23.02.2024
Memes and Image Analysis
This article describes the teaching on memes as part of the Image Analysis course for first-year students of the Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication.
Category : student·s
11.09.2023
What does an art school train for?
Some singular alumni stories
There’s nothing rhetorical about the question in the title of this article. Indeed, only a small minority of the HEAD – Genève’s Visual Arts graduates pursue a career as an artist, with…
01.09.2023
The kaleidoscopic effect
Excerpts of a Master thesis about radical embodiment
While making us humans the most knowledgeable creatures on Earth, our contemporary modes of communication cut us off from a direct, embodied relationship with our environment. Questioning this anomaly in her Visual…
05.05.2023
Social networks as a space of representation
As part of a course dedicated to the Theory of Representation, first-year Bachelor’s students in Interior Architecture provided chromatic analyses, or analyses of the programming and utilisation, of Tik Tok, Instagram, Pinterest,…
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…
08.12.2022
Crunchy packaging
Chocolate, Swiss winter relief, nightclub: external mandates in visual communication
Favarger is a Geneva-based chocolate brand founded in 1826, well known for its avelines, a chocolate praline wrapped in gold paper. In 2021, the company commissioned the Visual Communication Department of HEAD…
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…
15.11.2022
Three films from the net-found footage workshops
From a fantasy aroused by some men′s underwear packaging, to the search for oneself in the depths of social media, to research into one′s own Iraqi origins; these three films created within…
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…
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…