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//PIET ZWART INSTITUTE
//MA MEDIA DESIGN / MEDIA DESIGN RESEARCH

A public programme (monthly). MA Media & Design; international guest lecturers. Status: annual series. In association with Piet Zwart Institute (institute for postgraduate study and research, Willem de Kooning Academy, Hogeschool Rotterdam).
url: http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl
url: http://wdka.hro.nl / menu: WdKA _ Submenu: What's on _ Categories: Piet Zwart Institute

Event publishingchannels: email, internet (menu: What's on _ submenu: Piet Zwart Institute), intranet (menu: Home and Nieuws ('News' _ Submenu: Piet Zwart Instituut)) and the Rotterdam Siggraph site.

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MA MEDIA DESIGN CALENDAR
Public Programme June 2008

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Continuing through: Sunday, June 8th
Group Exhibition with o.a. Michael van Schaik & Dennis de Bel: Parallel Spaces
Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen / http://www.expoplu.nl

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Continuing through: Sunday, June 15h
Jodi with o.a. Dennis de Bel: Cooked Cookbooks at the Webcra.sh expo
Pictura, Dordrecht / www.pictura.nl

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Friday, June 20th / 20.00hrs
Opening: first year M.A. student show:
not.fromscrat.ch / supervised by: jodi
continuing: Saturday, June 21st / 13.00 - 18.00hrs
Location: V2_Institute for the Unstable Media,
Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam
www.v2.nl / www.jodi.org

Critical and playful modifications of popular web sites and other electronic systems and media, instead of designing from scratch: this exhibition shows the work results of a project lead by JODI at the Media Design M.A. course of the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam.

Works by: Dennis de Bel (NL), Marc Chia/onemanation (Singapore), Timo Klok (NL), Alexandre Leray (France), Leonie Urff (NL), Stéphanie Vilayphiou (France), Sauli Warmenhoven (NL), Serena Williams (NL)

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Saturday, June 21 - Sunday, June 29th
Art Event with a.o. Salvador d'Souza: Route Du Nord
info: Zwaanshals 290 / 3035 KN Rotterdam

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continuing through: Saturday, June 21st
FIRST ALUMNI SHOW of the Media Design M.A. programme:
"global / positions / systems"
Location: Gallery BLAAK10,
Witte de Withstraat 7a, 3012 BK Rotterdam
Opening hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11.00 - 18.00hrs
www.blaak10.nl

Artists: Tsila Hassine & de Geuzen (Israel & NL), Shahee Ilyas (Maledives), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Tasmania), Audrey Samson (Quebec) and Walter Langelaar (NL).

A common theme is their reflection of information technology in relation to culture and global politics: a web site that tracks and overlays Internet images related to geopolitical search terms, golden picture frames around political leaders mapping their years in power and the corruption and freedom of press in their countries, barbie dolls mutated into musical controllers for performance artists, an autonomous joystick in a game-playing feedback loop and a feminist machine that reflects how computing grew out of sewing technology.

"Global / positions / systems" obviously alludes to GPS, the global positioning system, but twists the name to describe five international, critical media positions towards globalised technological and political systems.

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Upcoming event: Friday, July 4th / 20.30 door opens
M.A. GRADUATION SHOW: You are pWNED:
Piet Zwart Institute Takes over WORM Again
and WORM-programmed after party
continuing: Saturday, July 5th & Sunday, the 6th
Location: WORM, Achterhaven 148, 3024 RC Rotterdam
www.wormweb.nl / pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma

You are pWNED: Piet Zwart Institute Takes over WORM Again
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn ]

From July 4th-6th, Media Design students of the Piet Zwart Institute will take over WORM again with their M.A. graduation show. Look forward to another instalment of interesting and strange objects and programs: An alternative TV station that revises naive approaches of "free media" with constantly changing game rules for participation - from radical democracy to on-off-switching -; theatrical media designs; dance and choreography that take down copyright by turning it into a weapon against itself; a system with which you can create your own open source font through remixing and tweaking; codes for deciphering a world conspiracy and secret language spoken by laser printers; a hacked Nintendo console with counter-terrorist and neighbourhood watch games that secretly tracking you on Facebook; a system for leaving your comments on any web page; an exploration of why, among others, Schiedam schnapps and Dutch wax cloth are essential to a traditional West African celebration; a mechanical server that makes web publishing truly accessible by serving pages from paper.

