De Geuzen lecturing on networked image ecology at Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum (BE) as a part of Formatting Utopia

Renee Turner is the Director of the Piet Zwart Institute and the Co-Course Director of the Master Media Design and Communication programme.  After receiving her MFA from the University of Arizona, she went to the Rijksakademie for two years with a scholarship from the Dutch American Foundation.  She then spent two years as a researcher in the Theory Department at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.  In 2007, she received a scholarship from the Institute of Creative Technology to pursue a second Master’s degree in Creative Writing and New Media from De Montfort University (Leicester, GB). She has taught art, design and theory at the BA and MA level at different institutions, such as the Bergen National Academy of the Arts (Bergen, NO), Piet Zwart: Fine Art (Rotterdam, NL), St. Joost Academy (Breda, NL), and the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam, NL).

Since 1996, Turner has collaborated under the name De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research. Next to national and international exhibitions at De Appel, Manifesta and La Bienal de Valencia, De Geuzen’s projects have also been featured in Rhizome, Mute and Thames and Hudson’s Internet Art.

Parallel to her collective practice, she has published on art and media, and produced text-driven pieces for the web, which engage in the idiosyncrasies of networked culture. Whether working individually or collaboratively, her work often employes tactical media to explore female identity, narratives of the archive and online media ecologies.

main sites:
www.fudgethefacts.com
www.geuzen.org