THE NEXT BIG THING
An exhibition of the design department of the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam
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‘The Next Big Thing’ is a Sandberg Instituut design department exhibition featuring eleven students’ graduation projects along with other exceptional designs by students from the department. All the projects make statements that are utterly personal, what binds them is their speculative character. Each project acts like a magnifying glass turned on significant developments in our society. The projects together demonstrate how the profession of (graphic) design enables one to operate on the cutting edge and reformulate what engages people.
16–19 September 2010
De Brakke Grond, Nes 45, Amsterdam
11am–7pm daily
Free admission
Graduation presentations: Wednesday 15 September, 1pm
Exhibition opening: Wednesday 15 September, 7pm
With projects by: Krimo Benlaloua*, Brigiet van den Berg, Camila Bustamante*, Michèle Champagne, Pinar Demirdag*, Annelou van Griensven*, Anja Groten, Lauren Grusenmeyer, Femke Herregraven*, Simona Kicurovska, Viola Renate*, Chris Lee*, Henrik van Leeuwen*, Katja Novitskova*, Michail Oustamanolakis*, Janneke de Rooij, Matthias Schreiber*, Maartje Smits — )* graduating students
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EVENTS:
FRIDAY 27 AUGUST
5 pm: Opening ‘Allez Congo’ (exhibition of De Brakke Grond, including the pavilion of ‘EXPO 2020 Gbadolite’ by Sandberg students)
WEDNESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER
1pm: Design Masters’ graduation presentations
6pm: Diploma ceremony
7 – 9 pm: The Next Big Thing exhibition opening
7.15pm: Opening ceremony by Expo 2020 Gbadolite
7.30pm: Credit Card Collection launch by Pinar&Viola
THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER
2pm: Lecture by Jurgen Bey
4pm: eurovision3000: a discussion about European identity and authenticity by Janneke de Rooij and Anja Groten www.eurovision3000.eu
5pm: National Pavilion Celebration by Expo 2020 Gbadolite
FRIDAY 17 SEPTEMBER
3pm: Transfusion: A Workshop on Alternative Currencies by Chris Lee
4pm: eurovision3000: a discussion about European identity and authenticity by Janneke de Rooij and Anja Groten
5pm: Corporate Pavilion soiree by Expo 2020 Gbadolite
SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
3pm: Book reading: ‘A Taste of Forest’ by Michèle Champagne
4pm: Transfusion: A Workshop on Alternative Currencies by Chris Lee
5pm: Expo staff party by Expo 2020 Gbadolite
SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
3pm: Open Impact Channel Strategic Communications Lecture
4pm: Melding (Announcement) by Simona Kicurovska (a.o.)
5pm: Closing ceremony by Expo 2020 Gbadolite
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Contact information:
Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam
t +31 (0)20 5882404 (design department)
Dear classmates,
Last week Thursday I was a guest for one day during Kolabo Summer Lab Workshop
My role was to share my thoughts on the topic they had already chosen, and bring some fresh ideas during their brainstorm session.
In return, I promised them my meditations and conclusions for their blog.
You can read my contribution here
The end presentation of this workshop is coming Friday, July 30. (the official invitation follows below, in Dutch)
If anyone is still in the Netherlands, perhaps you are interested to join me.
This is the address:
Kolabo Summer Lab
Schiekade 189, Top Floor
Rotterdam
Let me know!
Cheers,
Simona
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KOLABO en CODUM nodigen u graag uit voor een heel
speciale zomeravond. Op vrijdag 30 juli presenteren wij namelijk de
uitkomsten van het jaarlijkse KOLABO SUMMER LAB, dit keer op locatie bij
Codum, die gerenoveerde ruimtes in de stad beschikbaar stelt voor de
creatieve industrie.
We hebben gedurende twee weken onderzocht hoe sociale media kunnen
worden ingezet om blijvende participatie van de enorme verwachte toename
van 65-plussers te bevorderen. Moeten wij die doelgroep, waar we zelf
ook toe zullen behoren, wel van alle gemakken voorzien? Is het niet
beter om hen hun eigen grenzen te laten blijven opzoeken? Welke prikkels
hebben zij nodig om geëngageerd te blijven? En speelt de overheid daar
een rol in, of gaan we nu al zelfregulerende systemen opzetten?
Dit keer met talenten die recent zijn afgestudeerd op het gebied van
Sociologie, Nieuwe Media en Toegepaste Kunsten en dagelijkse special
guests.
Wilt u betroken worden in de discussie over wat ons te doen staat in de
komende tien jaar om onze samenleving met behulp van ambient technology
meer open en zelf-regulerend te maken, kom dan vrijdag 30 juli kijken
naar de publieke presentatie van alle creatieve ideeën die in deze twee
weken geoogst zijn.
