Biennial Talks

17 - 19 June 2016
University Cinema Scala (Moravské náměstí 3)

The Biennial will commence on 17 June 2016 with three days of lectures and presentations by world-renowned designers and design theoreticians.

This symposium will provide an opportunity to become acquainted with some of the leading figures in international graphic design, their work, and their opinions. There will also be space for personal discussion and critical debate. The official languages are Czech and English.

Moderated by Oliver Klimpel.
Oliver Klimpel is a designer, currently based in Berlin after living and working in London for more than 15 years. He has worked on numerous publishing and identity projects in the UK and abroad, combining design projects and research on visual culture and art. He frequently writes, and lectures internationally. From 2008 to 2015 he had been Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig comprehensively re-positioning the System-Design class. Most recently, he was invited by the Taipei Contemporary Art Center to develop a design research project, which seeks to explore and define the idea of a more active and critical identity for arts and cultural institutions. In May he is to undertake a project on narrative structures in Tokyo.

The capacity of the venue is limited, prior  registration online is required.

 

Programme:

Fri, June 17

10.30 Introduction
Radim Peško, Tomáš Celizna, Adam Macháček 

11.00 Emily King
Emily King is a London-based design historian with a specialism in graphic design. After a first degree in philosophy and economics, she completed an MA in design history with a thesis on film title sequences and a PhD concentrating on the design of type in wake of the digital revolution. Since then she has written, curated and, occasionally, lectured. Her books include monographs on Peter Saville, M/M Paris and the legendary 1950s art director Robert Brownjohn. Among her exhibitions is 'Quick, Quick, Slow: graphic design and time', which she curated for the Lisbon design biennial Experimenta, and monographic shows on Alan Fletcher and Richard Hollis. She has contributed to numerous magazines including  Frieze,  The Gentlewoman,  Plant and  Apartamento. Increasingly she appreciates design in the broadest sense and her current projects touch on food, scent, clothing and literature.' 

12.00 Jon Sueda
Originally from Hawaii, Jon Sueda has practiced design everywhere from Honolulu to Holland. After earning his MFA in Graphic Design from CalArts in 2002, he was invited to North Carolina State University to serve as a designer in residence, followed by an internship in the Netherlands with Studio Dumbar. In 2004, Sueda founded the design studio Stripe, which specializes in print and exhibition design for art and culture. He is also the co-editor of  Task Newsletter, and the co-organizer of AtRandom events. In 2007, Sueda relocated to the San Francisco area where he served as Director of Design at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts for seven years, and is currently the Chair of the MFA Design program at California College of the Arts. Most recently, he curated the exhibitions  Work from California at the 25th International Graphic Design Biennial in Brno, Czech Republic, and  All Possible Futures at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. 

14.30 Wayne Daly a Adrien Vasquez
A Shelf for Lothar
Wayne Daly is a London-based graphic designer, focusing primarily on publishing, editorial and visual identity work. Recent projects include the catalogue for Hayward Gallery's major exhibition Carsten Höller: Decision (2015); Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist's The Age of Earthquakes for Penguin (2015); and the visual identity for artist Sean Lynch's Irish pavilion Adventure: Capital at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
He is co-founder of Bedford Press, a publishing imprint at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, which publishes books and e-books at the intersection of architecture, visual art, graphic design and theory. Collaborators include artists Gustav Metzger, Joseph Grigely, Emma Smith and Can Altay, architects Kersten Geers, Jack Self and Shumi Bose, and photographers Giovanna Silva and Bas Princen. Bedford Press has exhibited numerous times at international book fairs, including the New York Art Book Fair at MoMa PS1, LA Art Book Fair at MOCA and Miss Read at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin.
He has contributed texts to the journals AA Files, The National Grid and A Circular, and lectured at various British and international schools and institutions including the Royal College of Art, Werkplaats Typografie, Whitechapel Gallery, the Architectural Association and the American University of Beirut.
In 2015 he was an invited consultant to the Swiss Federal Office of Culture for the appointment of the designer for the 2016 Most Beautiful Swiss Books exhibition and publication.
Adrien Vasquez (FR) is a graphic and type designer working in London with John Morgan. He has contributed texts and translations to the journals .txt, Azimuts and From-To. 

