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 (need to check if this correct)

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 (maybe from the rental or students have one. the camera needs a hdmi output).
• 3 tripods for the 3 cameras.
• 2 long hdmi cables (maybe rental)
• 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 (we dont have)
• 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?

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

Jelle Havermans

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

Dorothy Cheung 2019, online in Bologna

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).

Our bios

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

LB TEAM

Yana Lineva (she, her)

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

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.

Aitana López Rodrigo (she, her)

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

XPUB TEAM

Irmak Suzan Ertas (she/her)

Irmak Suzan Ertas is an editor and multimedia artist from Turkey, currently based in Rotterdam.

DJ TEAM

To be found.

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