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Upcoming Saturday April 24, the Piet Zwart Institute will have its annual Open House at the Karel Doormanhof 45/Mauritsstraat 36. The staff of the Networked Media programme invites all interested students and people interested in contemporary artistic media work to visit our department.

Several students and staff members will be present, including course directors Florian Cramer and Renee Turner. You have the opportunity to view students’ work in a preview of our 2010 graduation show, and ask students and staffers questions about the course.

The preview of the 2010 graduation show features the following Masters exam projects in prototype presentations:

Emanuele Bonetti (IT) shows how to apply Open Source development methods for new forms of collective, collaborative peer-to-peer graphic design work;

Loredana Bontempi (IT) will present a prototype of her ‘digital dump’, a network-shared computer trashcan for visual designers who recycle other people’s thrown-away projects rather than designing from scratch;

Selena Savic (YU) will present a prototype of a game that simulates the food industry and distribution of food; players have to fight over territories of farms and supermarkets, and corporate versus community food production;

Farrah Shakeel (PK) will be available to discuss her research on intercultural communication.

In addition, our first year students Albert Jongstra (NL), Birgit Bachler (AT), Darija Medic (YU), Kenneth Henry (USA), Megan Hoogenboom (NL), Özalp Eröz (TK) and Renee Olde Monnikhof will open a studio to the public and invite all visitors to have a look at their current media work which includes experimental electronic book and magazine designs, viral sticker campaigns and Internet data visualizations.

Location: Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam
Time: 11:30- 18:00 h

PZI flyer Open Dag ak.pdf




Zonder Pit

Improvisation music concert
Location: Y/Y, Beukelsdijk 34b, 3021 AH Rotterdam
Date: February 28th, 7 p.m.

This Sunday, Rotterdam residents and visitors will have the opportunity of listening to an experimental music concert involving a number of Piet Zwart Institute students and tutors:

Lukas Simonis (guitar, improvised and experimental music veteran, WORM Rotterdam, and guest tutor in the Networked Media programme), Nina Hitz (cello, professional classical and experimental musician, Switzerland/Rotterdam), Bernhard Garnicnig (electronics, sticky tape; sound installation artist, Austria, and exchange student in the Networked Media programme), Yuko Uesu (harp, kora; improvisation musician and media designer, Japan, and student in the PZI Lens-Based Media programme), with Zonder Pit DJs Bitsy Knox (artist, Canada, student PZI Fine Art) and Diana Duta (artist, Romania, student PZI Fine Art).




The Networked Media programme will participate in the Open Day of the .Willem de Kooning Academy on Saturday, January 23rd, at the main building of the Academy, street address Blaak 10, metro/train station Rotterdam-Blaak, 10-15h. If you would like to know more about our study programme, visit Leslie and Selena at the CrossLab on the third floor of the same building.




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Opening: Friday, June 23 | 18.30 – 21.00hrs
Continuing: Saturday June 24 & Sunday June 25 | 12.00 – 17.00hrs

Master Media Design is a two-year full time course encouraging interdisciplinary and experimental work with computational and networked digital media. We are proud to invite you to view the work put forward for this year’s graduation projects.

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Invitation
Show Guide

DRAGANA ANTIC: Sounds of Qualia

Sounds of Qualia is a sound installation. It is a strange place, a place where space, people and sounds are ‘estranged’. It is a space for contemplation, meditation and exploration. It gives a chance for experiencing oneself in an unorthodox and spirited way. It is a place where you might find your childhood again.

http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~dantic/D/F/main.html

CHERYL GALLAWAY: Open Wardrobe

What happens when new technologies, such as the Internet, are juxtaposed with the old, in this case, textiles?

Open Wardrobe is a platform where these two technologies meet, and asks if “free software and free content break down the barrier between producer and consumer” can Internet tools be used to break through the fashion barrier?

What stories does your Open Wardrobe tell?

Bring clothes to swap and experience the activity of tangible exchange with the Open Wardrobe online tool. A space for clothes modification and labeling will be available for those who wish to use it.

www.openwardrobe.org

TSILA HASSINE: Ctrl:F Reader

How do you like your daily media fix – online? offline? print??? What kind of reader are you ? Are you a shallow parser – browsing over the lines looking for some word to capture your attention? Or do you obediently read the newspaper / html page from start to end / top to bottom?

Ctrl-F Reader is a tool that proposes to readapt the traditional practice of reading to the WWW environment.

www.ctrl-f.org

www.tsila.org




Alongside the exhibition there is a special public programme of workshops, performances and lectures.

Guided Tours
graduates guide visitors through the show
Friday 24th June 20.30hrs
Saturday 25th June 12.30 & 14.30hrs
Sunday 26th June 12.30 & 14.30hrs

Intellistener
Dirk van Oosterbosch leads workshops with his interactive audio software
Friday 24th June 19.30-21.30hrs
Saturday 25th June 14.00-17.00hrs

presentation of the Intellistener workshop results
Sunday 26th June 15.00hrs

As We Speak
Kim de Groot presents her installation
Friday 24th June 20.00hrs
Saturday 25th June 13.30hrs
Sunday 26th June 14.00hrs

elpicoroco
performance of experimental sound / electronics / internet / streams / news installation
Friday 24th June 21.00hrs
Saturday 25th June 13.00 & 16.30hrs
Sunday 26th June 13.00 & 16.00hrs
elpicoroco performance participants: Sher Doruff; mxHz.org; Senselabor; Tsila Hassine; Brian Holmes; elpueblodechina; goto10.org (tbc); Luka Frelih (tbc) Asynchronous content: bureau d’etudes; Ursula Biemann

Peter Luining
DNVorscher
Public Lecture by current Research Fellow, Media Design Research
Saturday 25th June 15.00hrs
Further Information




Opening
Friday 18th June 19.00
Exhibition
Saturday 19th June, 11.00-18.00
Sunday 20th June, 11.00-18.00
Location
Overblaak 85, Rotterdam

The Programme
In September 2002 the Piet Zwart Institute launched a two-year full-time Master of Arts course in Media Design. This course encourages an engaged, technically, socially and culturally adept and experimental approach to digital media. In June 2004, the first year of students are graduating. We are proud and excited to present their final show.

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Wijbrand Stet: PlayMobile
an urban game using Bluetooth and an SMS server to reinvent hide-and-seek

Nick Koning: Space Time
an idiosyncratic personal memory device and database making an inventive use of mobile phones

Todd Matsumoto: Media Bomb
a research project tracking the explosion of news stories through multiple media

Victoria Donkersloot: Moneyless
a game involving questions of the ethics and technology of money or moneylessness in daily life

Ana Gabriela Jimenez: City On Demand
a new form of travel provider, an instant shot of multi-urban dreams is only a phone call away

Maria Claudia de Azevedo Borges: CyberLace
a sprawling inspiring database linking womens’ work with technology and the network-design of lace

Further information
General information: Leslie Robbins / l.j.drost-robbins at hro.nl
Course Director: Matthew Fuller / fuller at xs4all.nl