Upgrade! Eindhoven 16/9: Floris Kaayk

On Thursday evening 16 September Floris Kaayk is the guest artist at Upgrade! Eindhoven, where he is interviewed by nobody less than Wiepko Oosterhuis. The location is TAC, Vonderweg 1 Eindhoven, and starts at 19.30 hours.

The first Upgrade! Eindhoven happened in 2008. Upgrade! is a meeting of people who share an interest in art and technology. Upgrade! International is a network of nodes spread over the globe. At Upgrade! Eindhoven meetings people come together to see one or more artists present, and have a discussion.

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vacature PR & communicatie coördinator Nerdlab

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Nerdlab 8 – Robots on Tour – oktober 2010
Breda – Eindhoven – ’s-Hertogenbosch – Tilburg

Zoekt per direct een part-time PR & communicatie coordinator

Help jij ons mee dit bijzondere event een Brabant-breed succes te maken?
Ben je creatief, kun je zelfstandig werken en heb je zin om in een korte periode veel voor elkaar te krijgen?

Taken PR & communicatie
- Persberichten schrijven, versturen naar diverse media en nabellen
- Opzetten en onderhouden van contacten met pers, media, publiek en relaties
- Nerdlab op sociale media publiceren en redigeren
- Ondersteunen bij het productieproces van het publiciteitsmateriaal
- Verspreiden van het drukwerk (flyers en posters)
- Archiveren van publiciteitsuitingen
- Teksten schrijven voor de website
- Meedenken over marketingacties

Voorwaarden
- PR & communicatie ervaring
- Direct beschikbaar, 4 tot 8 uur per week
- Affiniteit met Kunst en Cultuur
- Een werkplek in Eindhoven is beschikbaar
- Vergoeding op basis van ervaring en beschikbaarheid
- Overeenkomst mogelijk op basis van ZZP/ freelance/graduation

Nerdlab is een event waarbij kunst, wetenschap en techniek op ongedwongen wijze samenkomen. Het is een initiatief van CBK ’s-Hertogenbosch, en wordt uitgevoerd door Digitale Werkplaats Den Bosch, Noisivision Breda en MAD emergent art center Eindhoven.
Dit maal is het thema Robotica. We presenteren een dynamisch programma met installaties, demo’s en film waarbij robotica vanuit verschillende invalshoeken wordt belicht, met robot art, robotgames, kinetics, en experimenteel onderzoek.
Informatie over eerdere edities vind je hier: http://www.nerdlab.nl/

Neem voor meer informatie contact op met René Paré, pare@dse.nl of bel 040 2133032

Sollicitaties/aanmelden graag per e-mail naar:
MAD emergent art center
o.v.v. Nerdlab PR
mad@dse.nl


Artist In Residence

AIR is the Artist In Residence program for Dutch and foreign artists. The collaboration with research institutes, high tech businesses and institutes makes this and especially interesting environment for talented artists.

Concrete projects are the development of installations and media art for Image Radio and Strijp-S. In 2008, MADlab has moved into a new space at Strijp-S.

The realized installations, applications and experience are shared through exhibitions, publications, workshops and presentations.

Applications for a two-or three-monthly residency must be accompanied by a proposal submitted to MAD emergent art center.


Upgrade! Sao Paulo

Soft Borders is the 4th Upgrade! International Network Conference and Festival, that will take place in São Paulo city, Brazil, from 18th to 21st/october/2010. The conference will gather artists, curators and researchers from 30 countries to present and discuss the field of new media art, in the international and local contexts, especially in Brazil, the country that is hosting the present edition of the event.

Upgrade Sao Paulo


Nerdlab: Robots on Tour

On October 3, 2010 Nerdlab launches a new (sunday afternoon!) event, called robots on tour that will kick off in Breda (Elektron), then October 10 in TAC Eindhoven, October 24 CBK Den Bosch and October 31 Duvelhok Tilburg. This edition of Nerdlab is themed Robotics. We present a dynamic program of installations, performances, demos and video involving robotics from different creative views, with robot art, robot games, kinetics and experimental research.


NetArt

Since 2001 MAD emergent art center develops net art projects together with artists, engineers, researchers.
Currently we investigate internet significance of interrelations between physical and virtual realities.
We welcome proposals for new research and/ or projects.


Holly Schmidt

Living Laboratory

For MAD emergent art center Artist In Residence, Canadian media artist Holly Schmidt is exploring the Strijp–S site as it is being transformed from the Philips Electronics Estates into a Creative City.  In order to explore this transformation, she is creating a large-scale architectural model of the NatLab development.  Schmidt examines the history of this site as a laboratory for physics research in relation to the current development of the site as a creative laboratory for living and working.


First digital art in TU/e collection

The first digital artwork ever aquired by TU/e, is the videoproduction ‘Eindhoven’ by the Polish/Swedish artist Mateusz Herczka.

Herczka filmed Eindhoven in 2008, as a commission of MAD emergent art centerfor their Image Radio event.

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Upgrade! Eindhoven

8 march: The Secret of Dick Verdult

31 may: Michelle Teran
Danielle Roberts
Anja Hertenberger

28 june: Holly Schmidt
Daan Roosegaarde


Upgrade!


Brains Award to Transit Mantra

Céline de Waal Malefijt has won the first prize with her idea and prototype of Transit Mantra. The professional jury decided to reward her with the first Brains Award. The development of Transit Mantra is realised during her Artist in Residence period atMAD, Spring 2009.

Brains Award