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Barcelona Culture is the professional webpage of Jeffrey Swartz
NEWS
-"Food Design", March 28, 2012, for Off Menu, a project by Miralda. I participated in the debate on the subject of food design as part of Off Menu, the Miralda project running parallel to the Alimentaria fair. The session, held at the Fundació Catalunya Caixa space at Gaudí's La Pedrera, looked at the diverse work of designing food, with Elena Vela from Danone R+D, Toni Massanes from the Fundació Alicia, and the artist Miralda.
-Inaugural Lecture, Escola de l'Art del Treball, Barcelona. On Nov 17 I gave the inaugural address to the students and faculty of the Escola de l'Art del Treball, at the Escola Industrial, Barcelona. The presention was entitled "Leaps, Bursts and Lights that Come On: Reflections on Creativity and Creators".
-Martí Guixé Newsletter. A short piece appeard in mid November called "Designing Auctions", for Martí Guixé Newsletter #16. The newsletter appears quarterly a features new work, projects and exhibits.
-Panel chaired by Jeffrey Swartz: Occupy Curating: Politics, Protests and the Future of Curatorial Practice at Dublin Contemporary, Dublin. October 29, 2011 at Earlsfort Terrace. The debate on bottom-up curating, grounded in community and shared with artists and users in content and format, with the following professionals: Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, Mostyn), José Falconi (Curator, Latin American Art Forum), Oxana Maleeva (Curator, Art Apart), William Morrow, (Director, 21C Museum, Kathy Noble (Curator, Tate Modern), and Steve Picolo (Artist).
-Culture Cutbacks and the Taking Apart of the Catalan Arts Council
An information session and debate on the Catalan Budget Law and the Omnibus Law, cutting back the identity and power of the Catalan Arts Council, took place on June 16, 2011, at the Centre Artístic de Sant Lluc, Barcelona. With the participation of Jeffrey Swartz, art critic and curator. See my articles on the subject, in Catalan, on my blog.
Organized by: Associació d’Artistes Visuals de Catalunya
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
-Recent publications online include a review "Indirect Style", appearing in December 2011 in Artecontexto, and a chronicle of Dublin Contemporary, seen in January 2012 in A-Desk.
-Design Dreams. In the Catalan journal L'Avenç, a new article on Catalan design and entrepreneurial innovation. In this piece I consider the Catalan context in contrast to the thesis of the exhibition on Italian "Dream Factories" , curated by Alberto Alessi at the Triennale Museum, Milan.
-My paper entitled "Critique, Language and Strategy in Martí Guixé's 'ex-designer'" was presented at the Design Activism and Social Change congress organized by the Design History Society Congress in Barcelona.
The paper is available online, see the link to Papers: http://designhistoryfoundation.org/congres/
EDUCATION
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