15.00 Vít Havránek
Vít Havránek is a curator and art organiser based in Prague, Czech Republic. Since 2002 he has been working as a director of the initiative for contemporary art transit. He curated and co-curated exhibitions amongst which are: Ján Mančuška First Retrospective, City Gallery Prague, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Report on the Construction of a Spaceship, New Museum HUB, New York;Adaptation, Steirischer Herbst; Encyclopedia of Failure, Jakarta Biennale 2013; Manifesta 8, Spain; Monument to Transformation, Centro Monthermoso; City Gallery Prague; tranzit workshops, Bratislava; tranzit - Auditorium, Stage, Backstage, Frankfurter Kunstverein; I, Secession Wien; Jiří Kovanda, Brno; Otto Piene, City Gallery Prague; action, word, movement,  space, City Gallery Prague, and others.
Edited and co-edited books and catalogues Eva Koťátková, Pictorial Atlas of a Girl…, H.U. Obrist Czech Files; Atlas to Transformation; Autobiographies; The Need to Document, Lanterna Magika; action, word, movement, space, and has written for contemporary books, catalogues (Green Room, Sterneberg Press, Promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou, Voids: A Retrospective, JRP Ringier), art magazines (Umělec, Springerin, Flash Art, Manifesta Journal, trouble and others). He lectured at the AAAD Prague, North Carolina University Prague Institute and had guest lectures and talks at various occasions (MIT Boston, Amsterdam University, Documenta 12, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, and others).

16.00 Guus Beumer
Guus Beumer, who studied social sciences, has been director of Het Nieuwe Instituut since January 2013. In the 1980s Beumer was a journalist for publications including Avenue, Marie-Claire and HP-De Tijd and in the 1990s he was art director of the fashion labels orson + bodil and SO. From 2005 he was director of Marres, House for Contemporary Culture and Bureau Europa/NAiM, both in Maastricht.
Guus Beumer is artistic director of the Temporary Fashion Museum, now on view in Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Sat, June 18

10.00 Anuschka Blommers, Niels Schumm
Anuschka Blommers (1969) and Niels Schumm (1969) both studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. They started working together in 1998.
Blommers and Schumm question the status quo of fashion photography by operating in a grey zone between fashion, art and photography, with shifting perspectives, where images move back and forth between different meanings. A state of uncertainty thus emerges in which merely an expression or a small detail seems capable of turning an image upside down.
Their photographs have been published in magazines such as Fantastic Man, Gentlewoman, Another Magazine, Purple, Interview, ID, Dazed & Confused and NY Times Magazine. Meanwhile their work has been exhibited in museums and galleries among The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Groninger Museum, Foto Museum Foam, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, ICA in Boston and Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.

11.00 Kiyonori Muroga, Ian Lynam
Kiyonori Muroga is an editor, writer and lecturer. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he has edited IDEA magazine and books on graphic design, typography and visual culture since 1999 as well as contributing essays on the topics. He also teaches at various design schools including MEME Design School, Musashino Art University and Tokyo University of the Arts.
Ian Lynam is a Tokyo-based designer operating at the intersection of graphic design, design education and design research. Originally hailing from New York, Lynam has a BS in Graphic Design from Portland State University and an MFA in Graphic Design from CalArts. He is Chair and faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA Graphic Design program, faculty at Meme Design School and at Temple University Japan. He is a co-founder of Néojaponisme, a critical cultural online journal.

