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On Saturday January 21, the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University will organise an Open Day.

During this time staff members and students of the Piet Zwart Institute will be present. Visitors have the chance to see our workshops, facilities, talk to our students, and ask the staff members questions about the master courses we offer.

While this is a smaller Open Day, the Piet Zwart Institute will have its larger annual Open House on March 24 2012. Please keep an eye on our website for more information.

Open Day Willem de Kooning Academy
Date: Saturday January 21 2011
Time: 10:00 – 15:00 hrs
Location: Blaak 10 / Wijnhaven 61 Rotterdam
Classroom number: W.1.145

For more information, please contact coordinator Vanessa Tuitel at pzwart-info@hr.nl

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On Saturday November 12, the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University will organise an Open Day.

During this time staff members and students of the Piet Zwart Institute will be present. Visitors have the chance to see our workshops, facilities, talk to our students, and ask the staff members questions about the master courses we offer.

While this is a smaller Open Day, the Piet Zwart Institute will have its larger annual Open House on April 14 2012. Please keep an eye on our website for more information.

Open Day Willem de Kooning Academy
Date: Saturday November 12 2011
Time: 10:00 – 15:00 hrs
Location: Blaak 10 / Wijnhaven 61 Rotterdam
Classroom number: W.1.145





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WITH ONE EYE ON THE HORIZON

We are pleased to announce that the first graduation show of the Master Media Design & Communication: Lens-Based programme will take place this summer in TENT Rotterdam.

The nine Masters students present the graduation work that represents their two year research programme exploring the possibility of creating new works that synthesise cinematic and photographic forms.

The collaboration with TENT is an integral part of this research, together developing ways to present the work in forms that still engage with broad cinematic and photographic traditions, and yet address the particular relation with the viewer that a gallery can offer.

Within the diverse work on show, a certain engagement with landscape can be identified: landscapes with specific histories and landscapes abstracted into images of the sublime, recorded landscapes, and utterly synthetic landscapes. But all viewed through the eye of a lens either physical or virtual. It is from this tendency that the title of the show is derived…

Since 1999 TENT has been drawing attention to and presenting significant developments and image-defining artists in the visual arts in Rotterdam. The 1000 m2 exhibition space is located in a characteristic former school building in the cultural Witte de Withstraat. In lively solo and group exhibitions, TENT presents the many-sided manifestations of contemporary art in Rotterdam.

The Lens-Based programme of the Piet Zwart Institute started in September 2009. The programme focuses on approaching animation, digital photography, and moving-image design as a single expanded field. It is a two-year, full-time, international, English-language study programme.

Graduation Show 2011: WITH ONE EYE ON THE HORIZON

Dates: July 15 – August 21 2011
Opening: Thursday July 14 2011, 20:00 hrs
Location: TENT. Rotterdam
Address: Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam
Open: Tuesday – Sunday, 11:00 – 18.00 hrs

TENT is part of CBK Rotterdam

Graduating students:

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On Saturday April 9, the Piet Zwart Institute will organise its annual Open House.

The location of the Lens-Based department will be:
Blaak 10, Rotterdam
(we are located in the Willem de Kooning Academy building, right across Station Rotterdam Blaak).

During this Open House visitors have the change to view the studio’s and facilities of the department, view the work of our current students, our staff and tutors will be present to give study advise and interested students may bring their portfolio to discuss this with the course director Simon Pummell.

We have our doors open from 11:30 until 18:00 hours.





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On Saturday March 26, the Willem de Kooning Academy will organise an Open Day. This will be a rather small Open Day but staff members of the Piet Zwart Institute will be present to give talks and study advise. Also during this day visitors have the opportunity to see the workshops and facilities of the Piet Zwart Institute.

Date: Saturday March 26 2011
Time: 10:00 – 15:00 hours
Location: Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam




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January 27 until February 20 2011
Opening Reception: Monday January 31 at 18:00 hrs

Location: BLAAK10 Gallery & Store
Address: Witte de Withstraat 7a, Rotterdam
Open: Tuesday-Friday 11:00 – 18:00 and Saturday-Sunday 13:00 – 17:00
closed on Mondays

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CINEGRAPHIC/PHOTOMATIC

CINEGRAPHIC/PHOTOMATIC is an exhibition that showcases recent work done in the Lens-Based branch of the Master Media Design and Communication at the Piet Zwart Institute, a research oriented study programme created to give practitioners a context to explore these contemporary issues.

As cinematic images spill out of the cinemas and into the streets, leaked through mobile phones and media devices, the viewing experience of moving images has migrated to diverse spaces, both public and private. Increasingly, one such space is the gallery.

Considering these changes, contemporary image makers are pressed to rethink traditional categories of moving- and still-image photography, film and animation.

Participating students are:

CINEGRAPHIC/PHOTOMATIC is part of the XL-programme of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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Artists’ filmmaking post-cinema & -tv
January 31 & February 1  2011

For artists, making and distributing films is radically changing in a time where traditional pillars like theatrical screenings and tv co-production are breaking away. This conference will look at new spaces, audiences, modes and media for filmmaking beyond either YouTube or big budget: micro cinemas, the contemporary art system, alternative systems in the Internet. What kind of filmmaking is emerging here?

Location: Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 CJ Rotterdam
Admission: 5 euros/day (free for WdKA students & staff and for XL pass and IFFR industry passport holders)

Organised by the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University in collaboration with Kino Climates, as part of the IFFR XL programme.

Monday, January 31st

12:00 – 14:30
Introduction: Florian Cramer (director Piet Zwart Institute), Simon Pummell (course director Lens-Based programme)

Kino Climates: Micro cinemas worldwide

15:00 – 17:00
Giving it away? – the Internet

  • Tommy Pallotta, Amsterdam on bittorrent for independent film distribution
  • Paul Keller, Amsterdam on alternative systems for filmmakers in the Internet
  • Bregtje van de Haak (via Skype) on filmmaking in the digital commons

18:00 – 21:00
Opening Reception Cinegraphic / Photomatic
Location: BLAAK10 Gallery & Store
Witte de Withstraat 7a, Rotterdam

Tuesday, February 1st
12:00 – 14:00
Panel: Limited Editions – filmmaking for the Fine Art system
Moderated by Edwin Carels (IFFR)

  • Luke Fowler, Glasgow on 16mm filmmaking for art spaces
  • John Smith, on filmmaking for cinema screens and art spaces
  • Michel Chevalier, target.autonompop Hamburg on what’s wrong with the contemporary art system

14:30 – 17:00
Concluding panel: What is a low budget feature? And where?

  • Michel Reilhac, Paris, ARTE
  • Keith Griffiths, film producer, London
  • + roundtable with Paolo Davanzo, Lisa Marr, Mervin Espina, Michel Chevalier, Luke Fowler and members of Kino Climates

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The Willem de Kooning Academy will organise an Open Day on Saturday January 22 2011. Several staff members of the Piet Zwart Institute will be present to answer questions.

Time: 10:00 – 15:00 hrs
Location: Blaak 10, Rotterdam / Willem de Kooning Academy building
Classroom number: 1.18

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