# 4 | Ken De Keyser, Iwona Pom, Jonas Verheijden
organized by the specialization Media & Information Design on 5 december 2018
Ken De Keyser is Creative Director at VRT. He has been working as a graphic
designer and freelance Art Director for a wide range of media productions after he graduated in 2004. Over the last few years Ken had a leading role in the rebrand of VRT NWS, working on the brand’s strategy and design language, leading a creative team of directors and designers and creating fresh digital concepts and content formats. ‘In times of fake news and distrust towards media, I want our brand to be visible, especially on social media. I want people to instantly recognise our design language and think: this is reliable, accessible content
made by experts.’
Iwona Pom is an information, motion & graphic designer, a lecturer at the Warsaw University and at The Schiller National Film School. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and conducts her empirical and artistic research in the Interdisciplinary Research Centre of National Schiller Film School in Lodz. As a member of the museum advisory committee (M Museum Leuven) she combines the domains of visual perception (Neuroscience Institute,School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin) and new media design (LUCA School of Arts, she graduated in 2014) by scrutinizing the issues of human cognition while mediating and
perceiving
art.iwonapom.wordpress.com
Jonas Verheijden is the creative director and co-founder of Superlab, a digital
design studio based near Hasselt. After graduating in 2006, he started working as an interactive designer at The Parking Lot. Later on he became an art director at Nascom, a digital agency in Genk. In 2011, he became a design director at Boondoggle. In that capacity, he managed a team of 7 multi-disciplinary
designers. His passion for both branding and interactive design translates into a portfolio filled with award-winning creative campaigns, visual interfaces and brand designs. At Superlab (founded in 2017), Jonas is in charge of all things creative, from visual identities to interface designs, for clients such as NATO, Isabel Group,
Infrabel & Brussels Philharmonic.
www.superlab.co
# 7 | Francesco Del Conte, Axel De Marteau & Erien Withouck
organized by the specialization Photography on 27 February 2019
Francesco Del Conte (1988, Milan) lives and works in Turin. He achieved a bachelor's degree in graphic design and printmaking at the Albertina Academy of fine Arts in Turin. He moved to Belgium to study at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, where he graduated with a master's degree in photography in 2013. His dissertation focused on the contemporary use of analogue photography and, since then, he has worked exclusively with photographic film. In 2016 he has been invited by the Centre for Contemporary Art CCA Kitakyushu to attend a fellowship program in Japan. This experience turned out to be very important to his research, increasingly focused on subjects characterized by formal and socio-cultural interests. Since 2018 his work is represented by Heillandi, a gallery specialized in photography based in Lugano. His projects have been exhibited in Italy, Belgium, Japan and Switzerland.
Axel De Marteau (b. 1994, Wilrijk) lives and works in Brussels. In 2016 he graduated as an MA Photography at LUCA School of Arts Brussels. His artistic practice focuses on concepts of the habitat, urban development, the coexistence of human beings and nature and the photographic medium as a mediator within the creation process. In 2016 Central E For Contemporary Art organized his first solo exhibition, entitled As a bird dives down the water. The same year he received the LUCA Award, Prize of the Contemporary Art Committee of KU Leuven. His work was shown at BredaPhoto 2016, Studio Omstand (Arnhem, 2017), Vitrine #85 Sint Lukas Brussel (2018) and Terrarium (Brussels, 2018), among others. De Marteau is also active as an art critic. His texts have been published in Metropolis M and Tubelight.
Erien Withouck (1994) lives and works in Brussels. The focus in her work lies on memory studies; how images of the past are perceived and archived, how they contribute to a past which is no longer past but always reflected on in the present. She often uses archival material, but combines this with her own photographic practice. Recently, she has started research on home- and amateur video which has lead her to start experimenting with moving images.
# | Judith Vanistendael, Simon Spruyt & Eliza Pepermans
organized by the specialization Graphic Storytelling on 24 April 2019
Simon Spruyt, Eliza Pepermans en Judith Vanistendael getuigen over hun oeuvre en dagelijkse praktijk als kunstenaar, illustrator, striptekenaar of docent.
DIP stands for 'Dive into Practice'. Within the 'DIP talk' format each department of Visual Arts Sint-Lukas Brussels yearly invites 3 recently graduated alumni to talk about their developing practice. The DIP talks are informal, take place in the studio and are followed by drinks.