One year ago, the Media Design M.A. course of the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, invaded the entire WORM building with its final show of experimentalist and critical DIY work with digital technology. Since then, Piet Zwart Institute has infiltrated WORM in various ways, with former and current students forming WORM's MODDR/Artlab, jointly organised public events such as the first BarCamp Rotterdam and the Pirate Cinema night of "Wanted: Dead or Interactive", etc.etc. - on the basis of a shared philosophy of Do-It-Yourself media, Open Source and experimental arts and design.

Participating artists/designers/hacker/activists in the graduation show: Linda Hilfling (Denmark), Annemieke van der Hoek (NL), Maria Karagianni (Greece), Ricardo Lafuente (Portugal), Ivan Monroy Lopez (Mexico), Gordan Savicic (Austria), Michael van Schaik (NL), Salvador L. d'Souza (Ghana), Danja Vassiliev (Russia). The show will open on Independence Day, July 4th (but we'll spare you from puns about the ID4 movie and its upload of computer virus into the alien flying saucer).

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PZI's MA Fine Art presentations at ArtPie International 2008
May 10-18, 2008 / Amsterdam

ArtPie International is an art fair for new flavours in art. It is organized in Amsterdam annually. This year's edition presents 75 independent art spaces, 15 MFA schools and 400 individual artists.

At ArtPie International 2008, participants of the MA courses of WdKA's Piet Zwart Institute will present themselves. Each day, one or two different artists from the PZI present their work in a series of individual statements. The presentations reflect the diversity of the PZI: included are video, photography, performance, drawing and sculpture. Whether new work is presented for the first time, or existing work is shown in a new context, all participating artists engage critically with issues relevant to contemporary culture and society, placing their work at the center of a larger context of public discourse and display.

Participating artists:
Inger Alfnes (N), Maja Bekan (SC G), Rachel Carey (USA), Cornelia Heusser (CH), Aline Keller (CH), Anke Kuipers (NL), Gerwin Luijendijk (NL), Margo Onnes (NL), Esperanza Rosales (USA), David Stamp (UK), Edward Thomson (UK), Esmé Valk (NL), Esther de Vlam (NL) and Sjoerd Westbroek (NL).

Programme
Saturday May 10: Cornelia Heusser & David Stamp
Sunday May 11: Esperanza Rosales
Monday May 12: Edward Clydesdale Thomson & Sjoerd Westbroek
Tuesday May 13: Anke Kuipers
Wednesday May 14: Margo Onnes
Thursday May 15: Aline Keller
Friday May 16: Gerwin Luijendijk & Rachel Carey
Saturday May 17: Esmé Valk, Esther de Vlam & Maja Bekan
Sunday May 18: Inger Alfnes

Art Pie International - 2008. May 10-18, 2008. Westergasfabriek Amsterdam, Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 1014 BE Amsterdam/NL. Open: daily, 12-6 p.m. Opening: Saturday May 10, 4 p.m. / url www.kunstvlaai.nl/2008

Note: At ArtPie International 2008, the Eindhoven based art Space De Fabriek will be represented by WdKA alumna Eefje Verstraelen (BA Fine Art, 2006 /

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MA MEDIA DESIGN CALENDAR
Public Programme May 2008

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Wednesday, May 14th, 19.00 - 20.30hrs
Workshop,
Try-out on copyright & dance notation.
MARIA KARAGIANNI & THOMAS KORTVELYESSY

Join us in a try-out of Maria Karagianni's MA final exam project on dance and choreography that proposes to take down copyright by turning it into a weapon against itself. Collaborator, dancer/choreographer Thomas Kortvelyessy will be performing to what the audience presents him.

