Tracer: Formatting Utopia
November 17, 2008
Formatting Utopia, Public Workshop, part of decollecting FRAC NPDC, Mundaneum, Mons, Belgim
In collaboration with Tsila Hassine, we will be discussing the Tracer project and its various evolutions and possible implications. For more information on the workshop plus information on other guests, go here.
Mixed Sources: final presentation of Host at Piet Zwart Media Design
Host Wraps up! Final presentation: Mixed Sources, April 2008
What Is Mixed Sources?
Mixed Sources At last with Piet Zwart institute's HOST we had the chance to broadcast what we wanted the way we wanted. While working on our own designed publishing tools, we explored hospitality and engagement with audiences. Who where we as hosts and how far did we want our audience to participate? These and more questions where answered in a series of online, offline and semi-online events.
The projects that where brought together in 'Mixed Sources' had in common that they did not have anything in common. It was a cocktail and exactly that was the strength of our broadcasting night. Not only the diverse projects where brought together by the means of the live streaming event, but also the diverse skills of the performers had the chance to unite. Each of us filled in what was needed to host our audience in the best possible way.
text taken directly from the Mixed Sources site
Host: a three month workshop at the Piet Zwart Institute (Media Design)
Host: Would you like some cream and sugar with your broadcast?
January - March 2008
A three month project experimenting with streaming broadcasts and how to set up hospitable spaces online. With students from the MA Media Design at PZI, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Feminism on the agenda
April 29th, 2008, London, England
As part of the Friday Sessions organised by Public Works, we presented the Female Icons project. The idea of the session was to see, hear and discuss how feminism is practiced and thought within current cultural practice. Participating individuals and groups had different approaches and interests towards feminism as a cultural, political and theoretical tradition. Other participants included:
- Liza Fior from muf
- Doina Petrescu (aaa, Paris and Sheffield)
- Emily Pethick (The Showroom, London)
- Celine Condorelli (support structure, London)
- Jos Boys, Julia Dwyer, Katie Lloyd Thomas, Brigid McLeer, Sue Ridge and Helen Stratford (taking place, taking place collective, London and Cambridge)
A fanzine was produced on the day.
Living Room Lecture: Kim De Vries, Sequential Tart
Broadcast from Rotterdam on Wednesday, January 9 2008 @ 14:00 (go here)
Sequential Tart has created a space for women readers, and has worked to change industry perceptions of women as both readers and creators of comics. The Tarts’ construction of heroic female identities differs from those often explored by scholars in their close ties to the “real” identities and lives of the members. These reimagined heroines offer an alternative to the spandex-clad nymphets popularized by mainstream comic book publishers; the women of Sequential Tart construct their own identities while at the same time consciously subverting the gender representations of mainstream comic culture.
http://www.sequentialtart.com
Kim De Vries earned her MA and PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in English (concentration in Rhetoric and Composition) and now is Director of Composition at Cal. State Stanislaus. She has been teaching rhetoric and writing for about 15 years.
Recently she has started a new research project on the institutionalization of new/digital media in the Netherlands and is conducting a series of interviews and site visits to explore this. In general, Kim is interested in borders and boundaries; how they are constructed rhetorically and what happens when they are transgressed. She has considered these questions in relation to Chinese film, comic books, online communities, disciplinary discursive practice, and is prone to plunging into any other area that catches her eye.
Living Room Lecture: Anke Bangma, Performing Evidence: Augustine
Broadcast from Rotterdam on October 26, 2007 (go here)
For this Living Room Lecture, Anke Bangma looks at how evidence is performed through the image of Augustine. As the veritable ’star’ of the photographic iconography of hysteria that was assembled under the direction of Jean-Martin Charcot in the late 19th century, Augustine has become an icon of a particular fantasy of femininity. Her photographs have been a source of inspiration as well as intense critical debate, both then and now. But Augustine also represents a particular fantasy of scientific representation, and exposes in an exemplary way how the scientific apparatus produces the phenomena it claims to merely examine.
Anke Bangma (the Netherlands) is a cultural theorist and independent curator based in Rotterdam. She is currently co-editing a book project around language, memory and the body (forthcoming 2007) and developing an exhibition with the working title ‘Performing Evidence’ for Smart Project Space in Amsterdam (forthcoming 2008). Previous publications include Experience, Memory, Reenactment (ed. with Steve Rushton and Florian Wuest, 2005) and Looking, Encountering, Staging (ed., 2005)(to order go to: Revolver Publications).
She was course director of the Fine Art programme of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (1999-2007), and is a visiting lecturer at the Art Academy of Bergen, Norway.
At the table were artist/writer/curator Steve Rushton, psychaitrist, Ljiljana Bamburac and De Geuzen: Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting and Renee Turner
Female Icons Exhibition Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
January 30-24, 2007
From the Virgin Mary, to Marilyn Monroe, to Madonna, a select group of women have been canonized to the status of icon. But what makes a woman an icon? Is it innate beauty, intelligence, noble deeds, sex appeal, eccentricity, unadulterated ambition, or pure public projection? These are just some of the questions the Dutch collective De Geuzen will be exploring in their project ‘Female Icons’, from 30 January till 24 February at Peacock Visual Arts.
Female Icons Impersonators
We are still accepting your impressions of your favorite female icon. See impersonations so far!
Launch of Living Room Lectures: Alison Norrington
Broadcast from Rotterdam, Friday June 15 @ 15:00
Alison Norrington is the author of Class Act, Look Before You Leap and Three of A Kind. She has written articles for The Irish Star, Irish Tatler and Evening Herald. She is also a regular contributor to Woman’s Way. For the Female Icons series, she will be lecturing about her own experiences in the world of Chick Lit, a rapidly expanding genre of women’s contemporary fiction. Talking about some of the characters in her novels, she will discuss the possibilities and restraints of the genre as a whole.
