This summer the city council of Amsterdam objected to the JR exhibition. What followed was a very public debate about JR's work. Following the controversy, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts - one of the sponsors of the JR exhibition - is organizing a debate on art and the public domain.
This book contains an overview of a selection of great and important designers who have emerged from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. This book is almost a work of art in itself, full of visual references ordered by form, as if it were a morph. The visual concept by Coralie Vogelaar refers to the idea of an encyclopedia as we once knew it before the digital revolution. The designer’s task today is not so much to make new images as to give new meaning to the bombardment of images around us.
Our new JR documentary ‘FACES’ has been selected for the 20th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2007 which will take place from 22 November – 2 December.‘FACES’ has been selected for the Joris Ivens Competition. This means that it will be eligible for the Joris Ivens Award and the IDFA Audience Award!!
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