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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">--</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Call for applications:</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">IMAGINARY PROPERTY</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco"><a href="http://www.janvaneyck.nl">http://www.janvaneyck.nl</a></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Imaginary Property, a new research project of the Design department,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">initiated by Florian Schneider, aspires to explore new potentials</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">for design practices across various registers. The project is set up</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">as a realm of experimentation at the intersections of design-theory</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">and image-production. It is a laboratory where emerging concepts and</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">terminologies are set to a series of tests.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">What challenges emerge from the paradoxes that research into</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">‘imaginary property’ has given rise to? How could these</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">potentially generate new rules of production, bearing in mind that</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">property relations are constantly exchanging meanings? Against this</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">background: do we have to rethink and re-evaluate the notion of</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">‘design’ as such?</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">The research project Imaginary Property consists of three parts that</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">are inextricably linked up with each other and are to be addressed</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">simultaneously rather than consecutively.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">The first part is analytical in nature and traces the primarily</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">non-juridical impact as well as the practical implications of the</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">concept of ‘imaginary property’ through various disciplines such</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">as philosophy, psychoanalysis, economics, cybernetics, architecture,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">new media and design theory. The analytical part will start off with</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">a symposium (on 6 June) that shows the scope of the project and its</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">impact on contemporary design practices. The symposium will bring</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">about an interview and lecture series in which guest speakers partake.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">The second part consists of a series of evaluations and examinations</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">of experimental design, ‘counter-design’ or ‘re-design’</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">projects. open-source and free circulation of networked images will be developed</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">and realized. Supposing that images are the products of struggles</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">for imagination, this part examines in a practical way how social</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">relationships are configured, designed and performed in connection</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">with the images that are supposed to be owned, used and displayed as</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">one's property.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Imaginary Property deals with the imagination and the redrawing</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">of social relationships with people who could also use and enjoy</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">images, modify or alter images, play images or play with images. Is</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">it possible, practically and conceptually, to (reverse) engineer</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">‘imaginary property’? How to show highly valuable images and</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">visualize processes modulations, modifications and unpredictable proliferation? Can a</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">museum redesign a show and make it or even parts of its collection</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">freely accessible through the digital public domain? Is it possible</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">for a political campaign to go fully ‘open</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">source’? How can such a public release be realized and what would it</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">actually look like?</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Thirdly, the results of the analytical part and the examinations will</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">be documented more or less in real-time and made accessible on a</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">multimedia website. The idea is further to make a publication in print</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">as well as a collaborative, networked video project.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">The research project Imaginary Property is looking for design</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">practitioners who wish to tackle fundamental issues and query</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">conventions of disciplines such as film, multimedia, web design,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">networking and architecture. It further seeks to involve theory-minded</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">researchers who are not afraid of ‘an image’.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Symposium: 6 June 2008, 4 PM Speakers: Franco Berardi, Anselm Franke,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Florian Schneider</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Candidates interested in this project can apply with a research</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">proposal. Selected candidates gain the position of researcher at the</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Design department of the Jan van Eyck Academie.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Deadline applications: 15 June 2008.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">The project will start as of Fall 2008.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">For application details and form, see:</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Monaco; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco"><a href="http://www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html">http://www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html</a></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">or contact</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco"><a href="mailto:leon.westenberg@janvaneyck.nl">leon.westenberg@janvaneyck.nl</a></font></p> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>