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Blurb on Unlinked

This year’s graduation show of the Master of Media Design & Communication (Lens-Based & Networked) at the Piet Zwart Institute perhaps reflects a shift in popular culture. Whereas no self-respecting media self-help book or newspaper article published in the last decade missed having 'linked' or 'stay connected' in the title, a more recent rash of articles and runaway best sellers feature words such as 'introvert' or 'silence.' Have we reached a consensual moment where we might all agree it has become urgently necessary to critically look at how the words 'social' and 'media' might be used together?

Politics of Craft

Whereas no self-respecting media self-help book or newspaper article published in the last decade missed having 'linked' or 'stay connected' in the title, a more recent rash of articles and runaway best sellers feature words such as 'introvert' or 'silence.' Have we reached a consensual moment where we might all agree it has become urgently necessary to critically look at how the words 'social' and 'media' might be used together?

Finissage

Whereas no self-respecting media self-help book or newspaper article published in the last decade missed having 'linked' or 'stay connected' in the title, a more recent rash of articles and runaway best sellers feature words such as 'introvert' or 'silence.'

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+===Blurb on Unlinked===
+This year’s graduation show of the Master of Media Design & Communication
+(Lens-Based & Networked) at the Piet Zwart Institute perhaps reflects a shift in popular culture.
+Whereas no self-respecting media self-help book or newspaper article published in the last decade missed
+having 'linked' or 'stay connected' in the title, a more recent rash of articles and runaway best sellers feature
+words such as 'introvert' or 'silence.' Have we reached a consensual moment where we might all agree it
+has become urgently necessary to critically look at how the words 'social' and 'media' might be used
+together?
-'''Yoana Buzova’s''' [BG] Leaveamessage is a participatory project, a network of voice mailboxes that
+[[File:1815 1 IMG 0827-0 R.Abbing.png|900px]]
-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
+===Politics of Craft===
-inside the wire frame of the gallery space, and vice versa. It is a visual representation of our current
+Whereas no self-respecting media self-help book or newspaper article published in the last decade missed
-template culture. We are living in an age of “insert your content here”, a concept that is discernible in
+having 'linked' or 'stay connected' in the title, a more recent rash of articles and runaway best sellers feature
-every aspect of life: from the white walls of a museum to the #ffffff background of a microblog. These
+words such as 'introvert' or 'silence.' Have we reached a consensual moment where we might all agree it
-Template spaces are rigid in their requirements and yet infinitely displaced, they create spaces that a user
+has become urgently necessary to critically look at how the words 'social' and 'media' might be used
-must fit into to, but without any reciprocal ability to recognise the user's individuality.
+together?
-'''Nan Wang’s''' [CN] art practice is the experimentation and search for the intersection between memories
+===Finissage===
-and technology. In her DUST series work, she considers the dust she collected from her room as a self-
+Whereas no self-respecting media self-help book or newspaper article published in the last decade missed
-portrait of her life and physical being, an instrument for sound, as elements for images, as object to sort,
+having 'linked' or 'stay connected' in the title, a more recent rash of articles and runaway best sellers feature
-and as a grammar for her works.
+words such as 'introvert' or 'silence.'
-'''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.