U bent welkom vanaf 17:00 uur tijdens de inloop en borrel.
De publieke presentatie start om 18:00 uur.
Wij hopen u daar te begroeten.
Locatie:
Kolabo Summer Lab
Schiekade 189
Bovenste etage
Rotterdam
Verdere informatie:
http://www.kolabo.org/summerlabs
Bruno Setola – 06 417 88 009
Jasper Schelling – 06 424 52 797
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Contact:
Simona Kicurovska
e-mail: simona.kicurovska@gmail.com
mobile: +31626574646(Nederland)
+38971293948(Macedonia)
http://www.simonakicurovska.com
Good evening!
A friend of mine in Toronto is volunteering for The Real News. His name is Jason Mortlock. Here are his pics from the G20 Summit in Toronto, in all its shame and glory. Jason said his press pass helped a little, but he still got harassed and pepper sprayed.
Some of his photos portray the Black Bloc's actions: cop cars on fire! The Bloc is notorious for being "anarchist" shit disturbers, in Canada, France and elsewhere. This is how they're portrayed in Canadian mainstream media. But are they really dangerous?
In Canada, the Bloc has been co-opted by the police. During Montebello protests in 2007, there was an investigation held. It found three police officers infiltrating the Bloc. They too were dressed in black. They threw rocks at other police. They incited other peaceful protesters to become violent. The same thing happened during Toronto's G20: Bloc members smashing windows for hours without being arrested. This gave peaceful protesters a negative image. It also gave Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair (as well as leaders from the RCMP and OPP) ammunition to increase the security budget and carry out more dangerous attacks on the human rights of protesters, journalists and photographers.
Torontonians are condemning police brutality. And despite all this, Toronto Mayor David Miller praised the police. Keep an ear out in the news of how the Toronto Police Services Board will be carrying out its biased investigation, despite citizens and justice advocates demanding more accountability.
Best!
Michèle
Photo’s:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mm-sf/sets/72157624451952500/
Text:
http://blog.mm-summit.org/the-personal-is-political-the-political-is-pe
Sunny regards,
Annelys
Good evening!
This email as an invitation to be 1 of our 8 special guest on Saturday.
As some of you know, there’s a dress rehearsal planned for:
SWEET POTATO PRINCESS
A scenarized food event.
Eating love and war.
Eating famine, class and priviledge.
How a Dutch princess was born in Canada during WWII.
We will use you as our guinea pigs. You will eat, drink and be merry.
This event is still in development and not for the public yet, so we’ll want your feedback too.
Saturday, July 10th at 20:00
Robert Scottstraat 10, Amsterdam
€12/guest, alcohol included. 8 spots only.
RSVP by 12 noon on Friday: mich.champagne@gmail.com
Also, we’re looking for volunteer photographers or videographers. Holler if you want to help.
Best!
Amélie, Martina and Michèle
Dear All,
Map Fest takes place at Mediamatic on July 6, 8 and 9. Map Fest brings together kindred spirits to explore, create, define and oppose maps.
We start with an evening ; “>Mapping for Change is about defying and opposing existing structures. It decentralizes power, handing it back to individuals and allowing local communities to organize themselves autonomously. Alternative maps and visualizations are used to challenge and change official policy. They allow for multiple views and voices to live side by side.
The second evening of Map Fest is dedicated to Mapping for Clarity. Guests are Richard Rogers, Catalogtree and De Geuzen. Urban sociologist and researcher Merijn Oudenampsen will be moderating the evening.
Mapping for Clarity is about making sense of data. Abstract sets of numbers are transformed into fluctuating graphs and beautiful visualizations. Power structures and traditional hierarchies are uncovered and defied. Mapping makes the intangible world around us tangible, and influences the way we experience, use and create space.
Sharing ideas and doing it fast. Mediamatic will be hosting the first Ignite Amsterdam night. Central theme of the evening is Mapping.
The concept is easy. Ignite combines great ideas, the local community, a stage and plenty of drinks, to create thought-provoking, innovative nights. Participants get five minutes (twenty slides for fifteen seconds each) to show and explain their idea. During and after the talks there’s plenty of time for a chat, a beer and a swapping of screen names and phone numbers
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Rob Schröder
wldplkkn@xs4all.nl
http://nl.youtube.com/wldplkkn
http://robschroder.nl
mob +31621554536
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A brief report…
thought some of you might be interested.
these are some photos, maiko (my gf), managed to snap of the march yesterday in Toronto. It gives a sense of who was gathered that day… anti-poverty activists, native activists, Iranian socialists, grandmothers and a pig.
the parade route they're on is actually distant from the actual g20 meeting. immense police presence prevents access to the perimeter fence. but where you see all the cops forming a wall is the main downtown police station.
they also march through 'the village,' toronto's queer neighbourhood, where just a few days ago QuAIA (Queers Against Israeli Apartheid) won a free speech victory against Pride Toronto (pride festival organizing committee), who tried to exclude them from the march.
