on selection are announced by April 13th, 2017.
 Graphic Design department of Vilnius Academy of Arts is hosting Cirrus express course/workshop on poster design. The workshop consists of joint lectures. Students will create a contemporary posters using different materials and techniques.2 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools.About lecturerLahav Halevy is the owner of one of the leading Graphic Design and Branding firms in Israel “Blue Collar Group” (www.bluecollar.today). He is a political activist who uses both his abilities as a designer and a citizen to fight for what he believes in.TimetableMonday 24th09:00 – 12:00 Presentation lecture of the workshop.
12:00 – 13:00 A break.
13:00 – 17:00 Students are working in the groups.Tuesday 25th ; Wednesday 26th  Thursday 27th, 09:00 – 12:00 A brief discussions and work in creative process.
12:00 – 13:00 A break.
13:00 – 17:00 Students are working in the groups.Friday 28th09:00 – 12:00 Workshop continues
12:00 – 13:00 A break
13:00 – 17:00 The continuation of the work; final talkRusty NailLahav_Halevy
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WOOD FIRING. ANAGAMA SUMMER COURSE IN HDK

HDK – Academy of Crafts and Design offers a summer course open for students from the Cirrus network.

Wood firing: 7,5 ECTS, basic level is a 7 week summer course divided in two periods:
June 12 – June 30 + August 7 – September 1
Most of the time you will be working in your own studio
Seats: 2-4
Grant: travel 2 x 330 EUR (Iceland 660 EUR) + 70 EUR weekly (total 7 weeks)

Description

The course is addressed to students with experience of working with ceramics who want to try new expressions through wood firing. We start with an introduction to the wood firing field and Anagamafiring where we explain how you can work both practically and artistically with wood firing.
The introduction will take place on June 12. (It is desirable but not mandatory to be in Gothenburg for the introduction on June 12. If you cannot make it, we will arrange a Skype section).

After that, you have a period of own work where you deepen in an individual project. Your own artistic approach/artistic expression will be the starting point, let the theoretical information from the first meeting be help in the work. The project has to be done in your own studio, there isn´t any possibility to work at HDK. You will then bring your project to Gothenburg, so be aware of that the pieces are not too big and ungainly.

August 19 – August 27, we will do a common Anagamafiring at Nääs. Here you will have teacher led instructions and briefings where theory around the different wood firing techniques are followed by practical work. During this week, you will also present your artistic work and how you have worked with your own project.

In the end of the week, we will evaluate and analyse the result from the wood firing. Back home you will end the course by handling in a description of your project in both text and pictures where you tell about the working process, the result and what you think about the possibilities for you to use wood firing in the future in your artistic work.

The wood firing will take place at HDK´s wood firing “open air laboratory” about 30 km from Gothenburg, close to Nääs castle area in Floda. Here we have several wood-fired kilns. The work during the week will be very intense, with different on-going work shifts. You will stay at Nääs hostel and we will cook together. Expenses for food and accommodation are upon you.

Qualification and registration

Entrance qualifications: Pre-knowledge in Ceramic, at least 60 ECTS.
Selection: the selection will be made upon work samples and motivation

Apply to the course: Send a complete application assembledin one pdf document (max 15 MB)
to  Anki Leissner at the latest April 18, 2017
Mark your email “Anagama summer course”

The application should include:

  1. Cover page: state your name, email, current studies, name of your home school and a short resume/CV of your previous studies in ceramics
  1. Certificate showing your pre-knowledge in Ceramics
  2. Motivation letter (max 2000 signs) motivate why you want to attend this course
  3. Portfolio: 5-7 pictures showing examples of former works

If you have any questions feel free to contact Anki Leissner, International Coordinator at HDK anki.leissner@hdk.gu.se

