Pre-EYE Thematic Barend Onneweer

INTRODUCTION

Every year, usually in february, the students of the Lens-based Media department are invited to present an hour-long program in EYE - as part of the annual EYE Research Lab. "The Eye Research Labs provide space for a new generation of curators and artists to further develop their skills and to meet each other. Students from various art academies and universities are asked to put together a programme with their own work and films from the Eye collection. The Research Labs do not follow a strict format and are often a crossover between film and other art forms.

Academies that participate in the Research Labs are the Sandberg Institute, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Leiden University, the Royal Academy of Art, the University of Amsterdam, the Piet Zwart Institute, the VR Academy and the Master Institute of Visual Cultures."

https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/researchlabs-2024/1196729

EYE is the leading museum for film and moving image art in the Netherlands.

In practice this means that as a group, the first year Lens-based students put together a program to be screened at EYE during this festival in february.