BEN HAYOUN NELLY
Designer/artist/performer recently graduated from the Royal College of Art, London
French, born in Valence.
email: nelly.ben-hayoun@network.rca.ac.uk
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2007-2009
*Master in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London
www.interaction.rca.ac.uk
Graduated with the project “The physics of the impossible” which advocated adapting science to our creative and poetic needs, and explored how collaborations between amateurs and experts could achieve this.
2005-2007
*First & Second year of BTS Fashion Design option textile (a two year textile design degree) at Olivier de Serres National College of Art and Design in Paris, mention A
2004-2005
*Foundation year in Art and Design at Olivier de Serres National College of Art and Design in Paris with the board of examiners' very favurable recommendation
2003-2004
*First year at Beaux Arts (school of Fine Arts) in Lyon.
Mention A
AWARDS/ COMISSIONS
July 2010
*Science in Society Award by STFC (Science and Society Facility Council)- winner with the project Super K Sonic BOOOOum, UK
June 2010
*Public Engagement Grant Scheme by IOP –Institute Of Physics- winner with the project Super K Sonic BOOOOum, UK and Ireland
May 2010
* Nelly Ben Hayoun wins the OUTPUT grand prix, International award,with the project The physics of the Impossible ( The Soyuz Chair, Did I generate Dark Energy in my kitchen sink?, And from 2 pigeons' eggs Dark Energy will be born... )
April to July 2010
* Commissioned by NewCastle University, Scotland, to be part of the project Interventionsdirected by Joe Malia and Dr.Moreno Figeroa, 5 design collaborations with 5 social scientists.
April 2010
*Commissioned by Designmarketo and the magazine Apartamento to develop products for the shop-event Foodmarketo during the Milan Design Furniture Fair.
January 2010
*Museumaker- Preselected by the Guildhall Museum, Rochester and the Arts Council with the project, The Craft Factory in collaboration with Thomas Thwaites.
September 2009
* Blueprint best stand award -Group Award, Disruptive Thinking, 100% Design, DesignersBlock London Design Festival. The prize was awarded for the show’s engaging and inviting content
July 2009
*Winner of the Royal College of Art Society prize in Show 2 at the RCA . The criteria is for work that shows "exceptional skill and innovation in a particular discipline, and is critical and challenging across the area of art and design"
June 2009
*Helen Hamlyn Design Award –Nominated- Award that rewards creativity in people-centred design.
June 2009
*5th Festival Pocket films –Project “Suzy: Passion Whales" selected in the category “Tranches-de-vie”. Screening at The Forum des Images, Paris.
February 2009
*Royal College of Art awards a distinction for dissertation "The Expert-bricoleur: a jump into the creative everyday"
January 2008
*Winner of the Special Prize, in the 3 Mobile Project-Life' competition Royal College of Art.
EXHIBITIONS
17th to 18th July 2010
Performance with the Soyuz Chair- Fringe Festival at Love Box, Guerilla Science, Victoria Park, London
28 June to 9 July 2010
*Interventions, Exhibition of 5 design collaborations with 5 social scientists, NewCastle University, Scotland
18th to 23th June 2010
*Where Beats This Human Heart , WWII Bunker, Group Show curated by Space in Between, London
14 to 18 April 2010
*Foodmarketo, Milan Furniture Design Fair, Commissioned by Designmarketo and Apartamento
3rd to 13th March 2010
*The smallest cinema in the world, short movies screened, Brixton Village Market, Artivaran, London
4th to 14th November 2009
*SUPER K SONIC BOOOOUM, at SHUNT, under London Bridge.
9th October 2009 to 13th December 2009
*WHAT IF? Group Exhibition, Testing the boundaries of our future at the Science Gallery in Dublin
24th to 27th September 2009
*Exhibition with the group Disruptive Thinking at the Designersblock as part of the London Design Festival. Earls Court site.
8th to 16th July 2009
*Performances with the Soyuz Chair at SHUNT, London Bridge, LONDON
June-July 2009
*Exhibition PALIMPSEST, Thurloe Place, South Kensington, London.
Royal College of Art alternative degree show. Group show.
June 2009
*Screening at The Forum des Images of the film Suzy: Passion Whales, Paris, 5th Festival Pocket Films
18thMay 2009
*Show and tell event at Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge
November to December 2006
*Exhibition of projects at International Design Biennial 2006 of St-Etienne, in the 'gooood food' exhibition.
Commissioners: Herve This, Celine Savoye.