Incidentally, this almost coincides w/ Judith Butler's controversial rejection of Berlin's Pride Civil Courage Prize recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9dd6r361k&
signing off….
The new design of the sandberg.nl/design website aims to open up a new view on the identity of the school. It explicitly aims to offer a personal and almost intimate insight on the institution. By exposing the designers@sandberg mailinglist, used for personal and pragmatic mailing, we open up the informal side of the institute to the public and place this public in an almost voyeuristic position.
From the very beginning the goal of the website was to mirror the institution in a very personal and direct way. Similarly to how social networks offer themselves as 1. a standard tool for personal use and 2. a network tool for exposure. We wanted to develop a tool that recycles these methods and by doing so offers a critical insight on these pseudo-applications.
This way of thinking immediately set some confined parameters on the type of content we would open up to the public. What kind of content do you expose? We chose to look at things from a backwards angle. Instead of setting up a facade, a wrapping paper bundling up the institution, we chose to show the hidden layers: the inside communications. We turned it inside out. We the students and the tutors, fill up the blank space of the Institute. As we set the Sandberg agenda, we act as the main protagonists in this public scenery.
Our aim, to show the institute through this backwards angle, came when we tried to capture what makes the design masters at Sandberg so particular. We found that a large part of our education finds itself in the communication between the students.
The actual search for design paradigms, the formulation of design strategies are accompanied by discussions that offer rhetorics on the subjects. As a Sandberg student you find the place to question the development of a new practice that relates to our highly mediatized, globalized, commercialized society. This constant questioning of design strategies marks istelf by searches, discussions and speculations. Exactly these processes we wanted to show to the public. A direct and personal insight on the particular processes that shape an institution. By doing this we ignore a specific target audience or a well thought after type of content. We leave the conclusions to the public.
More than being a business cards for outsiders, it is a tool for ourselves. We use it for sharing information and we use it to look up lost information. It functions as a public agenda with announcements, a personal advertising space and an archive of the past years, projects, students, happenings and discussions.
The sandberg website is built as a tool, a standard to be used by the departments. Every department has it’s own installation of the website, it’s own mailinglist, it’s own url and it’s own color. Which content will they share, how will they share, will they hack or misuse the system? It entirely depends on the position of the department.
Therefore the sandberg website offers itself as a tool, an application to be used by the departments. It offers no standard content or positioning. It is a blank system to be used, shared and hacked.
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Rob Schröder
wldplkkn@xs4all.nl
http://nl.youtube.com/wldplkkn
http://robschroder.nl
mob +31621554536
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Film: Stayin Alive In Jo’burg
Trouw
Amsterdam Wibautstraat 127 1091 GL Amsterdam
T +31 (0)20 4637788
F +31
- Rob Schröder, regisseur
- Su Tomesen, kunstenaar
Vertoning van Staying alive in Jo’burg, een
fascinerende documentaire van Rob
Schröder die je meeneemt je mee naar delen van het centrum
van Johannesburg om gekraakte gebouwen en stedelijk verval te laten
zien. Gevolgd door een gesprek met de regisseur en met kunstenaar Su
Tomesen. Onderdeel van Shadow Cities, een
maandelijkse filmavond gericht op de ‘underdogs’ en ‘outcasts’ die de
steden van de wereld bevolken.
Johannesburg
is de grootste economische metropool van Afrika. De binnenstad is
echter één van de meest gewelddadige gebieden van de wereld. De meeste
kantoorpanden staan leeg of zijn gekraakt en worden bewoond door diverse
groepen illegale Afrikanen uit naburige landen. Duizenden gelukzoekers
proberen er een nieuw bestaan op te bouwen in de wetteloosheid van deze
stedelijke jungle.
De stad maakt zich intussen op voor het WK- voetbal in
2010, hier kan Johannesburg zich op een positieve manier aan de
wereld tonen. De binnenstad wordt schoongeveegd en er wordt alles aan
gedaan om dit grootse evenement probleemloos te laten verlopen. Maar
gaat dit lukken? En welke gevolgen heeft dit voor al die duizenden
immigranten?
Rob
Schröder is vanaf januari 2008 meerdere malen naar Johannesburg
gegaan om de veranderingen in beeld te brengen. Is het mogelijk om deze
stad vol hoop en angst te controleren en de binnenstad veilig en
leefbaar te maken? Hoe kun je überhaupt overleven in Johannesburg?
