24/7 studios
Our course is located in a spacious atelier building at Karel Doormanhof 45 in the city center of Rotterdam, shared with the Fine Art Master programme. As a student, you get a large shared studio with high speed Internet, 24h/7 days access and a key to the building. As you can see in the pictures, you can truly make the studio your own place.

Personal computers, servers, network
We are equipped with a range of machines running GNU/Linux and Mac OS as well as all the requirements for recording and editing images, video and sound. We run and professionally administer our own web servers, provide a full web development environment for you and can install required programming languages or content management systems for your projects if necessary. We also provide electronics boards (Arduino) for hardware projects. Students are expected to bring their own laptops as work machines (if they can afford them), but also have access to rental laptops and to servers for both experiment and publication. A high-speed internet connection is available in all rooms: wireless at 11mbps and wired Ethernet at 100mbps.

Other equipment
We provide network equipment, digital photo and video cameras, older computers and screens that can be used and repurposed for custom media work (including your own local servers and appliances), and projectors as rental items. Many of the work that you see on these pages and on the course wiki shows you that the strongest projects are often those that use simple or minimal technical means, or clever programming tricks rather than an overkill of equipment.

No labs, on purpose
As the Networked Media course is not oriented towards imaging, 3D game development or professional audiovisual production, we do not provide labs or production studios. Such facilities exist at the Willem de Kooning Academy and may be used for particular projects. (Our philosophy is deliberately not ‘high tech’ in the sense of being oriented towards the latest and greatest hardware and software.)