Artist talk & book launch

Artist Talk | Will Sweeney
Book Launch | Erwin Thomasse

From 8 pm
Location MU
Free entrance

This evening Eindhoven-based artist Erwin Thomasse, co-curator of Seek Merry Hell, will launch his book Lust, Liberty and Teleportation. With the publication Thomasse tries to show the leitmotif in his work. The publication is designed by Eric de Haas and will be self-published. From May 3, the book will be on sale at MU and through www.powerblastmovement.com, amongst others.

Before the book launch the London-based artist /illustrator Will Sweeney will talk about his work and influences, including underground comic art, medieval surrealism and badly printed Jamaican record sleeves. His detailed drawings in the exhibition Seek Merry Hell already give a hint of what that can be but come and see yourself, you will surely get inspired.
 

Open Studio | Mar & Varvara

Friday, April 13 Mar Canet Sola and Varavara Guljajeva will open the doors of their studio at the MU house. Since January of this year they are artists in residence at the MU House in the 1e Akkermuntstraat, Eindhoven. On April 17th they will leave the house to move to Sweden.
Before they leave they’d like to show you what they’ve been working onduring their stay in Eindhoven. From the MU House they have been very productive these past months and their Spam Poetry project is growing.
On behalf of Mar and Varvara, MU invites you to come and visit. Mar and Varvara will present their project while MU will provide a drink and a bite.

Friday April 13, from 4 pm

Location: 1e Akkermuntstraat 25, 5643 DJ Eindhoven.
 

Workshop | Blog Sweet Blog

UNFORTUNATELY THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED

On April 7 you are welcome at MU for a presentation by Zoe Strauss.

More info

A workshop for bloggers

By Irma Driessen

April 7 and 12, 2012

The workshop will be in Dutch. Please check here.

Presentation | Zoe Strauss and Harlan Levey

From 4 pm
Location: MU
Free entrance

icw Showroom MAMA

As part of the exhibition Highbrow, Lowbrow, Nobrow – MOUSSE!, Showroom Mama presents 2 talks with photographer Zoe Strauss and curator Harlan Levey. On April 7 the will be at MU in Eindhoven and on April 9 in Enschede.

Zoe will talk about her I-95 project. In 1995, she started the Philadelphia Public Art Project, a one-woman organization whose mission is to give the citizens of Philadelphia access to art in their everyday lives. Strauss’s photographic work culminates in a yearly “Under I-95” show, which takes place beneath the Interstate highway in South Philadelphia. She displays her photographs on concrete pillars under the highway and sells photocopied prints of her work for $5 each. Strauss now calls the Philadelphia Public Art Project an “epic narrative” of her own neighborhood. “When I started shooting, it was as if somewhere hidden in my head I had been waiting for this,” she says.

photo: Zoe Strauss, Sage Jumping (2009)

Workshop | Robotics & More

MU and IMPAKT WORKS present:

Robotics + digital fabrication, an introduction
a workshop with Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet Sola

March 22nd and 23rd

MU and Impakt are joining forces for a collaborative workshop. This two day class is an introduction to robotics and digital fabrication, hosted by MU resident artist duo Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet Sola. Amongst the used techniques are Arduino and laser cutting, in order to create your own hybrid object.

The workshop will kick off at Impakt Headquarters (Utrecht) on Thursday  March 22, by exploring Arduino technology – an easy-to-use open source platform known for its many interactive and artistic possibilities. Starting from the the perspective of motion and behavior, Guljajeva and Canet Sola will introduce participants to different kinds of motors and encourage them to create kinetic objects.

The second day of the workshop, located at Sectie-C (Eindhoven), is dedicated to laser cutting and how this technique could be applied in robotic art. During this session, the participants are able to take their kinetic objects to the next level and digitally fabricate actual bodyparts for their moving feature.

To apply, send a message to muandmore@mu.nl – including your name, phonenumber and a short bio (student/working as...). Be quick as places are limited!

Practical information

Please note that this is a 2-day workshop that will take place (respectively) in Utrecht and in Eindhoven. Participants are expected to bring their own laptop and join the workshop on both days.