Kunstenaar en regisseur Su Tomesen uit
Amsterdam werd onlangs uitgenodigd door The Bag Factory
in Johannesburg om 3 maanden als artist-in-residence naar Johannesburg
te komen. Van januari tot begin april 2010 woonde en werkte ze in deze
spannende metropool. Ze deed onderzoek naar zgn. shebeens,
wat oorspronkelijk een illegale bar aan huis is, in de townships ten
tijde van de apartheid in Zuid-Afrika. Samen met lokale kunstenaars en
filmmakers creëerde ze een City
One Minutes, een kort en persoonlijk
filmportret van Johannesburg.
Johannesburg
is de grootste economische metropool van Afrika. De binnenstad is
echter één van de meest gewelddadige gebieden van de wereld.
- 11 juni, 22.00 uur: Adapt or dye – theatershow van Pieter-Dirk Uys
- 12 juni, 21.00 uur: Holland Doc – Stayin’ Alive in Jo’burg
- 14 juni, 21.00 uur: Beautiful in Beaufort-Wes – portret van
singer/songwriter Gert Vlok Nel
- 15 juni, 21.00 uur: Concert Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- 16 juni, 20.18 uur: Antjie Krog in gesprek met Nelleke Noordervliet en
Adriaan van Dis
- 17 juni, 22.00 uur: Trendspotting over de Bamako fotobiënnale in
Afrika
- 18 juni, 20.00 uur: Van de schoonheid en de troost – interview met
John Coetzee
- 18 juni, 22.00 uur: Close-up over Mode in Afrika
- 19 juni, 21.00 uur: Mafrika, speelfilm van Paul Ruven
- 21 juni, 20.00 uur: Van Dis in Afrika, aflevering 1
- 22 juni, 22.00 uur: Bonanza over kunstenaar William Kentridge
LADUMA!, de Afrikaanderwijk en de FIFA World Cup 2010 in
Zuid-Afrika
“Al tientallen jaren was voetbal verreweg de populairste sport
onder de niet-blanken in Zuid-Afrika. In de jaren twintig en dertig was
er, verspreid over het hele land, een netwerk van zwarte en gekleurde
voetbalcompetities tot stand gekomen. De trek van steeds meer zwarten
naar de steden in de jaren dertig en veertig leidde tot de oprichting
van inmiddels legendarische voetbalclubs, zoals Orlando Pirates, de
Mokone Swallows en de Bucks. De spelers, ook al verdienden ze er meestal
niets mee, werden supersterren en rolmodellen in hun eigen buurt. Met
hun prestaties op het veld bezorgden ze hun gemeenschap plezier en een
gevoel van eigenwaarde.”
Uit: Meer dan een spel. Voetbal vs. Apartheid – Chuck Korr
& Marvin Close
Voetbal, migratie, cultuur en identiteit in relatie tot de specifieke
geschiedenis en hedendaagse realiteit van zowel de Afrikaanderwijk als
Zuid-Afrika staan centraal in het project LADUMA! [1] dat plaatsvindt
tijdens het aanstaande WK Voetbal in Zuid-Afrika (11 juni tot 11 juli
2010).
Een populaire sport als voetbal heeft de potentie om
saamhorigheid en verzoening tot stand te brengen tussen verschillende
culturen en bevolkingsgroepen, ook omdat de liefde voor voetbal niet
gehinderd wordt door status of afkomst: voetbal is een sport die
wereldwijd populair is en toegankelijk voor iedereen.
In het geval
van het WK voetbal in Zuid-Afrika rijzen echter een aantal vragen over
de toegankelijkheid hiertoe voor de lokale bevolking en de voordelen
hiervan voor het gastland, een land met grote sociale contrasten en veel
armoede en achterstand.
Vooral de arme bewoners van de Townships lijken de dupe te worden van
de strenge regie van de FIFA, die een handelsverbod (o.a. op de verkoop
van souvenirs en voedsel/drinken) heeft opgelegd aan de lokale
bevolking en bedrijfjes ten gunste van het eigen gewin en dat van hun
multinationale partners. En dat terwijl voetbal in Zuid-Afrika een sport
is die van origine populair is bij haar niet-blanke inwoners, in
tegenstelling tot rugby, wat daar van oorsprong een strikt blanke sport
was.
LADUMA! wil door middel van een aantal kunstwerken het genot
laten zien dat de populaire sport voetbal kan bieden, maar dit ook
contrasteren met de keerzijde die dit soort mega-evenementen in een land
als Zuid-Afrika met zich meebrengt.
Verder wordt het thema migratie op verschillende manieren onderzocht
tegen de achtergrond van deze sport en de geschiedenis en hedendaagse
realiteit van zowel Zuid-Afrika als de Afrikaanderwijk.
Deze
Rotterdamse wijk was de bakermat van de huidige voetbalclub Feyenoord,
die van 1908 tot 1917 onder de naam Celeritas op het voetbalveld van het
Afrikaanderplein speelde.
