Open Lectures

You are cordially invited to the final presentation of the Urban Studies research studio The Zone.
The presentation will take place on May 10 (Tuesday), 17.00-19.00.
The venue is Faculty of Architecture (EKA), Pikk 20, Tallinn, 3rd floor, r. 304.
The Special Economic Zone, writes Keller Easterling, has not always been a global urban addiction and a world-city template. Yet, she contends, “the wild mutation of the form over the last thirty years only make it seem penetrable to further mutations.”
How might the Zone mutate in the coming thirty years? How would the special become the generic? How would it reshape the conditions of production and labour, globally and locally? How could the Zone be resisted and how could it fail? Will the Special Economic Zone converge to the Zone of Tarkovsky’s Stalker?
The semester project speculates about these question on the case of a production and logistics zone in Jüri, situated 15 km southeast from Tallinn.
Supervisors: Maroš Krivý, Kaie Kuldkepp
Students: Seth Amofah, Kasparas Lucinskas, Charlotte Niedenhoff, Nina Riewe, Juhan Teppart
The presentation and discussion is public. Everyone is welcome.
Maroš Krivý
Professor of Urban Studies
Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts
Kaie Kuldkepp
guest lecturer
Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts
urban designer, landscape architect @ NÜÜD architects

Samson Shafran’s open lecture about 3D printing and modeling will be held on
26.04.2016 from 9-12 at Estonia pst 7, rm 405. Everyone’s welcome!
The lecture is titled “3D Modeling and Printing – New Technologies and Developments in Design, Software Applications and Manufacturing”
– An exploration on how 3D Modeling has shaped a multitude of Design segments, from Fashion Design to Architecture during the last decade.
– Practical examples of the use of 3D Modeling software in Design Development.
– New Trends, Attitudes and Developments in the field of 3D Printing, along with Current and Possible Research Fields.
– Sourcing of suitable Aids, Models, Techniques, Software and Manufacturing in 3D Modeling field.

Samson Shafran
After Receiving a Degree in Fashion Design form University of Westminster, Samson Shafran worked as a free-lance Fashion Textile Designer with variety of companies based in London, Los-Angeles and Singapore.
Since his return to Israel in 2007, Samson Shafran has been teaching at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design at Textile Design as well as Interior Building and Environment Design departments, at a variety of courses, majority of which concentrate on the implementation of Computer Design Software into the students creative development and workflow.

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and Centre for Contemporary Arts Estonia present
public lecture on April 20, 18.00 at Arhitektuurikeskus (Põhja pst 27a, Tallinn)
Dorothea von Hantelmann „Why exhibitions became a modern ritual (and what they tell us about the society in which they take place) “
Hantelmann will hold a seminar on April 21, 10.00 at Institute of Art History and Visual Culture (Suur-Kloostri 11). Registration and reading materials: karin.nugis@artun.ee
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall tells us as much about the state of Western society in 2015 as the Crystal Palace reflected mid-19th century productivism, or as early modern curiosity cabinets connect to the rise of consumer culture. Art institutions are mirrors of the socio-economic order of their time, whose basic parameters they practice and enact. We can retrace the entire history of individualisation by following the increase of wall space between paintings in 19th and 20th century galleries. We can comprehend the transition of early market societies into consumer societies alongside the transformation of 19th century museums into white cubes. And we can analyse the contemporary experience society on the basis of the way it transforms the white cube into time-based experiential spaces. Art institutions are deeply linked to the values and categories that constitute a given time, which is why they have to keep transforming in order to adjust and to remain what they always have been: a contemporary ritual. Looking at art spaces from the 16th century to the present day as a series of decisive moments of transformation, we may find that the transformations of our epoch are asking for a new kind of ritual, after that of the exhibition.
Dorothea von Hantelmann was documenta Professor at the Art Academy/University of Kassel where she lectured on the history and meaning of documenta and established the constitution of a documenta research institute. Her main fields of research are contemporary art and theory as well as the history and theory of exhibitions. She is currently working on a book that explores art exhibitions as ritual spaces in which fundamental values and categories of modern, liberal and market based societies historically have been, and continue to be practised and reflected. She is author of How to Do Things with Art, a book on performativity within contemporary art.

For the finissage of the “Place Oddity” exhibition, the curators Francisco Martínez and Lilli-Krõõt Repnau, and their guests, Liina Siib, Patrick Laviolette, Marika Agu, Flo Kasearu and Mihkel Kleis, will reflect about the communicating vessels between contemporary art, urban ethnography and material culture.
The event will take place in the EAA Gallery, the 1st of April at 17:00.

This Friday, we kick off WILD TALKs, the new public lecture series of our department. The speakers of the series could be characterised by two main threads of action. Some of them have created as much havoc as an elk would, wandering into a city, just by ignoring general customs and habits. Others have unearthed things about life by closely studying the periphery. Summing this up, we believe that these speakers have the potential to spark inspiration in not only interior architecture students, but anyone with any relationship to space around them.
First on the WILD TALKs stage will be Berlin-based Dutch guerilla artist IEPE RUBINGH who dumped 500 litres of paint on Rosenthaler Platz, turning the intersection into a huge canvas and making Berliners guess for months whether this was a ‘Guerrilla Advertising Campaign’ or an artwork. Additionally, he is the inventor of the hybrid sport ‘Chess Boxing’ and is the director of the World Chess Boxing Organisation, with clubs in Siberia, London, Los Angeles and Berlin.
In addition to being the opening speaker for WILD TALKs, Rubingh will also run a workshop for the MA course Wild Studio at the interior architecture department.
WILD TALKs is supported by Astelpajunaps and Valmiermuiža. All talks will be in English.

