Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Jorinde Seijdel is an independent writer, editor, lecturer, adviser and art theorist on subjects that are concerned with the topic of art and media in the developing society and its public sphere. She is Editor-in-Chief of Open! Platform on Art, Culture & the Public Domain and Head of the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie. She has contributed articles to many books and magazines. Currently, she is teaching at Gerrit Rietveld Academie (DOGtime) in Amsterdam and the Dutch Art Institute (DAI MA Art Praxis, ArtEZ) in Arnhem. For Open! see: http://www.onlineopen.org
Studium Generale is an extensive transdisciplinary theory program that addresses students and faculty at all departments of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. It regularly opens up to broader audiences. Studium Generale Rietveld Academie wants to show how art and design are linked with other domains (from the personal to the political, from the vernacular to the academic), how our ‘now' is linked with past and future, our ‘here' with ‘elsewhere'. In the belief that art students can only learn to think independently when knowledge, imagination and reflection combine to work together in an unorthodox and critical way, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie embarks every year on slightly unruly and therefore always exciting research trajectories. Annually selected curators and numerous guest lecturers from all over the world propose a wide variety of entry points to contemporary discourse. Studium Generale 2017: What is Happening to Our Brain? - Art & Life in Times of Cognitive Automation Studium Generale 2016: Bots, Bodies and Beasts – The art of being Humble
DOGtime is the Bachelor part-time study program of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, housed on the 7th floor of the Benthem Crouwel building.
Open! is an Amsterdam-based publication platform that fosters and disseminates experimental knowledge on art, culture and the public domain. Open! explores the changing conditions of the public domain and new viewpoints on publicness from a variety of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. Open! addresses the commons and the community, ownership and power relationships, and it examines the consequences of current privatisation, mediatisation and globalisation processes on our social and artistic practices. Open! works with theorists, artists and designers who contribute to the creation of an experimental and critical body of thought. Open! is an independent organisation and the online continuation of Open. Cahier on Art & the Public Domain, the biannual print publication that existed from 2004–2012 and received support from SKOR | Foundation for Art & Public Domain in Amsterdam.
The third Open! COOP Academy course will again be a one year long research and writing project. Working with an overarching theme and Open! as its discursive and creative framework its overall aims are twofold: to better understand the subject matter of the research theme and to experiment with writing and publishing within a globalized digital knowledge space. Open! COOP Academy Publishing Class involves participating in a monthly seminar on the research theme with the core tutors and with guest tutors, and working on individual (image) essays or experimental texts that finally will be published on Open!. For the seminar we will study and discuss texts and other relevant materials and attend talks and discussions by and with the guest tutors. For the publication each participant will work on an entry for a glossary and a text or an image essay that fits within the frame work of Open! but with the opportunity to give it a twist. Stemming from each participant's own individual practice, this piece of work relates to the research theme. In monthly face-to-face meetings the development of the text or image essay will be guided by core tutors Jorinde Seijdel and Florian Göttke and partly also by Niels Schrader and Janine Armin, respectively designer/programmer and line and copy editor of Open!.
Art & the Public Sphere invites contributions from artists, theorists, historians, curators and cultural activists. We seek interdisciplinary articles, which confront orthodoxies, propagate debate and reflect on art’s role in the public sphere. We encourage fresh approaches to research arising from practice, theory, philosophy and politics, and welcome contributions from new and established researchers, scholars, practitioners and professionals. The first issue of the journal will focus on the ‘Intersection of Politics, Art and Urbanism’ but we also invite contributions for future issues on any aspect of art and the discourses related to the public sphere, such as ‘public’, ‘publicness’, ‘making public’ and ‘publishing’.
De stichting is in 1992 op initiatief van Paul Kempers en Brigitte van der Sande opgericht en stelt zich ten doel ‘publicaties en manifestaties op het gebied van de moderne en hedendaagse kunst uit te brengen casu quo te organiseren, teneinde nieuwe gezichtspunten te formuleren en onontgonnen gebieden van de kunsten te exploreren’. De stichting wordt exclusief ingezet voor de realisatie van de pilot van Other Futures – Exploring New Perspectives through Science Fiction, een nieuw multidisciplinair online en offline platform voor toekomstdenkers en toekomstmakers uit alle delen van de wereld. Het platform start in 2018 met een conferentie, een driedaags multidisciplinair festival en een tentoonstelling in Amsterdam, en richt zich op een breed, gevarieerd publiek.