De tentoonstelling combineert het werk van beeldend kunstenaars,
fotografen en documentairemakers met documentatiemateriaal dat tevens
inzicht geeft in de praktijken van de organisatoren van het WK 2010, die
tot aan de Zuid-Afrikaanse vlag toe patenteerden ten behoeve van het
creëren van een monopoliepositie voor wat betreft de rechten en
inkomsten van het toernooi.
Speciaal voor LADUMA! wordt
nieuw werk ontwikkeld doorLaura Emsley(Zuid-Afrika/G.B.),Raymond
Cuijpers(Nederland),Musa
Nxumalo(Zuid-Afrika) enSydelle
Willow Smith(Zuid-Afrika). Daarnaast worden
werken getoond vanSiemon Allen(Zuid-Afrika/V.S.),Dan
Halter(Zimbabwe/Zuid-Afrika),Antony
Kaminju(Kenia / Zuid-Afrika),Rob
Schröder(Nederland) en Penny
Siopis(Zuid-Afrika). (Zie voor meer info menu
links)
open: 11 juni 2010 – 11
juli 2010, wo-za 10.00 – 17.00 u.
opening: do 10 juni 2010, 17.00 – 19.00
u.
WORK IN PROGRESS LADUMA! wordt gepresenteerd in en rond het
leegstaande winkelpand op Pretorialaan 11, op een paar minuten lopen van
Metrostation Rijnhaven. Daarnaast wordt een selectie van werken getoond
in het Nederlands Fotomuseum.
LADUMA! wordt
mede mogelijk gemaakt door:
Gemeente Rotterdam, dienst
Kunst en Cultuur / Centrum
Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam /
Pact op Zuid
Met dank aan: Vestia Feijenoord / Half2.nl / Witte de
With / V2_organisatie / TENT.
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Small Chance!!!
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Rob Schröder
wldplkkn@xs4all.nl
http://nl.youtube.com/wldplkkn
http://robschroder.nl
mob +31621554536
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Waawsj!
info@cox-grusenmeyer.com
lauren.serge@gmail.com
+31 (0)6 345 70101
+32 (0)484285171
Ethnic vignettes and sports glorification. Tasty.
See you next week,
Mike
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Ethnic vignettes and sports glorification. Tasty.
See you next week,
Mike
Mike
Hi Guys,
check these!
See you next week,
Mike
Mike
Dear Donald, Liza and Annelys,
we hereby send you the link to our typeradio-discussion (to be downloaded via megaupload… sorry for the inconvenience!)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NX58I4P0
below a small descriptive text about the discussion and attached the text by Jeroen Boomgaard.
you" target="_blank" >http://www.lkpr.nl/index_en.php?page=publicaties&id=10">you can also find his txt here: http://www.lkpr.nl/index_en.php?page=publicaties&id=10
Kindest Regards,
Brigiet and Maartje
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‘Is there such a thing as an autonomous designer?’
After reading Jeroen Boomgaards text ‘Radical Autonomy’ we felt the need to have a discussion about the theme of autonomy and how important it is to use the term and define yourself as a designer or artist. We asked ourselves and the participants the following questions:
_Are you an artist or a designer and can you be both?
_Have you ever made autonomous work, or could you make autonomous work?
_Is there something like non autonomous work of art?
_Is there something like an autonomous designer?
Here you can listen to the discussion that followed.
With Sandberg students: Anja Groten, Michele Champagne and Lauren Grusenmeyer. Donald Beekman, Liza Enebeis, and Akiem Helmling from Typeradio. Nikki Brörmann philosopher and applied ethicsist and Annelys de Vet, head of the design department of the Sandberg Institute. Brigiet van den Berg and Maartje Smits, Sandberg students and moderators.
Welcome back!!
Love Rob
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Rob Schröder
wldplkkn@xs4all.nl
http://nl.youtube.com/wldplkkn
http://robschroder.nl
mob +31621554536
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Dear all… and welcome back to the travellers.
Janneke and I are having an interactive newspaper wall in front of the Rietveld since last week. It turned out that Rietveld students are very good in drawing dicks.
To get more of a diverse image we would like to invite you, the San
on our headlines about European identity and on the other contributions. Tomorrow after Ninas class we would like to treat you with ice cream and go with you for half an hour to the wall and give it some colour!!
Looking forward seeing you tomorrow!
Anja & Janneke
… following our TypeRadio chit chat about the notion of autonomy in art.
Here are three versions of western art history.
“Because what the academics were doing was boring, the Impressionists
gained popularity, due to their example of allowing an artist do to
whatever they wanted. So by the time Picasso begins working, he’s all
like fuck it, I’ll just draw some crazy shapes and give them eyes and
call it a portrait.”
With a great part near the end about what the Chinese think of Western art.
Best!
M.