May 2006
*Exhibition at The Tokyo Big Sight during the Design Festa, Tokyo, Japan
April,24 2006
*Presentation of the project 'Cosmetiqu'a la coque' at the Palais de Tokyo,
(Contemporary Art Museum in Paris) during the exhibition 'Ultra Peau' (Ultra Skin) organized by Nivea.
TEACHING- WORKSHOPS-LECTURES-RESEARCH
14th to 18th April 2010
Campus-Europa, Madrid, Spain. Lectures on Innovation and creativity in Astrophysics.
15th March 2010
Visiting Tutor in FOCUS, Pluri–disciplinary course (Master Fashion, Design and Architecture, Design and Economy ) Brief on Smell,Kingston University
11 fevrier 2010
Alter Futures, Lecture with Dr Ben Still from Queen Mary University, London
February 2010 - ….
Research assistant at Central St Martins for Suzanne Lee
23th to 1st December 2009
Visiting lecturer at Kingston University, Workshop with MA on Critical Design and Kafka.
19th to 20th November 2009
SEED Dating at the science Gallery, Dublin. A 3 minutes round table meeting with scientists and designers to come up with fresh ideas.
18th November 2009
Visiting lecturer at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland, Workshop with BA Creative Media students on cockroaches and the influence of Kafka on Critical Design.
15th November 2009
Workshop on hovercraft at the Science Gallery, Dublin, with the visual artist Aideen Barry
10th October 2009
Workshop at the science Gallery, Dublin Dublin on Domestic Super Objects
18th May 2009
Show and tell event at Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge
11th to 14th January 2009
Invited by the Imperial College London to the Large Hadron Collider, CERN, CERN, Geneva. They allowed me complete access to CERN, including the CMS detector 100m below ground.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Mars 2010
LSN Global- The future Laboratory, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Bringing Big science in your kitchen sink
January 2010
We make money not art- Regine Debatty- Super K Sonic Booooum and The Soyuz Chair
Septembre 2009
ICON magazine, Best Design Graduate
July 2009
Core 77- Lucia Smith- The physics of the impossible – Super K Sonic BOOOOum-The best of Core 77 2009
April 2009
Project "Cathy the hacker" featured in the book "Material Beliefs", edited by Jacob Beaver, Tobie Kerridge and Sarah Pennington and published by Goldsmiths, University of London/ Interaction Research Studio 2009.
October 2008
Project "Cathy the hacker" featured in the book Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by Andy Miah and published
by Liverpool University Press is available from the FACT shop on 30 October.
INTERNSHIPS
July 2008-September 2008
*Tokyo, Japan, a two month internship at Maywa Denki - Japanese Company led by Nobumichi Tosa. which develops Art, Music, products and gadgets. The philosophy of the company is to create NONSENCE.
*Participation in producing TV shows on MX TV
*Personal jewellery stylist of Shimako Iwai- Japanese writer and TV presenter on MX TV and participation to her TV SHOW, 20th August 2008
*Guest appearance on MX TV, 30th August, 30 2008
*Performance with Maywa Denki at Tower Hill record. Shibuya, Tokyo, 1st August 2008 and at Unit, Naka-Meguro, Tokyo, 25th July 2008
February to April 2007
*Participation in ceramic workshop to create model in earthenware and porcelain with enamel.
May to August 2006
3 Months in Tokyo:
*Personal jewellery stylist of Shimako Iwai on MX TV
*6 weeks’ training in Takakou Company, learning ancestral impression on textile and design on Kimono taught by the Master Takahashi Takayuki (National Treasure) ;
**Main character for 1 hour documentary on this internship, broadcast on 9th September 2006 on NHK TV
July 2005
*A five-week placement at Laurence Oppermann, company of contemporary jewellery in Lyon. Creation of textile jewellery and packaging for the 2006 winter collection.
*Participation to the 'Salon Maison et Objet’ in Paris in September 2005.
April 2005
*One month in 'Roland Salti Creation' advertising agency (France-26)
SKILLS
*Graphic and 3D Design (Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Rhino, Textile software: Pointcarre)
* Skilled in ceramic (earthenware and porcelain), woodwork (carving, modelling…), metalwork (steel carving and arc welding. precision work on aluminium), Textile, 3D modelling: Resin, silicon, plaster, latex…
*Languages: French native speaker, English, Spanish, bit Japanese
*Basic programming skills, web design (flash, HTML...)
*Media, shooting and editing (HDV Camera, Final Cut Pro)
*2D: Textile Design, Printmaking, Drawings of variety of media, Painting…
*Basic knowledge of electronics prototyping ( Arduino)
*Basic CAD and rapid prototyping skills