12.00 Manuel Raeder
Manuel Raeder is founder of Studio Manuel Raeder and the publishing house BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, based in Berlin and Mexico City. The studio's works have a wide range of formats exploring the boundaries between exhibitions, ephemera, books, type design, editing, publishing, to furniture design, approaching them as carriers of information, or experimental devices to document or conceit narratives. The studio has developed long standing collaborations with artists such as BLESS, Eran Schaerf, Mariana Castillo Deball, Haegue Yang, Nora Schultz, Leonor Antunes, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Danh Vo and Sergej Jensen. It has been responsible for the communication strategies and graphic identities of several cultural institutions including Kölnischer Kunstverein (2007-2011), Para Site, Hong Kong (2013-2014); k.m, Kunstverein Munich (2010-2015); and Artists Space, New York (since 2009).
In 2011, Raeder founded the publishing house BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE together with Manuel Goller (who left the publishing house in 2014). Since then it has been run by Studio Manuel Raeder, which currently consists of Migle Kazlauskaite, Enno Pötschke, Manuel Raeder and manager Annette Schryen.

14.30 Denisa Kollárová, Anna van Lingen
Tools of Imagination
Denisa Kollarová lives and works in Amsterdam, where she and Anna van Lingen began their collaboration after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2013. Ruins, public spaces, social architecture, city mapping and utopian architectural planning are core topics which keep her curiosity alive in various books, exhibitions and lectures. In addition to Seventeen Playgrounds her ongoing projects include Under My Own Construction Of Ruins and Migration Of Form.
Anna van Lingen is a graphic designer working on a number of self- initiated projects which investigate town planning, architecture and the ageing of cities and buildings. She works closely with Denisa Kollarová, on an ongoing project centered on children's play and playspaces. In beginning of 2016 Seventeen Playgrounds, a guide to Aldo van Eyck's designs for children in the centre of Amsterdam was published by Lecturis as a result of their research. Anna van Lingen finished her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2013 and lives and works in Amsterdam. 

15.00 Jean-Marie Courant
Graphic designer. Born in 1966. Lives and works in Paris. He devotes himself to editorial and visual identity projects. He is teaching at and is head of the graphic design Master's programme of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Lyon (France).

16.00 Czech Dream
Czech Dream (Český sen) is a 2004 documentary movie. In words of its directors it was 'the first Czech film reality show', about preparing an advertising campaign and the opening of the hypermarket, which did not really exist.
Film screening (Czech with English subtitles, 90 min.)

Sun, June 19

10.00 Goda Budvytyté, Ines Cox, Anna Haas, Corina Neuenschwander
Goda Budvytytė is a Lithuanian graphic designer, currently running her practice between Amsterdam, Brussels and, occasionally, other cities. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, NL) in 2008 and the following year became a participant at Werkplaats Typografie where she concluded with her Master degree in 2011. She works in a wide range of formats within the cultural field, exploring how different types of content can be translated into books, publications, identities, exhibition designs and other legible narratives. She develops her projects in close collaboration with artists, curators, photographers, architects, and fellow designers, often being involved with editorial design.
Ines Cox is an independent, Antwerp-based, graphic design studio founded in 2014. She graduated at Luca School of Arts (Ghent) in 2009 and received a second master's degree from the Werkplaats Typografie (The Netherlands) in 2011. Around 2010 she founded the studio Cox & Grusenmeyer, with Lauren Grusenmeyer. After 5 years of working together Ines Cox started her individual practice. Cox's experience comes from a wide variety of projects including publication and book design, exhibition design, brand identities, web design, installations, teaching and workshops. Clients range from independent artists and galleries to brands, schools and museums. In 2014 she started teaching typography at the Royal Academy of Antwerp.
Anna Haas works as freelance graphic designer and illustrator in Zurich. After graduating from HSLU in 2007 she worked as a freelance illustrator in Berlin. From 2009 to 2011 she was a participant at Werkplaats Typografie and received her Master in 2011. Having worked in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands, in 2011 she chose Zürich to set up her studio. Since then she works in a wide range of cultural fields, with a specific focus on book design and editorial illustration. Since 2014 she has taught at Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts (HSLU), department of visual communication.
Corina Neuenschwander is a graphic designer based in Zurich where in 2014 she and Simone Koller founded the Graphic Design practice Studio NOI. After graduating from Zurich University of the Arts in 2006 she has worked from 2007-2009 as a senior designer for the studio Value & Service in London and as an independent graphic designer in London, Amsterdam and New York. From 2010-2012 she was a participant at Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem where she has concluded her Master degree. Corina Neuenschwander's work ranges from editorial design to visual identities, digital applications and exhibition design in the fields of art, culture and commerce. Her work was awarded twice with the Swiss Design Award, she was nominated for INFORM: Award for Conceptual Design and shortlisted for the Walter Tiemann Award. 

