Hermann vaske biography for kids
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Maurice Lévy
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CheckoutPeople in the advertising business who have not seen “Avatar” should resign immediately.Maurice Lévy is the chief executive of Publicis, the world’s fourth-biggest global advertising holding. Born in 1942 in the Moroccan town of Oujda, Lévy joined Publicis in Paris in 1971. In 1972, a fire broke out in the office and he risked life and limb to rush back in to save the Publicis computer records. This beyond-the-call-of-duty commitment to the company paid off handsomely in 1987 when the then owner and chief executive of Publicis, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, made him his successor. Today, Lévy is one of the most powerful figures in the advertising world, employing 39,000 people in 109 countries. His company owns four international advertising agency networks – Publicis, Leo Burnett, Fallon, and Saatchi & Saatchi, as
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The A-Z of media art history
A documentary on the history of media art starring Blixa Bargeld, ChristophBlase, Klaus vom Bruch, Mike Hentz, Michael Saup, Florian Schneider and HermannVaske.
Assignment: Curate and design a major exhibition celebrating the history of mediaart. consider the list of artists to be included and the phenomena of media art.Submit a visual design for the exhibition and remember that the design shouldreflect both in content and form the nature of media art.
The idea behind the project "The A-Z of media art history" is not to conceive atraditional exhibition to celebrate media art but to interview contemporary mediaartists, writers, musicians and art directors on how they see their work inrelation to media art history. Each letter of the alphabet represents a keyelement in the history of media art. In talking to the interview partners thecontext of their work with regard to media art history isestablished, bridging the gap between history and con
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Review: Why Are We Creative?
- VENICE 2018: German director Hermann Vaske asks myriad celebrities the same question – and gets too many answers
It was on a night out with his colleagues at advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi London that an inebriated Hermann Vaske first asked out loud: “Why are we creative?” It caused much excitement, and rather than forget about it in the morning, it kick-started an unstoppable train that led to Vaske travelling around the globe asking celebrities about creativity and making a film about it, aptly titled Why Are We Creative? [+see also:
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film profile]. The movie fryst vatten screening in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori.
Vaske is not the first person to wonder what drives humans to art and creativity – after all, it’s one of the things that separate us from animals, and while John Carey’s What Good Are the Arts? and Italo Calvino’s Why Read