Prague College

 

 Students of the Higher National Diploma Graphic Design and Interactive Media programme created for their Graduation Exhibition
an identity which reflects their individual personalities but also their team spirit.

 

 

The idea of the hand emerged from the fact that there are five designers; the hand is a symbol of their combined creativity as four graphic design students
and one interactive media student. Each finger is designed by one of the students in their own style, "We wanted our work to speak for us.
Our exhibition is innovative and unusual; come and discover what we have been working on."

The students invite everyone to their show which is happening on December 8th at Prague College! 

 

Some students from the School of Art & Design took part in the Experience@Singapore Programme. This is the second time our students could take advantage of this exciting opportunity to meet and network with well-known companies in the design field in Singapore.

 

  Read report from Singapore written by BA Graphic Design student here... 

 

 

 Experience@Singapore is offered to undergraduate and graduate students with vision, talent and the drive to succeed from select universities.

Prague College, together with Tanec Praha o.s., organised an exhibition of students’ work at the theatre Ponec. The students were asked to redesign the visual identity of a civic non-profit association, Tanec Praha. This project was organised as a part of the Corporate Identity course in the HND Graphic Design programme at Prague College. 

 

   

Students with their work at Ponec Theatre where the exhibition took place.

 

Prague College students from the Interactive Media and Fine Art programs attended two interesting lectures by American composer and improviser Pauline Oliveros and by one of the world's most distinguished living psychologists, Philip Zimbardo.

 

The first lecture, presented by Pauline Oliveros and held in the American Center in Prague, consisted of a multimedia presentation of a recently completed environmental work entitled Tower Ring, and a short activity introducing lecture attendees to the fundamentals of Oliveros' listening discipline Deep Listening.
Ms. Oliveros is an early pioneer in the field of electronic music, and an important figure in the tradition of Experimental music within the US.   She is a founder and director of the Deep Listening Institute, and performs across the world in major art, developmental technology, and experimental music festivals.  Now in her 80th year, her career has spanned 6  decades.  Ms. Oliveros was in Prague to perform on the premier concert of the Babel Festival taking place in Divadlo Archa.

 

Later that evening students attended a seminar at the Prague contemporary art center DOX, given by Philip Zimbardo. The lecture was entitled "My Jorney from Evil to Heroism"  and detailed his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, recent examples of evil and heroism in the world, and his new foundation the Heroic Imagination Project (HIP).

 

   

 

 

A new group within the Prague College Research Center from the School of Art & Design has organized a series of workshops for its students and faculty members over the summer.
The Experimental Arts Research Lab (EARL) is a new initiative for further research and development of student and faculty authored projects requiring a dedication of time and resources beyond what is available in the classroom. 

Members of EARL participated in collaboration with nomadic arts organization LIBAT earlier this summer in the Museum 3000 exhibition  in the National Museum, Prague, and plan to develop interactive media collaborations with other universities and institutions in future.

 

 

 

 

See more photos from the exhibition here...

 

This year's BA (Hons) Graphic Design graduate, Laetitia Desroches, was one of 12 people shortlisted from almost 1,200 entrants for the 2011 Penguin Design Award. The brief was to design a cover for a book by Gabriel García Márquez titled "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

Laetitia was invited to the award ceremony in London where her design was exhibited along with the other shortlisted entries and the winning designs.

 

  

  

 

Congratulations Laetitia!

 

Josef Stransky, a recent graduate of the HND Interactive Media programme, talked to expats.cz about his life as a street artist in Prague and about his decision to study at Prague College. 

 

Josef exhibited his works together with other students during their graduation exhibition that took place in June at Prague College. Take a look at the photos from the exhibition here...
Some of his works can also be seen in the article by expats.cz 

 

Read the article here...

 

Jakub Gerhardt, our graphic design student, had recently visited Cannes to represent Slovakia and Prague College at this year's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Jakub participated in the Roger Hatchuel Academy Programme lead by Rock Boyko (former Chief Creative Officer and Co-President of Ogilvy & Mather) and Clive Challis (Head of the Advertising course at Central Saint Martins).
Roger Hatchuel Academy was named after the founder of the LIONS CANNES International Festival of Creativity in order to teach students from all around the world all about the industry.

