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As part of a seminar on "Hybrid Art & Design Practice" I will present a lecture on Wednesday at Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen. The seminar is free, and conducted completely in English with some interesting speakers like Freddie Robbins and Jurgen Bey. I will talk about my own practice but also about the process of organizing Generator.x and the ideas contained in the project.
Official info follows.
The Ambiguous Object: between Fine Art, Applied Art and Design
is a one day seminar arranged by Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, taking place at Hotel Terminus, Bergen, on Wednesday 5th. October from 09.00 to 15.00. Entrance is free.
09.00 Intrroduction: Jorunn Veiteberg, Professor II, Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen
09.15 Åsmund Thorkildsen, director of Drammen Museum. The artist after “the end of art”: Entertainer or designer ?
10.15 Freddie Robbins, London, a textile artist educated at The Royal College of Art. In her work she challenges notions of “normality” in the human body and makes designs that are also a comment upon the role of fashion and our understanding of the body. Part of the “Conceptual Clothing” tendency in textile art.
12.00 Claydies: performance and presentation. Strange objects, wearable ceramics, craft meets showbusiness !
13.15 Jurgen Bey: Dutch designer / conceptualist who has worked with Droog Design and currently runs his own design studio in Rotterdam
14.15 Marius Watz, Oslo/Berlin. Computer programmer, artist and designer who emerged from the cyberculture scene of the mid nineties and has since achieved broad recognition for his work with generative digital art. Curatror and iniitiator of GeneratorX, exhibition currently showing at Nasjonal Museet.