Location: Karl Doormanhof 45, 3012 GC Rotterdam
url Thomas Körtvélyessy

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FIRST ALUMNI SHOW of the Media Design M.A. programme:
"global / positions / systems"
Opening: Thursday, May 22nd, 17.00hrs
continuing through: Saturday, June 21st

Artists: Tsila Hassine & de Geuzen (Israel & NL), Shahee Ilyas (Maledives), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Australia) and Audrey Samson (Canada).

A common theme is their reflection of information technology in relation to culture and global politics: Documentation of a media activist software project in India, a web site that tracks and overlays Internet images related to geopolitical search terms, golden picture frames around political leaders mapping their years in power and the corruption and freedom of press in their countries, barbie dolls mutated into musical controllers for performance artists, and a feminist machine that reflects how computing grew out of sewing technology.

"Global / positions / systems" obviously alludes to GPS, the global positioning system, but twists the name to describe five international, critical media positions towards globalized technological and political systems.

Location: Gallery BLAAK10, Witte de Withstraat 7a, 3012 BK Rotterdam
url pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma

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MA MEDIA DESIGN CALENDAR
Public Programme April 2008

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Friday, April 4th, 19:30-22:00hrs
Workshop presentations: Collab Lab
Location: PZI, Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 GC Rotterdam

- with students and faculty from Dance Unlimited Amsterdam, the Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatory The Hague, the Utrecht School of Art, Media & Technology, the Masters in Choreography from Laban School London, and the Media Design M.A. of the Piet Zwart Institute - coordinated by Nik Haffner (choreographer, formerly with William Forsythe's Ballet Frankfurt)

Collab Lab is an annual interdisciplinary collaboration between dance, choreography, music and electronic media schools in the Netherlands and the UK. In this public event, work-in-progress created by the participants - experimental installations, games, performances - will be presented in different spaces on the ground floor of the Piet Zwart Institute.

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Public Event: "The Map Is not the Territory?!
- Mapping as critical investigation" with Bureau d'Etudes (FR), Theo Deutinger (AU/NL), Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud (CH), Michael Murtaugh and PZI Media Design M.A. students; introduction by Florian Cramer

"The Map Is not the Territory?! - Mapping as critical investigation" Public event with Bureau d'Etudes (FR), Theo Deutinger (AU/NL), Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud (CH), Michael Murtaugh and Piet Zwart Institute Media Design M.A. students; introduction by Florian Cramer

"Mapping" refers to different yet related practices. Information mapping is not simply visualization of political and business statistics, but increasingly employed by contemporary artists, designers and activists as a medium of critical research and political contestation. Classical cartography, on the other hand, has become a 'hot' economic and cultural issue ever since services like Google Maps have suggested that public space and its representation can be marketed as one whole. Has the map merged with the territory, or do critical mappings insist on difference?

Presenters: - Bureau d'Etudes is a Paris-based group that produces maps of contemporary political, social and economical systems as visual analyses of transnational capitalism: bureaudetudes.free.fr , www.metamute.org/en/node/6243
- Theo Deutinger is a Rotterdam-based architect and maker of urbanist and economic-cultural maps that have appeared among others in Vrij Nederland: www.td-architects.eu
- Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud are Berlin- and Zurich-based artists; their web site "Zone Interdite" collects and displays data on military exclusion zones: www.zone-interdite.net . They will preview their next-day presentation at V2_ (see below) - Piet Zwart Institute staffer Michael Murtaugh and Media Design M.A. students will present critical information mappings created in the course.

This event is part of the EU-funded international research project A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics www.atacd.net which the Piet Zwart Institute participates in. It is the prelude to the Rotterdam-based second ATACD colloquium and will be followed by the public event "Test_Lab: Topology" on Thursday, April 17th, 20:00 at V2_, Eendrachtstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam: www.v2.nl

MA MEDIA DESIGN and MA FINE ART
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Saturday, April 19th, 10:00-15:00hrs
Open Day / Open House:
- Open studios Fine Art M.A.
- Graduation show preview Media Design M.A.
Location: PZI, Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 GC Rotterdam
https://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl

As every year in April, the Piet Zwart Institute opens the doors to its building and to its studios to everyone.

