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New publication: Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care
The title “Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care” is published by the Promiscuous Care Study Group. Title launch on 17th May, 2024 at kiosk, rotterdam
05/17/2024 // 19:00 //
How to Continue Self-Organization – prep workshops
A series of workshops in preparation of the 25th April symposium How to continue self-organization?, for WdKA students and teachers.
04/17/2024 // 10:30 //
Counter-Mapping Autonomy workshop #2 – 29-02-2024
The second edition of the Counter-Mapping Autonomy workshop, guided by Argentinian collective Iconoclasistas, takes place on the 29th of February from 14h-18hrs, at WH.03.306, WdKA.
02/29/2024 // 14:00 //
Film screening: UKI by Shu-Lea Cheang 31-01-2024
Watch UKI by Shu-Lea Cheang on Wednesday 31 January in Room BL.02.7 – the micro cinema 2024, 17:00 – 19:30. RSVP by email! Or come early!
Dissemblage.Making Multiplicity, not Identities 06.12.2023
Members of the Promiscuous Care Study Group and the Erasmus School of Philosophy in conversation with Gerald Raunig (Zurich University of the Arts).
12/06/2023 // 17:00 //
Talk and Screening – with Dora Garcia -06-12-2023
A screening and Q&A with filmmaker Dora Garcia in the Cinema viewing room. at 17:00 on 6 December.
The Q&A is at 18:45.
12/06/2023 // 17:00 //
Book presentation: Lumbung, commons and Community Art – 25-11-2023
This event celebrates the publication ‘Lumbung, Commons & Community Art: a conversation on behind the scenes of documenta fifteen’ with Florian Cramer and Simon Kentgens, and introduces HumDrumPress and its commons-based publishing model and project, to the world.
11/25/2023 // 16:00 //
Workshop: How to Counter-map Autonomy and Self-organization -Iconoclasistas & WdKA Autonomy – Lab 16-11-23
On the 16th of November, Research Center WdKA’s Autonomy Lab and Roodkapje carry out a ‘counter-mapping’ workshop, under the guidance of the Argentinian researcher/designer/activist duo, Iconoclasistas. Iconoclasistas are participating via teleconferencing. Participation is free and open to anyone.
11/16/2023 // 12:00 //
Research Community Uitnodiging bijeenkomst -14-11-23
Op dinsdag 14 november van 13.00 tot 14.30 uur nemen we Open Access onder de loep samen met drie interessante sprekers. Meld je nog snel aan via onderstaande link! Heb je vragen over of suggesties voor de Research Community, mail dan naar researchcommunity@hr.nl.
11/14/2023 // 13:00 //
Airtime Screentime Facetime: a Live-Publication 10-11-23
Over the past two years, the research project Going Hybrid dedicated itself to the future of hybridity in the cultural field. The launch of the final iteration of live publication, Screentime Airtime Facetime, took place on the 10th of November, 2023.
Jim van Geel, Jacquill Basdew & Czar Kristoff – Promiscuous Infrastructures NEW DATE TBA
The original event was postponed due to the severe weather on the planned date, 2 November.
This conversation gravitates around the reclaim of queer joy and visibility through generational care. J.G. Basdew, Czar Kristoff P. and Jim van Geel’s conversation is part of Promiscuous Infrastructures, a public seminar series on caring infrastructures and pedagogies of care.
Laurence Rassel and Selma Bellal – Promiscuous Infrastructures 13-10-2023
Laurence Rassel and Selma Bellal will share insights from their experience collectively reshaping artistic research, pedagogy, and educational policy at erg (école de recherche graphique) in Brussels. Selma Bellal and Laurence Rassel’s conversation is part of Promiscuous Infrastructures, a public seminar series on caring infrastructures and pedagogies of care.
Reassemble Lab 5: Practising Permacomputing 13-10-23 – 02-12-23
The Research Center is pleased to take part in the programme Reassemble Lab 5: Practising Permacomputing, taking place through October to the 2nd December, 2023, in Amsterdam. This programme will constitute a series of Workshop Series & Lectures.
10/13/2023 // 10:00 //
An/Other Frameworks @ REBOOT (Nieuwe Instituut)
The opening day of the REBOOT exhibition on 7 October 2023 at Nieuwe Instituut examined the value of looking to the past in digital culture for future generations, taking a closer look at the themes of the exhibition, and taking stock of urgent issues facing digital makers and artists today.
10/07/2023 // 16:30 //
Edwin Mingard – Promiscuous Infrastructures 05-10-2023
A screening of a selection of Edwin Mingard’s collaboratively made film works, followed by discussion. Edwin Mingard’s screening is part of Promiscuous Infrastructures, a public seminar series on caring infrastructures and pedagogies of care.
Lola Olufemi – Promiscuous Infrastructures 20-09-2023
In a gathering for an open discussion on radical imagination and collective transformation, Lola Olufemi will join Reading Room Rotterdam and The Promiscuous Care Study Group with attendees in Yusser Salih’s Sofreh Daimeh installation.
Promiscuous Infrastructures Seminar Series 18/09 – 02/11 2023
A public seminar series on caring infrastructures and pedagogies of care programmed by the Promiscuous Care Study Group within the Social Practices research program.
