50% - Media Technology MSc exhibition, Feb 2012
February 10th–12th & 16th-19th – Opening Thursday February 9th, 17:00
V2_ institute for the unstable media presents
50% a Media Technology MSc exhibition
Media Technology MSc Program
The Media Technology MSc program is a place where students are encouraged to develop a creative approach to science. We educate students to translate their personal interest and inspiration into research projects. We’re open to unusual questions, unconventional research methods and forms of output that exceed the traditional thesis format. This includes installations, games and books as possible result from a scientific research. The semester project is a good example of this approach.
Exhibition
We have taken ’50%’ as global theme for this year’s semester project. From this global theme we have derived five sub-themes: mid-life, floating, halfway, layers and indivisible. The students have been working in groups of three that each have chosen their own sub-theme.
The semester project has three phases. First of all the students are asked to explore their theme in the broadest sense (social, mathematical, biological, etc) and discover what it could possibly relate to. After gaining sufficient insight in the theme they are asked to formulate compelling statements related to the theme. Only once this is stage is completed they are asked to translate their statements into an installation. Together these installations form the semester project exhibition. More…
Events
Besides the exhibition our program includes a lecture by Bas Haring on non-textual scientific projects that are meant to convey a statement or trigger reflection, a graduation presentation by Alice Bodanzky on her concept for an intelligent self moving material shape, a lecture by Wim van Eck and Maarten Lamers on the use of real animals in computer games and a ‘meet the makers’ session where the participating students explain what brought them to their installations.
Opening
The opening ceremony of the exhibition takes place on Thursday, February 9th at 17:00 hours. We start however with the lecture by Bas Haring at 16:00 hours.
For more information regarding the exhibition and the events you can download
the complete flyer and the poster
Opening times
February 10th – 12th & February 16th – 19th, 12:00-18:00
Opening ceremony: Thursday February 9th, 17:00
Location
V2_ institute for the unstable media
Eendrachtsstraat 10
Rotterdam