 

 

 

 

We asked Jakub to sheare his experience with us. Here is what he said:
"Cannes has slapped me from left to right, blew my mind in and out, but most importantly showed me and reassured me about my future steps."

Read Jakub's whole testimony here...

 

Jamie Fisher is a Canadian artist living and working in Prague. She studied Illustration and Design in Montreal before moving to Prague in 2008, and has recently completed her Bachelors degree in Fine Arts Experimental Media at Prague College. This will be the first solo exhibition for this young up-and-coming Canadian artist.

 

 

 

On exhibit will be portraits that Jamie has developed over the past year. She is deeply interested in the emotion and unique attitude expressed by an individuals’ face. The portraits aim to capture and reflect some truth about each subject, whether it be good or bad. 

The exhibition will be running at Napa Art Gallery | Prokopská 8 |  7th - 28th of July . Opening will take place on July 7th from 7pm.

 

Congratulations Jamie!!

 

 

 

 

 

Take a look at the whole gallery here...

 

 

 

    

 

 See whole photogallery on Prague College Flickr profile here...

 

School of Art and Design and Interactive Media students invite you to "CANNED SOUND".

Prague College students from beginning and advanced sound classes will present performance, interactive, and multimedia works for your listening pleasure. Works from the interactive media Design and Authoring class will also be on display. Expect different types of experimental sound art and interactive systems from recorded sound projects to live performances, with perhaps even a puppet show.

 

The event will take place at K4 Klub on June 30 from 8 - 11pm
Free entry!

 

Prague College School of Art and Design invites you to the
HND Interactive Media Final Show

The show will present works of ten students finishing their 2nd year of Interactive Media programme.
Find out more about the exhibition and the students at
www.finalshow.cz

 

 

Vernisage will take place on: Monday June 20 | 6 pm
Exhibition will be open: June 21 - June 22 | 1-7 pm

Prague College | Blanicka Entrance
Polska 10,Vinohrady

Looking forward to seeing you there!

 

Two recent graduates of the BA (Hons) Fine Art Experimental Media programme, Peter Marencik and Jamba Mulimbwe, gave an interview to the Prague Post on the occasion of the programme Graduation Exhibition opening that took place in May.  

Read the Prague Post article here...
Find out about this year's BA (Hons) Fine Art Experimental Media Graduation Exhibition 9trajectories at www.9trajectories.net or see photo gallery here...

 

 

Photo: installation by Peter Marencik

 

 

  

  

 

See more photos from the vernissage here...

 

From 2008-2011, students in the Prague College Graphic Design programmes were asked to create original album cover art work for the Orchestre Rock-A-Mambo, for an assignment dealing with the task designing across cultural contexts. Soukous music was selected in part due to its obscurity and cultural specificity: since few people have heard of African rumba, and since the Orchestre Rock-A-Mambo tracks have never been released outside of original 78rpm records, there is no prevailing idea about what such an album cover should look like. The usual visual clichés associated with Africa are inadequate to properly describe the unique, urban, hybridized dance craze of Congolese mambo.

Students were required to rely on their powers of research and social investigation to develop appropriate and striking visual solutions. This exhibition presents some of the best and most creative designs produced for the assignment, and demonstrates the extent to which graphic design can magnify a specific moment of cultural history and thereby elevate it from relative obscurity.

 

 

 

About the music:

Brazzaville, on the banks of the Congo in central Africa. The local radio station boosts its signal during War years to broadcast popular dance music —including a health dose of Afro-Cuban rhythms — to free French forces fighting in distant parts of the African continent. A taste develops among the local record-buying public for Latin rhythms – idioms that descended centuries earlier from African musical traditions, in part. Musicians in Brazzaville and across the river in Kinshasa blend imported meringue and cha cha cha beats with the local music to create an idiosyncratic blend known as Soukous or African rumba. In 1959, Joseph Kabasele – also known as Le Grand Kalle in deference to his musical stature – leads a all-star selection of members from his Africa Jazz and Franco's OK Jazz big bands into Studio Esengo to launch a new band, Orchestre Rock-A-Mambo. 