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CIRRUS lecture and workshop “The Text, the Body, the Book“ in Klaipeda faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts with Roma Auškalnyte mixed media artist (University of Arts Helsinki)
1,5 ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 3 (BA)Klaipeda, Lithuania
March 20th –23 rd, 2017 (arrive 19th of March and leave 24th of March)Please send a motivation letter motivational letter a (200 words) and a link to your portoflio to the lecturer of the Graphic Design department, Klaipeda faculty, associate professor Lidija Kukliene (lidija.kukliene@vda.lt).Application deadline: 1st of March
Decisions on selection are announced by March 6 th, 2017
DescriptionThe workshop will be divided into the three groups: the Text, the Body and the Book. They will analyze the body and text in graphic art, as well as in contemporary art contexts: how the body influences theobject, which is created and how to use it to find new forms of expression.Practical workshops will be organized during the performative tasks and we will try to look more into the line, the stain and the texture – the entire graphic arts trinity. Also discover the different and individual creative sources for each student.The workshop aim will be to broaden the perception of what the graphics and text is, how they change and how to use digital media (video) by integrating it to graphics and performance art.The final piece of the four day workshops will be – book, but its form, and the media will depend on each participant.The workshops are focused on the history of Klaipeda, and Book smugglers day, which will be commemorated on 16 th of March in Lithuania.About lecturerRoma Auškalnytė has worked for several years in a direction that may be referred to as „auto-biography.“ Her works were usually derived from memory as well as from some mementos that she had in her possession since childhood.From 2012 she started concentrating more on text based art in combination with printmaking or video, as well as various body/performance experiments. She is influenced by the printmaking processes, how it leads to new, ambiguous transformations of old ideas. Roma Auškalnytė is exploring body as material in printmaking, the importance of gesture and repetition which are always hidden behind the final print.Roma Auškalnytė now lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. You can find additional information about artist Roma Auškalnyte here:roma-auskalnyte.eu
https://vimeo.com/user432668273 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools and are entitled to CIRRUS scholarship (330 EUR travel/660 Iceland) + weekly allowance 70 EUR.Timetable Monday 20 th9 – 12 pm Presentation lecture of the workshops – mixed media artist Roma Auškalnyte.
12-13 pm A break
13-17 pm An informal review of students works (students should bring USB, or have themselfs works on a web page), visit to studio, discussion (familiarity with the workshops participants-tea, bisquits, other suggestions?:) Thursday 21st „THE TEXT“09- 10 am A brief lecture and discussions showing artists works and samples; a talk on the tasks of the day.
10-12 pm Preparation of space and a small exercise.
12-13 pm A break.
13-17 pm Experimental Graphic Workshop.Wednesday 22 nd „THE BODY“9-10 ap A brief lecture and discussion are showing artists and works and samples; a talk on the tasks of the day.
10-12 pm A small warm-up exercise.
12-13 pm A break.
13-17 pm Experimental Graphic Workshop.Thursday 23 rd „THE TEXT“9-10.30 am Presentation of Klaipeda, and the history of writing and books. The lecture leads guide educator Agne Jonikaitytė (The History museum of Lithuania minor).
10-12 pm The ending of the session and discussion on the continuation of the works, a small warm-up exercise.
12-13 pm A break.
13-17 pm The continuation of the work; final talk and presentation on the final works. Closing of the workshop.

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Garage 48 Hardware & Arts 2017

CIRRUS EXPRESS: GARAGE48 HARDWARE & ARTS 2017,
APPLY DUE JANUARY 16, 2017

Organisers: Estonian Academy of Arts, University of Tartu, Garage48 (the course will take place in Tartu)
Seats: 2
ECTS: 1
Deadline: January 16, 2017
Apply here

There is a registration fee 25 EUR to every student taking part in this event (not only CIRRUS students) that must be covered by the CIRRUS students as well.

Two seats have been reserved for CIRRUS students exclusively, so you don’t need to register at the web site of the event now, but after you have been granted a scholarship through  CIRRUS.

Everyone, who wants to join the event anyway (with or without grant) is welcome to register already now.
Grant available: 70 EUR for living costs + 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR)

The legendary Garage48 Hardware & Arts 2017 hackathon will be happening already on the 17-19th of February in Tartu, Estonia. The Garage48 Hardware & Arts hackathons are one of the most popular events in the Baltic region to build physical working prototypes! UI/UX and product designers, electronics, mechatronics and software engineers, marketers and science professionals are all welcome to build innovations in just 48 hours!

All the mentors, organisers and volunteers of the event are all active members of the ICT sector and hardware industries, giving the teams the best know-how and motivation to deliver their prototypes.

http://garage48.org/events/hardwarearts2017

TOOLS TO WORK WITH

All available equipment and materials during the hackathon will be listed in our blog.

TRANSPORT

We will arrange buses leaving from Friday on route Tallinn-Tartu and back on Sunday evening straight after the event. The rest of the trip should be organized by the student him/herself.

