Public lectures: habilitation lecture by Michal Tornyai, inaugural lecture by Marcel Benčík

Lecture hall no. 135, Hviezdoslavovo nám. č. 18

Program:

• 10:30 AM: Michal Tornyai: Shaping with Typography

  • Public habilitation lecture and defense of the habilitation thesis by Michal Tornyai, Mgr. art., ArtD., university teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (VŠVU), titled Shaping with Typography.

  • "Highlighting creation of fonts as a skill, perceiving lettering as a material and understanding the form of fonts in a broad context are the key theses of my habilitation lecture. I will try to confront them with my own author's work and the vision of the concept of my teaching activity."

^{Photo: Matej Hakár}

• 11:30 AM: Marcel Benčík: We are the Exhibition, the Display, the Space

  • Public inaugural lecture and defense of the inaugural thesis by Marcel Benčík, doc. Mgr. art., ArtD., university teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (VŠVU), titled We are the Exhibition, the Display, the Space.
  • The lecture will be held in Slovak language with simultaneous translation into English language.

  • "In my inaugural work, I deal with the designer's interest in public and architectural space, and especially in exhibition space. I am interested in the units of information that I come into contact with, and their transformation and interpretation as the goal of design work: data reconstruction, information as a building element of a spatial structure, as a parameter for building an object, number as abstract information and identification, median - middle value as a basis and correlation for the subsequent layout-arrangement-delineation. Since in my work I deal with complex design realization (such as exhibition design or projects in architecture), a crucial element of such work is cooperation with other actors (curators, artists and architects) and the key to success is mutual trust and understanding. I will also focus on the phenomenon of the viewer as a decisive goal of communication and the possibility of interaction with him."

Both lectures are public and will take place within the habilitation and inaugural proceedings in the field of DESIGN.

Lectures will be held in Slovak.