Statement regarding Master Media Design and Communication diplomas
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KIOSK FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE: THE MUSEUM
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MIARD tutor Silvio Carta presents paper at international conference ‘Knowing (by) Designing’
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Recently it has come to the attention of Hogeschool Rotterdam that the diplomas issued from 2003 to 2008 by the Media Design and Communication programme are not in order. Please find the statement written by M.J.G. Bormans, Chairman of the Board of the Hogeschool Rotterdam, here.
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Hogeschool Rotterdam heeft onlangs geconstateerd dat het uitgegeven diploma van de opleiding Media Design en Communicatie in de periode 2003 tot en met 2008 niet aan formele eisen heeft voldaan. Het statement geschreven door M.J.G. Bormans, Voorzitter College van Bestuur van de Hogeschool Rotterdam, is hier te vinden.
Wednesday May 29 2013
Open: 19:30 hrs.
Start screening: 20:30 hrs.
End: 01:00 hrs.
Location: WORM
Address: Boomgaardsstraat 71 Rotterdam
Admission: 4 EURO
KIOSK FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE: THE MUSEUM
Screening of Recording of Live-dialogue No. 2: Brian Holmes and Charles Esche
This dialogue is part of the KIOSK for Useful Knowledge series, a Mobile Academy project by artist Hannah Hurtzig, entitled Shadowing Institutions, exhibited as part of The Politics of Collecting – The Collecting of Politics, Play Van Abbe, Part 3, (2010-2011). During 2-hours’ live dialogue, staff members of the Van Abbemuseum reflect with partners from outside the institution on The Museum. The original series followed the simple notion that implicit social knowledge, which is both known and unknown to those who are working inside, exists in every institution and organisation, and that this knowledge has to be communicated both inside and outside of its context in order to be effective.
Brian Holmes is a culture and art critic and activist, based in Paris and Chicago. In 2009 he received the Vilém Flusser Theory Award at Transmediale in Berlin. He gives lectures and workshops about the role and impact of art in different societies, with particular attention to the analysis of forms of resistance and the possibility of extradisciplinarity. Charles Esche is a curator and writer. He is director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and co-editor of Afterall Journal and Books, London.
This screening is moderated by Kari Cwynar.
Kari Cwynar (1985, Canada) is a curator and writer from Ottawa, Canada. She holds an MA from Carleton University, Ottawa and a BA from Queen’s University, Kingston, both in Art History. She recently held the position of Curatorial Research Work Study with Kitty Scott at The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, where she worked with Scott on the exhibition À Ciel Ouvert at the Musée nationale des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City (2012); in the summer of 2012 she assisted with The Retreat, a section of dOCUMENTA(13) taking place in Banff. Previously Cwynar held positions at the National Gallery of Canada and the Ottawa Art Gallery. Recently curated exhibitions include Lynne Cohen Photographs from 1973 to 1978, The Banff Centre, Banff (2012); The Work Locates Itself, Columbia University, New York (2012); and The Collector’s Circle, The Banff Park Museum National Historic Site, Banff, (2012). Cwynar has written about contemporary art for C magazine, Canadian Art, and Color magazine, among other publications and catalogues, and was the winner of the 2011 C Magazine New Critics Competition. In November 2011, she was a participant in Independent Curators International’s Curatorial Intensive. Her exhibition recently opened at apexart in New York City (until July 27). With Karima Boudou, Angela Jerardi, Srajana Kaikini, Florencia Portocarrero, and Alexandra Stock she is a participant in the de Appel Curatorial Programme 2012-2013. Their exhibition Bourgeois Leftovers presents 32 Dutch genre paintings leftover from the current Van Abbemuseum collection display, together with commissions and contributions from contemporary artists (see http://bourgeoisleftovers.com/).
The screening is part of the thematic project ‘Scratching The Museum Walls’ compiled by Bik Van der Pol at Piet Zwart Institute’s Master of Fine Arts, Rotterdam.
More information:
THE POLITICS OF COLLECTING – THE COLLECTING OF POLITICS
Play Van Abbe, Part 3, 25/09/2010 – 06/02/2011.
