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Engineers of the Soul (graduation project)

Department

Design

Year

2018

Engineers of the Soul is an investigation into the news reports broadcast by four Russian federal TV channels during the week leading up to the 2018 presidential elections. Borrowing its title from Joseph Stalin's address to cultural workers of USSR, the project is a hallucinatory collage compiled from the supporting footage used by the contemporary propaganda and socialist realist painting of the Stalin era, revealing the recurring and echoed archetypes, narratives and simulated realities instrumentalised by the state.

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is an independent university of applied sciences with approximately 850 students. The Rietveld Academie offers the degree programme Art & Design which incorporates the various specialisations. The specialisations are led by coordinators who are responsible for the study programme and day-to-day affairs. In addition, the academy offers two master&aposs degrees and a variable number of temporary master&aposs programmes provided by the Sandberg Instituut.

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