Beste
aankomend weekeinde is werk van mij en 3 andere Sandberg studenten te zien op een festival in Dordrecht, Urban Explorers Festival.http://www.urbanexplorersfestival.nl/program.php
naast dagelijkse (13:30 en 17:30) expedities langs onze performances in de stad is er gedurende het weekeinde (13:00 tot 19:00) een expositie in Pictura http://www.pictura.nl/index.html
Jullie zijn van harte welkom natuurlijk! (in de bijlage een voorproefje)

S. Battal Kurt presents 2010 is 2010
wat: Expositie
waar: Pictura
tijd: 13:00 – 19:00 uur
Voorstraat 190-192
S. Battal Kurt – 2010 is 2010
wat: Expeditie
waar: Start CBK
tijd: 13:30 – 14:30 uur
Voorstraat 180
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Dear all
this weekend some works by 3 other Sandberg students and me, will be shown at a festival in Dordrecht,
Urban Explorers Festival.
http://www.urbanexplorersfestival.nl/program.php
apart from the daily (13:30 and 17:30) ‘excursions’ past our performances in town, there will be an exhibition in the Pictura during this weekend (saturday + sundag: 13:00 – 19:00).
http://www.pictura.nl/index.html
you are all very welcome!
–
M.T. Smits
Pesthuislaan 94
1054 RM Amsterdam
http://www.maartjesmits.nl
Dear friends and colleagues,
Open Impact Channel* will offer a new dimension within advertising by exposing Ad-Art works for Mediamarkt, De Postcode Loterij and CoffeeCompany in the Gashouder on the Art-Pie Amsterdam, the art fair for non-established art. (16th until 23th of may, 12:00 – 18:00)
Friday, the 21th of May, we will hold a 6 hour long public lecture on the core values of the firm. Lecture starts at 12:00 and lasts as long as the coffee runs. Your cup of inspiration — Good to the last drop!
Our freshly printed Business Plan will be available at the Art-Pie bookstand for an exceptional price!
*Open Impact Channel is an advertising company meeting the awareness needs of companies. Dedicated exclusively to the creation of innovative advertising programs, the principal operators, Cox & Grusenmeyer, provide a new avenue of promotional effectiveness. The public space and artistic environment is the playground! The mission is to invent new carriers for advertising by providing an intelligible re-use of existing promotional material. ‘We hope for the difference, the visionary and the superb!’
All the best,
Cox & Grusenmeyer
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Cox & Grusenmeyer
info@cox-grusenmeyer.com
http://www.cox-grusenmeyer.com
Dear Designers,
I’ve organised a conference that talks about the questions I asked during my presentation.
I really do hope some of you will be there. I’m sorry but the talks will be in Dutch.
Brigiet
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(MORELE) VRAGEN VOOR DE (KUNST)ENAAR
EN DE (ZOEK)TOCH NAAR NIEUWE COMMUNICATIE (MIDDELEN)
EN ZUIVERHEID OP (INVLOEDRIJKE) GRIJZE GROND.
17 MEI 13.00-17.00 UUR WALTER MAAS HUIS, BILTHOVEN
Met Jeroen Boomgaard (lector Kunst in de Publieke Ruimte),
Annelys de Vet (directrice Design Sandberg Instituut)
en kunstenaars van Nieuwe Grond
Meer info: http://www.connectingconversations.nl
Aanmelden via: info@waltermaashuis.nl
“In een land waarin alles en iedereen doortrokken is van sociale nijd, fungeert de kunst als boksbal. Het pijnlijke is dat er altijd zo sukkelig wordt gereageerd. De kunst wordt in Nederland nooit als kunst verdedigd, als iets dat op zichzelf van waarde is.”
Bas Heijne in NRC Handelsblad
Een bijeenkomst met en door kunstenaars over het belang en de (veranderende) rol van kunst in samenleving.
Kunstenaars die urgentie voelen bij het thema uitgenodigd! Meld je aan via info@waltermaashuis.nl, dan krijg je meer informatie.
Kijk ook op http://www.connectingconversations.nl onder Nieuwe Grond
Met Jeroen Boomgaard (lector kunst in de publieke ruimte) die in zijn artikel Radicale Autonomie pleit voor het behouden van de autonomie van de kunst en de kunstenaar. En met Annelys de Vet, directrice Designafdeling Sandberg Instituut die haar studenten een aantal jaar geleden uitdaagde: “Jij bent een jonge ontwerper. Nederland is in crisis. Jij moet je als ontwerper tot die crisis verhouden”. Dit leidde tot de publicatie ‘De Publieke zaak van de grafisch ontwerper’. Hoe kijkt Annelys tegen de huidige maatschappelijke stand van zaken aan en welke opdracht zou zij voor de kunstenaars willen stellen?
