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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.
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4 June 2025: Workshop #1 Ethics in Artistic Research
Last winter, the platform Kunst ≈ Onderzoek published an open call amongst members on the topic of ethics. We received no less than six project plans, all with inspiring and enthusiastic ideas. The project idea by the Willem de Kooning Academie has been selected! Florian Cramer, Miriam Rasch and Harma Staal are organizing a three-part…
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Research Festival 2023 – Lookback
A lookback the Research Festival, Making (in) the Unforeseen in Rotterdam. The three-day festivall ook place 25-27 January, 2023.
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WdKA Research: A Selection of Contributions to the 15th Biennial Conference 2018
This publication offer a selection of contributions to the 15th ELIA Biennial Conference in 2018 by teaching and research staff.
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Timeline WdKA Research Center
WdKA Research Center timeline 2002-2006: Piet Zwart Institute Launch of Willem de Kooning Academy’s first practice-oriented research professorship (“lectoraat”), Media Design Research. The core research team of the lectoraat consists of Matthew Fuller (lector/practice-oriented research professor), Femke Snelting, Michael Murtaugh and Calum Selkirk. Half of the professorship is realized as a research fellow program. The visiting…
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post.pic – imageboards, tagging, tool images, visual studies. a primer by practitioners
Mostly written by practitioners, the texts in this booklet analyse the contemporary form and function of images in the context of the most recent digital media – and arrive at often unexpected conclusions.
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FAQ WdKA Research Center
What is the WdKA Research Center?The WdKA Research Center is the research unit of Willem de Kooning Academy, an art and design school in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (that is part of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences). Its research focuses on ongoing transformations and shifts in arts and design practices in their relations to societal change. We observe, analyze, follow,…
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Making Matters Workshop documenta fifteen
On the occasion of the book launch of Making Matters. A Vocabulary of Collective Arts, Hackers & Designers (Loes Bogers, Anja Groten, Karl Moubarak) together with Elaine W. Ho (Display Distribute) and Florian Cramer facilitate a 2-day walk-in workshop at documenta fifteen in Kassel by invitation of Jatiwangi art factory. All three collectives have contributed to the book.…
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Floppy Disk Fever panel
This saturday Aymeric Mansoux is at v2_ in Rotterdam with the @floppytotaal team and Florian Cramer, to erase/format/checkdisk/write/eject (with moderation) a discussion around the launch of the new publication “Floppy Disk Fever”. Do you have a copy yet? Full program listing of the two days event: http://floppytotaal.org/events.html (click on Floppy Disk Fever – 16 &…
