Working with art bodies and universities is right at the heart of jotta. As well as being born out of Central Saint Martins and working with the broader University of the Arts London, jotta has worked with universities across Europe and art bodies including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
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Here at jotta we're always on the look out for opportunities to work with art and design bodies and universities. We don't have a set way of working with these institutions, but are open to all ideas for collaboration with the jotta community.
So far in 2009 this approach has seen us organise and curate all types of events from exhibitions, workshops and seminars with partners through to hosting festivals and even building bespoke online applications for universities using some of the functionality of jotta.
If there is an event you'd like to work with us on, an online resource you need, or an idea that needs a partner, we'd love to hear from you.
Below are three diverse examples of ways we've worked with partners on so far in 2009.
ELIA: NeuNow Festival in conjunction with European City of Culture and the EU
jotta work closely with ELIA, a body that represents over 350 art and design colleges across Europe and North America.
The NeuNow festival brings together artists from over 350 universities in an online and offline exhibition at European City of Culture 2009, Vilneus, Lithuania.
Pre-Festival
jotta built a bespoke application procedure on jotta.com where each entrant could upload their work in any format and attach supporting documentation. The judges of the festival could then access the work online, leave comments and select the work they wished to see at the live festival in Vilneus in November 2009.
Festival
jotta have built a site for the NeuNow festival (live October 09) that allows users to browse work at the festival and explore events across the city around the festival.
The site was designed by a jotta member after a call out to the community and was built in house by the jotta team.
jotta are also sending an editorial team over to Vilneus to cover the event and produce content for the NeuNow site.
The Victoria and Albert Museum: Illustration Late
Head of Contemporary Curation at the Victoria and Albert Museum commissioned jotta to produce two installations for the V&A illustration late.
Animation Arena
jotta's animation arena saw a multi-dimensional performance encompassing illustration, set construction and digital animation inspired by current and past exhibitions at the V&A.
jotta collaborated with over 100 illustrators from the jotta community who submitted work through the site to be animated live on the night.
Visitors marvelled at the live transformation of a miniature theatrical set, filmed and animated on site and then finally projected in the V&A's grand entrance with a live DJ accompanying for all c3,500 visitors to see.
Illustration 'Chip-Chop'
jotta was briefed to create an illustration based workshop that guests to the Friday Late could jump in and create work that they could take home with them.
jotta built a fish and chip shop - the 'Chip-Chop'
But the jotta 'Chip-Chop' was no ordinary fish and chip shop. what's the order of the day? ask the boy behind the counter. Ponder your choices: scampi scandals, pickled page three lovelies or some haddock headlines? Paper letters, headlines and pics are wrapped in a bespoke illustrated newspaper template. As you enter the restaurant - instead of salt and vinegar, you're presented with glue and scissors. Here you don't read the news, you make it...
The jotta 'Chip-Chop' transformed a wing of the V&A into a hive of cutting and pasting as over 230 in 3 hours created their newspapers.
Central Saint Martins: Online Review Tool
Central Saint Martins approached jotta with an idea to create an online application that would allow graduates to submit their portfolios online to apply for masters courses.
jotta have developed a front-end and back-end online application that allows students to apply for courses, upload and arrange their portfolios and attach supporting documentation. The application allows reviewers to enter each portfolio and enter comments and recommendations. Powering the online application is a content management system that allows the college to create new courses, change admin rights and tweak elements of the system.
The Central Saint Martins Online Review Tool will go live in January 2010.
Above is a snapshot of the ways we have worked with art bodies and universities. We have worked on many other projects but chose these to reflect the diversity of projects and partners we are engaged in.
Please contact hello@jotta.com or call +44(0)20 3286 9291 if you'd like to speak with us
