The Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Rietveld Sandberg Research are pleased to announce the appointment of Flavia Dzodan as Professor (Lector) of Algorithmic Cultures. Dzodan’s work marks a significant contribution to the GRA’s mission of fostering a research culture that embraces expansive, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches, which reflect the complex and critical issues of our time. Her appointment underscores the GRA’s commitment to recognizing and supporting research practices that transcend conventional academic boundaries, weaving together theoretical exploration and artistic expression.
We are very pleased to invite you to Flavia Dzodan’s inaugural lecture on November 26th from 5.30 to 7.00 PM at the Theory Stairs of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. A lecture on the impossibilities of algorithmic translation. "Amorino Latente/ Latent Cupid” revolves around the translation of art and its emotional impact through algorithmic and computational processes.
On November 28, Müge Yılmaz will give her end of residency lecture and launch the first edition of the booklet series "Future Guide for the Salty Forager". Besides, you can experience a performative salt-resistant bite by the Brackish Collective. Katía Truijen and Radna Rumping from LOOM, practice for cultural transformation, will give their start of residency lecture and introduce their research project "Rhine River Rehearsal – Reimagining a River." The event is free but please register here.
More info coming soon
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie congratulates Femke Herregraven on obtaining the title of Creator Doctus (CrD) on 14 November 2024. CrD is a project developed at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie that seeks to realise a new European third cycle award for higher arts education.
Presentations and conversation by Agustina Woodgate, experts from the DLR (The German Aerospace Center) and students from Cologne International School of Design (KISD) and Parsons The New School.
A conversation with Julia Ihls (Bio Design Lab), Marjolijn Bol, Clem Edwards (The Material Kinship Reader) moderated by the Material Research Group.
Maia Gattás and Francisca Khamis Giacoman met in the West Bank in 2019. Francisca was conducting a residency in Birzeit, and Maia was traveling to film scenes for her documentary "Viento del Este" (2023). They have committed to exchanging letters to engage in a dialogue about various memories related to water in the occupied territory of Palestine.
The Art & Spatial Praxis research group continues with the Plot(ting) research group format and is pleased to announce the addition of four new members: Tabea Nixdorff, Philip Coyne, Moosje M Goosen and Harriet Morley. They gather monthly to discuss theoretical and material manifestations that align with Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot.
For more than a decade, Femke Herregraven has been investigating which material base, geographies, and value systems are carved out by financial technologies and infrastructures. The exhibition 'Dialect' marks the last chapter of Femke Herregraven's Creator Doctus trajectory at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Instituut.
This is a video recording of the open studio day programme Studio Encounters on Water #2 of the Climate Imaginaries at Sea festival, at Perdu on 23 April 2024. With talks by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Mikki Stedler, Joy Brandsma, Janine Armin, Carlo De Gaetano, Femke Dekker (Loma Doom), Müge Yilmaz, Kim Spierenburg, Claudine Arendt, Katía Truijen & René Boer (Loom Collective) and Marialena Marouda.
Video of the launch of the publication of Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024, hosted at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Performances and talks by: meLê yamomo, S*an D. Henry Smith, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Derica Shields, Patricia de Vries, Liza Prins and Maisa Imamović.
The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024. Plot(ting) emerges as a publishing platform showcasing art, research, and spatial practices. Currently it harbors contributions by Flavia Pinheiro, Giulia Damiani, Francisca Khamis & Maia Gattás Vargas, Neeltje ten Westenend & Hanneke Stuit, Mariana Balvanera, Patricia de Vries, Amelia Groom, and Liza Prins. Here you can read in brief about the different contributions. Read more on the plotting website: plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl
The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th. Plot(ting) emerges as a publishing platform showcasing art, research, and spatial practices.
During the symposium and round table discussion on Algorithmic Cultures on the 6th op December 2023, Flavia Dzodan launched her new essay ‘Haptic Mournings; Morning the Never-Made' about our increasing blurring relation to the digital world, the imagined and real.
"The City as Anthology: Movements at the Margins of Public Space" presents the work of Mariken Overdijk, artist and teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, with an introduction in collaboration with Jeroen Boomgaard, former lector of LAPS (Lectorate of Art & Public Space) at Rietveld Sandberg Research. The book was launched on 13th of January 2024 at Zone2Source, Amstelpark and on 27th of January at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam during the Boekie Woekie & Friends event.
We are delighted to hear that the publication ‘I Am Going to Be Your Last Teacher - A Workbook’ by Yael Davids is part of the selection of the Best Dutch Book Designs.