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On Saturday March 24, the Piet Zwart Institute will organise an Open House.
Our annual Open House offers prospective applicants the opportunity to meet both students and staff and learn more about the diversity of research at the Piet Zwart Institute. There will be guided tours through various workshops and facilities, the studios will be open, and our postgraduate students will present works in progress throughout the day. Next to these activities there will be impromptu performances and interventions exploring the musical as genre and its transformative potential through collective participation.
Our two buildings will be open. The visiting addresses are Blaak 10 and Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam. These two locations are only a 10 minute walking distance located from each other.
Blaak 10, Rotterdam
- 1st year Master Interior Architecture & Retail Design students and staff
- Master Education in Art students and staff
- Wood-, metal-. textile- and ceramic workshops
- AV-studios
- Digital and analog photography studios
- Media studios
- 3D printer demonstrations
- Library
Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam
- Master Fine Art students and staff
- Master Media Design & Communication students and staff
- 2nd year Master Interior Architecture & Retail Design students and staff
Presentations
Each department will give special presentations for the visitors. These presentations will take place at the Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam. The Master Media Design & Communication will give its presentation from 12:00 – 14:00.
Open House Piet Zwart Institute
Date: Saturday March 24 2012
Time: 10:00 – 15:00 hrs [starting from 16:00 a symposium will be organised by the Master Fine Art department]
Addresses: Karel Doormanhof 45 & Blaak 10, Rotterdam
Monday March 5 2012, 10:00 – 11:30 hrs
Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam
Out of the Academy and Into the World: Community Cinema as Catalyst
Guest lecture descriptions
Presented by Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr of Echo Park Film Center, this lecture/workshop will look at community art center as personal practice and the variety of ways media-marginalized populations can be strengthened and empowered using experimental and documentary film/video tools and techniques. The session will include the collective creation of an animated chain-letter.
Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr are filmmakers/musicians/writers/ educators whose work is a catalyst for creative collaboration and positive social change. Originally from Italy and Canada respectively, they currently live and work in Los Angeles where they run the Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit neighborhood media arts center. As The Here & Now they travel the world, bringing movies and music to the masses.
Thursday March 8 2012, 16:30 hrs
Location: Trouw Amsterdam
Address: Wibautstraat 127, Amsterdam
Unlike Art
Bits of code, snippets, plugins and projects investigating social media by Networked Media students of Piet Zwart Institute.
On the occasion of lectures, workshops and prototyping sessions, Networked Media students often dealt with the field of social media. As a result, a series of works in progress, experiments and ideas that question social media from different points of view, such as, for instance: online identity, monetization of data, privacy, online-offline boundaries.
Trouw Amsterdam, founded in 2010, is intended to be a creative outlet for Trouw’s diverse crew of resident dj’s and a worldwide network of artists affiliated to the club. Following the club’s vision the focus will lie on challenging the status quo of today’s electronic dance music and going beyond being yet another provider of dj-friendly musical fast food. Trouw has a strong affiliation with new media and art, which will shine through in many ways, be it through customised record sleeves, video clips or crossover projects with other like-minded organisations. The combination of club and label will help to connect music lovers from all over the planet with the local scene in Amsterdam and the many good things happening here.
Works by Dušan Barok (SK),André Castro (PT), Mirjam Dissel (NL), Eleanor Greenhalgh (UK), Fabien Labeyrie (FR), Jonas Lund(SE/NL), Sebastian Schmieg(GE), Bartholomäus Traubeck(GE), Danny Van Der Kleij(NL), Jasper Van Loenen (NL),Marie Wocher (GE), Dave Young (IE). Moderated bySilvio Lorusso (IT).
http://networkcultures.org/unlikeart/
The event Unlike Art is part of the symposium Unlike Us #2. This symposium is the second event about ‘alternatives in social media’, where artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers gather. This international research network analyzes the economic and cultural aspects of dominant social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Through workshops, conferences, online dialogues and publications the Unlike Us network promotes the development of alternative, decentralized social media software.
This show celebrates the work that has been done at the Echo Park Film Center over the last ten years: Super 8, 16mm, video and educational work and its mobile cinema.
