Thu 09 February
Exhibition 50%
Students of the Media Technology MSc are asked to explore their theme in the broadest sense (social, mathematical, biological, et cetera) and discover what it could possibly relate to. After gaining sufficient insight in the theme they are asked to formulate compelling statements related to the theme. Only once this is stage is completed they are asked to translate their statements into an installation. Together these installations form the semester project exhibition.
LECTURE Non-textual Scientific Output Bas Haring Thurday February 9th, 16:00 Location: WORM, Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam
Bas Haring is a Dutch philosopher and writer of popular science and children’s literature. He holds a temporary special professor chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Leiden and is the initiator of the Media Technology MSc program.
In this lecture he will focus on non-textual scientific projects that are meant convey a statement or trigger reflection. Art and Science is currently a hot topic. This lecture focusses however on less conventional output of scientists that has similarities to art, and is often meant to trigger a debate within the scientific world itself.
OFFICIAL OPENING: Welcome by Alex Adriaansens February 9th – 17:00 Location: V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
PUBLIC GRADUATION PRESENTATION Developing an Expressive Independent Shape-changing Surface Alice Bodanzky Saturday February 11th, 16:00 Location: V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
Advances in material science and engineering allow computation to be embedded everywhere. Computers will soon be designed to take any shape, thus radically changing how we interact with our material environment. To explore these developments in a meaningful way, we must first understand the properties and possibilities of computationally enabled materials. This research has led to a proposal for an actuated shape-changing surface itself and investigations into its expressive qualities. It focuses on the surface’s ability to move in space following programmed variations in terms of texture and topology patterns.
MEET THE MAKERS
Sunday February 12th, 16:00 Location: V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
Get to know the what and why behind each installation in the exhibition. In short presentations, each project team explains how their work came about and what lies behind it. There is place for discussing the works and ask questions to the makers.
LECTURE Using Real Animals and Organisms in Computer Games Wim van Eck and Maarten Lamers Saturday February 18th, 16:00 Location: TENT, Witte de Withstraat 50
Computer games have undergone major changes in the last decade: the Wii made us play more physically, smartphones made us play more casually, and serious gaming is the current hype. Will biological-digital games be next? What computer games can you play against real cats, pigs and hamsters? Why do crickets play Pacman? How to play Pong against bacteria? This lecture is about scientific research into hybrid biological-digital games.
