Thursday, November 26, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
RealTime @ Studio A7
RealTime @ Studio A7 from de fenestrated on Vimeo.
On Oct. 9th de fenestrated hosted an evening of performance. The only guideline was that things had to be in real-time or performed. The domain was open to any expressive form. Conservatively, the event consisted of A/V improvisations, aside from a few minutes of spoken word. The form was rigid, as performers regarded each others' work with a reserved discretion. Most notably, performance, as a distinct and fluid motion, allowed the performers with an audio (or musician's) practice to stand apart from the visually minded. However, performance skills are only acquired through experience. Never-the-less, the fact still remains that music is the highest art form humanity has realized.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Presentation FMi iME Open Day HanzeHogeSchool
Interactive environment by Visualpaco
(Photo's by Visualpaco)
7 november 2009
(In one of the rooms of the former Natural History Museum dedicated to the students of Frank Mohr Instituut I performed a site-specific video interactive (safety door in flames) and a bit of G, video-sound interactive environment real-time created by user-spectator.) Visualpaco)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Seminar on ‘Research in Artistic Practices’ 004
discussion of central issues, supervised by Margo Slomp
discussion of central issues, supervised by Margo Slomp
discussion of central issues, supervised by Margo Slomp
discussion of central issues, supervised by Margo Slomp
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Seminar on ‘Research in Artistic Practices’ 003
Anne Nigten
Anne Nigten
Anne Nigten
Anne Nigten
Anne Nigten
Anne Nigten
Anne Nigten
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Seminar on ‘Research in Artistic Practices’ 002
Alejandra Wah
Alejandra Wah
Alejandra Wah
Alejandra Wah
Alejandra Wah
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Seminar on ‘Research in Artistic Practices’ 001
Jeroen Boomgaard
Jeroen Boomgaard
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Seminar on ‘Research in Artistic Practices’ 000
Seminar on ‘Research in Artistic Practices’
Wednesday 28 October 2009, 15.00 – 18.30
Frank Mohr Institute, Singelzaal, Radesingel 6, Groningen
In the context of ‘October, Month of Knowledge Month’ the FMI Master’s course has organized, in conjunction with Kenniscentrum Kunst en Samenleving (Knowledge Centre for Art and Society) a seminar on the vision of research within the FMI Master’s course. Theory and research occupy an important position in the curriculum of the three Master’s programmes (Painting, Scenography & Art Direction, and Interactive Media & Environments). The precise role of research within artistic practice is the topic of broad and international conjecture. Depending on the interpretation of ‘research’ and ‘artistic practice’, various standpoints have been taken on this issue.
To the Frank Mohr Institute, the significance of research within the Master’s art programmes has been a moot point for some time. The publication entitled Let’s Bake the Future (2007) gave the programmes the opportunity to speak out on this theme and, more recently, Dieter Roelstraete, a guest author in the Frankie Says Mohr catalogue (2009), also reflected on this question. With a knowledge centre and a lectureship looming on the horizon, the FMI Master’s course again wishes to focus on ‘Research in Artistic Practices’ in a further exchange of ideas with tutors and students. The following questions will serve as a starting point in this discussion:
Which forms of research can be relevant within artistic practice?
Are there important differences between individual and shared artistic research practices?
Which position can these research practices occupy in a Master’s programme?
Within this framework, which relationship can be formed with the knowledge centre and the lectureship?
Guest speakers at the seminar will be:
Anne Nigten *
Alejandra Wah **
Jeroen Boomgaard ***
Margo Slomp (discussion leader) ****
* Anne Nigten is the initiator and director of ‘The Patching Zone, a praxis lab for transdisciplinary research and development’.
** Alejandra Wah is an alumna of FMI IME (2007) and is currently a PhD student at the University of Groningen (Art, Culture and Media).
*** Jeroen Boomgaard, as a Lector of Art and Public Space, is affiliated to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the University of Amsterdam
**** Margo Slomp is a Theory lecturer in FMI Painting and a lecturer in Art History at the University of Groningen
Programme:
15.00 - 15.20 reception with coffee / tea
15.20 – 15.30 opening by Simone Lippens (programme manager pf the Knowledge Centre for Art & Society)
15.30 – 15.50 Anne Nigten
15.50 – 16.00 question round
16.00 – 16.20 Alejandra Wah
16.20 – 16.30 question round
16.30 – 16.50 Jeroen Boomgaard
16.50 – 17.00 question round
17.00 – 17.20 break with snacks and refreshments
17.20 – 18.30 discussion of central issues, supervised by Margo Slomp.
18.30 conclusion
The Seminar is accessible to all interested students and teachers at Minerva Academy of Art, FMI Master’s course, and the University of Groningen.
English will be the language of communication.
The programme may be subject to change.