Insitute of Art History and Centre of Contemporary Art, Estonia
Open Lecture Series 2016

• 27. January

Joanna Figiel
(City University London)

• 17. February

Orit Gat
(Rhizome)

• 31. March

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
(Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna & Castello di Rivoli )

• 20. April

Dorothea von Hantelmann
(Berlin)

• 26. May

Jörg Heiser
(frieze d/e)

The lectures take place at the Academy of Sciences main hall at Kohtu 6, Tallinn
Start at 6 pm
Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia

Estonian Academy of Arts Art History department and CCA, Estonia invite:
On Wednesday, February 17th at 6 PM prolific art writer and contributing editor of a variety of publications Orit Gat will give a public lecture ‘If it looks like zeitgeist, it might be anxiety’ at Estonian Academy of Sciences (Kohtu 6). Orit Gat will also be holding a seminar at the Institute of Art History on Friday, February 19th.
Lecture ‘If it looks like zeitgeist, it might be anxiety’
In a piece for the Guardian, Charlie Brooker, the creator of the popular Channel 4 television series about technology Black Mirror, defines the show’s setting as “the area between delight and discomfort.” Our relationship to technology is defined by a curious mix of fascination, reliance, fear, and admiration. What happens to art in this context? This talk explores the current place of art in connection to networked technology, looking into platforms for the presentation and dissemination of art online and the discourse they may or may not have created; the many recent exhibitions dedicated to art that deals with data, the internet, and technology; and what fuels these trends: the anxiety of being left behind.
Seminar ‘Being bad: on negative criticism’
Much art criticism is inherently polite. Reading a number of reviews including film, food, and art criticism, this workshop will include discussions of the role of negative critique and the position of the critic in relation to it. We’ll discuss how criticism is affected by the market and geography, and speculate on how art reviews are still useful, how they can be beneficial while still negative, and how the internet has changed the landscape of criticism. Seminar will take place at the Institute of Art History on February 19th, 10 AM, room 104. For participation please email karin.nugis@artun.ee Compulsory reading is at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rdza2ud2631xcjh/AACxy5Zre_-3aH2Wdol9qyFUa?dl=0
Orit Gat is a writer based in New York and London. Her writing on contemporary art, publishing, internet culture, and the different meeting points between these has been published in a variety of magazines, including frieze, ArtReview, Art Agenda, Flash Art, and The Art Newspaper. Gat is the features editor of Rhizome, managing editor of WdW Review, and contributing editor at The White Review and Momus. In 2015, she won the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form writing category.
The public lecture will be preceded by a reading group of Orit Gat’s texts, to be taking place on Tuesday, February 9th at 4PM at the Centre for Contemporary Art Estonia. Texts for the reading group are below. Orit Gat will also be holding a
Orit Gat’s lecture in Tallinn is part of an open lecture series organized by Estonian Academy of Arts Art History department in collaboration with CCA, Estonia. In 2016 the guests are Joanna Figiel, Orit Gat, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Dorothea von Hantelmann and Jörg Heiser. Lecture series if supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and Estonian Ministry of Culture.
Readings for the February 9th reading group:
Orit Gat talk at SuperScript 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMwi8_dSaug
Orit Gat, “What is an Art Critic Doing at an Art Fair?,” MOMUS. http://momus.ca/what-is-an-art-critic-doing-at-an-art-fair/
Orit Gat, The Thumbnail, FlashArt. http://www.flashartonline.com/article/the-thumbnail/
Orit Gat, The Future, WdW Review. http://wdwreview.org/sediments/future/

Dr. Michael Renov from the University of Southern California will hold a public lecture titled “Semiotics of Documentary and U.S. Documentary Film History” at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia pst 7, rm 426 on February 3, 2016 at 4 pm. The lecture will be in English and everyone is welcome.

Why the documentary matters? Michael Renov, professor of Critical Studies and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs from University of Southern California, author of several books about the documentary film and documentary film curator for many festivals, will be talking about the social significance of the documentary film. Dr. Renov will discuss the crucial functions served by the documentary film — preservation, persuasion, analysis and expression — with additional attention given to ethical concerns. Dr. Renov, an experienced jury member for film festivals such as Sundance, Silverdocs and many others, will also be talking about the U.S. documentary films and U.S. documentary films history.

The lecture is made possible and available thanks to the Embassy of the United States of America in Estonia.

3.02 Jeroen Carelse / lecturer in Aalto University, Carelse OÜ designer and analysist.
Mixing research+art+business. Extrasensory Perception & Design, Imagination, Intuition and creativityAuthenticity and creativity. What does it mean to be authentic and how does one become authentic? Does authenticity result in creativity? Are there differences in art and design that comes from the place of authenticity?

The Open Day at the Estonian Academy of Arts will take place on March 24, 2016 from 10am-6pm. If you are a foreign student and need guidance in English, please contact admissions@artun.ee to register for a tour.  The programme is posted in Estonian here: https://www.artun.ee/x/avatuduksed/kava/