Whether you are a prospective student who wants to get first-hand insight into our M.A. courses, a professional curious about upcoming artists and designers, or just someone interested in the work of our students - you are cordially invited to come by and see art and design work fresh from and in the studios.

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MA MEDIA DESIGN CALENDAR
Public Programme March 2008
Mixed Sources March 18-21
Streaming and event week, PZI

"Mixed Sources" is a cocktail of (semi-)online, and totally offline experiments around mediation and hospitality. You are invited to 4 days of total streaming broadcast mayhem incl 'spam', html-music, comics, discussions e.o.

"Mixed Sources": Is features work by: Marc Chia, Dennis de Bel, Timo Klok, Leonie Urff, Stéphanie Vilayphiou & Alexandre Leray, Sauli Warmenhoven and Serena Williams.

You can tune into the video and audio streams with Mozilla Firefox and the VLC player plugin on: - Tuesday, March 18th, 15:00-18:00
- Thursday, March 20th, 20:00-22:00
- Friday, March 21st, 18:00-19:30, 20:00-21:00 and 22:00-2:00

For a more detailed schedule, complete project information, a link to the stream and technical help, go to www.mixedsources.tk

"Mixed Sources" also includes two real life events:
- on Thursday the 20th, a party with DJ Luluganeta at Piet Zwart Institute, Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam, starting at 20:00
- on Friday the 21st, an HTML music performance by Denis de Bel as part of the WORM.event "Overtollig vet" at the NAI, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, starting at 22:00

'Mixed Sources' is a project by first years Media Design students of the Piet Zwart Institute tutored by De Geuzen and presented in collaboration with WORM. The streaming server infrastructure has been graciously provided by WORMstation. www.mixedsources.tk
pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma
www.wormweb.nl

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MA MEDIA DESIGN CALENDAR
Public Programme February

Saturday, February 9th / 22.30 - 04.00hrs
Event: Bar Dancing Nikola Tesla VI / TL- sculptures: Dennis de Bel Location: WORM, Achterhaven 148, 3024 RC Delfshaven
8 euro entree fee
url: www.wormweb.nl
www.gyzlariviere.nl

Saturday, February 16th | 20.00 - 24.00hrs
Exhibition: 222VOLT
Installation: Rebeat, 8 cdplayer: Dennis de Bel with sound ingredients: One Man Nation
Location: Singel 222 | 3311 KV Dordrecht
url: www.singel222.nl

Friday, February 29th / 21.00hrs
Event: artlab moddr_chip @WARM aka WORM.
Location: WORM, Achterhaven 148, 3024 RC Delfshaven
url: www.wormweb.nl

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MA MEDIA DESIGN CALENDAR
Public Programme January 2008

Opening: Friday, January 29th, 19.00hrs
Event: Transmediale.08 - CONSPIRE
Festival dates: January 30th - February 3rd
Exhibition dates: January 30th - February 24th
Award Ceremony: February 2nd
Location: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, I John-Foster-Dulles-Alle 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
www.transmediale.de/site/transmediale

Transmediale, an international festival for digital arts and culture in Berlin, will involve substantial contributions from Piet Zwart Institute Media Design this year: The motto "Conspire" originated in a joint public event by PZI and V2_ in 2006, and was moved from Rotterdam to Berlin by former V2 curator and new transmediale director Stephen Kovats.

A video on "Web 2.0" terms of service by our student Linda Hilfling ( http://www.overheads.org , http://www.t-vlog.net ) and the wearable Wi-Fi straitjacket by our student Gordan Savicic www.yugo.at/equilibre will be shown at the festival; the piece is also nominated for the transmediale award.

Media Design course director Florian Cramer will moderate a public panel on the "Techno-Historical Collusions" of conspiracy theories.
Location: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, I John-Foster-Dulles-Alle 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany www.transmediale.de/site/transmediale