From January 31 until February 2, BLAAK10 Gallery & Store will host a series of ongoing workshops with Echo Park organisers Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr kicking-off their 4-month residency project ‘Sounds We See’, sponsored by WORM and Creating 010.
Exhibition: Friday January 27 until Sunday February 5
Workshop Days:
Tuesday January 31, 14: 00-16: 00 hrs
CITY SYMPHONY WORKSHOP
To start and celebrate the 4 months residence of Echo Park Film Center in Rotterdam we are asking the community to work together, so they can create their own City Symphony. On Tuesday we will show examples and we will discuss the City Symphony genre. And on Thursday the participants will share their the images and sounds which they have found.
We ask you to come with a recording device of any kind. This can be a smartphone, microphone, video camera; actually everything you can think of to catch the feeling of the city.
Wednesday February 1, 14: 00-16: 00 hrs
DIRECT ANIMATION
Create a film without the use of a camera. The only thing you need is passion and curiosity to make something out of nothing.
Thursday 2 February, 14: 00-16: 00 hrs
During the day participants can prepare the outcome of the workshops.
Thursday 2 February, 17: 00-21: 30
OPEN SCREEN
Visitors may join us at the BLAAK10 Gallery & Store for an evening of cinematic wonders. We will show “The Best of Echo Park Film Center”, singing songs, play BINGO games and of course show all the results of our 48-hour City Symphony marathon.
Address:
Witte de Withstraat 7a,
3012 BK Rotterdam
Opening times: Tue until Friday from 11:00 – 18:00 hrs
Saturday and Sunday from 13:00 -17:00 hrs
closed on Mondays
Monday, January 30th 2012, 10:00-17:00 hrs
Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 CJ Rotterdam
Admission: 5 EUR (free for students)
Imagined Cinemas
Filmmaking in nontraditional media
One-day symposium organised by Piet Zwart Institute & Creating 010, Hogeschool Rotterdam
In collaboration with Signals: For Real, International Film Festival Rotterdam
While the traditional media for moving images – movie theaters and TV – are losing their dominant role, filmmaking and the language of cinema migrate to other media that often aren’t screens. This symposium gathers filmmakers, artists, designers and activists who reframe cinema as interventions into public space through visual, sound and mobile media, as tactical transmedia narratives, and as filmmaking rooted in the avant-garde expanded cinema tradition. What does the language of cinema contribute to these other media, and which opportunities do these media conversely offer for the future practice of filmmaking?
Moderators: Simon Pummell, Florian Cramer & Edwin Carels
Programme
Throughout the day
A live intermezzo with the radio play “A Fatalistic Flatworm” by Lukas Simonis and Henk Bakker, WORM (NL)
10:00-13:00 hrs
Expanded media today
Pip Chodorov (FR)Ulrich Schreiber, C-Side Production (CH)
Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger, eteam (USA/DE)
Paolo Davanzo & Lisa Marr / Echo Park Film Center (USA)
13:45-16:45 hrs
Film language and transmedia storytelling
Michiel Huijsman & Renate Zentschnig, Soundtrackcity (NL)
Richard Wright (UK)
Paolo Cirio (IT)
Vincent Morisset (CN)
17:00 hrs
Opening reception for Simon Pummell’s transmedia project Shock Head Soul & The Sputnik Effect at TENT, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam
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January 27 – Februay 5: Imagined Cinemas in BLAAK10 Gallery & Store
This show celebrates work done at the Echo Park Film Center over the last ten years: Super 8, 16mm, video and educational work and its mobile cinema.
From January 31 until February 2, BLAAK10 Gallery & Store will host a series of ongoing workshops with Echo Park organisers Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr kicking-off their 4-month residency project ‘Sounds We See’, sponsored by WORM and Creating 010.
The results will be shown on Thursday February 2 from 17:00 – 21:30 hrs.
Workshop Days:
Tuesday January 31, 14: 00-16: 00 hrs
CITY SYMPHONY WORKSHOP
To start and celebrate the 4 months residence of Echo Park Film Center in Rotterdam we are asking the community to work together, so they can create their own City Symphony. On Tuesday we will show examples and we will discuss the City Symphony genre. And on Thursday the participants will share their the images and sounds which they have found.
