[Nettime-nl] Jan van Toorn and Camiel van WInkel I June 1.

["Esther Deen" <e.deen@rietveldacademie.nl>]

Lecture by Jan van Toorn
In conservation with Camiel van Winkel

Every last Thursday of the month, the Professorship of Art 
& Public Space and all the departments at the Gerrit 
Rietveld Academie organise a lecture: Het Lokaal/The 
Classroom. By joining forces in this way, they can invite 
a more theoretically trained speaker from outside the 
academy, a person with a specific interest in the public 
domain.

Thursday June 1.
Lecture by Jan van Toorn
Afterwards in conversation with Camiel van Winkel
Place: Classroom 1.04, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Time: 17.30
Reservation: esther.deen@rietveldacademie.nl

Jan van Toorn studied graphic design at the Amsterdam 
school of printing [1948-1949] and the Institute of arts 
and crafts [Ivkno, later Gerrit Rietveld Academie] in 
Amsterdam [1950-1953]. He has been a freelance designer in 
visual communication since 1957. The emotional charge of 
van Toorn?s designs stems from his interest in 
investigating visual meaning and the social role of the 
profession as opposed to purely practical requirements.His 
radical teaching and practice were highly influential on 
the younger generation of dutch designers. He taught for 
many years graphic design and visual communication at 
various academies and universities in The Netherlands and 
abroad.From 1991 until 1998 he was director of the Jan van 
Eyck academy in Maastricht, transforming it into an 
international postgraduate centre for fine art, design and 
theory. In this context he organized ?Design beyond 
design, critical reflection and the practice of visual 
communication,? a conference devoted to the discrepancy 
between the socio-cultural and symbolic reality of the 
information-economy in 1997.He is associate professor in 
the ma programme of graphic design, Rhode Island school of 
design, Providence Usa, since 1989.Since 1972, he is 
member of the Alliance graphique internationale.

Camiel van Winkel is an art historian. He regularly 
publishes critiques and essays in a variety of periodicals 
and catalogues. He was recently appointed as Lecturer in 
Visual Art at the College of Fine Arts and Design/AKV/St. 
Joost in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. From 1995 to 2000 he 
was editor of Archis: Magazine for Architecture, the City 
and Visual Culture. From 2000 to 2004 he was editor of the 
Flemish-Dutch art periodical De Witte Raaf. In 2000 he was 
awarded the Jan Bart Klaster Prize for art criticism for 
his book Moderne leegte. Over kunst en openbaarheid ('The 
Modern Void. On Art and the Public Condition').He recently 
published his book The Regime of Visibility, 2006.



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