Thursday March 22, from 11h – 18h: IMPAKT Headquarters, Lauwerecht 10, Utrecht
Friday March 23, from 11h – 18h: Mu, Sectie-C, Daalakkersweg 2-8, Eindhoven

Fee: € 15 (Lunch and materials included)

Required material
− a laptop

Additional material
− an arduino set, if you have one
− servo motor(s), if you have any
− anything else you think you can work with in the context of the workshop, or what could be your personal artistic interpretation

Background information
As part of the M4M Transartist residency programm Mar Canet Sola and Varvara Guljajeva are currently living at the MU house in Eindhoven for 3 months. They are working on different projects combining art and technology.

Varvara Guljajeva
Varvara is originally from Estonia, gained her master degree in digital media from ISNM in Germany and currently is a PhD candidate at the Estonian Art Academy. She applies and challenges technology and traditional production methods in order to explore novel concepts in art.

Mar Canet Sola
Mar Canet is a computer game engineer, designer and media artist interested in data visualization, computer games and new media art. Born in Mollet del Valles (Barcelona, 1981). He is an artist and researcher who likes to write software exploring news ways of playfulness and expression, inspired in digital age. He is working in computer games, data visualization and new media art installations.

Impakt
Impakt is a foundation that's concerned with the presentation of critical and creative insights on contemporary media culture. Annually, a four day festival is organized, surrounding a theme that is scientifically, artistically, playfully or critically analyzed through symposiums, screening programs, exhibitions and workshops. Besides the festival, Impakt works on all year through artist-residencies and events: short projects, lectures, workshops.

Workshop adress

DAY 1 UTRECHT
Lauwerecht 10
3514BB Utrecht

DAY 2 EINDHOVEN
Sectie C / Easy laser
Daalakkersweg 2-8

5641 JA Eindhoven

Gabriel Shalom - Hypercubism

!! Cancelled due to illness. We hope to be able to announce a new date soon.

Master class in Digital Aesthetics

Friday February 24
From 12.30 to 3.30 pm
Location: MU and TAC
Language: English

The Tosso Variations, the current exhibition at MU, is Gabriel Shalom’s first solo show. To elaborate on his way of working and thinking he’ll be in Eindhoven on friday February 24 and invites you to participate in his master class:

“Every video is in 3D already. Length, width and time: three dimensions. Until we get fully four dimensional holographic imagery, we're going to have images which strive to be in four dimensions but always collapse back down into a flattened simulation. Hypercubism is a way of understanding the aesthetics of this collapse.

We will explore influences on Cubism in order to discover parallels in our current media environment that have had an impact on Hypercubism. We will discuss the role object-oriented interfaces have in changing our perception of moving images (video games, operating systems, computer code). We will discuss what constitutes a truly contemporary moving image – what sets it apart from the postmodern – and also what makes it more than ever before closely related to a piece of music. The master class will be a mixture of presentation, seminar discussion and group critique.”

To prepare for the master class, participants are encouraged to view the Hypercubist Manifesto. Participants are welcome to bring in short videos (5 min. or less), which they feel exhibit Hypercubist aesthetics and that they would like to analyze with the group (links to web videos are preferred).

To participate in the master class please send us an e-mail. There is a maximum of 12 participants, so sign up now.

Timeless Screening and Q&A

!! Cancelled due to illness. We hope to be able to announce a new date soon.

Friday February 24

From 4 to 6 pm

Location: TAC, Vonderweg 1 Eindhoven

Free entrance

Commissioned by MU, KS12 (of which Gabriel Shalom is part) made ‘Timeless. A video essay’. This video can be seen at MU as wel as online. But to give everybody a chance to see this design fiction on a big screen and to talk about it with the producers MU organizes a screenig and a Q&A at TAC on friday February 24.

Post digital Design Tools

Thursday December 8
Starts at 8 pm, free entrance

During this MU&More the results of the After the Bit Rush workshop will be presented. Together with Unfold and Lucas Maassen designers and artists can participate in this one day workshop that is being organized by Baltan Laboratories in their Tools Series.

With the Tools Series Baltan examines the complex and changing relationships artists and designers have with the technologies and tools they develop, modify or use to create, with an aim to explore social awareness around the tool choices they make as well as the (aesthetic) influences of these choices on the work they create.
 

If you want to particpate in the workshop please check baltanloboratories.org