We ask you to come with a recording device of any kind. This can be a smartphone, microphone, video camera; actually everything you can think of to catch the feeling of the city.
Wednesday February 1, 14: 00-16: 00 hrs
DIRECT ANIMATION
Create a film without the use of a camera. The only thing you need is passion and curiosity to make something out of nothing.
Thursday 2 February, 14: 00-16: 00 hrs
During the day participants can prepare the outcome of the workshops.
Thursday 2 February, 17: 00-21: 30
OPEN SCREEN
Visitors may join us at the BLAAK10 Gallery & Store for an evening of cinematic wonders. We will show “The Best of Echo Park Film Center”, singing songs, play BINGO games and of course show all the results of our 48-hour City Symphony marathon.
Address:
Witte de Withstraat 7a,
3012 BK Rotterdam
Opening times: Tue until Friday from 11:00 – 18:00 hrs
Saturday and Sunday from 13:00 -17:00 hrs
closed on Mondays
IS THIS ON?
By Birgit Bachler & Inge Hoonte
Developed as part of 11:11:11 UpStage, a web-based venue for online performance
Date: Friday, November 11, 2011
Time: 10:00 – 22:00 hrs
Location: Piet Zwart Institute, Large Project Room
Address: Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam
This event is open for public and admission is free
UpStage is a venue for online performance events (Flash plug-in required). This year’s edition, 11:11:11, features people creating work on the web through drawings, photos, moving image, video, scripted movements with animations, etc.
IS THIS ON? projects a virtual apartment into a desktop computer, which are both displayed on the UpStage platform. Functioning like a dual-boot computer, the Proprietary family lives alongside the Open Source family. The script is inspired by conflicts between Apple, Windows and Linux. The characters bring to light various aspects of computing, such as communication issues between operating systems and their users, and the challenges one can face while interacting with, switching between, and working within these systems. The performance illustrates how the members of these groups communicate and seek connection in their differences and similarities through scripting, programs, software and analog means.
As such, little people appear to “live” inside the computer, as if operating tasks for you whenever you open a document, write an email, search for a file, etc. Some moments, physical becomes digital; body parts moving from the webcam onto the website. Other times, digital becomes physical, for example when part of an avatar’s body seems to materialize on screen.
Workshops! COME PLAY!
Come to one of our workshops to make your own avatars and props to operate on the website/stage! This way you will be able to interact with people who are present in the room, as well as visible on the screen through a live feed. Come join the fun! See schedule below.
TIME SCHEDULE
10:00-10:30 coffee tea COOKIES welcome
10.30-11:00 introduction UpStage
11:00-11:20 IS THIS ON? [1]
11:20-11:30 small break
11:30-13-30 WORKSHOP 1
13:30-14:15 lunch break
14:15-14:30 set-up Is This On? [2]
14:30-14:50 IS THIS ON? [2]
14:50-15:00 small break
15:00-18:00 WORKSHOP 2
18:00-19:00 break, preparation, mingling
19:00-19:30 set-up IS THIS ON? [3]
19:30-19:50 IS THIS ON? [3]
after eight beer & wine
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
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:
- Chris Baronavski (USA)
- Femke de Bruijn (NL)
- Marleen Leuverink (NL)
- Vincenzo Onnembo (IT)
- Tanja Deman (CR)
- Tiddo Roozendaal (NL)
- Zafer Topaloglu (TR)
- Yuko Uesu (JP)
- Roeland Veraart (NL)
Thematic Project Exhibition: No Such Thing As Repetition
Opening: Friday, July 01 2011
Time: 19:00 – 23:00
Open: July 2 – July 15 2011
Wed – Fri: 11:00 – 18:00 hrs / Sat & Sun: 12:00 – 17:00
Finissage: Friday, July 15
Roodkapje, 119-133 Meent
3011 JH Rotterdam, Netherlands
Note: This exhibition takes place in conjunction with the Graduation Show: Catching Flies in the Alternet
Projects by: Amy Suo Wu (AU), Danny van der Kleij (NL), Dusan Barok (SK), Fako Berkers (NL), Inge Hoonte (NL), Laura Macchini (IT), Laurier Rochon (CA), Lieven Van Speybroeck (BE), Mirjam Dissel (NL), Natasa Siencnik (AT)
Curator: Inke Arns, Artistic Director of HMKV, Dortmund (DE)
“Is there repetition or is there insistence. I am inclined to believe there is no such thing as repetition. And really how can there be.” * Gertrude Stein’s remarks about repetition as insistence fit remarkably well the contemporary practice of artistic re-enactments.
