Sandra Golubjevaite (she/her) is a text±sound artist and a creative coder based in the Netherlands. Digital// audiovisual performances and DIY interfaces lie at the core of her practice. She educates herself about code and digital technologies at her own pace and refuses the commodified masculine-imposed approaches to software development by prototyping her own language-based tools. Her work focuses on non-linear narratives, non-reading, hypertext and auto-fiction. Through her practice she seeks to create a bridge between language, autobiography and coding practices. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2017 with a BFA and has further developed her artistic education at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.
Curves of Inquiry is a Gerrit Rietveld Academie initiative that showcases the findings of nine artist-researchers who completed a fellowships trajectory in the previous academic year. Each of these projects is carried out in close collaboration with a department of the Rietveld Academie or Sandberg Instituut to foster relationships between educational programs, research activities, and societal issues.
In the Fellows-in-Process series the research fellows of the Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut 2022/2023 will share their process and findings with students and the Rietveld community at large. The series aims to aid interaction, while engendering meaningful conversations between the fellows, students and teachers of both institutes. To that end, events are open to Rietveld and Sandberg students and teachers. Below you can find all workshops. Note that for some workshops you have to sign up.
Art & Spatial Praxis – During the fellowship, Golubjevaite will explore the topic of DIY self-hosting and local digital spaces. Managing even the smallest server comes with many responsibilities, efforts, and nuances, but she believes that a hands-on approach that is not afraid of failing and debugging is the best way to learn and stimulate thinking about our digital tools and networks. She, therefore, wants to set up a localhost server at the academy and make it physically visible. ‘Localhost’ means that the server and its content will only be accessible in the local area of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. She wishes to explore the potential of this server by turning it into a local digital gallery space, similar to how the Glass Pavilion functions. The Glass Pavilion is an excellent example of a collaborative space in the academy that occasionally brings the Rietveld community together.