option information/fiction

http://head.hesge.ch/information-fiction

Photography – Video – Media, Self-media – Curatorial Practices – Documentary Practices – Interventions

By promoting exchanges and navigation between video, photography and the new media, this option highlights their uses as critical instruments, in an artistic logic rooted in the contemporary world. If adding images to a spectacular world already saturated with them is not sufficient, it is up to the artist today to establish a unique relationship to his or her cultural and social environment. This relationship can be expressed through fiction or autofiction as well as through the document, the construction of archives, re-appropriation, the sociological or anthropological investigation, hacktivism, participation in collectives and communities… In all cases, the images resulting from these activities are all questions addressed to our society.

Professor, head of the program : Frank Westermeyer
Professors : Emmanuelle Antille, Christelle Lheureux, Bruno Serralongue
Assistant : Bénédicte Le Pimpec
Theory : Pascal Beausse, Geneviève Loup, Ileana Parvu
Specialized Lecturers : Aurélie Petrel, Claude Piguet, Swann Thommen
Invited Artist : Jules Spinatsch

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Organisation of studies : A first Bachelors cycle over a minimum of 6 semesters, that is, 3 years full-time, offers an evolving programme in which you are called on to consider your artistic intentions, to perfect your technical and theoretical knowledge and to develop an original experimentation and research methodology. All these elements must render you capable of successfully completing the initial formulation of a creative project that could be fully affirmed and supported by a second Masters cycle of 4 semesters.

Qualification awarded: Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in Fine Arts

Cost of studies : 500 Swiss francs per semester.

Additional educational fees: vary depending on the chosen course.

Foreign students benefit from the same conditions as Swiss students.

ADMISSIONS

Admission requirements, procedures and application forms are available in the Admissions section.

Admission to Head − Genève is on a competitive basis. An Admissions Board assesses each application.

Admission in 1^st year:
Registration for entrance examination: until 15 April 2013
Interviews: 29 April – 03 May 2013

Admission by equivalence in years 2 and 3:
Registration for entrance examination: until 15 April 2013
Entrance examination: 13 - 14 May 2013

Start of the academic year: 16 September 2013

COURSE PROGRAM

Semestre B1

Semestre B2

Semestre B3



1 libre théorique ou spécialisé à choix
1 libre spécialisé à choix

Semestre B4

1 fondamental théorique à choix

1 libre théorique ou spécialisé à choix
1 libre spécialisé à choix

Semestre B5

1 fondamental théorique à choix
1 libre théorique à choix
1 libre théorique ou spécialisé à choix
1 libre spécialisé à choix

Semestre B6

1 fondamental théorique à choix
1 libre théorique à choix
1 libre théorique ou spécialisé à choix
1 libre spécialisé à choix