• 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/
  http://www.paulsteen.se/end.html
  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

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:

• Emanuele Bonetti (IT)
• Loredana Bontempi (IT)
• Selena Savic (YU) (RS)
• Farrah Shakeel (PK) in collaboration with Emaan Wahaj (UK)

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

• Saturday, July 3rd, 19:00 and Tuesday, July 6th, 18:00: Darija Medic will give a guided tour on abandoned houses as public art
• Sunday, July 4th, 16:00: Birgit Bachler will instigate a social network among Rotterdammers who have decorated their apartment windows
• Tuesday, July 6th, Oranjeboomstraat 135, Rotterdam (South), 18:00, 18:45, 19:30: Darija Medic will give a tour to the South Collection
• Wednesday, July 7th, 19:30: Selena Savic and Paul Steen (SE) will organize a tournament for their economic and geostrategic simulation games
• The ‘Test_Lab’ event at V2_ on Thursday, July 8th, 20:00, will present a ‘best of’ selection of media graduation projects from various international art schools, and include Selena Savic’s food industry simulation game.

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
Fanzine, Sculpture, Drawings, Performance

with and co-organized by Networked Media student Albert Jongstra
Opening: March 19th, 2010, from 20:00
The exhibition remains open from 20th till 28th March 13:00 – 17:00

WLfrt Projectspaces
Wolphaertstraat 25c/23c
Rotterdam (Charlois district)

Artists:
The Bredewold and Kristensen project
Guido Tuink
Albert Jongstra
Daniel Bennett

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.

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.