- Tuesday, July 6th, 18:00, 18:45 & 19:30hrs
Darija Medic will give guided tours of The South collection, a tour of appropriated buildings as public sculptures in Feijenoord. The walk starts every 45 mins at Oranjeboomstraat 135 and ends at Rosestraat, stragglers are encouraged to join the group. (If possible bring mp3 players and headphones.) - Wednesday, July 7th, 19:30 (doors open), 20:00 (begin of tournament)
Selena Savic and Paul Steen (SE) will organize a tournament for their economic and geostrategic simulation games.
Two teams will play Selena’s “Eat IT! City Simulator” on a board designed as an analog city building game. The playing field of the cityscape will be set by parameters determined from an online database. Paul’s game “The End” plays like a cross between Risk and Monopoly, and departs from the actual disposition of natural resources and military forces in the world at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union.
http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~ssavic/graduation/
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Location: the WDW63 building | Witte de Withstraat 63 | 3012 BN Rotterdam - Thursday, July 8th, 20:00:
The Test_Lab of V2_ will present a best-of selection of media graduation projects from various international art schools, including Selena Savic’s food industry simulation game.
Location: Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam
July 5, 2010
Special events during the graduation show
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 June 17, 2010
Graduation Show 2010
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disrupting systems
Opening: Friday July 2 2010, 20.00 hours
Continuing: Saturday July 3rd – Friday July [...]
 March 8, 2010
Networked Media students show projects at Pixelache, Finland
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This year’s edition of Pixelache, the largest media arts event in the Nordic countries, will [...]
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disrupting systems Opening: Friday July 2 2010, 20.00 hours Continuing: Saturday July 3rd – Friday July 9th, 12.00 – 17.00 hours (closed on Monday) Location: Witte de Withstraat 63, 3012 BN Rotterdam (former Fotomuseum, future WORM) Graduating students:
Media as social systems are the subject of this year’s graduation show of the media study programme of the Piet Zwart Institute. All four graduation projects go beyond simple media designs and involve actual social interventions and reflections of cultural systems: Source collaboration and digital dump recycling for designers, critical simulations of the food industry, intercultural dating as an online social experiment. Besides viewing the work of our graduates, visitors also have the opportunity to see the outdoors urban interventions from the first year Thematic Project Suck – Direct – Release. The headquarters and maps for the outdoors urban interventions are created by Birgit Bachler (AT), Özalp Eröz (TK), Kenneth Rayshon Henry (USA), Megan Hoogenboom (NL), Albert Jongstra (NL), Darija Medic (YU), Renee Olde Monnikhof (NL) and tutor Theo Deutinger (TD). A catalogue designed by Arjen de Jong (Buro Duplex, Rotterdam) with an introductory essay by Florian Cramer will be available at the show. Special events during the exhibition
With special thanks to: WORM, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media and 2012 architecten, Rotterdam 
This year’s edition of Pixelache, the largest media arts event in the Nordic countries, will take place in Helsinki, Finland, and feature Networked Media students Emanuele Bonetti, Loredana Bontempi and Selena Savic presenting their current Master graduation projects: Emanuele’s project for applying peer-to-peer methodology to graphic design, Loredana’s “ddump” – a media recycling design based on network-shared desktop trash cans – and Selena’s “EAT IT! City Simulator”, a food industry simulation game. (We will updated this page as soon as we know the exact times of their presentations in Helsinki. In the meantime, you can check the Pixelache Wiki.)
 ROTTERDAM IS HARD ROTTERDAM = HARD EXPO with and co-organized by Networked Media student Albert Jongstra WLfrt Projectspaces Artists: Albert will present the second issue of the ROTTERDAM IS HARD fanzine, an open participation medium for artwork, drawings and photographs. This will be accompanied with a computer installation that transforms the submitted electronic files into a computer fanzine in real time. 
 H1N1 sticker on a newspaper stand Mexican flu virus as social network “H1N1 helps you connect and share with the people in your life” – stickers with this modified Facebook motto can not only found on many tea mugs and coffee cups in the Piet Zwart Institute, but also in bookstores, Dutch and Belgian trains, traffic lights and public toilets in and outside Rotterdam, restaurants and other places where people might share each other’s viruses. They are the first trimester project of Darija Medic, student in the Networked Media programme, and a good example of a media project without computers or electronics. She reasons that “the more the virus is spread, present, mutating, and becoming the virus per se, the more different reactions are born and mutating – turning the virus into a media monster, memetically infected with conspiracy theories and irrational behaviour. [...] Changed perception turns the virtual into true reality, and Darija’s project, called The Us in Virus, is accompanied by her essay In Sickness and Health that investigates the impact of epidemic scares on the openness of societies, along the examples of both H1N1 and Ambroggio Lorenzetti’s 14th century painting of Siena.  H1N1 sticker in a public toilet 
Improvisation music concert 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). 
 chmod plus x art, Groningen chmod +x art is a special Dutch issue of make art,an international festival focussed on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and open content in digital arts, curated and organized by the goto10 collective including Networked Media core tutor Aymeric Mansoux. At the Sign art space in Groningen, there will be FLOSS- and art-related workshops and presentation from 2nd to 7th March. The Speed Geeking on Friday, March 5th, 14:00-18:00 will include presentations of the graduation projects by Networked Media students Emanuele Bonetti, Loredana Bontempi and Selena Savic. From 20:00 to 22:00, there will also be Pecha Gnucha short presentations – with 20 slides in 400 seconds – by Networked Media students Albert Jongstra and Özalp Eröz and Birgit Bachler. 
Pulling the strings to open or close a wooden shade, every pedestrian walking on Mauritsstraat in Rotterdam’s city center can now easily take control of the street light in front of the Piet Zwart Institute building. Özalp Eröz (TK), first-year Master student in Networked Media with a background in illustration and street art, designed a simple but effective participatory medium and hacker intervention into the urban space. His construction has already survived one week out in the open, but we advise Rotterdam residents and visitors to check it out quickly before the police or someone else might take it off. More information and images can be found on Özalp’s Wiki pages. The Street light project was his trimester work for Rui Guerra’s September-December 2009 Thematic Project Open Events. 
 Web 2.0 Suicide Machine The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine has received a ‘Cease and Desist’ letter from a law firm acting on behalf of Facebook. Readers of Dutch and international news are likely to have heard of the controversial web site. Taking the Dutch word of the year 2009, ‘ontvrienden’ (’unfriending’) literally, it helps you to remove all your profiles and data from the social networking sites Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter. Every piece of personal information gets deleted one-by-one before the user’s eyes. The Suicide Machine has been covered, among many others, by HP de Tijd, De Volkskrant, de Telegraaf, the BBC, the The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. It is not simply a joke, but a useful tool. Members of social networks often do not know that their personal data is profiled and marketed to third parties for marketing. Even if you decide to end your membership, your data invisibly stays on their servers. The Suicide Machine has been programmed and designed by our alumni and tutor Gordan Savicic in collaboration with Walter Langelaar and Danja Vassiliev at the MODDR media lab of WORM in Rotterdam. The critical research behind the Suicide Machine is based on Gordan Savicic’s 2008 Master graduation project Playsureveillance. WORM/MODDR and the Piet Zwart Institute collaborate frequently on media workshops and public events. |
