Alumniiilluminata3 Alumni Illuminata' 3rd edition

Alumni Illuminata' 3rd edition - PAD

Save the date announcement

 
ALUMNI ILLUMINATA >>> 26th June 2024

Students of Lens Based Media (LB) and Experimental Publishing (XPUB) with 🪄 LESLIE DROST-ROBBINS (LASLO) 🪄 are organising the third edition of Alumni Illuminata. An evening where current students interview alumni of the Piet Zwart Institute hosted by NIEK HILKMANN, followed by a round table discussion with STEVE RUSHTON.

      Wednesday June 26th 2024 
      19:00-23:00 (😏😏 an alumni get together in a strange way until late 😉😏)
      WORM CS, Rotterdam

A prelude to the LB and XPUB graduation shows 27-30th June 2024 which are also in WORM and V2_. More information to followwwwwwwwwwatch out.

Tech Rider (worm will need in may)

Tech Spec for images and video June 2024

background images: 1080 x 1920 jpg 150 px

Frame rates: The projector can handle both 25 and 60 fps but it's advisable to use one frame rate for all films.

convert all videos to H.264 Quicktime files

1 worm technician-

build: stage and lightening (set-up DJ table)

CS screening booth: stills, video project, online interviews - geluid

stage

19:00 - 22:15 - 1 x table, 3 x chairs, for the interviews

22:15 - 23:00 1 x large table to fit with 10 - 12 people sitting at it, and chairs for the round table (we can look at Melly's/ TENTs storage with LB2 in week 25-17-21 June

5 x WORM standard (±1 x 1,5m) tables for food, bubble punch, eventual publications and the cat puzzle

1 fast computer for the interview table or do you prefer to use your own laptops?

video streaming on the main screen

projection in the bar second screen

Streaming

Joseph will organise a workshop to for those who will be responsible for the evening, and will help on the day itself with technical problems.

---> for livestreaming the XPUB/LB apocalypse we need the following persons:

• director: operating the computer where all cameras and incoming video streams come together and this is the central point streaming the event to the whole world
• 2 camera operator: in the best case coming with a digital camera. the camera output will be send to the computer of the director.

equipment:

• 1 fast computers for the operator (I think we can take a XPUB computer)
• two monitors for the operator computer plus keyboard and mouse
• 2 digital cameras (xpub).
• 3 tripods for the 3 cameras (xpub).
• 2 long hdmi cables (xpub)
• 1 usb camera (we can use the one from XPUB. it will be the total view of the stage and a static camera)
• 2 hdmi to usb adapters for video capturaing (xpub)
• access to wifi (Bubble Punch)
• 2 power outlets (Bubble Punch)
• 2 long extension cord (Bubble Punch)

(it's a long evening so we should have at least 6 people helping out, Yana, Jingfeng, Rodolfo and Riveria have volunteered but remember have pereentations themselves. XPUB1 Lorenzo- Senka were mentioned, Riveria will ask them. LB1 - Tom and Toto are in and have experience so they can be the directors

2 x mics stationary (for interview table)

2 x portable mics

extension cables

other

• 3-4 stackable semi-white box (see image) (Bubble Punch)

• CS bar counter to make and serve drink (Bubble Punch)

if this is unavailable, then Chae and Jian need the table to make & serve drinks

• 12oz-16oz (350-400ml) 100 plastic cups (Bubble Punch)

if this is unavailable, then Chae and Jian need to order paper cups.

• 1 small fridge (During Zine Camp 2023, WORM offered the dark grey fridge to keep the drinks cold)(see image)

OR * access to the fridge at CS bar and fridge space for keeping ingredients cold (6 liquors, mints, 6 lemon, lime juices etc.)

• Lighting ? - lamp for the interview table, cat table, Bubble punch ?

1 x DJ set @ 100,00 euro

Open bar in CS @ .... euro

--->> Is "precious" available to make food in?

Hand programme + flyers

Aitana&Archipelago will take care of hand programs and flyers/posters (perhaps Emma joins)

DEADLINE for the content 17th of June

Please make sure that you uploaded to the wiki:

# Your one sentences bios + 1 social media url.

# The bios of the guests and who is interviewing them, whether it is online or in person, have them check the social media accounts we've published if they are correct or if they'd prefer another + graphic/photos if they want. Leslie will look up the alumni grad dates for everyone.

# The bios + social url of the rest of the teams (technical team + DJ team)

# a small text introducing the event

# The schedule of the interviews

Projections:

Schedule

week 25 17 June- 21- streaming rehearrsel with Joseph, (6-vollenters at least) Riveria, Yana, Rodolfo, Tom, Toto, Jingfeng

Guests work

Live streaming of some interviews

Intermezzo's, dump hier (XPUB and alumni if you don't have access let me know)

Programme:

PLEASE, ADD PRONOUNS. Guest introductions / bios - (50-60 words), in third person from both guests and interviewer{s} or team since some of you are interviewing more than one person (links are enough for the WORM save-the-date). Add links to webpage or social media. Aitana and archipelago will make it.

