User:Lassebosch/Finissage/abstracts

Graduates:

Yoana Buzova’s [BG] Leaveamessage is a participatory project, a network of voice mailboxes that allow members of the public to record and distribute audio messages in public space. The boxes are installed in different counties, cities, and contexts. Connected to each other, the boxes provide playful, performative moments for strangers to break from their routine and enter into a network of anonymous voices.

Marlon Harder [NL] has created Template Gallery, an installation that transposes the web template inside the wire frame of the gallery space, and vice versa. It is a visual representation of our current template culture. We are living in an age of “insert your content here”, a concept that is discernible in every aspect of life: from the white walls of a museum to the #ffffff background of a microblog. These Template spaces are rigid in their requirements and yet infinitely displaced, they create spaces that a user must fit into to, but without any reciprocal ability to recognise the user's individuality.

Nan Wang’s [CN] art practice is the experimentation and search for the intersection between memories and technology. In her DUST series work, she considers the dust she collected from her room as a self- portrait of her life and physical being, an instrument for sound, as elements for images, as object to sort, and as a grammar for her works.

Roel Roscam Abbing’s [NL] Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi examines a contemporary movement that attempts a strategic disconnection from the www. In the form of a ‘wunderkamer’ of pots and pans, dishes and cans through which people from around the world give shape to their collective dream of making an alternative Internet, this installation is a testament to new dreams of dislocation.

Nicole Hametner's [AT/CH] installation, a large projection of a dark, almost unreadable, portrait dominates the gallery space. Opposite, the image's essentially ungraspable nature is imaged in a video depicting a water tank filled with floating photographs. Both works observe the fragile moment, the threshold of an image's existence that oscillates between presence and absence. Menno Harder [NL] is fascinated by the city of Rotterdam and in particular the Middelland neighbourhood where he lives. On the 21st of November 2013 a local resident - a near neighbour to Harder - was found to have been lying dead in her apartment for at least 10 year. How this had happened in a bustling and social neighbourhood, where an eclectic mix of people live next to each other and the streets are busy day and night? His installation is a monument to all those that were or are forgotten: 'Monument for the Forgotten Person'

Niek Hilkmann [NL] performs as an art-historian, composer, teacher, conductor, designer, filmmaker and more, all at once... A true excess of a meta-modernist age! His research work as a media archaeologist - Time and time again, a cabinet of curiously conditioned calamities - roams around the borders of the lost, defaced and unforeseen in the land of redundant contraptions. Michaela Lakova [BG] takes a lost and found approach to media. Her field of research and practice involves catchy bits and bytes of errors: system malfunctions. The exhibited work [DEL? No, wait! REW] asks the question, is it possible to delete? Through a system that relies on feedback, interface and screens, the work aims to confront the visitor with the following dilemma: whether to COPY/TRANSMIT/SHARE or to DELETE/REMOVE/ERASE retrieved files.

Lasse van den Bosch Christensen [DK] has undertaken research that engages with the phenomena of crowdsourcing. Dear Google is a collection of fictive gifts addressed to Google by a group of volunteers who chose to create digital models for use within a system dictated by Google and inhabited by individuals who must comply to remain in the community. The project explores what happened to that community when Google changed the rules.