A HINGE MOMENT BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE Since joining the school three months ago, I’ve been hearing much about the genesis of the Master Institute and the move to this wonderful location in Den Bosch early this academic year where all four programmes of study, Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Photography and Animation have been brought together as one community of creatives in a 24/7 learning environment. The Master Institute has the potential to become a model of arts excellence, where the combining of art & design thinking, theory and knowledge production through interdisciplinary art and design practices provides graduate students an enhanced view of their own practices across a wide range of fields. The interdisciplinary programme widens the debate on where we can take arts research and establishes further the impetus for developing an arts research culture to generate new ways of thinking and creative practice. I look forward with much enthusiasm to next year, in toe with the students in this booklet as they develop further their independent research projects, and hope that we together can actualise the idea of what is common to us as students and tutors alike.
Úna Henry 22nd June, 2018 Head of Master Institute AKV/st.joost, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
First Year MA FINE ART 01. Donglai Meng (marta) 02. Simon Oosterhuis 03. Elena Chemerska 04. Defne Tesal 05. Murat Yildiz
Simon Oosterhuis
This is an alienated and absurd world, the boundary between dreams and reality is increasingly blurred. The disturbing environments and strong sense of loss of belonging have puzzled me. On a same day, I move in three different worlds, the real world, the virtual world and the dream world. I try to express a scene reconstruction, just like being lost in travel, real daydreaming happens. Lost, out of control and hidden excitement. Moving into different worlds can be seen as a brief separation from the reality. I am trying to reproduce the complex and ever-changing emotions (feelings) of those switching moments and the struggle from the depths of the soul. Why do I get addicted to virtual? Why do I try to rebuild dreams in reality? Why am I obsessed with getting lost? What is reality for me?...
A man with a flat head points with his finger towards eternity. The sack that hangs from his wrist contains all the secrets he has gathered through the years. He has taken these secrets from the body of the bird below him, leaving a rectangular hole in it. The bird bents its head to drink, in an attempt to fill this hole. The man with the flat head is time itself. He has no room for thought, he just goes on and on while stealing from the bird, the living, who try to fill their emptiness in their short lives.
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Donglai Meng (marta)
contact: e-mail: s.j.oosterhuis@gmail.com website: www.simonoosterhuis.nl tel. : 0644948431
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contact: www.mengdonglai.com krissy.meng@gmail.com Ins: mengmarta(donglai meng)
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Elena Chemerska
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It is often said that history is written by the winners. Cultural knots migrate with the passing of time, but in the shadow of history’s colossi, there is a whole multiplicity worlds on the periphery fighting their own fights, often screaming in the name of humanity. In my work, I use installation, painting, video, texts, archives and drawings that communicate among each other and together form a narrative. I see my work as saturated by the contrast between universality and particularity, and the possibilities that open up in their interplay. I try to combine visual and analytical impulses so to outline the state of ambivalence and provoke defiance and vitality over apathy. contact: ecemerska@yahoo.com
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The subject matter of my practice and research is the experience of time; within the areas of how we perceive it, how it slows down in certain circumstances, and how we can be present and aware of moments in time. I feel my work as a way of resisting to the fast forward movement where you have to be quick, goal oriented, and useful. My interest lies in creating meditative states, contemplative moments of silence and solitude, where time slows down and one can leave the reasoning behind to let room for just being and experiencing. In both practice and research, I’m looking into the question of; in what ways can, in a time of an accelerated living, the practice of art and the experience of artworks slow down the perception of time, creating meditative periods; translate and embody the flow of time and create attention to the moments within? contact: defne.tesal@yahoo.com www.defnetesal.com
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Murat Yıldız Imagine that you do and influence a lot more then you think. Do you also feel the articulation and the interlacing? There are hundreds of people around you that are willing to help, foster or change you. Just like me, you. Sure some can push you down, but lots would support you and some would even be the author of some of your ideas. All you would need is to be present if you are willing to experience discuss, mix, hate, love, share, diffuse, interlope, direct... because they would also want it… Would you like to give me a gift? A pen or pencil wrapped in paper. Just like an ordinary gift. If so, I would use them in my drawings and the gift wraps would become the cover of the drawings. (I prefer not to see my drawings, so the covers play an important role, therefore the wrap is as much part of the gift as the material inside.)
