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Photo © Theresa Hajek and Rebecca Martínková

Drawn by the Light

Class excursion to The Netherlands

Drawn by the Light: Netherlands Excursion


A group of 7 Art & Science students travelled to the Netherlands on December 4th-6th for an excursion organized by Noor Stenfert Kroese and Martin Reinhart. The outings in Amsterdam and Rotterdam centred around the Art & Science yearly topic “Drawn by the Light”.

The trip began in Amsterdam with a visit to the Waag Futurelab, an institute for art, science, and technology. Held in a 15th-century building on the Nieuwmarkt Square, the institute hosts a variety of research labs focusing on technology and society. In addition to learning about Waag’s art-science collaborations, academies, and residency programs, students toured through the FabLab, Open WetLab, and the TextileLab.




In the evening, Art & Science students took a boat tour along the canals to see the Amsterdam Light Festival. This year’s festival theme was Loading... Revealing Art, AI and Tech, where more than 20 international artists considered the impact of technology and AI on daily life through light artworks.


The following day, students travelled to Rotterdam, stopping first at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, an interdisciplinary centre for art and media technology. Curator Florian Weigl introduced students to V2_’s research, exhibitions, publications, and residencies. Moreover, Weigl gave students a private tour of the current exhibition {class} - on consequences in algorithmic classification.


At the Kunsthal Rotterdam, Art & Science students went to see Refik Anadol’s solo exhibition Living Paintings: Nature, immersing themselves in the artist's multi-sensory AI data paintings and sculptures made through collaborations between humans and machines.


The evening concluded at Productiehuis Theatre Rotterdam, where students were invited to the dress rehearsal of the research outcomes from the artist-in-residence program Welcome To Our Guesthouse. Makers Cherish Menzo, Joshua Serafin, and Djuwa Mroivili presented 3 performances on topics of intergenerational black social dance, queered Filipino mythologies, and disrupted and decolonized classical music spaces.
 
On the final day of the excursion, students visited Amsterdam’s Nxt Museum, the first museum in the Netherlands dedicated to New Media Art. Students especially got lost in the large-scale interactive installations of post-digital art group Random International in the exhibition Life in a Different Resolution.
 
After 3 inspiring days in the Netherlands, Art & Science students returned to Vienna motivated for the department’s upcoming “Drawn by the Light” exhibition.





The Netherlands Excursion Photos

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All photos made by Theresa Hajek and Rebecca Martínková

Drawn by the Light
December 04, 2023
Location
various Locations in The Netherlands