summer-session

Evanescent
Jeanine Verloop (NL)
In a world in which technology is increasingly driven by invisible algorithms, and the devices that surround us increasingly have the same tablet shape, Verloop is looking for a counterpart. She wants to create machines that look radically different, showing a glimpse of what our environment could be when we embrace the idea that technology is more than something useful and efficient. Not only a tool but a goal on its own, constantly evolving and just as vulnerable as ourselves.

Electrons on the threshold
Oana Clitan (RO)
Electrons on the threshold is a single channel video installation exploring the social consequences of the rise of surveillance in public and virtual space.

VR living in Roff
Mihai Gui (RO)
VR living in Roffa is an interactive archive of people, stories and places that were uprooted and removed from their physical location and, sometimes literally, bulldozed over in the name of further developing the city of Rotterdam. Based on a research project during the Summer Sessions 2020, its goal is to engage audiences on a personal level and reframe policy-making around housing, focusing on communities displaced in the name of a future vision for the city that is incompatible with their presence.

YOU ARE SOURCE PROJECTION AND REFLECTION
Sophia Bulgakova (UA)
YOU ARE SOURCE PROJECTION AND REFLECTION is an ongoing series of projection-based setups focusing on non-linear reading in motion.