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contact: www.muratyildiz.net muratayildiza@gmail.com
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First Year MA PHOTOGRAPHY 06. Angela Vidić 07. Alireza Abbasy 08. Annemée Dik 09. Raffaella Huizinga 10. Dorien Scheltens
Alireza Abbasy
As a starting point to my research I reflect on a moment when my mind is fully occupied by the world around me. I seek to stretch this moment into an image or an object. The world that inspires me is visually consistent and motifs like light, color, texture, human interventions and haphazard compositions evoke in me a desire to permanently capture a visual memory. From this point it becomes clear to me that I want to use artistic mediums as tools for translating my desires into objects and creating a visually motivated world of my own.
“How has colonialism and institutionalized racism, played a role in the initiation of Anthropocene, the development of a political, economic and technological system, which has led to significant destructive human impact on the geology of the earth? This monologue in darkness (“faceless monologue”) uses the colossal image at the pediment of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam (Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam) as its central theme.”
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Angela Vidić
contact: a.abbasy@student.avans.nl
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contact: vidic.andela@gmail.com Instagram : andela_vidic
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Within this semester I felt lonely, after four years of relationship I became single. I began to use Tinder. What got to me is that there were a lot of guys posing with a Golden Retriever on this dating application. When I noticed this, I tried to see if there would be more of this repetition within the imagery. And there sure was. As I collected a lot of categories, I asked myself what would be the perfect portrait for Tinder? Because of my profession I have a lot of professional photographers around me. I asked them if they could make a portrait of me for on Tinder. So, they did, they had all the artistic freedom. For the opposite of loneliness, I found out that there was no word for the opposite of loneliness. I made a chart where my direct surroundings had to fill in how they felt about their relationship status and the feeling of loneliness. The most surprising results which I didn’t expect, I portrayed my friends and started a dialogue about this feeling (or the opposite) of loneliness.
Within my Tinder research I used a literal approach, which is most of the time the first step I take within my process. With categorizing or making a chart I design a system/framework where I can work with. My goal is start a dialogue about love and loneliness. contact: Annemee.com info@annemee.com Instagram: Truusdeteckel
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There’s a lot to see in my ‘open studio’. An installation about my tinder research, with an old slide projector showing off, four of my 250 categories in tinder imagery. Next to it you can see the mind map with all the categories in Dutch. On the wall next to it, I will present my current project: The Opposite of loneliness. A portrait series of my direct surroundings connected to a chart I made. On my desk you will find a computer with my new website on the screen. And portraits of me, made by colleague photographers for Tinder.
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Annemée Dik
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Dorien Schelten
As a maker, I want to create nuance in thinking about groups of people or individuals who have prejudices about them. The topics that I deal with are socially, politically and religiously related and concern prejudices, conflicts and tensions between certain groups of people. I choose my subjects because I find them relevant and current, and I want to use my power as a maker to change the prevailing image with the biased people or individuals.
My photographic research typically focuses on topics that are inherently connected to what makes us human, but that are also inherently invisible, such as science, truth and faith. Paradoxically, I use the visual medium of photography to connect these opposites.
contact: raffaellahuizinga.nl raffaellahuizinga@hotmail.com 0031 0643297545
Why do we believe what we believe? We humans are inclined to selectively choose facts and opinions that reinstate our worldview, in spite of what the truth might be. I am a firm believer in questioning and doubting that which we believe to be true, and to not immediately discard ideas that seem ‘out there’, or paradoxical. Art has the power to both question our worldview and at the same time connect us to each other in our humanness, no matter how different we seem to be.
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Raffaella Huizinga
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contact: www.dorienscheltens.com dorienscheltens@gmail.com @dorienscheltens on Instagram 0031 0683799842
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First Year MA GRAPHIC DESIGN 11. Guodong Zhang 12. Cerasela-Elena Jiga 13. Dafei Lei 14. Marco Dalle Fratte 15. lan Gu 16. Zeynep Gürsel 17. Ningli Zhu 18. Ruolan Xi 19. Kris Vluegels 20. Sarah Podestani
Cerasela-Elena Jiga
Artificial Intelligence will be the future of the world, it will change everything including design, I would like to research AI design tools by design fiction , my research is not about making predictions, it is about creating tools, tools that help to connect our present and future selves so that we can be active participants in creating the future we want.