Brigiet van den Berg, grafisch ontwerper en deelnemer aan Nieuwe Grond, nam het voortouw voor deze bijeenkomst. Zij presenteerde bij het Sandberg Instituut waar ze momenteel de masteropleiding volgt, haar ‘urgente, prangende, actuele’ vraagstukken als maker in opdracht. Deze vormen nu ook een uitgangspunt voor de bijeenkomst.
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Stichting Walter Maas Huis
Gerard Doulaan 21
3723 GW Bilthoven
T 030 – 228 50 15
Interesting. :)
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Michele Champagne <mich.champagne@gmail.com> wrote:
I’m curious about this. Wilders is a row boat..
Wat is namaak en wat is authentiek? Tegenlicht kijkt vanavond naar de acteurskwaliteiten van onze politici. Ned. 2, 20.55 uur.
http://www.youtube.com/user/VPROBacklight#p/a/u/0/PMdLKGvRR8g
EUROVISION3000 KINDLY INVITES YOU TO ANOTHER DAY OF DISCUSSING EUROPEAN IDENTITY!!! THIS TIME WE ARE STANDING ON QUEENSDAY AT KEIZERSGRACHT 721 IN AMSTERDAM. ON THE 30TH OF APRIL EUROVISION3000 IS CREATING AN EUROPEAN NEWSPAPER. AND OFCOURSE WE ARE KEEN ON YOUR EUROPEAN INPUT TO CREATE THE CONTENT!

eurovision3000 is a self initiated project by Anja Groten and Janneke de Rooij. We are two graphic designers, aiming to get as many voices as possible to get as close as possible to an authentic view on european identity .
if you you have any remarks or if you would like to participate, don’t hesitate to contact us.
contact.
Anja:
sagmal@anjagroten.com
Janneke:
janneke@ohyescoolgreat.com
latest news.
04-04-2010
Paasmarkt Amsterdam, self-made flyers of statements by the visitors.
21-01-2010
Gallery Lev Kaupas Amsterdam, A discussion on the definition of a European identity.
Right now we are working on a self initiated project about the discussion whether Europe needs an identity and what the role of a designer is in this discussion. Does creating an identity for Europe mean creating a fake surface for something that should develop naturally? Should we look only at the past, the history and the heritage when we talk about a definition of European identity? What is the difference between the inside- and the outside view on Europe? Those are some of the questions that we are posing ourselves and that we would like to discuss with an european audience. The first visual part of our research is a notice board which shows home-made advertisements made by people from different layers in society. These hobbyists are all looking on this public podium for an European identity. The announcement’s content is generated through the Google translator, creating an European language.
20-01-2010
Poster series: Self generated EU maps for sale.
We created a poster serie of 3 posters that show 3 different self generated EU maps. We looked for each of the 27 members of the European Union on page 27 of the Google image search. Afterwards we placed the photo’s in original image proportion on the geographic spots of the countries on the European map. Herewith we’re creating a new European narrative. In our map, countries become bigger because their Google images are bigger. You see 3 image choices of dutch, English and German Google image search. In the second layer, three different statements are posing the question whether a designer is able to create authenticity in European identity matters.
Dear talented students,
Wednesday I am in at ten!
At 12 I will show two parts of the documentary “Helse Vrede”…….something like “Peace in Hell”.
For you all…… about China, the artists and the Arts.
About Ai Wei Wei, the Godfather and a young group of radical artists.
After the film I stay until three o’clock.
Love Rob
a text by Bernard Lietaer, Belgian economist.. designed the precursor to the Euro.
Community Currencies:
A New Tool for the 21st Century
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/CC.html#interest
he also mentions a quote by Keynes that says “the future would learn more from Gesell than from Marx.”
so how come no one talks about THIS guy??
Gesell:
http://www.appropriate-economics.org/ebooks/neo/neo.htm
Dear,
You are most cordially invited to the launch event of our new book Metahaven: Uncorporate Identity, Tuesday 27 April, 8 PM, at Trouw Amsterdam. It will include special guests, plus drinks and music.
The book will be for sale at a special discount price.
Hope to see you there!
Daniel van der Velden
Vinca Kruk
Metahaven
Uncorporate Identity
Lars Müller Publishers, 2010
608 pages, softcover
Edited by Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk) with Marina Vishmidt.
Contributions by Boris Groys, David Singh Grewal, Vladimir Kolossov, Keller Easterling, Dieter Lesage, China Miéville, Chantal Mouffe, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Bruno Besana, Michael Taussig, Regula Stämpfli, Mihnea Mircan, Florian Schneider, Marina Vishmidt, and others.
Made possible with the generous support of the Mondriaan Foundation, the Jan van Eyck Academie and the Desearch Foundation Amsterdam. Co-published by the Jan van Eyck Academie.
Book launch organized by the Jan van Eyck Academie.
