Syntax at the ArtEZ Finals

Elza and Jiman both graduate from Product Design

The graduation project is Elza is Forest5x5, an embodiment experience that aims to redefine and question the understanding of a forest as an entity. We are facing an undeniable climate crisis. Our perception of nature has become a crafted and segmented area of governance. The aim of this experience is to facilitate the understanding between this complex entity and the participants by looking for their similarities instead of differences.

With his graduation project Step on Fantasy, Jiman aims to make futuristic and avant-garde shoes for everybody, not only as one piece design.

Elza and Jiman interviewed by Hanneke and Tosca of Ant Eye, a studio between design, performance and art

Find Elza at:

http://5x5.space

http://instagram.com/elzii.berzii

Find Jiman at:

http://instagram.com/goodgman

Find Ant Eye at:

http://anteye.land

http://instagram.com/anteye_land

Writers collective Wildgewelf visits and writes about all Art & Design shows at the ArtEZ Finals.

This is Tessa’s literary report of the BEAR (Base for Experiment, Art & Research) show.

Find Wildgewelf at:

http://wildgewelf.nl

http://instagram.com/wildgewelf

Daniël graduates from Product Design with his project Blob World, a game in which you can find and collect clothes and accessories. When you find an item you can purchase it physically as well. Bridging the gap in between digital and physical.

Oscar is an artist working with sound and one of the co-founders of Syntax.

Find Daniël at:

http://www.daniel-g-hoek.nl

Find Oscar at:

http://oscarvanleest.com

http://instagram.com/beuysnoise

Andrea graduates from Graphic Design with her project De Allá a Acá (From There to Here), a video installation that follows a microbe's journey from the Atacama desert to the lithium battery powering your laptop. The microbe serves as a vehicle to tell the multiplicity of stories that lie in the sands of the desert, from the cosmological creation of lithium, to the times of the dictatorship.

Laila graduates from BEAR (Base for Experiment, Art and Research) with Liminia, a 3-channel sci fi film installation with a musical composition as a soundscape. The film explores notions of death and rebirth as navigational tools through real, fictional landscapes to evoke questions about genesis, origin, identity and memory. This immersive film installation takes the audience through a journey in the afterlife.

Together Andrea and Laila have formed Cruda Collective.

They are interviewed by Heike de Wit alumna from Graphic Design Arnhem.

Find Andrea at:

http://andreagalanotoro.com

http://instagram.com/andygalano

Find Laila at:

http://instagram.com/lailuxvii

Find Heike at:

http://www.heikedewit.nl

http://www.instagram.com/heikerenee

Malika Soudani en Suzanne Reedijk studeren af bij Creative Writing.

Malika schreef “Waar ik een slaapkamer heb gehad”, een verhalende poëziebundel - een reconstructie van de herinneringen van de auteur. Je leest over een zusje met kanker, twee culturen onder één dak, bruin zijn in een witte familie en een gebroken gezin.

Suzanne schreef “Stormvogel / Gelegenheidshaiku”, een tweeledige novelle over Marley, die in haar jeugd een vriendin verloor, en nu twee ontmoetingen heeft. Een jongetje verschijnt op het strand. Een kind van negen meter zit in een veld. Over rouw, ontzag voor de wereld, en verbinding.

Ze worden geïnterviewd door Frederike Luijten en Lars Meijer van schrijverscollectief Wildgewelf.

Meer over het werk van Malika:

http://malikasoudani.nl

http://instagram.com/malikasoudani

Meer over het werk van Suzanne:

http://andthelilacbushes.nl

http://instagram.com/nachtlampje

http://instagram.com/andthelilacbushes

Meer Wildgewelf:

http://wildgewelf.nl

http://instagram.com/wildgewelf

Jung Kim graduates from Fashion Design. He describes his collection “A Bad Only Lasts 24 Hours” as a mundane fantasy. He is interviewed by Orla Tiffany, brand manager at Nike ACG.

Find Jung at:

http://instagram.com/jungkim.co.kr

Find Orla at:

http://instagram.com/orfhtiff

Dante van Elburg graduates from BEAR (Base for Experiment, Art and Research) with a big orchestra consisting out of drawings, sculptures and paintings. He is interviewed by interdisciplinary artist Natalia Jordanova.

Find Dante at:

http://dantevanelburg.nl

http://instagram.com/dantevanelburg

Find Natalia at:

http://nataliajordanova.com

http://instagram.com/nataliyata

Berend te Linde graduates from the Design Art Technology department with his project Zelfportret, a digital clone of himself using neural networks. His goal is to archive a 24 year old version of himself. The clone exists out of 3 parts, the body, the voice and the mind. He is interviewed by artist, designer and researcher Leïth Benkhedda.

Find Berend at:

www.xn--imq.net

instagram.com/berend.linde

Find Leïth at:

leithbenkhedda.com

instagram.com/451_232

Sjef from Syntax talks to Edward Thomson, head of BEAR, Hendrik-Jan Grievink, head of Graphic Design, and Martijn van Boven, head of Design Art Technology, about Finals this year.

Sjef from Syntax interviews Jolie about her graduation projects.