(c) Photo: all pictures made by 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.
Drawn by the Light
December 04, 2023
Location
various Locations in The Netherlands
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Students
- Yeonwoo Chang (Participant)
- Toqa Eissa (Participant)
- Catalina Escalona (Participant and documentation)
- Theresa Hajek (Participant and photos)
- Markela Koniordou (Participant)
- Rebecca Lucia Martínková (Participant and photos)
- Dunia Sahir (Participant)
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Team
- Martin Reinhart (Organizer and participant)
- Noor Stenfert Kroese (Organizer and participant)