WAYS OF DRAWING III – WALK THE LINE
CIRRUS/Nordplus Higher Education Intensive course
Period: 12.-18.3. 2017 (arrival day 12.3. and departure day 18.3.)
Location: Aalto University, Otaniemi Campus (Espoo)
Level: BA3 & MATarget group: students in all fields of design, architecture, media and art
Teachers: Marja Nurminen (Aalto ARTS), André Alves (University of Gothenburg, Valand Academy), Andreas Berg (Oslo National Academy of the Arts)
How to apply: Send a motivation letter and five drawings to lecturer Marja Nurminen
marja.nurminen@aalto.fi by 18th of January, 2017. The selection is made in two weeks’ time and all students will get a notification by 1.2.2017.
ECTS: 2
How many places: 3 students from CIRRUS member schools will be selected.Accommodation: students will be accommodated free-of-charge in a hotel or hostel in Helsinki with easy public transport connections to the workshop site.
Mobility support: We will buy the flight tickets.
Description: Drawing is generic activity cross all disciplines in art, design, film, media, applied arts and architecture. Designers and artists, due to differences between the disciplines, often see it very differently and it often functions in very particular and individual ways.
Overall objects of the workshop: Supporting educational innovations in drawing (art) education, where teachers become co-learners instead of authorities, hierarchies in knowledge are not accepted. Furthermore, supporting networking and collaboration of students over all kinds of borders is important for us.
Goals: Students learn to use drawing as a versatile tool in their own work, and how they can assess and evaluate their own and their peers work and place themselves in the contemporary context of cultural practice.PROGRAMME OF THE WEEKSUNDAY 12.3. Arrival day
MONDAY 13.3. Marja Nurminen
(working hours 9 am to 5 pm every day).
Journey or trip is a classical theme in many art works. I personally have tried to picture a trip in many ways and my latest but surely not last painting about a journey is made in 2010 and is called Where Ever I Travel I Only Find Myself. Picture a trip or a journey or an everyday walk using simple medium like charcoal or pencil on paper. Choose large paper format and concentrate on drawing content.TUESDAY 14.3. Andreas Berg ”Taking the stairs.” The “Life and Ages of (Wo)Man” (-”ålderstrappan” was a popular motive in Swedish folk art from 1600s until the 1800s. It presents life like a pyramid, traditional and conventional, the motif reflects hopes and expectations. For a hundred and fifty years ago, it was almost unthinkable to become a hundred years old, but today it is possible. How do we picture a long life today? During one day we reinterpret the motive, the stairs of ages, and present updated versions.WEDNESDAY 15.3. André Alves
Walking, as movement in space, finds a parallel in the movement of the eye (through the trace left) on the page. In this workshop, we will go back and forth between the page and the space. The aim is to discover both the body and the relation of body with space of the drawer and how that can be used as a tool to gather material that can either be preparatory or the end-result of a drawing practice. Your drawings will explore how rhythms of moving your body translate into a landscape image. At a later stage, you will intervene in that image as if it was a topological space or architectonical stage for other drawing interventions.THURSDAY 16.3. by Sari Dhima
Head of One Campus project at Aalto University leads a walk in Otaniemi 9–11. Draw this walk or something inspired by it or work with those drawings that are not ready.FRIDAY 17.3. Exhibition, critic daySATURDAY 18.3. Departure day
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Week 4-5 + 7-10, 2017 CIRRUS EXPRESS:“CONSTRUCTION AND CONTEXT. DIGITAL WEAVING”
Teaching staff: Professor Kari Dyrdal and Associate Professor Jon Pettersen
Level: BA and MA
Credits: 9 ECTS (weeks 4-10); 6 ECTS (weeks 7-10)
Application deadline: 1 December, 2016 (more on it below)
Grant: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR)/ + 70 EUR weekly allowance
Professor Jon Pettersen would like to invite 2-4 CIRRUS students for either the whole period (weeks 4-10 + seminar 20 January) or the last 4 weeks (weeks 7-10).“CONSTRUCTION AND CONTEXT. DIGITAL WEAVING”

  • a kick off seminar ‘Making is thinking’ 20 January
  • two weeks core course; guest students who prefer to join will be able to adjust the program according to their background (week 4-5, 2017)
  • week 6 includes no teaching, but the workshop will be open and the technician will be present to assist students
  • four weeks workshop in digital weaving (weeks 7-10); the programme will be adjusted to the group, followed by theory and group/individual tutorials

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Aim:

  • Give access to knowledge relevant for artistic development through theory, digital tools and practice in the studio for weaving.
  • To find new ways of building textiles in 2D and 3D by use of construction in combination with materials, textures and colours.

