Can Jokes Bring Down Governments?

Digital publishing house Strelka Press announces the latest in its series of essays, Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? by graphic design collective Metahaven.

Research Master's Visual Arts, Media and Architecture

Bik Van der Pol, Accumulate, Collect, Show, 2011. Courtesy Frieze projects, London.

Arts and Culture: Visual Arts, Media and Architecture (VAMA) is an international two-year research Master's programme at VU University Amsterdam. The interdisciplinary programme is aimed at sharpening student's critical and academic skills in the fields of art history, architecture history, visual culture and media studies. VAMA focuses on recent developments in these fields from both theoretical and historical perspectives and examines the complex relationships between visual art, architecture and media.

Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam: Call for admission

INSIDE THE WHITE WHALE. Temporary spaces for young entrepreneurship, the Work Shop. Photo: Corneel de Wilde – Kogelvis Fotografie. © Sandberg Instituut/Vacant NL.

The Sandberg Instituut offers Master’s programmes in Fine Arts, Applied Arts (Dirty Art Department), Design (Think Tank for Visual Strategies), and Interior Architecture (Studio for Immediate Spaces).

Since September 2011 the institute offers temporary two-year programmes. 

Anouk Vogel

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Anouk Vogel's projects often oscillate between design and art.

She was born and grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. She studied landscape architecture at the Metropolitan University of Manchester in England where she graduated in 2001 with Honours and Distinction. After her studies she moved to the Netherlands. In 2007, after a few years of working for various firms like West 8, Bureau B+B and Inside/Outside, she set up her own landscape architecture practice in Amsterdam.