19. Focus Award // Fachhochschule Dortmund // 18. – 20. May 2011

The whole programme during the FOCUS Award Fesival is
FOR FREE!

To get to know more about the singular lectures and workshops, please click on the particular title.

Programm annimation

WEDNESDAY // 18th MAY

10:00 // AULA

Opening of the festival

12:00 // AULA

LARS HARMSEN
Lecture

Typography and Editorial: two worlds, every single one for itself, apart, in an asynchronous manner, but still together. One chance to reconcile the drive to always make something new. The free smile during a Déjà-vu,a choice for maker.

13:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:30 // AULA

LAURENT LACOUR
Lecture

Complexe worlds, unmanageable processings, society changes, merger and acquisition. Laurent Lacour talks about the inspiration and impact of complexity and flexibility in medial systems.

16:00 // AULA

MARTIN LIEBSCHER
Lecture

Martin Liebscher is going to refer to his photography and his world of the thousands ‚liebschers‘.

17:30 // AULA

ANDREAS UEBELE
Lecture

Characters are building an animated level: in baroque churches walls are disbanding. The sculptures are decoration, their colorful garment are waving through the room, they are telling stories. The order of the form has its significance. At best are systems, which serve for objective informations, an enrichment of color and form. They point with their design to the mostly mundane function of the location.

19:00 // AULA

MARC POTOCNIK
Lecture

Marc Potocnik, owner of the animation studio ‚renderbaron‘, opens his bag of tricks and provides an insight into exposure with 3D-animation. The design of moving pictures via light, surfaces and camera- whether during orchestration of branded worlds for tv commercial, the fusion of real images with 3D elements or the creation of complete virtual settings- is the topic in the front.

The lists for participation of the workshops
will be hanged out during the festival from 9o’clock a.m.

AB 12:00

RAUMLABOR BERLIN meets OSA
AXEL TIMM & BENJAMIN FOERSTER-BALDENIUS & OLIVER LANGBEIN
Workshop

In two days an arena is going to be build out of simple building material as wooden boards and shrinking foil, consisting of tribunes, stages and projection screens, which is able to generate flexible and abrupt worlds. Form, accomplishment and medial content are going to be worked out together on the first day, the second and third day are for building, programming and unclosing.

attendance: ca. 40

AB 12:00

LABOR B
BJÖRN RÜTHER & THOMAS WUCHERPFENNIG
Workshop

test-arrangement: 
2 teams of 5-10 people, one room and a lot of paper 

Worldmakers watch out!
Wir laden ein zum Re-Design der Welten.
We are inviting you for a Re-Design of the world.Wir laden ein zum Re-Design der Welten.  There are a lot of problems need be solved that promise a big design challenge on you. In the process legality may be questioned and borders new negotiated. The workshop affords possibility for a playful experiment with the medium paper. The results will be presented on the spot. 

13:00 - 16:00

ANDREAS UEBELE
Portfolio-Review // Graphic // Room E 32

FULL-TIME // ROOM 36

EXHIBITION
Patrick Borchers, cleaning , 2007, Video

Martin Varga, hibernation on the sailing boat Dagmar Aaen in the ice of the arctic, 2010, Videodocumentation

FULL-TIME // ROOM 127 A

EXHIBITION
Gaby Peters, o. T. (Wäschespinnen), mechanic objects, 2007, Videodocumentation

Jens Sundheim und Bernhard Reuss, the traveller, from 2001, Web- photography

FULL-TIME // GALLERY

EXIBITION
FOKUS Frau
Stefanie Gartmann
www.fokusfrau.de

11:30 // 14:00 // 18:30 // CHESSBOARDROOM

INTERVIEW
MOVIE with Harald Lesch

THURSTDAY // 19 th May

10:30 // AULA

EVA GRONBACH
Lecture

Fashion is identity. Here the question of identity is discussed and in a visual and material way independent transferred by the pupils. At the beginning there is the question for trendiness which is creatively and individually challenged by the pupils.

Fashion holds a power, which is able to set energy of creativity free and to uncover the own identity, the own origin and the visions of the pupils.

Through the uniqueness which is given through the person himself and his concept, demonstrates the self-discovery by wearing the own concept. Consequentely the pupils got in contact with each other.

Self-awareness of single pupils, phrase of the own idea, transposition and carrying are the secrets for the success of this project.