KIOSK FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE: THE MUSEUM
Live-dialogue No. 2: Brian Holmes and Charles Esche (25/11/2010)
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MIARD tutor Silvio Carta, PhD, will present his paper Knowing while Forming – An Experimental Nested Position of Knowledge in Design Practice, on May 23rd at the international conference ‘Knowing (by) Designing,’ organised by Sint-Lucas School of Architecture and Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven, Brussels.
The international conference “strives to explore the developments in research evolved around creative practices – specifically focusing on architecture, design, arts and music.”
Paper Abstract:
Since the Postmodern period the relationship and the hierarchy of knowledge in regard to practice in art and design progressively underwent a wider discussion, which is nowadays far from being concluded. Is there a (basic) knowledge that is created independently from the practice, and structured into a set of rules and eventually applied to practical activities? Is in this case, is the value of practice understandable as the adherence to these rules? Or can knowledge be deduced from practice and physical phenomena? Is pure knowledge to be an autonomous entity that informs the “actions” in design ex-cathedra? Have instead practical aspects of design a privileged position to test, explore and discover new facets of the world? Both these positions are rooted in the assumption that knowledge and practice are independent and autonomous entities and that they can be combined, because they exist separately. This paper proposes a third position, based on the idea that knowledge and practice of design are indiscernible aspects of the same human activity, one nested into the other. The “knowing through making” idea is in this study supported by four projects realized within the academic course Fabrikaat in 2012 in the Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design (MIARD) at the Piet Zwart Institute and exhibited at the Milan Fair Salone del Mobile 2012. The paper frames the proposed position within the current debate on “knowing by design” by partially using the Pareyson’s theory, and discuss the four projects as case study in order to highlight the mutual relationship of knowledge and practice of design.
Tuesday May 21 2013, 18:00 hrs
Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam [Willem de Kooning Academy building]
Admission: Free
The lecture is open for public and will take place in studio W.1.145
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Public lecture by MVRDV: Renske van der Stoep
MVRDV is a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993. MVRDV engages globally in providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues. A research based and highly collaborative design method engages experts from all fields, clients and stakeholders in the creative process. The results are exemplary and outspoken buildings, urban plans, studies and objects, which enable our cities and landscapes to develop towards a better future.
MVRDV pursues a fascination for radical methodical research: on density and on public realms. Through investigation and use of the complex amounts of data that accompany contemporary design processes, spaces are shaped methodically.
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This lecture is organised by the Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design department of the Piet Zwart Institute.
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Opening Friday May 17, 18:00 hrs – 21:00 hrs.
May 21 till May 23 from 11.00 – 17.00 hrs. by appointment only
(please contact Petra van der Kooij)
Openinghours May 18 – 19: 11.00 – 18.00 hrs.
Location: Duende Studios
Address: Tamboerstraat 9 3034 PT Rotterdam
Admission: Free
Piet Zwart Institute Master of Fine Art Interim Show
An exhibition featuring the work of first year Master of Fine Art students at the Piet Zwart Institute:
Liz Allan (NZ), Maarten Bel (NL), Sabrina Chou (USA), Philip Ewe (UK), Christina Hansen (DK), Ann Maria Healy (IE), Hannah James (UK), Graham Kelly (UK), Perri MacKenzie (UK), Machteld Rullens (NL), Roos Wijma (NL), Micha Zweifel (CH)
Curated by Weronika Zielinska and coordinated with Petra van der Kooij.
Friday, 19 April 2013
Location: Klooster Oude Noorden
Address: Ruivenstraat 81, Rotterdam
KIKVORS 4.0 presents the debut of the Tip Top Orchestra at the Klooster Oude Noorden the first enactment of Terry’s Rileys In C will be performed at 20:30 and a second at 22:00.
The Tip Top Orchestra is a diligent Youth ensemble composed of people who are interested in playing Terry’s Rileys In C in public spaces such as the Motel Mozaique festival, ‘het standspodium’ opposite the Laurenskerk and whatever other interesting events might occur. In the future more popular 20th century avant-garde composers, such as Xenakis, Steve Reich and Varese will also be made part of the repertoire providing the opportunity.
Presently there are 18 international amateur musicians and wish is to build the band to 35 members.
Band members the group is looking for need not have technical musical skills. If you do not know how to read notations or play guitar, but have a Qua Zeng Qin and the will to use it, you are more than welcome. In the end we are aiming for an innovative approach to musical reproduction (meaning the reconstruction of an original piece through different methods) and instrumentation (members are encouraged to make their own instruments). There is even room for improvisation. So don’t hesitate to send me an email! Anyone is welcome if he or she is prepared to spend one hour a week being in an orchestra and enjoy doing it.