Content:

  • Basic and complex theory on weaves.
  • Construction of weaves and combinations in one or more layers / systems.
  • Methods for developing motives and patterns by using different software: WeavePoint, Photoshop and Nedgraphics (Texelle, Product Creator)
  • Individual tutoring in the process of transforming ideas into the medium of textile.
  • Experiments/ sampling in workshop by using: Digital dobby looms, TC-1, TC-2 and the old jacquard loom with a new digital system.
  • Preparing files for hand-weaving and/or industrial production.
  • Study trip to a weaving factory.

The program for week 4-5 will be organized as a core course for internal students with access to the same tools. The guest students who prefer to join will be able to adjust their program according to their background. Week 6 include no teaching, but the workshop will be open and the part time technician will be there.

The program for week 7-10 will be adjusted to the (partly new) group and followed by theory and tutoring in groups and individually.

Apply with a brief motivation letter and a few work samples to tale.vik@khib.no. Please state in the application which period you are applying for!
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Seminar Friday 20th of January 2017:

Making is Thinking

A seminar focusing on thinking and contextualizing through material; to give value to presence, insight and intimacy in experimenting, to investigate and develop a process where the making, the adjustments, the adding and subtracting are vital elements in developing visual and material art.

Location: Marken 37, Red Room, 2nd floor
Seminar leader: Kari Dyrdal: Textile Artist / professor at KHiB
Contributors (to be confirmed)

Per Inge Bjørlo: Painter, sculptor, installation artist
Gunvor Nervold Antonsen: Textile artist / Installation artist. Recipient of Nordic Textile Award 2015
Thomas Pihl: Painter/associate professor KHiB
Ingrid Aarset: Textile artist/associate professor KHiB
Hilde Hauan Johnsen: Textile artist/professor KHiB
Jorunn Veiteberg: Art Historian, Copenhagen

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EXPRESS COURSE WITH LIGHTING DESIGNER MALCOLM INNES (EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY, MALCOLM INNES DESIGN, SCOTLAND)

2016 November 16 – 20th
CIRRUS seats: 2
VAA Nida Art Colony, Taikos str. 43, Nida 93121, Lithuania
Level: 3rd, 4th year BA and MA students
1,5 ECTS
CIRRUS/Nordplus grant: Travel 330 (Iceland 660) EUR + 70 EUR weekly allowance

Please send a motivation letter to Elena Černiauskaitė elena.cerniauskaite@vda.lt by 13th of November

Interior Design Department at Vilnius faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts invites you to take a part at the creative workshop with the worldwide famous lighting designer Malcolm Innes (http://www.lightartist.co.uk)

Malcolm Innes specializes in architectural lighting, design education, interactive and kinetic art. He helped to earn IALD award (the highest recognition of the lighting design field) to the one of the strongest lighting companies in the world Speirs + Major for the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the interior of Barajas airport in Madrid, public spaces in Glasgow, Copenhagen Opera House lighting solutions.

The natural environment is a constantly shifting wonder of light, shade and colour; with cycles of days and cycles of seasons; subtleties of shifting patterns, colour and other intangible qualities of light allow us to locate ourselves in place and in time. Yet, too often, our man-made environment ignores these natural rhythms and provides the coolness, pattern and variation of a permanently overcast day. However, with skill, knowledge and creativity, practical and pragmatic solutions can be found to enhance the built environment, to tell a story or express a mood, even to enhance nature, but above all to reinsert the dynamic that bad lighting so often extinguishes.

The lighting technical capabilities and local modeling nuances will be presented, the lighting market and the theory of innovation, the use of different light sources, principles, simple and effective ways to simulate lighting will be introduced to you. Small group projects will be created and presented as the final works of the workshop.

The workshop is organized by the VAA VF Interior Design Department.

