Friday, February 24, 2012

EINlab: Display!


Friday morning we had a workshop with Julian Menand. We talked about importance of displaying work on the website. 

 Looked at examples of other sites
 wrote down some ideas about the way we represent our work in internet



 discussed ideas
In the second part of workshop we did an exercise where participants wrote down a paragraph about their photography or an artist statement. Afterwards they explained it to others verbally. It was interesting to see the difference between a formal and a written form.
Photographed by: Baiba Buceniece

Artist Talk with Julian Menand/ EINlab: Try and See: Intro and 3d photography

On Thursday Julian Menand talked about his work.




Later Ania led first Einlab: See! She started with an introduction about visual perception and how does such an approach correspond to photography. This approach will be the core for all the labs. Participants saw some examples of illusions of perception but also made experiments with vision.




The second part of the lab was dedicated to 3d photography. First, participants learned some theory behind the binocular vision, and then they experimented to create their own anaglyphs.






In the EIN: TRY lab participants drew associations that are connected with their project. That way they found new aspects to their project. Also we had the second session of crits.
Photographed by: photos n. 1, 2, 3, 4, 9 by Barba Buceniece; photos n. 5, 6, 7, 8 , 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

Thursday, February 23, 2012

EIN Lab: Try Introduction



So, the days unfold and the ideas begin to snowball... 
Aleks opens the morning with a creatively stimulating game named "Brute Think!"





Participants were asked to randomly draw 2 words from an envelope. The task was to create a relevance between these two words in a sentence structure.





The afternoon was followed with a CRIT Session. 
Participants are each given 20 minutes to present a piece of their work and receive open criticism from the rest of the group. 




A session consists of: 
-a description of the artists process and intentions for this particular work
-a discussion of the skills and practices utilized 
-open questions
-free associative comments & observations






The purpose of the CRIT Sessions is best understood in 3 points:
/Describe
/Interpret
/Judge

Receiving a variety of descriptions from individual participants provides as a means to expand the free association process. Allowing a flow of interpretations around the room opened doors for discussions and new points of view. 
Running along the lines of the theme "It's not good enough," we refrained from reaching the Judge step, because...well.....it just wouldn't be good enough. 






Photographed by: photos n. 1,2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 by Katarina Jazbec; photos n. 3, 4, 5 by Baiba   Buceniece
Text by: Enya Mommsen

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Welcoming Dinner & A First Working Day

After a long day of flight-switching and checking in, the photographers were finally able to sit down on Monday night for an introduction dinner in the Liebig space, hosted by Aleks, Ania & Julien.





Tuesday provided as a fresh start. We got to know each other by drawing portraits. 



Later participants met with photographer Jan Von Holleben to discuss their project proposals on a one-to-one basis.








Photographed by: 
photos n. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 by Katarina Jazbec; photos n. 6, 7, 11, 12, 13 by Baiba Buceniece
Text by: Enya Mommsen

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Thursday, February 9, 2012

PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR EINLAB: INTERACT!

We are excited to announce the final list of photographers accepted to EIN lab: Interact!
We would like to thank all the photographers for their interest and motivation! Stay in touch for more info! 

GERMANY

Francesco Cascavilla
Wei Hsu
Elsa Thorp
Xisco Rosell Perez

LATVIA
Agnese Mūrniece
Ieva  Raudsep
Liga Spunde
Una Stade

POLAND

Katarzyna Branicka 
Agata Poniatowska
Pawel Starzec
Agata Zubrzycka

SLOVENIA

Aljaz  Celarc
Katarina Jazbec
Sara Erjavec Tekavec
Matej Župec