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#20 Home Made
The Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in Italy. Founded in 1706 to promote the arts and handicrafts in Emilia Romagna, in 1711 it was moved to the fifteenth-century convent of Sant’Ignazio, in the heart of the university district (Bologna has the world’s oldest recorded university) and was later exten...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: academy, agecies, applied arts, art, art galleries, artistic design, bologna, businesses, carlo branzaglia, communication, conventions, decoration, emilia romagna, exhibitions, graphics | Leave A Comment »
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#22 Kaizen
Eina realises that illustration has become an essential visual resource for the media (printed, audio-visual or digital medium), and has consequently established itself as a catalyst, bringing together the different origins, concerns, ambitions and ways of doing things that coexist in such a diverse sector. The aim of Eina’s postgraduate illustra...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, barcelona, course, design, dissemination, eina, exhibitions, experimentation, illustration, internet, kaizen, magazine, professor, school, students | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Swarovski, 14,000 employees, revenue 1.67 billion euro, but also 800 events organised every year in Italy alone. Not only an economic organism, but also a conveyor of culture.
How does it feel today to be defined as a multinational company? Proud or flattered?
Uneasy. In any case, it’s a word that has been outdated by what is now called globa...
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Dec 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: awareness, beauty, company, cost, cost of life, countries, dna, economic, effort, emotions, environmental, ethic, events, exhibitions, expectations | Leave A Comment »
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#26 Re-Evaluate The Error
Sint-Lucas Visual Arts is located in the city centre of Gent, one of the major cities in Flanders. Gent’s history dates back to the early Middle Ages, and the city centre resembles an open air museum with splendid monuments, fairy-tale fronts and statues. The extraordinary fascinating patrimony turns Gent into one of the focuses of the cultural l...
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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 1862, academic, arts, bachelor, ceramics, college, degrees, exhibitions, experimental studio, flanders, gent, gerda dendooven, glass art, graphic art, graphic design | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
In front of a cup of coffee with Andrea Bellini
The theme of this edition of illywords is “La cultura dell’ascolto” (or “the Culture of Listening”). Did this lead to the idea of choosing “Accecare l’ascolto” (“Blocking the ears”) as the title for the section on theatre and the role of theatrical performance in the modern art...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: actor, andrea bellini, artissima, biennal, bourgeois, carmelo bene, creativity, dadaist, ears, entertainer, exhibitions, framework, futuristic, involved, john cage | Leave A Comment »
