Category: Textile Design

Infinite Life Gallery’s first exhibition „Binding Matter” will be open from the Thursday, March 28 at 6pm at LVLup! Museum. Infinite Life Gallery is LVLup! video game museum’s side project, located in ARS Art Factory. The exhibition will remain open until April 21.

Textile artists group exhibition „Binding Matter” observes the nature and meaning of materials. Balancing on the borders of textile, design and art, the participating artists discover the connections, features and meanings between different fibers and substances. The exhibition focuses on experiments and combinations of materials, through which modern materially overloaded world is being critically rethought.

Participating artists: Ingrid Helena Pajo, Katarina Kruus, Ann Müürsepp, Frank Abner ja Triin Talts. They’ve been brought together by studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts textile and product design departments, whilst sharing a common interest in environmentally friendly and sustainable art.

Exhibition is open until April 21, at LVLup! Museum opening times:
Tue–Thu 15–20; Fri-Sat 15–22; Sun 15–18
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Pärnu maantee 154, 11317

Curators: Laura Elisabeth Konsand, Ingrid Helena Pajo
LVLup! team: Patrick Zavadskis, Camille Laurelli, Sigrid Liira, Anneli Kripsaar

The collaborate exhibition implies the question of what is being hidden/revealed from the observers. The focus is on the relationships between inner and outer layers, covering and core, mask and truth. Covering or wrapping functions as the filter transmitting or blocking out the qualities of contents. In a selective way, it’s shaping the communication between inside and out. Both artists are approaching the topic in slightly different ways.

Liina Leo (b.1993) received a bachelor’s degree in Textile Design from the Estonian Academy of Arts this June and was awarded the Mari Adamson Prize. She complemented her undergraduate program with a one year at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee specializing in surface design. Beginning this autumn, Liina is working as a weaving workshop tutor at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Misa Asanuma (b.1994) is an artist from Japan. She studied literature at Meiji University, Tokyo. She is currently in the middle of her MA studies in the department of Contemporary Art of the Estonian Academy of Arts and mainly working on photography.

Thursday 20^th September 2018 at 17:30, room A501

In his lecture Dr. Barnard will be outlining the main features of the sender/receiver model of communication as it applies to fashion, explaining what is wrong with it and arguing that messages are not sent or received but rather that meanings are constructed. He will suggest that the existence of this model may be accounted for by examining a mixture of capitalism and romanticism and he will explain how and why the sender/receiver model does not work by taking some famous people as examples.

Malcolm Barnard

Malcolm Barnard is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Loughborough University (UK), where he teaches the history and theory of art and design. He has a BA(Hons) in Philosophy and Sociology from the University of York and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. He is the author of Fashion as Communication (Routledge 2002), Art, Design and Visual Culture (Macmillan 1998), Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture (Palgrave 2001), Graphic Design as Communication (Routledge 2005) and Fashion Theory: An Introduction (Routledge 2014).  He is also the editor of Fashion Theory: A Reader (Routledge 2007) and of the four volume Fashion, (Routledge, Critical Concepts Series, 2012). Recent publications include an essay on fashion and the Kantian sublime and essays on Derrida and photography theory and on the semiology of advertising are forthcoming.

The lecture is organized by Department of Textile Design in cooperation with Department of Accessory and Bookbinding Design.

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September 12, 16:00–19:00 @Estonian Academy of Arts

Design Research as a growing field contributes new ways of living to the world. While amazing things happen tinkering in one’s lab or basement, the potential impact grows exponentially when collaborating with the industry and the society. We look into examples where research knowledge escapes the university walls and weaves itself as part of the local eco system. Such examples are expected to inspire further collaboration between universities and the local industry to bring innovations that leave fruitful impact on not only the local but also the global communities.

15:45 Check-in 😉
16:00 Welcome & seminar starts
19:00 End

Speakers:

• Rain Leoma & Ave Ungro “Designer’s preparation and role in the future apparel and textile industry in Estonia”
• Julia Valle Noronha
• Katrin Kabun
• Nithikul Nimkulrat
• Kristi Kuusk
• Reet Aus

Price 0€

Please pre-register! Event is held in English!
https://goo.gl/forms/riRrQLgE5AQReXSq2

Will take place at Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), Põhja puiestee 7, Tallinn, room A501.

The event is funded by European Union Regional Fund.

Paul will show how the folding of sheet materials such as fabric, plastic and wood has become one of the most vibrant languages of contemporary art and design around the world and how folding connects design to the wider-worlds of engineering, new materials and sustainability. Wow!

Paul Jackson was the first person outside Japan to make a career from folding paper. In a 35-year career, he has written almost 40 books, taught in more than 80 Schools of Design and undertaken many commissions and consultancies. Fine Art trained in England, his folded paper sculptures are regularly exhibited.

His recent TEDtalk can be viewed here:

Open lecture by Samson Shafran: “Post-Digital Decadence:Les Fleurs du Mal”, on Monday, June the 4th at 11.00 Estonia Pst 7, room 429. The lecture will be concerned with addressing digital 3D modelling, Rapid prototyping (3D printing), their influence and augmentation of the creative process and the correlation between the artist / craftsman individual style and the aesthetical vocabulary derived from the digital making process.

FASHION TECH TALKS takes place in Tallinn Business Incubators (Veerenni 24, C)

Fashion Tech Talks esinejad ja teemad
Fashion Tech Talk Speakers & Topics

Virtual changing room
Paul Pällin, Fits Me

Motion monitoring wearables – today and tomorrow
Alar Kuusik , TTÜ

Neuroart as a research tool
Aleksander Väljamäe , TLU

Smart Textile Solutions at the Estonian Academy of Arts
Kristi Kuusk, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia

SWW – Smart Work Clothes
Jane Kivistik, Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool

REGISTRATION, FREE!
https://goo.gl/forms/Fea0nfXFaObXLvR42.

Fashion Tech Talks is in English.

On 26th September at 19.00 the science cafe of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA) will take place in Von Krahl. Fashion designer and EAA senior researcher Reet Aus, EAA PhD student & textile designer Miina Leesment, textile artist and Head of UT Viljandi Culture Academy’s Estonian Native Crafts Department Ave Matsin will discuss research into textiles in the arts and the society, tradition, innovation and the future of textiles. The talk will be moderated by Liina Unt, head of EAA art and design PhD programme.
Discussion will be held in Estonian. Free of charge, all welcome.