Crisis: a non-economic approach exhibition Jan 7-10, 14-17
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
presents
Media Technology MSc exhibition
Crisis: a non-economic approach
January 7th – 10th, 12:00 – 18:00
January 14th – 17th, 12:00 – 18:00
V2_
Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
http://www.v2.nl
http://mediatechnology.leiden.edu
Exhibition
The Media Technology MSc programme is a place where students are encouraged to formulate their own scientific questions, and to translate personal inspirations and curiosities into their own research projects. To answer these questions, students are stimulated to create actual installations and products because we are convinced that by doing and creating, new scientific insights into the underlying question are encountered. The programme is a joint initiative of Leiden University’s computer science institute (LIACS) and the Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts
The Media Technology MSc programme is a place where students are encouraged to formulate their own scientific questions, and to translate personal inspiration and curiosity into their own research projects. To answer these questions, students are timulated to create actual installations because we are convinced that by creating and doing, new scientific insights into the underlying questions are encountered. We have taken crisis as the global theme for this year’s semester project exhibition. Our intent was to approach crisis in the broadest sense (social, mathematical, philosophical, etc.) and have associated it with terms like control, projection and collision.
The students have been collaborating in groups of 2 or 3 students where each group has been asked to choose one of the sub-themes. The semester project has three phases. First of all the students are asked to explore their themes as broadly as possible. After gaining insight in the theme they are asked to formulate compelling statements relating to the theme. Once this is done they are asked to translate their statement in a work that can be exhibited in a group exhibition. We try to keep a rather strict separation between the three phases of the project and encourage students to freely research their theme and formulate their statement without thinking about the practical consequences of the exhibition yet. It is surprising to see that the resulting works all question our personal position and role in daily life. The exhibited works question for example our behaviour in an over crowded world, the ethics of the waste of data we create and whether we have control over control.
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Thursday January 7th- Opening day
<u>15:00</u>
Creating Parallel Realities
Lecture by Edwin van der Heide
In this lecture Edwin van der Heide will present a selection of his works and approach them from the perspective of parallel realities. In Van der Heide’s debate sonification, perceptualization and extra senses form the base for the creation of immersive environments that intersect the existing reality.
Edwin van der Heide is an artist, researcher and lecturer focusing on sound, space and interaction. Furthermore he is a board member of the Media Technology MSc programme of Leiden University.
Location: TENT, Witte de Witstraat 50, 3012 BR, Rotterdam
<u>17:00</u>
Opening of the exhibition by Michel van Dartel (Curator of V2_)
Saturday January 9th – Graduation presentations
<u>15:00-16:30</u>
Two graduation projects by Media Technology MSc students will be presented. These presentations are public and open for anyone that is interested to attend. See the schedule and topics
