Dorin Budușan (b. 1985, Mociu, Romania) is a visual artist, writer and researcher based in Amsterdam. He graduated from the DOGtime, Unstable Media department of the Rietveld Academie in 2023 with a video installation that revolves around a meteorite fall that happened in his village a century and a half ago. The accompanying thesis, It Fell From the Stars – Alternative Cosmogonies from the Second World, uses the meteorite fall as an opportunity to explore issues of Eastern European migration, identity, history, politics, folklore and myths. The book was selected as one of the best theses by the 2023 Rietveld (Re)viewed committee formed of Brenda Tempelaar and Sébastien Tien and chaired by Paula Albuquerque.
Algorithmic Cultures – For the start of the new season, we are happy to invite you to the first material playground of the Slow AI x Artificial Worlds sessions, organised together with ARIAS and hosted by Dorin Budușan and Sofía Fernández Blanco. The material playground will take place in Auditorium 101 of Sandberg Instituut on September 19th from 9:30 to 13:30. The invitation is open for all Rietveld, Sandberg and HvA students.