Apply by mailing Niek Hilkmann, the force beyond the T.T.O. and conductor personally at info@yoshiminotaband.com.
moren background information about this concert:
You can find the music sheets (with creative commons license and instructions) here: [1]
The original Terry Riley recording from 1968 (with overdubs) can be heard here: [2]
Also nice to check is this fusion-like version by L’infonie from 1970: [3]
Yes, No? Maybe – by Eleanor Greenhalgh[UK], a second year student working on her graduation project has brought her to Madrid where has been hosting a two week workshop at Interactivos 2013; a follow-up to the MediaLab Prado, Future Tools Libre Graphics Meeting Madrid, 15 – 27 April.
When we create collaborative documents, what does it mean to ‘consense’? This project will prototype an experimental system for curating text publications, which allows for and records users’ ambivalence. Most tools for curating crowdsourced or collaborative content encode politicallyloaded assumptions about how individuals make decisions. We ‘like’, vote up, approve, or blame the texts of others. The “most popular” content wins; the “best” of online content gets printed. But our social decisions are not really so simple. This project draws on emerging feminist theories of how we reach consent – as a fluid, ongoing and often ambivalent process. ‘Yes’ doesn’t always mean ‘yes’. So how can we encode ‘maybe’?
Writers, editors and programmers are invited to explore how we might allow for this uncertainty in our collaborative editing tools. Rather than treating printed publications unproblematically as edited “best-of”, such tools will produce consensual publications that record and reflect the ambivalent process of decision-making inherent in any collaborative project.
Follow Eleanor’s blog: http://consentsus.org/interactivos
caption photo: Today 23 April, we made a quick prototype of the ‘cookbook of decision making systems’ which we’re making for the end of the week. We took it to a Zine swap event at the Night of the Books.
Our Fine Art Alumna Deniz Unal will be participating in the project SISTER FROM ANOTHER MISTER.
Beauvais FR, 2010 – Image by Krijn de Koning
Tuesday April 23 2013, 18:30 hrs
Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam [Willem de Kooning Academy building]
Admission: Free
The lecture is open for public and will take place in studio W.1.145
Public lecture by Krijn de Koning
The work of Krijn de Koning interrupts environment by adding sculptural, architectural and colourful constructions to a given location, it is site specific. The work emphasises the environment and gives the audience new possibilities to use and interpret the place. Works within de Koning’s oeuvre vary from minuscule to very large, and contain classic references up to absurd expressions. Within the installations, drawings, sculptures and architectural works, connections arise, spare space is visualised and new perspectives are offered. As well as museums, art institutes and galleries, as public, private and corporate clients provide stage for artworks of Krijn de Koning
Wednesday April 17 2013, 19:00 hrs.
Location: Piet Zwart Institute,
Address: Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam
Admission: Free
We Must Confront Vague Ideas With Clear Images
A lecture by Kathleen Ritter
In the months leading up to May 1968 in France, there is a curious concurrence between films, documentary photographs, graffiti and political posters, where reality and its representation intersect. Through the images produced in these months, this talk explores how revolution is represented and broadly asks the question: What is a revolutionary image?
Kathleen Ritter is an artist and a curator. She is currently an artist in residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, as a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts International Residencies Program in Visual Arts. She was the Associate Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 2007 to 2012, where she organized the exhibitions How Soon Is Now, Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture (with Tania Willard), WE: Vancouver (with Bruce Grenville), Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion (with Daina Augaitis) and commissioned public artworks for Offsite by Damian Moppett, Kota Ezawa, Elspeth Pratt, and Heather and Ivan Morison. Her writing on contemporary art has appeared in numerous catalogues and journals, including ESSE, Open Letter, C Magazine, Prefix Photo, and Fillip. Ritter has written on the work of Ian Wallace, Mark Manders, Althea Thauberger, Rachel Harrison, Hadley+Maxwell, Derek Sullivan, Ken Lum, and Ai Weiwei, to name a few, and on subjects as diverse as hip hop, precarious labour, public art, revolution, the history of plastic, surveillance, amodal perception, and the threat of nuclear disaster.
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