In the following days the FIBER crew will report and share their personal highlights, snapshots and short reports on the things to come and from inside of the festival. On this page we’ll collect all our feeds to create a visual and fragmented coverage of DEAF 2012 and hope to inspire and encourage you to experience the upcoming five day DEAF-whirlwind yourself.

DAY 3: WORM @ NIGHT (PHOTO: SIETSE VD MEER)

DAY 3: EXPO – JESSICA DE BOER (PHOTO: SIETSE VD MEER)

DAY 3: CRAFTING THE FUTURE: DEBATE (15:00 – 17:00)

DAY 3: EXPO – Notion Motion – Olafur Eliasson (PHOTO: SIETSE VD MEER)

DAY 3: Build your own Vibrobot – Planet M (14:00 – 17:00)

DAY 3: LAB DAY – DRINKS & SHORT PITCHES (13:00 – 15:00)

DAY 3: LAB DAY – PRESENTATIONS MEDIA FUND & The Netherlands Architecture Fund (13:00 – 15:00)

DAY 3: LAB DAY – BOOK PRESENTATION VIRTUEEL PLATFORM (13:00 – 15:00)


 

 

DAY 3: LAB DAY – MEET THE LABS (10:00 – 12:00)


 

Photo: @MariekeIstha

 

DAY 2: EXPO – Terrestrial Ball – Kianoosh Motallebi (PHOTO: SIETSE VD MEER)

DAY 2: THE POWER OF THINGS DEBATE


TeZ presenting at The Power of Things debate

DAY 2: CURATORS CONVERSATIONS (12:00 – 13:00) & IT’S THE CRISIS STUPID (14:00 – 16:00)

DAY 1: SYMPOSIUM (10:00 – 17:00)

15:30–16:30 Philip Beesley – Protocell Field

13:30–14:30 Arjen Mulder – The Beauty of Agency Art

11:30–12:30 Wendy Steiner – Beauty as Interaction

10:30–11:30 Thierry Bardini – Hints of a Junk Aesthetic    

 

9:45 – 10:30 Lars Spuybroek

DAY 1: SYMPOSIUM VITAL BEAUTY(10:00 – 17:00)

We’re looking forward to tomorrow’s ‘Vital Beauty’ symposium. And after the symposium at the Balie we’ll meet each other at the bar, catch to the train to Rotterdam, attend the opening by Bas Heijne & Alex Adriaansens and meet each other at the bar. Not peer-to-peer, but bar-to-bar. Just a perfect day.

 

Day 0: Introduction

DEAF – short for Dutch Electronic Art Festival – can be counted amongst the biggest Dutch events around and brings together innovative creators and craving fans of art, design, fashion, music, science and the technology of tomorrow. From May 16th until May 20th, Rotterdam will be the epicentre of the ‘now’ and the future and will function as a dynamic hub for artists and designers from all over the world. Wednesday May 16th DEAF kicks off with a symposium at ‘De Balie’ in Amsterdam, which will enchant us with ‘Vital Beauty’ and lure us all southward for the festival opening in Rotterdam.

DEAF was initiated’ by V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media and had its first edition in 1994, which centred around the theme of ‘Digital Nature’. Both artists and scientists explored the merging of the biological ‘living’ and our digital reproduction/redesign of the ‘living’. After a break of almost 5 years DEAF is back with ‘The Power of Things’, in which a new and challenging worldview will be presented: “One that breaks down the categorical distinction between the living and the non-living and attributes a vital force to both… While scientific experimentation predominantly aims for a better understanding of what matter is, art explores what matter does. Knowing what matter does contributes to a greater knowledge of how things act and what their particular propensities or tendencies are.” –  http://deaf.nl/about

In the following days the FIBER crew will report and share their personal highlights, snapshots and short reports on the things to come and from inside of the festival. On this page we’ll collect all our feeds to create a visual and fragmented coverage of DEAF 2012 and hope to inspire and encourage you to experience the upcoming five day DEAF-whirlwind yourself.