Call for applications
Deadline: 15 April 2007

Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and
production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
Candidates can either apply with a topic of their own or for a project
formulated by the institute itself. In order to realise these projects,
the Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure artistic, technical
and auxiliary preconditions.

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Profile
The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production in
the fields of fine art, design and theory. Every year, 48 international
researchers realise their individual or collective projects in the
artistic and challenging environment that is the Jan van Eyck. The
institute is not led by predetermined leitmotivs. Artists, designers and
theoreticians can submit independently formulated proposals for research
and/or production in the Fine Art, Design and Theory department or
candidates can apply for collective research projects formulated by the
Jan van Eyck (see below). The miscellaneous nature of these research
projects and productions makes the Jan van Eyck into a multi-disciplinary
institute. This also shows in the programme of the institute. Researchers,
departments and the institute organise various weekly activities, to which
special speakers are invited: lectures, seminars, workshops, screenings,
exhibitions, discussions … External interested parties are welcome to
attend these activities. The result is a dynamic and critical exchange
between the different agents from within and outside of the Jan van Eyck.

Facilities
Researchers are advised by a team of artists, designers and theoreticians
who have won their spurs globally. They receive their own studio and a
stipend. Furthermore, researchers can make use of all kinds of facilities
which support their projects, from first concept to public presentation:
the library, the documentation centre and various workshops (wood and
other materials; graphic productions and photography; digital text & image
processing and editing; time-based media). They can also get assistance
with their print work, the editing and distribution of publications and
the publicity of events.

Application
Candidates can apply to a department or a collective research project (see
below). The next research period at a department, for either one or two
years, starts in January 2008, whereas the research periods for collective
projects are variable, both in terms of their start and duration.
More information about the application procedure can be found at
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html

Contact
For practical questions concerning the application procedure or to request
an information brochure, please contact Leon Westenberg
(leon.westenberg@janvaneyck.nl).
For content-related questions on the Jan van Eyck Academie in general, its
departments or on the collective research projects, please contact Kim
Thehu (kim.thehu@janvaneyck.nl).

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Departments
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Fine Art department
The Fine Art department encourages both personal and discursive exchange
amongst its researchers. It thus wants to establish a context of
practice-oriented discussion - a context that considers issue-orientation
alongside other artistic approaches, as well as being driven by
processing, producing, organizing and going public.
Advising researchers: Orla Barry, Aglaia Konrad, Hinrich Sachs, Imogen
Stidworthy
More information: http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/fineart_statement.html

Design department
The Design department focuses on design as research, design as discourse,
design as publishing. It initiates and supports research projects in the
areas of cultural and corporate identity, mapping, print and new media
publishing, urban and regional identity, and book design. While the
department formerly focused mainly on graphic and communication design, it
has been widening its scope to include spatial, product and service
design.
Advising researchers: Wim Cuyvers, Will Holder, Daniël van der Velden
More information: http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/design_statement.html

Theory department
The Theory department offers a stimulating environment for critical
inquiry and intense debate to explore alternative ways of shaping
intellectual horizons. The department welcomes researchers who pursue
their artistic and/or intellectual vision anywhere on the interface of
critical theory, philosophy, aesthetics and psychoanalysis with the visual
arts.
Advising researchers: Norman Bryson, Katja Diefenbach, Hanneke
Grootenboer, Dominiek Hoens
More information: http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/theory_statement.html

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Collective research projects
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Traces of autism. Wander-research in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine
This research project concerns the search for public space in the Euregio
Meuse-Rhine. ‘Walks’ (on foot, by bike, car, bus, train) through the
region are essential part of the research. These walks and the ensuing
inventories are determined by strict ‘protocols’: for instance, during the
research, the inner borders of the Euregion function as a reference line
and a kind of reading axis. As was evident from earlier research, the
vulnerable (gypsies, refugees, migrants, drug addicts…) can function as
indicators. Another indicator is provided by the patterns which appear
after observation of the opposite: leisure activities that assail public
space. Maps are constantly used and developed, but the project is not at
all about cognitive mapping. During the entire research period, the French
pedagogue Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) is considered a supporter, someone
who walks in the footsteps of the researchers, as he did for thirty years:
following autistic patients, without intervention, only registering, not
even wanting to ‘learn’ anything.
Advising researcher: Wim Cuyvers
More information: http:// tracesofautism.janvaneyck.nl

Logo Parc. Challenging the aesthetics of ecomony
Logo Parc is a design research project for public space. Its main focus of
interest is the Zuidas (South Axis) in Amsterdam: a prestigious area of
high-rise office blocks, residential and cultural facilities on both sides
of the A10 motorway. The Zuidas is considered a new typology of the city,
dedicated to the symbolic representation of economy, information,
knowledge and mobility. Logo Parc is driven by a critical interest in the
representation of power and economy – both to deconstruct it, and to
create it. As a machine for comments, ideas and visions for the Zuidas,
the project aims to fuel discussion as well as trigger actual design
issues, operating freely in an area in-between architectural, spatial and
communication design.
Logo Parc is a joint project of Jan van Eyck Academie, Lectoraat Kunst en
Publieke Ruimte, Gerrit Rietveld Academy / Amsterdam University and
Premsela Dutch Design Foundation.
Advising researcher: Daniël van der Velden
More information: http://logoparc.janvaneyck.nl/

Tomorrow book studio
The project Tomorrow book studio aims at carrying out research into the
future of the book, taking a multi-disciplinary approach. At the same
time, the project concerns itself with commission-based book design where
research can be directly tested and applied in practice. Convinced that
the book will never cease to exist, the Tomorrow book studio focuses on
the specific qualities of the book as a medium. After all, the book has a
physical reality which is part of a complex and process-like entity,
involving acts such as conceptualizing, making, distributing, reading,
using, reusing and keeping.
The Tomorrow book studio is a joint research project of the Jan van Eyck
Academie and the Charles Nypels Foundation.
Advising researcher: Will Holder
More information: http://tomorrowbookstudio.janvaneyck.nl

The pensive image
The pensive image is a research project on thinking images. This project
studies the extent to which images (painting, photography, cinema etc.)
are able to philosophize on the status of their own representation, and on
the nature of vision. The project is based on the hypothesis that
monocular models of vision such as perspective and the camera have shaped
our binocular perception of the world. Following Hubert Damisch and Roland
Barthes, among others, The pensive image aims at formulating a theory as
to how images ‘think’ about vision through a study of images that ‘look
back’ at us, viewers.
Advising researcher: Hanneke Grootenboer
More information: http://thepensiveimage.janvaneyck.nl

Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique
The Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique (CLiC) gathers
researchers who are interested in Lacanian theory and consider it an open
set of tools for critically considering contemporary (post-) modern
culture. CLiC intends to activate the psychoanalytical – and especially
Lacanian – background of many current philosophers and critics, such as
Agamben, Badiou, Jameson, Laclau, Mouffe, Negri, Derrida, Nancy, Rancière,
_i_ek and Zupancic. Insight into the Lacanian background of these theories
is indispensable in order to discover the very core of their critical
potentialities, which is why a confrontation with and a reading of the
Lacanian text is one of CLiC’s objectives.
Advising researcher: Dominiek Hoens
More information: http://clic.janvaneyck.nl


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