Design Camp
University of Minnesota
Design Camp
Aug. 2007
Every Summer the University of Minnesota hosts a design camp for high school students. This summer De Geuzen will be looking at the dynamics of uniforms. Can a uniform give a sense of solidarity and team spirit while also facilitating individual expression? We'll be beta testing and tossing ideas into the hopper to discover just what makes birds of a feather flock well together.
Domestic Streaming
Friday, 25 May 2007: Streaming lessons at home with Adam Hyde.
Faith in Exposure
Feb-March 2007
Curated by David Garcia @ Montevideo
Faith in Exposure shows artists, activists and visual researchers engaged in different ways with the language and power of 'news media'. It is a project in which artists 'talk back' to the news media. This exhibition and seminar addresses the central narrative of western democracy our 'faith in exposure', the unquestioning belief that the circulation of knowledge through news media (and other means) constrains the powerful and guarantees democracy. In a world where we may know but are still compelled to obey, Faith in Exposure is a platform for artists and researchers to ask whether it is still tenable believe the central myth of the information age; that knowing the truth shall make us free.
Wezenlandpark
Community project with inhabitants from Deventer, The Netherlands [2007].
See the weblog edited by inhabitants of Het Oranjekwartier.
De Leeszaal
Project for mobile phones
Czaar Peterstraat, Amsterdam
Opens: April 2007 and runs until 2009
Commissioned by: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten
The Reading Salon is a public art project delivered via mms and online through your mobile. Comprised of images and text, the work weaves together both the archival and the imagined.
Read more!
Oog
http://www.volkskrant.nl/oog
September 5, 2006
Oog (Eye) is an on line platform hosted by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. Curator Nanette Hoogslag weekly invites artists to respond with images, sounds and animations to the news.
Historiography Tracer III
Archive Cultures
December 2006, Sevilla, Spain
Contribution to exhibition and publication
From Image to Data: a Historiography Tracer II
Chicago
September 2006
Contribution to Jordan Crandall's Underfire
Female Icons
Launch of Female Icons: Peacock Gallery
workshop and lectures
Middlefields Womens Group + University of Aberdeen
February 2007, Aberdeen, UK
Web based project, ceramic workshop and on line lecture series still ongoing. See Female Icons
A Monument to the Now
Konstfack / University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
October + November 2006, Stockholm
Digitales: Mobile Work
Contribution to Digitales
June 1, 2006, Brussels, Belgium
As the world seems to demand your mobility, are you ready to work from cars, trains or airplanes? Could you convert any public space into a mobile desk, or how can you find your place while still on the run? Where do you carry your computer, your mobile, and all those adapters, cables, converters and portable extensions? Be prepared for rapid prototyping of hardware and software in a two hour working session with De Geuzen at Digitales
Historiography Tracer
A collaboration between Cargo and De Geuzen
September 23-25 in Oostende, Belgium
In terms of instant media, now more than ever people are reading their news from the web. Whether it is from online news channels, digital newspapers or blogs, stories and images from around the world are being digitized and circulated en masse.
But when you look at an image in a browser, what are you truly looking at? A feed from an article, or the submission of a search term renders an image made of pixels. Unlike traditional or analog photographs, the materiality of a digital image is malleable if not fluid. With the click of mouse it can be downloaded transformed and re-inserted into new WebPages without carrying a trace of its previous history.
But, imagine if an image file could carry the memory of its history, such as, the traces of its original source, how it has been manipulated, and where it has been embedded. This is the starting point for “The Image Historiography Tracer” a three-day lab hosted by Cargo in collaboration with De Geuzen. The lab aims to bring together different kinds of experts, ranging from artists, programmers, designers and theorists to speculate about potential software that could map the journey of an online media image. The lab will be a mix of theoretical discussion, performing search engines, tweaking feeds and testing code. Most of all, through both theoretical enquiry and practical explorations, we want to forge tentative relations between the technical, the tactical and the ethical.
Catalysts!
ExperimentaDesign / Bienal de Lisboa 2005
Curator: Max Bruinsma
Location: Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon Portugal
opening: 15 September 2005
Closing: 30 November 2005
The exhibition Catalysts! looks at communication design from the
vantage point of its cultural impact and significance. It brings together
a wide range of design objects which all have one thing in common: the
fact that they are more than answers to a brief, or better, that they
all interpret their brief within the context of a broader cultural
narrative.
Seance with Guy: online
Dec. 2004 (we're still trying to fix the exact date but we are committed to getting this passion project done)
location: virtual
Update: A Seance with Guy, is currently online and launched on Rhizome's Fresh Art in March 2005
Homage to an unknown woman
November 07 2004- Feb 13, 2005
Homage to an Unknown Woman, an installation of thirteen portraits of unknown women, at the Tongerlohuys, for more info go here
Roosendaal, The Netherlands
The French Way
April 19, 2004
The French Way, A Seminar profiling French Design
For the seminar, De Geuzen will be the "Dutch" counterpart to artist Matthieu Laurette
Location: the Design Academy Eindhoven
Seance with Guy test run 01
May 30, 2004
WORM, a Rotterdam based org, is hosting a series of
presentations and lectures looking at the impact of Guy Debord's work
on contemporary culture. In 1996 De Geuzen screened a bootleg copy of
Debord’s film Society of the Spectacle and to this day, we're still
toying with its after effects. Far from being experts, or aficionados,
we consider ourselves committed yet irreverent fans of Debord and other
Situationist antics. For the evening we'll be talking about our version
of a dérive and how to make the tastiest Situationist Soup.
For an updated schedule of time and place go directly to WORM.