Prague College graduates of School of Art & Design Bachelors programmes are finishing their preparations of professional instalations of their final projects in well known Prague galleries. The BA (Hons) Graphic Design Graduation Exhibition will be held again in AF BKK gallery and the opening will be on May 19th at 6pm. The BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduation Exhibition is starting on May 18th at 7pm in Trafacka Hall.

Read more information about the  BA (Hons) Graphic Design Graduation Exhibition and  BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduation Exhibition.

 

 

 
Come see Prague Colleges students' work and meet the students and their lecturers.

 

Interactive Media students invite you to their audio-visual performance!
"DATA LOST"
 

 

   David Black, Lego, Edie, Xatori, Wan Dahl, LL, Embee, Sonya, Puntanella and Jose
supported by their lecturers, will perform live using VJ software to mix multimedia content developed
during "Computer Interface Design Principles” class.

 

Come and join Prague College and their students on
March 22 | Tuesday | from 8pm at Mosiac House | Odboru 4 | Prague 2

 

See you there!

In past few weeks George Allen, head of School of Art & Design organized and held a photograpy workshop in three parts, dealing with camera operation and with lighting.  In the first part students had a chance to learn about exposure, depth of field and motion, while second and third part dealth with using of studio lights and green screen. discussing will deal with light placement, white balance and lighting quality.

 

   

Take a look at more photos at our Flickr profile here...

 

Students and professors of the Interactive Media programme enjoyed 3 days full of art and multimedia, including interesting events, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, performances and concerts.  Transmediale is considered to be the most important festival of art and digital culture in the world.

This event covers exactly the art areas of Prague College Interactive Media and BA Fine Art programmes, and thus is quite inspiring and beneficial for the students.

 

    

See more pictures from the trip here...

 
"It was a first trip of this kind within our Interactive Media programme, sort of a pilot project, and it went really well. We hope to make it a regular event with additional activities for our students," says Marie Silondi, Interactive Media Programme Leader.

Enjoy at least a small bit of the festival‘s atmosphere here:

Braun Tube Jazz Band and Japanese artist Ei Wada
“Face Visualizer” , “Face Instrument” - Daito Manabe

 

The BA Fine Art Experimental Media programme is well under way.
The first year of the programme is now starting with the second semester.

Check out the photos from the critique sessions and see what our students have been creating in the past few months.

 

 

 

 

Take a look at more photos here...

 

 

 

See more photos at our Flickr page here...

 

Students of Graphic Design, Natalia Ogneva and Silvia Weinzettelova, succeeded with their proposals in professional competitions. They joined other successful students who have demonstrated their talent already during their studies and showed the application of skills and knowledge acquired at Prague College’s School of Art & Design.

Natalia Ogneva, one of this year's HND Graphic Design graduates, was chosen by the renowned glass art studio Artel to create its new Sequence motif for the autumn of 2010. Sequence is one of Artel’s most complex designs. It features an intricate, boldly elegant pattern of parallel and diagonal lines.

The jury of the International Biennial Competition LOGO 2010, shortlisted two of Silvia Weinzettelova's works. Her logo, created for The English Academy, won second place in the student category.

 

 

 

Read the interviews with Natalia and Silvia in an article published on Design Portal in Czech
...or view them here in English

Prague College students Petr Zapotocky, Alexandr Panek and Laetitia Desroches shared their exciting experiences with the Prague Post. See more in the article Rubbing shoulders with the pros by Emily Thompson.

Our students were among a selec group of graphic design students from around the world chosen to participate in the five-day event sponsored by Contact Singapore agency.

Read more and see pictures in the article here or visit our facebook page.

 

 

 

Prague College has become a partner of the first ANEMIC Festival in Prague. The festival will introduce a fresh multi-disciplinary program consisting of  video art, short films, animations and documentary films. In addition there will be video and interactive installations, audio-visual performances, workshops, lectures, public discussions and specific events.

 

 

 

 

The festival will be held in Prague from November 4th - 16th. The screenings in Bio Ponrepo will be followed by NO STANDARTS, a series of public performances and installations.

On November 9th the exhibition of audiovisual and interactive installation "Immerse Me!" will open in AVU Gallery, featuring Underground City XXI project.

ANEMIC Festival is an initiative of the non-profit organization “M77 - Arts, Digital Creation & Training” founded by Kristof Slussareff, a principal lecturer at Prague College.

