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Screening of The Stuart Hall Project followed by a conversation between John Akomfrah and Nana Adusei-Poku

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art hosts the screening of The Stuart Hall Project and a conversation with the director John Akomfrah, in collaboration with the Piet Zwart Institute and the Research Professorship for Cultural Diversity. This event is conceived by the Piet Zwart Institute’s Interdepartmental Think Tank. The group is composed of representatives from the Creating 010 Research Centre, staff members, students from each programme and the Director of the Piet Zwart Institute. Looking at how interests can be shared across courses, they plan interdisciplinary projects and public programming.

ART for MEMORY – Karen Bernedo and Orestes Bermudez Rojas (Peru) in Conversation with Renée Turner

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This event hosted and organised by Castrum Peregrini in collaboration with the Prince Claus Fund and is part of Culture in Action 2014 Prince Claus Awards Week.Lecture ConversationArt for Memory7 december, 19 uurEntrance 5 euro; students 3 euro;RSVP at E: productie@castrumperegrini.nl Karen Bernedo and Orestes Bermudez Rojas will present their work and enter into a…

The launch of SuperGlue

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Yesterday I moderated an evening with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, digital folklore archivist and net art pioneer Olia Lialina, and the developers of SuperGlue, the follow-up to HotGlue. The event marked the launch of the platform, which enables users not only to design their own website within a browser interface but also run it from…

COOKIE! & Conversation at the Piet Zwart Institute

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As a part of Art Rotterdam, the MFA program at the Piet Zwart Institute launched COOKIE, a collection of essays by Jan Verwoert edited by Vivian Sky Rehberg and Marnie Slater, and designed by Nienke Terpsma. Launched with (yes, it’s true) cookies and tea – The process of writing was central to the discussion. Nienke…

Post Script – P.S.

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Below are a few highlights – to contextualize – it might be handy to read the original event description here. *Smadar Dreyfus spoke of the power of the voice, the disjunction between image, sound and experience, and the capacity of the viewer to move past positions of spectatorship towards an embodied encounter of the work.*Rick…

POST SCRIPT

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Keith Sanborn, Still fom Mirror, 1999. Six minutes, SD, color and black & white, stereo Hi-Fi sound. Starring Maria Falconetti and Judy Garland. Image courtesy of the artist. Together with Edwin Carels, Florian Cramer and Simon Pummell, I’ve been organizing this conference. Please join us!POST SCRIPTA symposium organized by the Piet Zwart Institute, Creating 010 &…

Snapshots from Various Fires in Publishing @ Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art

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Self-publishing folks who were buzzing around the room and risograph machines (although not necessarily in the photos): Ben Schot, Simon Davies, Ewoud van Rijn and LemonMelon (aka: Marit Muenzberg), Fucking Good Art, Karin de Jong, Max Senden, and AND. Images were collected and produced on the fly…. And prints were hung on clothes lines against…

In conversation with AND @ Various Fires in Publishing

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Various Fires in PublishingAt Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art15th September – 16th September 2012Organized by Printroom and Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Various Fires in Publishing will offer a mix of DIY printing, hands-on activities and critical debate on different forms of self-publishing. Next to seeing Printroom’s risographs in action, I’m…

Prototyping Futures / Occupying the Present, May 19th, 20 & 21st

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Along with co-editors Carolyn Guertin, Rita Raley and Allison Carruth, I’ve organized a conference entitled Prototyping Futures / Occupying the Present. Prototyping Futures / Occupying the Present, is a three-day conference with workshops initiated by the Piet Zwart Institute. The event gathers scholars from diverse disciplines to explore strategies of resistance, intervention, and critical production…

Feral Disciplines & Hybrid Codes

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My talk at the ELMCIP workshop on electronic literature and pedagogy, “Feral Disciplines & Hybrid Codes”

Sniff, Scrape, Crawl…

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Sniff, Scrape, Crawl… Two Consecutive Panels Looking at Privacy and Surveillance Presented at ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts) Istanbul, Turkey 2011 Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance… Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York, 1979), p. 217 We are living in a…

KOLABO & my workshop on networked narratives

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For my workshop, I wanted to set the challenge of creating a networked character and story. Having only two days, we invented Me Genesis, an avatar in Second Life.

An exercise in live-writing

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I met with a group of textile students at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Sitting around a small table, I read from a selection of finished and unfinished online pieces. After the talk, we did a live-writing exercise. I dumped several bags of printed words on the floor and placed two sets of alphabet stamps…

Michel de Certeau and the practice of everyday life, dinner with performative lectures

De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research, Food For Thought, Learning, Projects & Research Posted by Renee

This is one of the earliest (1999) projects in my practice where eating a meal together was central to collective research. De Geuzen, Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting, and I programmed and designed a performative dinner accompanied by different textual table coverings and take-home quotes related to the work of Michel de Certeau. In this respect,…

Libraries of Shared Interest & the Mobile Library (1999 – 2010)

De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research, Learning, Projects & Research, Reading & Shared Libraries Posted by Renee

The Walk-in Reader was De Geuzen’s first library of shared interests or temporary archive. The space was conceived as an open public resource and a place to explore various processes of urban transformation taking place in the Netherlands. Texts, videos, urls, and other materials were collected around the themes, Mapping, Moments of Convergence, Envisioning Cultural Paradigms Across Disciplinary Boundaries and Shifting Economies.