Guests bios

Astrid van Nimwegen

LB 2011 - 2013  

Interviewed by: Arabella Turner

Astrid van Nimwegen [1985, NL] is a visual artist, filmmaker and traveler living in a self-converted truck house. With her dog, she explores the relation between the human and the non-human which she encounters in her close surroundings. Her work has been exhibited internationally at film festivals and exhibition spaces such as IFFR Rotterdam, NFF Utrecht, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, Short Film Festival Oberhausen and New Mediafestival, Seoul.

Links:

@astridvannimwegen

Jelle Havermans [NL]

LB 2019-2021
Interviewed by: Tesse Baardman & Rodolfo Ferro

Jelle Havermans (he/him) (1994) is a writer and artist based in Amsterdam. He graduated from The Piet Zwart Institute in 2021 with a photo series based on an unsolved murder. A year later, he wrote and produced a fictional podcast, based on the same case. In 2022, Jelle published his first novel Portret van de zomer and is currently working on his second.

Links:

Website: www.jellehavermans.com Instagram: @jellehavermans Tiktok: @jelle.havermans

Vicenzo Onnembo [IT]

LB 2009-2011

Interviewed by: Ada Varriale

Vincenzo Onnembo (he/him) is a celebrated pizza chef and the co-founder of nNea, the top pizzeria in the Netherlands and 8th in Europe. Graduating from the Piet Zwart Institute in 2011, he previously worked as a graphic design, digital marketer, and filmmaker. Now, he brings his creative vision forward as a pizza chef, blending his passion for storytelling with his culinary expertise and pizza obsession.

https://www.nneapizza.com/

Jonas Lund [SE], Pre-recording

Networked Media (NW) 2011-2013

Interviewed by: Nihal Goel & Jingfeng Shen

Jonas Lund (he/him), creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites and performances that critically reflect on contemporary networked systems and power structures. His artistic practice involves creating systems and setting up parameters that oftentimes require engagement from the viewer. This results in performative artworks where tasks are executed according to algorithms or a set of rules. Through his works, Lund investigates the latest issues generated by the increasing digitalisation of contemporary society like authorship, participation and distribution of agency. At the same time, he questions the mechanisms of the art world; he challenges the production process, authoritative power and art market practices.

Links:

Website: https://jonaslund.com/ Instagram: @jonaslund

Nancy Mauro-Flude [TS-AU]

MDC- Networked Media (NW) 2005-2007

Interviewed by Riveria Taylor

Nancy Mauro-Flude is the mother of Pearl, a faerie circuit researcher and an ex-pirate radio star. Drawing on her expertise in theatre anthropology, postmodern dance, and Linux-cognisant computing arts, she is committed to pedagogies that grapple with heritage frontiers and future literacies from an antipodean perspective. Nancy lectures and supervises higher-degree researchers at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University. Over the past two decades, she has operated under various aliases, seeding the ground for critical feminist-led digital literacy art events and communities. Nancy is working on a codex to reflect on the culmination of some of these projects.

Mastodon: https://tldr.nettime.org/@sister0

Angeliki Diakrousi [GR]

XPUB 2017-2019

Interviewed by: Aglaia Petta and Aitana López

Angeliki Diakrousi (she/her) is an artist-designer and architect. Her work relates to spatial politics, listening practices and collective digital infrastructures. She is a former member of Varia in Rotterdam, and has taught in Fine Arts and Social Practices in Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In 2022/2023 she was a researcher for The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI).

angeliki@w-i-t-m.net

Colm O Neill [IE]

Networked Media (NW) 2015-2017

Interviewed by Stephen Kerr

Colm O'Neill works as designer and researcher in Carlow (IE) and Brussels (BE). His work is concerned with mediations of digital literacy through graphical, user and programmatic interfaces. The research and practice that result follow the ideals of free and open source culture models.

colm.be

Louisa Teichmann [DE]

XPUB 2020-2022

Interviewed by Aitana López and Riveria Taylor

Louisa Teichmann is a Rotterdam based media artist working with themes around gaming and the effect of new technologies on the players' perception of reality. By analysing gameplay methods and implementing them into RL settings, they are creating scenarios in which the viewer turns into the protagonist of an interactive fictional narrative.

www.louisateichmann.com

Dorothy Cheung [HK-UK], online in Bologna

LB 2017-2019

Interviewed by Jingfeng Shen and Yana Lineva

Dorothy Cheung (she/her) is a filmmaker and artist from Hong Kong. Her practice explores the notion of identities and home through a double perspective - personal and political, memory and forgetfulness. Her latest commissioned work, Heart Murmurs (2023), premiered in Whitney Museum of American Art, and later screened at PUBLICS (FI), MuseumsQuartier Wien (AT), Queer East (UK) and XPOSED Queer Film Festival (DE).

website: www.dorothycheung.com

insta: @dorothy_films

Bubble Punch by Blob Shop Collective

XPUB 2021-2023

Ding! Dong! Your order is ready.
Blob Shop Collective is bringing the Bubble Punch Machine to the 3rd edition of Alumni Illuminata in order to serve you FREE exciting welcome drinks on Wednesday evening. Come push the button to activate the machine and get ready for a wild mix and match of ingredients! You will have a fizzy, fun and unique Bubble Punch with a twist.

website: https://blobshopcollective.org/

insta: @bubble.punch.machine @blobshopcollective

Our bios

PLEASE, ADD PRONOUNS. Bios - 1/2 lines, in third person. Add links to webpage or social media.