11.00 Wayne Daly, Jan Nauta
Cedric Price Works
Wayne Daly is a London-based graphic designer, focusing primarily on publishing, editorial and visual identity work. Recent projects include the catalogue for Hayward Gallery's major exhibition Carsten Höller: Decision (2015); Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist's The Age of Earthquakes for Penguin (2015); and the visual identity for artist Sean Lynch's Irish pavilion Adventure: Capital at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
He is co-founder of Bedford Press, a publishing imprint at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, which publishes books and e-books at the intersection of architecture, visual art, graphic design and theory. Collaborators include artists Gustav Metzger, Joseph Grigely, Emma Smith and Can Altay, architects Kersten Geers, Jack Self and Shumi Bose, and photographers Giovanna Silva and Bas Princen. Bedford Press has exhibited numerous times at international book fairs, including the New York Art Book Fair at MoMa PS1, LA Art Book Fair at MOCA and Miss Read at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin.
He has contributed texts to the journals AA Files, The National Grid and A Circular, and lectured at various British and international schools and institutions including the Royal College of Art, Werkplaats Typografie, Whitechapel Gallery, the Architectural Association and the American University of Beirut.
In 2015 he was an invited consultant to the Swiss Federal Office of Culture for the appointment of the designer for the 2016 Most Beautiful Swiss Books exhibition and publication.
Jan Nauta (1982, Rotterdam) is an architect and organiser who divides his time between London and Rotterdam. In 2012 he founded Studio Nauta, a design and research organisation for the transformation of space. The studio specialises in delivering projects that establish new and bespoke relationships between humans and space. It produces physical designs, strategic and programmatic solutions. Studio Nauta works in the fields of architecture, urbanism, geography, media and culture. The studio operates as a collaborative network for spatial transformation, promoting change through design, research and writing.
Nauta studied at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (BArch - Ing.) and graduated from the Architectural Association's Diploma School in 2011 (AAdipl), winning the AA Prize. He was nominated for AA Diploma Honours, the Dennis Sharp Writing Award and was awarded a prestigious scholarship from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
Previously Nauta has worked for Markus Miessen in Berlin, was a researcher at the AA and consulted Beyond Entropy for the Venice Biennale's 2010 and 2012. He is the co-founder of the Public Occasion Agency and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton as well as the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture.
Jan Nauta has been a guest critic and lecturer at various institutions including the AA, the Bartlett, Cambridge University and the Berlage Insitute. He has contributed to numerous publications as a writer and editor, including Cosey Complex (ICA London, 2010), Architecture d'Aujourd 'hui 378 (Archipress & Associés, 2010), Manifest (Bedford Press, 2009), Cedric Price Ephemera (AA, 2011), Architecture on Display 2 (AA, 2011), Waking Up From The Nightmare of Participation (Expodium, 2011) and Critical Spatial Practice (Sternberg, 2012).
Jan Nauta is a registered architect in the Netherlands. 