Yoeri Guépin – Promiscuous Infrastructures 18-09-2023
Presentation of recent research and film The Smallest Gesture by Yoeri Guépin. Yoeri Guépin’s screening is part of Promiscuous Infrastructures, a public seminar series on caring infrastructures and pedagogies of care. Promiscuous Infrastructures is programmed by the Promiscuous Care Study Group together with external partners Reading Room Rotterdam and TENT.
The Library as a Garden – The Garden as a Library
Maike Hemmers – Autonomy Lab Workshop – 26-5-23
Maike Hemmers presented two projects, the publication “No Kitchen Ever Belongs to Me” and an installation at Kunstinstituut Melly, within the research project Autonomy Lab and the Autonomous Practices study curriculum
05/26/2023 // //
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno – Autonomy Lab Workshop 25-5-2023
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno gave a workshop with Autonomous Practices students and tutor, Yunjoo Kwak.
05/25/2023 // //
Karl Moubarak – Autonomy Lab Workshop – 23-5-23
Karl Moubarak works with art, culture, and software and computers. He rarely works alone, but rather in groups, networks and collaborations. These include the Office of Queer Affairs, Cell for Digital Discomfort and Hackers & Designers.
05/23/2023 // //
KAJET Journal – Autonomy Lab Workshop 15-5-23
The workshop was given by KAJET Journal’s editors and publishers, Petrică Mogoș and Laura Naum to WdKA Autonomous Practices students, with their tutor Raluca Croitoru.
05/15/2023 // //
Judith Westerveld – Autonomy Lab Workshop 11-5-23
A workshop given by Judith Westerveld to WdKA Autonomous Practices students, with their teacher Yunjoo Kwak.
05/11/2023 // //
In-Between:Hybrid Tactics in the Crisis Era
THIS THURSDAY! (January 25 – 27, 2023) Making (in) the Unforeseen Research Festival
01/26/2023 // 09:30 //
In Search of Otherwise (A)positional Paper: Social Practices
12/20/2022 // 20:21 //
Read & Repair – Dissecting the Game with NDNMK Solutions and Lídia Pereira
11/26/2022 // 11:00 //
Uronto Artist Community (Bangladesh)
Uronto Artist Community (Bangladesh), presentation in Autonomy Lab
Redefining Cultural Entrepreneurship at Are We/We Are
How to run a small social networking site with your friends
05/13/2022 // 11:00 //
Shadow IT / The Politics of Digital Tools in Research and Teaching
04/21/2022 // 15:00 //
Authorship, attribution et contribution dans les licences libres
04/11/2022 // 17:45 //
XPUB & PNF present: This Box Found You For A Reason — Special Issue #17 launch
03/25/2022 // 18:00 //
NOT PRETTY BUT THICK: The Serendipitous Dump
New Approaches to Collecting and Preserving Complex Research-Based Art and Art Projects
03/10/2022 // 08:30 //
Words Flow Through My Ears: On Sensuous Cyborg Practices
Digital Didactics in Art Education (DIDAE). Embodied practices and bodily performances as a teaching tool.
03/10/2022 // 17:00 //
Writing as Reflection, Writing as Practice
This workshop by research professor Michelle Teran is aimed for students preparing for their final graduation research document.
Mending as a Practice of Interdependency
Digital Didactics in Art Education (DIDAE). Embodied practices and bodily performances as a teaching tool.
02/08/2022 // 17:00 //
‘Inside and Against’: a proposal for the tactical exploration of ambivalence and contradiction in videogames
12/16/2021 // 18:00 //
The Body as an Archive
Digital Didactics in Art Education (DIDAE). Embodied practices and bodily performances as a teaching tool.
12/07/2021 // 17:00 //
Creator Doctus
3rd Conference Creator Doctus project on 3rd cycle model for Higher Arts Education (HAE). Organized by Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Rethinking Publicness – Today and Tomorrow
Rethinking Publicness – today and tomorrow explores the meaning of publicness and what this concept entails from the perspective of art.
10/13/2021 // 13:00 //
The Digital Dérive
The lecture series #DIDAKTIK Articulations, Algorithms, Infrastructures and Social Media in Critical Art Education in Digital Times poses new questions in the field of the increased digitization of art education.
10/13/2021 // 18:00 //
Gesture in Transit
Digital Didactics in Art Education (DIDAE). Embodied practices and bodily performances as a teaching tool.
10/07/2021 // 09:00 //
To Learn in Common (Which is Politics)
This lecture and launch of the publication Situationer Workbook/Cookbook connect to emergent research around transformative pedagogy.
09/25/2021 // 19:00 //
XPUB & PNF present: I Don’t Know Where We’re Going, But — A Local Network City Quest – Special Issue #14 Launch
04/02/2021 // 12:00 //
Codarts Research Festival
In her keynote lecture, Emergent perspectives: Listening with, Learning with, in Dialogue with, research professor Social Practices Michelle Teran introduces the learning model Study Kitchen.
03/11/2021 // 10:00 //
The Autonomous Fabric of Rotterdam
Experimental mapping and topical search engine of artist-run, self-organized, DIY spaces and initiatives in Rotterdam, accompanied by critical essays on autonomy and self-organization