CEU Light 2012

CEU Light 2012 conference is part of PHILIPS Lights festival in Olomouc.

Our conference of Central EUroepan forum for Lighting Design in Performming Arts will take place at conference venue of the University Palackeho in Olomouc on saturday 8/9 2012 from 9 AM to 5 PM.

There are four themathics blocks planned:

1. General level of lighting design in your country / Good practice examples
2. Education in Lighting Design
3. Professional conditions in your country
4. New technologies in lighting design

It would be greate if you present about 15 minutes brief speach about each topic and after each block there will be moderated discussion.

CEU Light 2012 is a first issue, so we start with smaller format. The main working day is Saturday 8.9.2012. The working group will meet in lecture hall at Olomouc University to go through 4 main topics. Each country will be represented by one speaker who will make a small (10 – 30 minutes) talk/presentation regarding each topic. We would like to put the main focus on discussion and lively exchange of opinions and ideas, so after each presentation and each thematic block there will be at least 30 minutes reserved for discussion.

The four main thematic blocks are:

1. General level of lighting design in your country / Good practice examples
   1. Examples of few best lighting designs in your country (in theatre, dance, opera etc.), Photos, videos, names.
   2. Your opinion on general level of lighting design in performing arts in your country.
   3. What is a development in last years – getting better or worse?
   4. Approximate number of good quality lighting designers in your country.
2.  Education in Lighting Design
   1. Universities offering education in lighting design in your country. Quality of their study programme.
   2. Non-university educational opportunities in your country.
   3. How are the professional lighting designers being educated / trained. How do they keep up with development of technologies.
   4. Do theatre houses educate their technical staff?
   5. Are there any magazines to keep up to date? Publications? Study materials?
3.  Professional conditions in your country.
   1. Competition – how many quality lighting designers in your country? Enough? Too many?
   2. Can lighting designer get a fee for his work as a designer? Is it reasonable?
   3. What are “habits of work” in lighting design? Do lighting designer have enough time for work? Is he/she being invited to the process of creation of a performance soon enough?
   4. Is there a proper reflection of lighting design from the side of art critics?
4. New technologies in lighting design
   1. Are the new technologies being used? Are there enough people able to work with it? – LED lights, moving heads, video mapping, interactive lighting etc…

Participants of the Conference:

Katarzyna Łuszczyk (PL), Zoltán Vida (HU), Marta Ladjanszki (HU), Jan Šuškleb (CZ), Katarína Ďuricová (SK), Henk van der Geest (NL), Jan Rolník (CZ), Eva Novakova (CZ), Jakub Kováč (SK) Jaro Valek (SK)