History usually is experienced as something heavily mediated. Artistic re-enactments attempt to erase this distance, replacing it by direct experience establishing an affective relation to what is being repeated, and empathy. Artistic re-enactments are not simply affirming what has happened in the past, but rather they are questioning the present via repeating or re-enacting historical events that have left their traces in the collective memory. Re-enactments are artistic interrogations of media images that try to scrutinise the reality of the images, while at the same time pointing towards the fact that collective memory is essentially mediated memory.
The exhibition No Such Thing as Repetition focuses on current strategies of repetition and re-enactment. The projects presented discuss unlikely copies, claiming to be much more complex than the ‚original’ and carrying the seed of the uncanny, and fakes, questioning the usual relation between reality and fiction. The works in the exhibition invite visitors to perform their own moon landing or search for lost voices on the radio spectrum. Virtual creatures are being re-enacted out on the streets of Rotterdam, a money-making machine fails to make money, and a safe channel of data exchange through the internet is being provided. The exhibition also features a live Twitter feed from a ship sailing down to South Africa in 1820 and a daily performance of a short story by Ernest Hemingway in real time. Parts of the Eichmann trial of 1961 – the first trial in history broadcast on TV – as well as tapped telephone conversations from the “Rubygate” case are being re-enacted. Finally, while an orphaned photo album found on the flea market is made to reveal memories, fake or real, the sound of two record players stuck on endless repeat at the end of the record fills the space.
* Gertrude Stein, Portraits and Repetition, Lectures in America (1935), pp. 166–169
Graduation Show
Opening: Friday, July 01 2011
Time: 19:00 – 23:00
Open: July 2 – July 15 2011
Wed – Fri: 11:00 – 18:00 hrs / Sat & Sun: 12:00 – 17:00
Finissage: Friday, July 15
Roodkapje, 119-133 Meent
3011 JH Rotterdam, Netherlands
Join us for the 2011 Graduation Show at Roodkapje, Rotterdam. Reflecting upon a variety of issues relevant to today’s networked media culture, the exhibition features works by Birgit Bachler (AT), Özalp Eröz (TR), Megan Hoogenboom (NL), Albert Jongstra (NL), Darija Medić (RS) and Renee Olde Monnikhof (NL).
The networks are abuzz; they are humming with high and low pitches. While some are visible, others are discretely at work “catching flies in the alternet”. Whether manifested online or offline, all of this year’s graduation projects engage in repurposing and reorienting networks to generate alternative perspectives. Birgit Bachler’s, Discrete Dialogue Network, is a telephony-based communication system designed for leaving anonymous voice messages in public space. The project by Özalp Eröz, Virtual Street Art, questions how online networked distribution impacts street art, and its beliefs in authentic local interventions. Megan Hoogenboom’s work, Huenet, physically demonstrates the differences between the public Internet, meaning the World Wide Web as we know it today and encrypted darknets. Exploring how we access the news online, Renée Olde Monnikhof´s Net News Now raises timely questions about professional journalism and the role of the amateur in an age of on-demand media. Albert Jongstra tackles participatory collaboration through a series of hands-on workshops entitled, Participator 3.0. Lastly, Attention: Recalculating!, a project by Darija Medić, challenges our unquestioned belief in technology. By modifying GPS navigation software, her project offers customized ways of taking longer routes through speculative scenarios.
Here you will find an interview with the students about the graduation catalogue.
The Discrete Dialogue Network: a telephony-based communication system, Birgit Bachler (2011)
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