santralistanbul presents Design Oriented Community Summer Courses

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Animation and Interactive Projection
July 12-16, 2010
Generative Design,
A Dynamic Collection
July 19-23, 2010
Beyond the Facade
July 26-30, 2010
Data Visualization
August 02-06, 2010
Media and Architecture
August 09-13, 2010
http://www.dotdoclab.org/
Since its foundation, santralistanbul has been aimed at combining education, research, production and exhibition facilities in the field of art and cultural studies. As a foundation perfectly tuned in with the zeitgeist, santralistanbul is associated with many creative professionals, experienced in design universities, museums and other cultural institutions, most of which are dedicated to design practice and education. Now, they all come together in a new .doc. In this very first year, .doc starts with a summer school, .doc:LAB, in İstanbul, on for both design and multimedia. Courses will be held in santralistanbul with the academic support of ECAL and Ars Electronica. Aiming at attracting attention from a globally networked, trendsetting art and design community, the curriculum and the content of these courses underline the cultural similarities caused by the creative and professional commons. As authorized by ECAL, .doc:LAB will provide ECTS credits of niche courses to students from Europe, in a socially vibrant and pleasant atmosphere in İstanbul. These courses may be easily accepted as elective courses at various design schools throughout Europe.
Partners
ECAL
Founded in 1821, ECAL (formerly the Cantonal School of Drawing, and later the School of Fine and Applied Arts) is affiliated with the Department of Education and Youth (DFJ) of the Canton of Vaud through the General Direction of Higher Education (DGES). In the last twelve years, ECAL, has been a success story in art and design. Last year ECAL contributed to santralistanbul‘s “Uncharted: User Frames in Media Arts” exhibition. To observe how their works benefit from the aesthetic potential of the interplay between design, photography and new media was impressive.
Ars Electronica
It’s part of Ars Electronica’s nature to constantly seek out what’s new. In going about this, however, attention is never on art, on technology or on society singly while excluding the other two. Instead, the focus is always on complex changes and interrelationships at the nexus of all three. For three decades now, Ars Electronica has been living out this curiosity, a sense of inquisitiveness that is constantly manifesting itself in new and unexpected ways - as speculative futuristic scenarios or provocative actionism, philosophical debates or analytical scrutiny of current developments. At all times, Ars Electronica defines its artistic-scientific mission as working together with the public as well as working to educate the public. Regardless of periodic changes in content and inevitable structural updates, the fundamental orientation remains the same - the focus is constantly on the issues of critical importance to our society.
santralistanbul
santralistanbul is a transformation project of the first power plant built in İstanbul during the Ottoman Period, namely the Silahtarağa Power Plant. Situated at the upper end of Haliç (The Golden Horn), it is a unique industrial heritage site. Since its foundation, combining education, research, production and exhibition facilities in the field of art and cultural studies, santralistanbul hosts and perfectly houses exhibitions and festivals.
http://www.santralistanbul.org
.doc:LAB will kick off with five consequent weekly courses beginning on the 12th of July, 2010 and will provide opportunities to students to attend five courses for 15 ECTS. Each module may be attended separately for 3 ECTS credits each and all the modules will be thought in English. There will be a jury presentation for the evaluation after every week, a jury consisting of academic and creative staff from various universities across Europe, will perform the evaluation.
http://www.dotdoclab.org
Image: Photograph from media architecture, A/V performance at santralistanbul by Griduo - May, 2009
Source:
http://artandeducation.net/