12.00 Zdeněk Ziegler in conversation with Alan Záruba
Zdeněk Ziegler (1932) graduated in architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He realised his first commissions in graphic design in the late 1950s. In 1963 he made the first of a long series of his film posters -  Křik (The Cry). In the following years, he worked with a number of film directors, such as Jaromil Jireš, František Vláčil, Karel Zeman, Karel Kachyňa, Jiří Menzel. His posters won several awards, e.g. Typomundus honourable mention in Montreal, prizes at the International Film Poster Exhibition in Karlovy Vary, the Brno Biennial, the Golden and Bronze Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, a honorary mention in the Hollywood Reporter Annual Key Award competition, a medal at the International Film Poster Competition in Colombo. Besides posters, his artistic work includes hundreds of book designs, editions, catalogues and bibliophiles, a number of exhibition graphic designs, post stamps designs, logotypes and visual identities. He was professor and rector at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 1990-2005; and visiting professor at universities in Mainz, Stuttgart, Paris and Istanbul. He obtained a honorary doctor's degree from Miami University. Since 2006 he has been lecturing in graphic design at the Institute of Art and Design, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, CZ.
Graphic designer, art director and design publicist. He graduated from the Czech Technical University (1989) and London College of Printing (MA, 1999); has lectured at the Prague Academy of Art, Architecture and Design since 2003. Member of Typo Design Club, ATypI (since 2004), ADC (since 2014), Promax BDA (since 2012) and of the Organisation Committee of the International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno (2003-2010, since 2015). Since 1996 he focuses on graphic design of books and catalogues, poster design and information systems for exhibitions and congresses, corporate design, interactive, TV and motion design. He writes design essays, curates exhibitions and publishes in his own studio Alba Design Press (formerly Alba Studio). After graduation in the United Kingdom he became an intern in the Dutch multidisciplinary studio Total Design Amsterdam (2001-2002). Between 1996-2003 he was editor-in-chief of the graphic design magazine Deleatur. Between 2007-2011 he was head designer for visual presentation and visual identity of Czech Television channels ČT24 and ČT4. Since 2012 he occupied the same position within TV Nova, and in 2014 he became creative director of the Nova Group.
He holds a number of Awards, as for instance Typo Design Club Award (1998), Prestige Award of the 21st International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno (2004), the award for promoting design from the National Competition for the Best Product of the Year (2005), and the Golden Award for TV Promo and Design at Promax BDA Europe (2016). He participates in international symposia and conferences, as well as in specialist jury proceedings in national and international graphic design competitions.

15.00 Jamie Shovlin
Jamie Shovlin was born in Leicester in 1978 and graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003. His rigorous and rational language effortlessly combines conceptual complexity and playfulness with a wide-ranging use of textures and techniques in order to draw the viewer into an atmosphere rich in allusions and associations. Previous exhibitions include  Hiker Meat 2014, Cornerhouse, Manchester and MACRO, Rome,  How most of what you know is reconstruction 2013, Southampton City Art Gallery,  Various Arrangements 2012, Haunch of Venison, London and  In Search of Perfect Harmony, Tate Britain, London. 

16.00 Hiker Meat - Rough Cut (Expanded Version)
Hiker Meat and its fictitious Italian director Jesus Rinzoli have been imagined by Jamie Shovlin to represent an archetypal exploitation film - a type of filmmaking characterised by its low budget aesthetic and exploitation of sensational subject matter, which boomed from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
Film screening (English, 90 min.)
Jamie Shovlin was born in Leicester in 1978 and graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003. His rigorous and rational language effortlessly combines conceptual complexity and playfulness with a wide-ranging use of textures and techniques in order to draw the viewer into an atmosphere rich in allusions and associations. Previous exhibitions include  Hiker Meat 2014, Cornerhouse, Manchester and MACRO, Rome,  How most of what you know is reconstruction 2013, Southampton City Art Gallery,  Various Arrangements 2012, Haunch of Venison, London and  In Search of Perfect Harmony, Tate Britain, London. 

The program is subject to change.

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