12:00 // AULA

PHILIP LOERSCH
Lecture

In his lecture Philip Loersch is going to give a closer look into his world of drawings and installations and in particular in his way of working.

One maintopic will be the oppositional appearance and effect of the scientific-technologicaland esthetic-artistic line. What happens, if I’m going to see scientific questions from my point of view, as a drawer? Is it about anticipation or awareness?

What does it mean, to produce workings as an artist, which have to exist and to survive in this world today?

13:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:30 // AULA

ED ANNINK
Lecture

Ed Annink will be talking about his job as a designer, curator, teacher and author.

16:00 // AULA

MONIKA BRANDMEIER
Lecture

Monika Brandmeier pursues in her lecture the two-way influences of her three-dimensional and photographic works. She shows videos, photographics and sculptures, which have one in common: an artistic view of their medial and material formatting. They are not lying in the wonderland of the image, but in this world.

17:30 // AULA

INTERVIEW
MOVIE with Harald Lesch

AFTER THAT // 18:00 // AULA

PANEL DISCUSSION

The lists for participation of the workshops
will be hanged out during the festival from 9o’clock a.m.

AB 9:00

ROB HORNSTRA
Workshop

The catchwords in Rob Honstras workshops are: CROWDFUNDING and SELF-PUBLISHING. Inside the tutorial there are no own works produced, but the focus rests on exchange and transmission of knowledge. Hornstra will introduces his works and offers a small portfolio-review of his own workings.

Maximum attendance: 25

AB 9:00

ULI STAIGER
Workshop

These workshops are for attendances, who got already basic knowledge in photoshop, work not nondestructive and already bring in some experiences.

Balance point of the first day:

Creative RAW_conversion: to produce distinctive lights and shadows
Kreative RAW-Konvertierung: Ausgeprägte Lichter und Schatten erzeugen
Discharge via color channel
Discharge via accounting modes
Production of transparence with more methods
Drawing digital light into images with appliance of different accounting modes
Generate realistic shadows
Create fog, dust and damp
Aplliance of dislocation-filter
Build a look, different methods for different images

During the second day, two workings will be created by the attendances themselves, by clarifying composition and working-principles and using other technics which have been teached the day before.

Maximum attendance per day: 12

AB 9:00

RAUMLABOR BERLIN meets OSA
AXEL TIMM & BENJAMIN FOERSTER-BALDENIUS & OLIVER LANGBEIN
Workshop

In two days an arena is going to be build out of simple building material as wooden boards and shrinking foil, consisting of tribunes, stages and projection screens, which is able to generate flexible and abrupt worlds. Form, accomplishment and medial content are going to be worked out together on the first day, the second and third day are for building, programming and unclosing.

attendance: ca. 40

AB 9:00

LABOR B
BJÖRN RÜTHER & THOMAS WUCHERPFENNIG
Workshop

test-arrangement: 
2 teams of 5-10 people, one room and a lot of paper 

Worldmakers watch out!
  We are inviting you for a Re-Design of the world.
There are a lot of problems need be solved that promise a big design challenge on you. In the process legality may be questioned and borders new negotiated. The workshop affords possibility for a playful experiment with the medium paper. The results will be presented on the spot.

13:00 - 16:00

BENJAMIN FOERSTER-BALDENIUS
Portfolio-Review // OBJECT and DISTRICT // Room E 32

FULL-TIME // ROOM 36

EXHIBITION
Patrick Borchers, cleaning , 2007, Video

Martin Varga, hibernation on the sailing boat Dagmar Aaen in the ice of the arctic, 2010, Videodocumentation

FULL-TIME // ROOM 127 A

EXHIBITION
Gaby Peters, o. T. (Wäschespinnen), mechanic objects, 2007, Videodocumentation

Jens Sundheim und Bernhard Reuss, the traveller, from 2001, Web- photography

FULL-TIME // GALLERY

EXIBITION
FOKUS Frau
Stefanie Gartmann
www.fokusfrau.de

10:00 // 14:00 CHESSBOARDROOM

INTERVIEW
MOVIE with Harald Lesch

FRIDAY // 20th MAY

10:30 // AULA

MARIO LOMBARDO
Lecture

In his lecture Mario Lombardo is going to talk about the works during the last 10 years, things at present and about things, that are going to happen.

