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    Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory

    21.02.2023

    What’s with the Gimmick?

    Drawing on Sianne Ngai’s Theory of The Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (2020), this essay examines the reception of fashion collective Vetements through the lens of the gimmick, discussing the label’s…

    Fine arts

    20.12.2022

    Art is work

    On the impossibility of demanding social and legal protection for artists without questioning the nature of artistic work

    In recent years, numerous initiatives have called for better remuneration for artists. The success of these campaigns is a testament to a salutary change in the status of the artist. For too…

    Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement

    20.12.2022

    Étudiant·ex – Artiste – Travailleur·eusex

    Intersectionnalité et précarité d'un triple statut

    During her studies, Eva Meister took on a number of student jobs as her family could not afford to support her. In her TRANS – master’s thesis, Meister, now an alumna, looked…

    Non classé

    29.11.2022

    The necessity of new communication model in the intergenerational educational space

    The meme formed with the phrase “Ok Boomer” epitomises a generation gap that has opened up in recent years. On the one hand, there are Millennials and Gen Zers looking for social…

    Cinema, BA in Cinema

    15.11.2022

    ISSUE #15 – Net found footage

    Just as the pioneers of experimental cinema reused and distorted sequences from film footage, filmmakers are now drawing on the vast reservoir of Internet images to create new narratives. This feature looks…

    Cinema, BA in Cinema

    15.11.2022

    The 1001 images of a big brain

    “The world has already been filmed, it is now a matter of transforming it”, said Guy Debord in The Society of the Spectacle in 1973. This reservoir of images has since been…

    Visual communication

    25.10.2022

    Learn to Code vs. Code to Learn

    Creative Coding Beyond the Economic Imperative

    Published in 2022 and already out of print, the book Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age is currently being reprinted. To celebrate this upcoming return to bookstores, we are publishing an excerpt…

    Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, MA in Fashion and Accessory Design

    25.07.2022

    Tendresse

    Louise Jarrige-Le Berre shows what is radical in tenderness – from the violence of a tenderness that is denied, to the tenderness of a protecting friendship, to that of a garment that…

    Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices

    26.06.2022

    En eaux troubles

    How to continue producing, as an artist who belongs to a social group perceived as a minority? Behind the current openness of art institutions to so-called minorities, there are a number of…

    Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices

    23.06.2022

    République Tukki

    In contemporary art, migrants are mostly represented from a dramatic angle. The denunciation of their fate once they have arrived in Europe, the risks of crossing the Sahara or the Atlantic, and…

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