Express Graphic Design course and workshop for students from sister universities in the framework of EU4ART
Express Graphic Design course and workshop for students from sister universities in the framework of EU4ART
Time: First semester: 15th – 26th of November 2021
Second semester: 11 April 2022 - 22 April 2022
Location: Hungarian University of Fine Art
Our university has organized several projects in the framework of the Eu4art Alliance program. Through analog and traditional techniques such as photography, printmaking, cyanotic, and bronze casting, our teachers aimed to increase the understanding of the creative thinking of image, space, and art.
REARRANGE / RETHINK / RECYCLE
We invite students from the partner universities to take part in our 2-week workshop, organized by the Graphic Department. The main notions of our spring-semester course could be described more as a methodology, than a specific topic. Our objective is to elicit three very close creative strategies – recycling, rethinking, and rearranging – which can be also thought of as synonyms of appropriation and paraphrase or might be understood from an ecologically conscious perspective. We are looking forward to seeing, how participating students will select the suitable manner and plant it into means of printmaking and other experimental techniques.
Our plan is to arrange visits to certain sights, venues, and museums for the students, where they find new, inspiring materials and topics which they can work with on a conceptual or material level. In order not to make any restrictions, we welcome all artistic approaches, and we encourage our visiting students, to work from new inspirations, by experiencing the life of the city and what they find interesting about a different culture.
After the collection of materials, there is a possibility to get an insight in to our workshops and find the suitable technique. Various printmaking and photographical methods are available, also to develop a work based on unique techniques from collected materials. Our tutors and head of the workshops will be available to give supportance in finding the best outcome of the plans of the students.
The work phase will be accompanied by presentations by the lecturers of HUFA and guest speakers, as well as presentations by students and alumni. Also, leisure gatherings with each other and museum visits are included in the programme.
Lectures: Andrea SZILÁK, WP3 research fellow szilak.andrea@mke.hu / Bianka DOBÓ, assistant lecturer dobo.bianka@mke.hu / József SZURCSIK, Associate Professor, Head of Department Responsible for the Specialisation in Graphic Art / Magdolna VÉKÁS, external lecturer
Number of students: 4 students / partner institution
FIRST IMAGING - The expansion and graphic transformation of the photographic image
The theme of the course circulates around memory and reflection: the abstraction of an event, an impression processed by the mechanism of the mind and the senses. We invite students from the partner universities to take part in our 2-week workshop, organized by the Graphics Department. Dealing with the notions, our process will stem from an initial photographic formulation, which will be restructured through a "second imaging", complementing the initial work with the quality of various printmaking methods.
Our work will start by taking walks in the city and within the university building, providing the students with insights concerning life in Budapest and the University. After collecting the materials, discussions will take place to find the suitable method that supports the idea and the technical qualification of each student. During this process, the help of the tutors and the leaders of the workshops will be available. The method serves as a suggested, general framework but does not serve as a border for individual ideas and experimentation. We aim to provide the students the possibility to enrichen their practice with a graphic work of high-standard and a souvenir of an unforgettable experience from Budapest. The work phase will be accompanied by lectures by the professors of HUFA and guest lecturers, as well as presentations by students and alumni. Also, leisure gatherings with each other and museum visits will be included in the programme.
DIMENSIONAL CHANGES – A workshop dealing with the process of bronze casting
Lectures: Andrea SZILÁK, WP3 research fellow szilak.andrea@mke.hu / Bianka DOBÓ, assistant lecturer dobo.bianka@mke.hu / József SZURCSIK, Associate Professor, Head of Department Responsible for the Specialisation in Graphic Art / Magdolna VÉKÁS, external lecturer
Number of students: 4 students / partner institution