12:00 // AULA

PHILIPP TEUFEL
Lecture

The chamber of wonders of the 16th century has mirrored the world in his own parlour. Macrocosm is pictured in the microcosm of the assembler, the worldmaker. Out of these microcosms different types of museums have been developed, which are still effective today. These archives of wonders, accessible atlases still maintain their fascination until this day.

The chamber of wonders – apparently dead and forgotten, is however still alive, present and high topical both as curatorial archetype and as creative guiding theme for displaying the world in a small exemplar and leading to a better understanding.

The chamber of wonders is successful as a curatorial principle and creative guidingtheme, because it is managed associative ,full of images, poetic and visionary. All these facts combined addict the new “supermuseum”, which gives curators, designers and visitors a reality check and finally the opportunity for more phantasy, association and own commemoration. The lecture on this is a travel through district and time.

13:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:30 // AULA

PIXELGARTEN
CATRIN ALTENBRANDT & ADRIAN NIESSLER
Lecture

16:00 // AULA

LARS HENKEL
Lecture

Illustration is consciously adopt of magazines, publisher or commercial to give their content and products a personal appearance. But also the economy system has already discovert how to appreciate their publications with illustrated images.

The most important thing, independently of the end product, is the subjective and individual handwriting of the illustrator. Therefore he developes his own visual worlds, from which ideas and motives are generated.

By means of examples out of practice, Lars Henkel introduces different projects together with their way of process, which accrued during his time as an illustrator. The starting point is to subtend the idea of illustration as a decorative and descriptive element with a poetic vision across an explanation.

18:00 // DORTMUNDER U

VERNISSAGE AND AWARD CEREMONY
Of the contest for »WELTENMACHER«

20.05.2011 – 12.06.2011 // DORTMUNDER U

EXIBITION OF THE BEST SUBMISSIONS
Tuesday + Wednesday 10:00 – 18:00
Thursday + Friday 10:00 – 20:00
Saturday + Sunday 11:00 – 18:00
Monday closed

AB 22:00 // FOYER

ENDING PARTY

The lists for participation of the workshops
will be hanged out during the festival from 9o’clock a.m.

AB 9:00

ROB HORNSTRA
Workshop

The catchwords in Rob Honstras workshops are: CROWDFUNDING and SELF-PUBLISHING. Inside the tutorial there are no own works produced, but the focus rests on exchange and transmission of knowledge. Hornstra will introduces his works and offers a small portfolio-review of his own workings.

Maximum attendance: 25

AB 9:00

ULI STAIGER
Workshop

These workshops are for attendances, who got already basic knowledge in photoshop, work not nondestructive and already bring in some experiences.

Balance point of the first day:

Creative RAW_conversion: to produce distinctive lights and shadows
Kreative RAW-Konvertierung: Ausgeprägte Lichter und Schatten erzeugen
Discharge via color channel
Discharge via accounting modes
Production of transparence with more methods
Drawing digital light into images with appliance of different accounting modes
Generate realistic shadows
Create fog, dust and damp
Aplliance of dislocation-filter
Build up a look, different methods for different images.

During the second day, two workings will be created by the attendances themselves, by clarifying composition and working-principles and using other technics which have been teached the day before.

Maximum attendace per day: 12

AB 9:00

RAUMLABOR BERLIN meets OSA
AXEL TIMM & BENJAMIN FOERSTER-BALDENIUS & OLIVER LANGBEIN
Workshop

In two days an arena is going to be build out of simple building material as wooden boards and shrinking foil, consisting of tribunes, stages and projection screens, which is able to generate flexible and abrupt worlds. Form, accomplishment and medial content are going to be worked out together on the first day, the second and third day are for building, programming and unclosing.

attendance: ca. 40

13:00 - 16:00

Peter Bitzer
Portfolio-Review // photography // Room E 32

FULL-TIME // ROOM 36

EXHIBITION
Patrick Borchers, cleaning , 2007, Video

Martin Varga, hibernation on the sailing boat Dagmar Aaen in the ice of the arctic, 2010, Videodocumentation

FULL-TIME // ROOM 127 A

EXHIBITION
Gaby Peters, o. T. (Wäschespinnen), mechanic objects, 2007, Videodocumentation

Jens Sundheim und Bernhard Reuss, the traveller, from 2001, Web- photography

FULL-TIME // GALLERY

EXHIBITION
FOKUS Frau
Stefanie Gartmann
www.fokusfrau.de

10:00 // 14:00 CHESSBOARDROOM

INTERVIEW
MOVIE with Harald Lesch