Supported by De Verdieping and TrouwAmsterdam.
http://www.trouwamsterdam.nl
http://www.metahaven.net
Tuesday April 27, 2010
8 PM
Uncorporate Identity
Symposium & Book Launch
De Verdieping
TrouwAmsterdam
Lars Müller, John Morgan, Brave New Alps, Wouter Vanstiphout,
Marina Vishmidt, Metahaven, Huib Haye van der Werf
DJ Stabilo Boss/Laurenz Brunner
A symposium will accompany the book launch of Uncorporate Identity by Metahaven. Swiss publisher Lars Müller, London-based design collective Brave New Alps, British designer John Morgan, and architecture historian and urbanist Wouter Vanstiphout will join the debate, together with theorist Marina Vishmidt and designers Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden of Metahaven. In a series of provocative short lectures, the speakers will react to the book and its overall theme. The event is chaired by curator Huib Haye van der Werf. Music is provided by Laurenz Brunner.
A compendium of ideas and a source for debate, Uncorporate Identity is an ambitious collection of design projects around visual identity and politics. It presents the visual projects and writings of design studio Metahaven along with a host of contributing writers. Organized as a sequence of five chapters, each comprising case studies, notes and essays, it explores, visually and textually, the paradoxes of identity in a networked world.
Uncorporate Identity will be for sale at a discount price of 35 euro.
Free entrance
For reservations, e-mail Judith Lindekens
judith.lindekens@janvaneyck.nl
Tuesday April 27, 2010
8 PM
Programme starts at 8:30 PM
De Verdieping
TrouwAmsterdam
Wibautstraat 127
1091 GL Amsterdam
t +31 (0)20 4637788
http://www.trouwamsterdam.nl
Dear All,
Next week Monday 12 April, 10.00 AM starts the Abake workshop for all students. The workshop
lasts 3 days, and ends on Wednesday afternoon with a presentation.
Abake is a London based studio, for more information check their websites:
www.myspace.com/abakespace
www.kitsune.fr
www.dentdeleone.co.nz
The title of their workshop in March last year was ‘Procrastination? No money?
Kajsa and Maki of Abake spent these last 3 months in Japan, perhaps the theme of
this years’ workshop is related to Japan. As soon as i receive information from them,
I let you know.
have a nice day!
Anke
sandberg institute
design
fred. roeskestraat 98 1076 ed amsterdam http://www.sandberg.nl
t: 0031 (0)20 5882404 f: 0031 (0)20 5882401 design@sandberg.nl
officehours: tuesday and wednesday, from 10.00AM – 5.00PM
Video: The Truth According To Wikipedia
broadcast by VPRO’s Backlight programming
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Google or Wikipedia? Those of us who search online — and who doesn’t? — are getting referred more and more to Wikipedia. For the past two years, this free online “encyclopedia of the people” has been topping the lists of the world’s most popular websites. But do we really know what we’re using? Backlight plunges into the story behind Wikipedia and explores the wonderful world of Web 2.0. Is it a revolution, or pure hype?
Director IJsbrand van Veelen goes looking for the truth behind Wikipedia. Only five people are employed by the company, and all its activities are financed by donations and subsidies. The online encyclopedia that everyone can contribute to and revise is now even bigger than the illustrious Encyclopedia Britannica.
Does this spell the end for traditional institutions of knowledge such as Britannica? And should we applaud this development as progress or mourn it as a loss? How reliable is Wikipedia? Do “the people” really hold the lease on wisdom? And since when do we believe that information should be free for all?
In this film, “Wikipedians,” the folks who spend their days writing and editing articles, explain how the online encyclopedia works. In addition, the parties involved discuss Wikipedia’s ethics and quality of content. It quickly becomes clear that there are camps of both believers and critics.
Wiki’s Truth introduces us to the main players in the debate: Jimmy Wales (founder and head Wikipedian), Larry Sanger (co-founder of Wikipedia, now head of Wiki spin-off Citizendium), Andrew Keen (author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy), Phoebe Ayers (a Wikipedian in California), Ndesanjo Macha (Swahili Wikipedia, digital activist), Tim O’Reilly (CEO of O’Reilly Media, the “inventor” of Web 2.0), Charles Leadbeater (philosopher and author of We Think, about crowdsourcing), and Robert McHenry (former editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia Britannica). Opening is a video by Chris Pirillo.
The questions surrounding Wikipedia lead to a bigger discussion of Web 2.0, a phenomenon in which the user determines the content. Examples include YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and Wikipedia. These sites would appear to provide new freedom and opportunities for undiscovered talent and unheard voices, but just where does the boundary lie between expert and amateur? Who will survive according to the laws of this new “digital Darwinism”? Are equality and truth really reconcilable ideals? And most importantly, has the Internet brought us wisdom and truth, or is it high time for a cultural counterrevolution?