My current professional interest and design route that I have proposed to pursue in the future, focuses on the field of Interface Design, more exactly web layout. I am intrigued by the user’s relationship with the web layout, more specifically how web layout characteristics/attributes influence each other and how these influence user behavior and perception. In the process of my work I try to experiment with web layouts by focusing the design on the characteristics of a web layout and testing the perception and behavior of the user towards my design. By implicitly analyzing what these features of the web layout mean and involve.
contact: jellylylyly@gmail.com
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Guodong Zhang
contact: elena.jiga100@gmail.com Cerasela-Elena Jiga on Behance
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Marco Dalle Fratte
I position myself as a “book” designer in the digital age.I want to provide readers with new reading experience and make reading more attractive. To achieve this goal, I focus on Interaction design in digital publication. And as a designer I would like to cooperate with editors and technical people in the work to enrich and delight audiences everywhere.
When the different element of a design are unclear because they don’t all agree on the same concept, the user needs to actively engage with the material in front of him, reflect its own perceptions and feelings. They will all be small Lego bricks that together, hint by hint, build the message inside the project: not a strict and definitive one, but a suggested one, free to be contradicted or refused, but proud to started a discussion and a self-reflection. Superficially see the narrators can lead in certain direction, watching them as a whole requires the user’s involvement, but brings him to ask himself questions about its own position. And that is designing politically, not picking a political subject and be a political artist.
contact: leidafei@foxmail.com dlei@avans.nl ins@dafei.lei
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Dafei Lei
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contact: dallefratte.marco@gmail.com marcodallefratte.tumblr.com/
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Zeynep Gürsel
“As a designer, I am looking into the contemporary city life with curious eyes and detecting social problems. By using interactive design to visualize and communicate them. What I want to be is a change-maker to highlight the awareness for the audiences. Now the focus of my research is empathy in design, by constructing a immersed sensory experience help audiences to get close to a real feeling ”.
I am Zeynep Gürsel, a designer, artist, student, illustrator, activist, salesperson, narrator. As a Graphic Design student my aim is to go deeper in the search self-representation in public space. My professional interests are very much related to street art and graffiti where as social media is a part of my/our life no matter how hard we “try to get rid of it”. (not really!) The tension/relation between these concepts of reality of streets and the virtuality of social media makes me wonder how public space is so powerful as a tool for people to express themselves.
contact: iangu990990@gmail.com inst @iangu9331
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Ian Gu
contact: zgursel@gmail.com instagram: @zepzey
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Ruolan Xi
As a designer with an attitude of the visual journalist, I am fascinated with different narratives in multimedia to construct and deconstruct social information. Recently, my focus is to research different forms of maps, as well as “mapping� in the design process, which includes a systematic and analyzing thinking. Since the technology, like AI, turns the (modern data) mapping more universal and invisible. Also, the digital interface changes our perception of maps as well as social connections, which in some way against our humanity. I want to discover more about the narrative strategies and humanity in that field.
Ruolan Xi is a visual designer and researcher. Her work revolves between the relationship of the online and offline world we living in. The transforming of the fictional and reality in behavior, narrative, form fascinates her. Currently, her interested is driven by screen-based interaction design practice, experimental with multimedia and work with different disciplines. contact: unax1994@gmail.com www.xiruolan.com (Coming soon)
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Ningli Zhu
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contact: zhuningli001@163.com http://cargocollective.com/ou-momo
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This what I wander... Currently I am exploring the world of narratology, fiction, and reality within the field of Situated Design. The goal is to start designing different actions and interventions within a specific situation (for example a neighbourhood or a group of people) using fiction as a tool to change reality or explore reality.
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contact: krisvleugels267@gmail.com
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Could I save the world just by imagining? Can a story influence the truth? Is our imagination reality? Is reality our imagination? Can we adapt our situation by simply dreaming or believing? How do we imagine ourselfs? How can a narrative save us from our reality? Could we improve our context by depicting it in another way? Is culture our imagination?
Sarah Podestani I am a graphic designer. I use graphic design as a tool for investigating our cultural scene, but also to create new architectures for communication. I am fascinated by modern philosophers and theorists within the technological realm, I am triggered by the new society that is shaping our future, I am seduced by dissent actions taken in to the public sphere, I am excited by the concept of merging contrasts within a single whole. My practice is bond within two opposite worlds, the physical and tangible paper and the vanishing digital space of the internet. Within these two areas, I act as translator from the physical interactions to an immaterial research output. I focus my research on a specific medium, the magazine, as editorial selection of contents, as object with whom the user interact and as layout of specific graphical rules system, with the purpose of create a new way for the magazine to enhance its physical characteristics and exploit the digital qualities. contact: sarahpodestani@gmail.com https://www.behance.net/sahpodestani
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Kris Vleugels
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