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Wednesday 28 October 2009, 15.00 – 18.30
Frank Mohr Institute, Singelzaal, Radesingel 6, Groningen
In the context of ‘October, Month of Knowledge Month’ the FMI Master’s course has organized, in conjunction with Kenniscentrum Kunst en Samenleving (Knowledge Centre for Art and Society) a seminar on the vision of research within the FMI Master’s course. Theory and research occupy an important position in the curriculum of the three Master’s programmes (Painting, Scenography & Art Direction, and Interactive Media & Environments). The precise role of research within artistic practice is the topic of broad and international conjecture. Depending on the interpretation of ‘research’ and ‘artistic practice’, various standpoints have been taken on this issue.
To the Frank Mohr Institute, the significance of research within the Master’s art programmes has been a moot point for some time. The publication entitled Let’s Bake the Future (2007) gave the programmes the opportunity to speak out on this theme and, more recently, Dieter Roelstraete, a guest author in the Frankie Says Mohr catalogue (2009), also reflected on this question. With a knowledge centre and a lectureship looming on the horizon, the FMI Master’s course again wishes to focus on ‘Research in Artistic Practices’ in a further exchange of ideas with tutors and students. The following questions will serve as a starting point in this discussion:
Which forms of research can be relevant within artistic practice?
Are there important differences between individual and shared artistic research practices?
Which position can these research practices occupy in a Master’s programme?
Within this framework, which relationship can be formed with the knowledge centre and the lectureship?
Guest speakers at the seminar will be:
Anne Nigten *
Alejandra Wah **
Jeroen Boomgaard ***
Margo Slomp (discussion leader) ****
* Anne Nigten is the initiator and director of ‘The Patching Zone, a praxis lab for transdisciplinary research and development’.
** Alejandra Wah is an alumna of FMI IME (2007) and is currently a PhD student at the University of Groningen (Art, Culture and Media).
*** Jeroen Boomgaard, as a Lector of Art and Public Space, is affiliated to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the University of Amsterdam
**** Margo Slomp is a Theory lecturer in FMI Painting and a lecturer in Art History at the University of Groningen
Programme:
15.00 - 15.20 reception with coffee / tea
15.20 – 15.30 opening by Simone Lippens (programme manager pf the Knowledge Centre for Art & Society)
15.30 – 15.50 Anne Nigten
15.50 – 16.00 question round
16.00 – 16.20 Alejandra Wah
16.20 – 16.30 question round
16.30 – 16.50 Jeroen Boomgaard
16.50 – 17.00 question round
17.00 – 17.20 break with snacks and refreshments
17.20 – 18.30 discussion of central issues, supervised by Margo Slomp.
18.30 conclusion
The Seminar is accessible to all interested students and teachers at Minerva Academy of Art, FMI Master’s course, and the University of Groningen.
English will be the language of communication.
The programme may be subject to change.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Layer Cake Lab
Sonja-Vanessa Schmitz & Eleanor Kathleen Grootoonk. We were invited to create a work of art for the Westergasfabriek Park in Amsterdam at a location called the sculpture garden which is basically a grassy spot of about seventy square meters. The Westergasbabriek itself has a distinctive industrial history producing gas from coal until the late 1960s. This production had tar, petroleum and cyanides as it’s toxic byproducts leading to serious pollution of its immediate local environment. Even after the conversion of the factory into a park area this toxic waste remains buried in the ground, and this is one of the reasons for the sculpture garden being largely unused, as installing a work of art in a sustained way would mean that it had to be secured safely in the ground, which until this day is not allowed due to the circumstances indicated. Our goal of creating a site-specific work of art was also about creating a solution for setting up art in a hostile environment. We wanted to investigate the actual conditions of the upper and lower ground levels, and offer a long-term solution to install works of art in the sculpture garden. Eleanor Kathleen Grootoonk and me set up the "Layer Cake Lab Organisation" in order to cultivate this area of the park, starting off with a four week intense ground research on location. On a daily basis we excavated a number of ground samples in accordance to specific bore hole patterns. This took place in a performance setting ie. wearing protective suits with all the work accomplished in a secluded part of the grass area. All samples were analyzed and evaluated in our stationary laboratory consisting of special self-invented equipment and operating from the Artist-in-Residence building next to the test area. First we developed different remedial measures to expurgate the polluted ground, but then opted for a different approach namely the thickening of the upper layer with a special art-friendly ground and thus enabling suitability for contemporary Art to be grown on. We donated 40 cubic meters of this ground surplus to requirements to the City of amsterdam in the form of a big hill, dumped on location. The hill came with a bow and wrapped in a red ribbon. Dispensed over the 70 square meters of grass an excellent cultural medium could therefore be provided not only for future Works of Art but for a substantial improvement of their environment as well. A full documentation on the research process, the results of our laboratory analysis and remediation methods can be viewed online at the official website at www.layercakelab.org. Layer cake Lab is sponsored by Eurolab, De Rooij and Gemeente Amsterdam |
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