Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Studium Minerva with Studio Roosegaarde

Studium Minerva with Studio Roosegaarde
24  November  2010:  19.30 - 21.00
Academie Minerva (central hall), Gedempte Zuiderdiep 158, Groningen


Studio Roosegaarde: Interactive Landscapes
Artist and architect Daan Roosegaarde explores the dawn of a new nature that is evolving from technological innovations by designing interactive landscapes that instinctively respond to sound and movement. Daan Roosegaarde’s remarkable works of art function as a documentation of the dynamic relations between architecture, people and e-culture. His sculptures Dune, Liquid Space, Flow and Intimacy embody an environment of ‘tactile high-tech’ in which the visitors and the space become one. The connection that is established between design and content, between ideology and technology, results in what Roosegaarde calls ‘techno-poetry’. His lecture Interactive Landscapes offers a futuristic perspective on every-day reality.
Roosegaarde’s work has been shown at the Tate Modern and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and at the National Museum in Tokyo, as well as in public spaces all around the world.



Studium Minerva
Establishing dialogues about art and technology
With its courses Bachelor Autonomous Visual Art, Teacher Visual Art and Design, Pop Culture, Design and FMI Masters, Studium Minerva sails under the flag of the Art and Society Knowledge Centre. To maintain this imagery, jetties are offered by the various courses of the Minerva Art Academy in the form of unusual and inspiring activities such as lectures, debates, workshops and/or master classes, the aim being to discover the space for artistic contributions to society.
By means of this quest, Studium Minerva makes manifest the different positions of artists, designers and educators in the professional field and society alike, at the same time stimulating the creation of space for new contributions from an artistic angle.
In this context, the artistic autonomy of artists and their artistic and/or critical way of thinking is the point of departure. This offers opportunities to make unexpected connections with various disciplines and topical social and scientific issues.
Studium Minerva takes place when dusk is falling and Minerva’s owl flies out. On several evenings, dialogues and other activities will be organized on the subject of art and technology. Especially on such dusky evenings, the fear of the dark may be enhanced by the existing romantic and distorted dread of technology.
Studium Minerva seeks to reach a wide audience of students, lecturers, alumni, enthusiasts and others interested in the subject.

On this occasion, the so-called Hap van Klaas * (Klaas’s snacks) will be available to students, which means that on payment of a small amount they will be offered the opportunity to have dinner prior to the lectures.


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