Öffentliche Vortragsreihe des MAS Szenografie:
SCENOGRAPHIES - Display in Art, Architecture & Stage Design
Michel Zai aka etoy.
Zai is a founder and one of the long term key
personalities of the art group etoy. Zai served as etoy CEO from 1996 to 2009. He was involved in the planning and execution of the legendary "digital hijack" (1,5 million search engine users kidnapped in 1996), he coordinated "TOYWAR" (etoy.com domain name and trademark battle in 1999 and 2000), designed six etoy. TANKS (container based etoy. STUDIOS since
1998), developed the concept for etoy. SHARE and currently invests his resources in MISSION ETERNITY - a digital cult of the dead. Zai won international awards such as Prix Ars Electronica, Namics Media Art Award, Telefonica Foundation's Vida Award for Artificial Life and
several grants. His work with etoy has been published by die Gestalten Verlag, M.I.T. Press, Dumont, Tate Publishing and is shown in museums worldwide: i.e. Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Secession Vienna, Kunsthaus St. Gallen, Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, ICC Tokyo or the National Art Museum of China.
Since 1996 Zai lectured at universities and institutions such as the M.I.T. Media Lab, HSG St. Gallen, DASARTS and Mediamatic Amsterdam, Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute Zurich, Intercommunication Center ICC Tokyo, the Interactive Institute Stockholm, Fact Liverpool, Tsinghua
University Beijing and many international festivals. Zai holds a master's degree in visual communication from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. At the age of 18 he started working as anchorman for Swiss National Television, and in 1992 founded HIRN-lein, a controversial
telephone entertainment company. Beyond his commitment for etoy, Zai was head of unit and professor at the media & interaction design unit of ECAL (University for Art and Design in Lausanne) from 2003 to 2009.
Today he works as freelance instructor, researcher and consultant for NGOs, universities and corporate clients.
ÖFFENTLICHE VORTRAGSREIHE DES POSTGRADUIERTEN-PROGRAMMS "ARCHITEKTUR UND SZENOGRAFIE" im Herbstsemestser 2009/2010
Das Master of Advanced Studies-Programm "Szenografie" der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Leitung: Stephan Trüby) veranstaltet im Herbstsemester 2009/2010 eine öffentliche Vortragsreihe mit dem Titel "Scenographies: Display in Art, Architecture and Stage Design".
15.10.2009 Architekt und Künstler Iassen Markov (Sofia): "The Golden Principle of Monsterization"
22.10.2009 Musiker (Ex-KLF), Künstler (Ex-K Foundation) und Schriftsteller Bill Drummond (London): "The Future of Music"
05.11.2009 Filmemacher und Videokünstler Georg Lendorff (Zürich)
19.11.2009 Architektin u. Filmtheoretikerin Doris Agotai (Zürich) und Theaterregisseurin Barbara David Brüesch (Zürich): "Narrative Environments"
26.11.2009 Regisseur und Künstler Christoph Schlingensief und Architekt Francis Kéré (beide Berlin): "Festspielhaus für Afrika"
03.12.2009 Kulturtheoretiker u. Rhetorikforscher Heiner Mühlmann (Zürich): "Architektur, Szenografie und Cross-Media"
10.12.2009 Kunstwissenschaftler Philip Ursprung (Zürich): "Performance und Architektur"
17.12.2009 Künstler Zai Michel von der Gruppe Etoy (Zürich): "Etoy Scenography"
07.01.2010 Filmregisseur, Künstler und Ausstellungsmacher Peter Greenaway (Amsterdam): "New Possibilities in Scenography"
weitere Infos: http://sceno.zhdk.ch