 
Our students Peter Marencik and Beat Wicky are among the volunteers preparing the festival. Prague College students and employees are also part of the programme itself; Yevgeniya Drovossekova will introduce her live audiovisual performance at the festival opening on November 4th in Bio Ponrepo. Principal lecturer Jorge Boehringer will introduce his current works at the festival as well.
 

There will also be a screening of two documentaries produced by Masa Hilcisin and Cazim Dervisevic. "Queer Sarajevo Festival" (2009) is dealing with violence against the gay population in Sarajevo. The second documentary, "Not If You Can But You Must" (2006), is a story about the life of people from the village of Lukomir, the most isolated village in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 

Complete programme here.

Students of the BA (Hons) Fine Art Experimental Media program joined their instructors for a weekend of creative exploration at the Art Mill International school of Creativity for Youth located in the Šumava Countryside.  During this time the students and instructors worked together on a number of impromptu collaborative sculptural, musical, and photographic projects inspired by the rustic space and rural environment in which the Mill is located.

 

  

 

See amazing pictures from the Art Mill here!

Laetitia Desroches, Alexandr Panek and Petr Zapotocky were chosen to visit Singapore by invitation of the Singapore government agency Contact Singapore. They have only 5 days to explore this world-class city-state that has made waves around the world for its business excellence, connectivity to the rest of the world, and innovation.

So far the students attended for example the iExperience guided tour hosted by Infocomm Development authority of Singapore (IDA), the regional headquarters of Ubisoft as well as the regional headquarters of Double Negative, one of the leading providers of visual effects for the film industry. Visit to Fusionopolis, a science & technology cluster and brefing by Singapore Media Development Authority (MDA) was followed by a visit to Scrawl Studios, one of the most prolific animation companies in Asia.

 

   

 

 We will bring you a full coverage of the trip accompanied with photos and interviews, after the students return.

 

How do penguins survive at the polar circle under the northern lights? What do they do when there is no sun and they cannot sleep? We’ve surveyed a few young local “Czech penguins” for you, who confessed what prevents them from feeding their babies, building an Igloo or playing hide-and-seek.

This Interactive installation for Czech Penguin was prepared by students of the School of Art & Design and the School of IT & Computing at Prague College.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See more pictures from the week-long workshop.

 

Students of Interactive Media and Graphic Design have joined forces  to create the most diverse final show in the history of Prague College – the Prague College School of Art & Design Final Show.

This exciting week-long exhibition of students' works will showcase interactive applications, 3D design, animation, typography, web design, illustrations, logo design, print design and corporate identity, as well as personal artworks. 

The HND Interactive Media students' show will take place from March 18- 21 Read more...
The HND Graphic Design students will exhibit their work from March 25-28  Read more...

On March 27 you can look forward to the "Wavelab" sound performance by Interactive Media students, and on April 1 students will perform "Visualize that!" a live audio-visual performance at the nearby Pilot Club in Vinohrady.

Students participating on behalf of HND Interactive Media are:

Jamie Fisher, Milos Kubacka, Vahe Muradyan and Artur Muradyan

HND Graphic Design students showcasing their works are:

Sibel Rhea Akyolova, Dmitry Strapchev, Ye Jie Shuang, Michaela Istokova, Polina Tikk and Victoria Denisyuk

Everyone is welcome to attend the opening and shows!

 

During fall semester students of Graphic Design worked on ideas for the visual identity of Underground City XXI. They researched the ideas behind the project in cooperation with the Interactive Media and Computing departement, as well as Libat and Labin Art Express.

 

 

See all works here...

 

 

 

Enjoy the slideshow of photos here...

 

The Switchboard project was a smooth continuation of a series of META.ID-(III, IV) workshops, organized by LIBAT - Hybrid Laboratories for the Arts and New Technologies and Interactive Media department.

The exhibition took place thanks to the collaboration of Interactive Media students and their tutors: Pascal Silondi, Bethany Lacktorin, Radim Labuda, Christophe Saidi, George Allen, and Marie Silondi.

From May 16-26, 2009 Prague College students transformed a neighborhood gallery space into an interactive labyrinth with the help of new technologies. Students and lecturers were working together and surprised us with the different types of audio, video and sound installations on show.