SHINNING TEAM

Leslie Robbins (she/her)

Ready for freefall-nr.3 - any ideas fly them by - when grounded, OB109 will be the place she's landed - come round.

Steve Ruston (him/his)

Steve is a writer and editor who has taught on the Fine Art, Lens-Based and Xpub courses at the Piet Zwart

LB TEAM

Yana Lineva (she, her)

Yana Lineva is a Bulgarian animator, photographer, and filmmaker.

@y.ana.lineva

Rodolfo Ferro (he, him)

Rodolfo Ferro is a Portuguese architect and visual artist currently based in Rotterdam.

@rodolfovferro

Arabella Turner (she, her)

Arabella Turner is an artist and filmmaker from the UK, currently based in Rotterdam.

https://arabellaturner.net/

@3e11at

Aitana López Rodrigo (she, her)

Aitana López Rodrigo is a Spanish audiovisual artist with a background in painting and sculpture.

@tnlpz25

Jingfeng Shen (he, him)

Jingfeng Shen is a somnolent explorer from China.

@jingfeng_shen

Tesse Baardman (she, her)

Tesse Baardman is an audiovisual artist floating between Brussels and Rotterdam.

@zorm.collectief

Nihal Goel (he, him)

Nihal Goel is a visual maker and coder based in Amsterdam

@nihal_goel

XPUB TEAM

Riviera Taylor (she, her)

Riviera Taylor is a live coder, Emacs enthusiast and everyday Linux user from the UK.

Aglaia Petta (she/her)

Aglaia was trained as an architect but she mostly finds herself doing artistic research and making things with her hands. She lives in between the Netherlands and Greece.

Ada Varriale (she, her)

Ada sometimes writes, sometimes makes websites and sometimes bakes. But mostly not.

Stephen Kerr (he, him)

Stephen is a graphic designer or a musician or a very weird and long dream.

Irmak Suzan Ertas (she/her)

Irmak Suzan Ertas is an editor and multimedia artist from Turkey, based between Ankara and Rotterdam.

ALLUMNI TEAM

Chaeyoung (Chae) Kim (she / her)

Chae explores the subjects of humour, intimacy, and community building. Her research is supported by a series of publishing acts, which she conceptualizes as 'intimate publishing'. website: https://chae0.org/

Jian Haake (she/her)

Jian is a graphic designer, workshop facilitator and experimental maker. In her practice she likes to cultivate complex infrastructures and welcome happy accidents. website: https://ohjian.org/

Emma Prato (she/her)

Emma works and alternates between different materials and media, looking for her space in this world. She is a print lover and cultural worker, exploring ways to disrupt common structures and to bring some beauty in this uncomfortable society. website (badly made): http://trashbooksatelier.ovh/

TECHNICAL TEAM

Tom Parolin (he, him)

Tom is a film maker from the land DOWN UNDA.

@tomparolin

Toto Kersten (he, him)

Toto is a film maker and bricks collector from Rotterdam.

totokersten.cargo.site @eentotofoto

SPECIAL THANKS

Joseph Knierzinger, PZI Archipelago

Food & drinks

Other pzi students could make food?

If cjarging for food or drinks we'll need our own payment system(s) - who can set this up?

Questions for tech-writer - WORM

--->> is "precious" available to make food in? ("No, WORM kitchen access- it's rented out to a great chef")

--->> open bar in C.S. what are the costs?

QUOTE

Okay, based on the Bubble Punch at Zine Camp 2023, here is the number:

100 cocktail servings / with Alcohol (Gin, Tequila, Rum) slightly over 200 EUR chae and jian like to block 250 EUR to make sure

And if we do non-Alcohol version, we could do 100-150 200 EUR.

What we need from the guests:

   Images / moving images / something else
   Bio (50-60 words), in third person from both guests and interviewer{s} - links are enough for the WORM save-the-date
   find out what they want or dont want to talk about

Speaker introductions:

Opportunity for the guests and the students to be involved to make a short (15 seconds - 3 minutes? I dunno) introduction to their work or whatever you plan to talk about together.

Images

The meteorite. © The Alabama Museum of Natural History

The Bubble Punch

The Bubble Punch, brought to you by Blob Shop Collective