The event is supported by the lighting solutions company GAUDRĖ

2 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools

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TRADITIONS AND INNOVATION – The Icelandic Horse

CIRRUS/Nordplus Higher Education Intensive course
Period: January 21 – 28, 2017 (arrival day 21.01.2017 / departure day 28.01.2017)
Location: Iceland Academy of the Arts (IAA), Thverholt 11, 105 Reykjavík, Iceland
Level: BA
Target group: Design students 2nd or 3rd year BA (also open to MA level students)
Teachers: Tinna Gunnarsdóttir, professor in Product Design at IAA, Gardar Eyjolfsson, programme director in Product Design IAA, Lennart Mänd, professor in Leather and Accessory Design at Estonian Academy of Art (EAA) and Aivar Habakukk, professor in Product Design at EAA. Further teachers to be announced.
How to apply: Send your pdf portfolio (max 5 works) to Tinna Gunnarsdóttir (tinnag@lhi.is) no later than November 1, 2016.
ECTS: 3
How many places: 6 students from CIRRUS member schools will be selected.
Accommodation: Students will be accommodated free-of-charge in a student hostel in Reykjavík (2-4 persons shared rooms). This is within a walking distance from the Academy.
Mobility support: The six selected students will receive a travel grant of 600 EUR each.
Description:The focus of the workshop is the significance of the horse in Icelandic culture. It concerns traditions and current situation of horse use in Iceland through lectures, visits to horse breeders, local companies and workshops, as well as riding excursion in unique surroundings. Sustainability is an overarching topic of the workshop.Overall objects of the workshop: To create awareness and initiate debate about animal waste utilisation.
To learn using traditional and historical materials.
To understand sustainable way of using materials.
To initiate cross-cultural debate about different ways of animal waste utilisation.
To create different design concepts and objects from horse waste.Goals:Critical analyses of sustainable and ecological aspects of horse breeding.
Understanding the significance of horses for the area and its people.
Building cross-cultural ties between different countries, cultures, and traditions.
Getting acquainted with various methods during the research based design process.Course content:-Introductory lectures on sustainability, horse breeding, cultural significance, unique characteristics of the Icelandic horse, utilisation and waste material.
-Visits to local companies, workshops, museums, and breeders.
-Research based methods; filming, documentation, sketching, prototyping using equine materials.
-Excursions to gain physical proximity to the Icelandic horse, visits to breeders and horseback riding tour.
Final presentations, wrap-up and feedback.Outcomes: Critical reflections and awareness of traditional and innovative use of the Icelandic horse, both as a being and a material source, can render further understanding on sustainability and possibilities therein.Literature: Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher, The Craftsman by Richard Sennett.
Hross í Oss / Of Horses and Men (film by Benedikt Erlingsson),Particpants:10 students from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, 4 students from the Estonian Academy of Arts, and 4 students from the University of Lapland. Additionally, 6 students from other CIRRUS member schools will be invited to take part in the intensive course.This intensive course is supported by Nordplus Higher Education programme of the Nordic Council. The course is a collaboration between Estonian Academy of Arts, Iceland Academy of the Arts and University of Lapland.

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EXPRESS COURSE “CARGO” WITH ILLUSTRATOR CHRISTOPH FEIST (SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS IN LEIPZIG, GERMANY)

2016 October 24 – 28th
CIRRUS seats: 4
VAA Klaipeda faculty, Darzu 18, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Level: BA students
1,5 ECTS

Please send a motivation letter and 5 drawings to Lidija Kukliene lydyja1@gmail.com by 28th of September 

Graphic Design department at Klaipeda faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts is hosting Cirrus express course/workshop on drawing/illustration and self-publish magazine.

The ISO container has become a symbol of the global trade. It has become a familiar sight at the edges of the inhabited areas in all countries of the world. During this hands-on workshop we will investigate where are containers in and around Klaipeda and what stories do they tell us. How can we convey these stories with drawing/illustrating.

Each participant will design a poster / double page for a self-published magazine.

The workshop consists of joint lectures and visits as well as of group work with final presentations. All participants will be briefly introduced to the history of Klaipeda and could also put hands on self-drawing, iliustration, self-published magazine making process.

The short and intensive format of these courses allows students to immerse themselves in the creative life of Klaipeda and collaborate with Klaipeda faculty students while building a network of contacts.

4 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools and are entitled to CIRRUS scholarship (330 EUR travel/660 Iceland) + weekly allowance 70 EUR.