Galerie Hygienická stanice
Italská 34, Praha 2

See photos in the gallery of Prague College and some extra photos here.

 

The purpose of META.ID-s IV was to develop a 5 days in-situ workshop at Prague College. That workshop was produced by LIBAT - Hybrid Laboratory for Arts and New Technologies, and was directed by Pascal and Marie Silondi. We created a collaborative, sensible and inter-media experience, inviting artists, IM lecturer’s like Christophe Saidi, students and technological experts like Quix to work in a collaborative environment.

Interested in the use of new media and new technologies in arts and design, we presented technological principles like motion capture, MIDI protocols and sensors. We discussed and then created a hybrid environment, inter-connecting concepts, un-linear story-telling, aesthetics and technical know-how. We created an experimental space in between performance and installation, crossing media and techniques like video, sound, laser and 3D space, in a contemporary interactive and navigable mixed architecture open to an audience.

We would like to thank Prague College and the students from Interactive Media, who were involved in all aspects of the workshop.

Anastasia Chrysanthakopoulou, Jakub Grosz, Daniel Jerabek, Michael Kidane, Zaira Kulsariyeva, Jamba Mulimbwe, Simona Noera, Tomas Patlich, Jana Peknikova, Tihana Valent.

Special Thanks to QUIX's team and Christophe Saidi for their participation, their know-how, open minds, curiosity and creativity.

 

 

Great thanks and congratulations to Pascal Silondi, Pamela Ranfaing and students and staff at Prague College for the successful runnning of the Meta.IDs III conference.

The purpose of META.ID-s III was to develop a 5 day in-situ workshop at PragueCollege. The workshop, produced by LIBAT - Hybrid Laboratory For Arts and New Technologies, proposed a collaborative, sensible and inter-media experience, inviting artists from Slovenia, France and the Czech Republic, as well as students and technological experts, to work in a collaborative environment.

They explored different types of contemporary media, techniques and languages like performance, video and soundscape creation, interactive 3D environments creation and un-linear storytelling, augmenting bodies by using different sensors' types, MIDI controllers, video tracking techniques and programming systems, to propose an inter-media scenography based on dynamic navigation principles into a narrative body constituted of micro-stories as well as micro-scenes, created especially for that event by the students of the college.

- Pascal Silondi (FR): Artist , Director of Libat & teacher/learning coach of the Interactive Media department at PragueCollege.
Scenography, interactive principles programming, haptic interface design, MIDI controllers, mechanic.

- Pamela Ranfaing (FR): Artist, General Coordinator of Libat & teacher in the Interactive Media department at PragueCollege.

 

To see more photos and more information click here!

The “Seven audio-visual live mix” evening will propose on Friday 14^th of November, from 19.00, in the cafe “Nordica”, 7 audio-visual mixes performed live by the Interactive Media students who are involved in the “Computer Interface Design Principles” class.

The purpose of the action is about to explore how to interact in real time with multimedia content  using VJ’s software and their potential in terms of sound analysis, compatibilities with MIDI or DMX protocols, and to think about how to replace keyboard or mouse to control live interactive digital storytelling.

The audiovisual mixes will propose different sensible environments or atmospheres and will be performed by, Zaira Kulsarieyeva, Dinh Thi Le, Jamba Mulimbwe, Tomas Patlich, Jana Peknikova, Tihana Suput-Valent, and Alexandra Varsova.

 

 

 

Prague College design students undertook an assignment 'Design For Need' acting as a design team for Detský Domov Nechanice.

Detský Domov Nechanice is the largest children's home of its type in the Czech Republic. It cares for children from the ages of 2 and 18.

Students had to create a new logo design and identity for the home. This identity was then applied to designs for the homes web page and promotional materials.

Students worked with the children and the staff at Detský Domov Nechanice and visited the home to meet the staff and the children for a better understanding of the issues and to work with the children and staff in creating a design for the home.

The staff and children of home selected their final designs for a logo which was then narrowed down to one final graphic which the home will use as their identity.

Prague College and the Graphic Design department would like to extend their thanks to everyone at Detský Domov Nechanice for their assistance and for the opportunity to work with them for a very good and often forgotten cause. Prague college will continue to work with and support this children's home.

See the website the students designed here: 

http://nechanice.zencode.eu/