ON THE AIMS AND THE SET-UP OF THE RESEARCH GROUP

Network / Sculpture investigates an array of contemporary artistic practices that use systems, assemblages and other spatial compositional elements to extend the notion of sculpture. Located on the interstice between theory, artistic practices and the curatorial, the project considers several questions regarding the role of exhibitions as a formative factor within installation art and the emphasis on composition elements as a sculptural language, while revisiting several system-based concepts of the notion of sculpture. All in support of the guiding question: is there a new form of ‘network.sculpture’?

DESIGN THINKING IS A COMPASS - USE IT TO EXPLORE AND FIND VALUE BEYOND DESIGN PRACTICE
In her design practice and in her work with students, Shafir is always on the lookout for new ways of understanding cultures and structures from a design perspective. The Design Thinking method is an approach to perceiving and analysing the world around us. It offers surprising, powerful insights and solutions – which are just as effective in non-design environments. The moment has come for the arts educational sector to introduce this new approach to the wider world.

ENGAGING YOUR SENSES TO LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD
In the field of so-called wearable technology, or e-textiles, the relationship between body, technology and environment takes center stage. Hertenberger is interested in the potential of the human body, of our senses, to allow us to protect ourselves, to learn about and to enjoy the world – and how technology can help us to connect to our bodies and maximize our senses. By bringing in intuition into the domain of electronics, she wants to provide a counterbalance to the dominant paradigm of technological development.

FILM SCREENING JASPER COPPES’ FLOW COUNTRY

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OBSERVATIONS IN SOLIDARITY
Coppes’ recent film FLOW COUNTRY investigates the medium of 16mm film as an archaeological record in itself. It proposes that the ‘archaeology of the present’ can be a site of production. This balance between artifact and representation is further extended in the relationship between subject and object in artistic research. With current work done in Greenland, Coppes explores how social justice forms the framework within which ideas unfold about landscape, ecology and spirituality. How does one establish an ‘immersed’ perspective, that embraces human and non-human entities?

INTERFACE, SURFACE AND FACE
The internet is an unimaginably vast ecology of data and processes. Deeply stored data immutable like buried granite, other data constantly in flux like a rushing mountain stream. Here, at the opaque surface of this churning ocean of bits, the realm of the computer and our realm meet. In this project, Leegte explores the mediating face of the networked computer, an area where metaphors, allegories and fantasy prevail and where interfacing has the potential to become an artistic act.

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