exhibition

Yes we're open

June 2 - until the end Opening on 1 June, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. — June 2 - until the end // The perhaps cynical sounding title 'Yes, we're open' indirectly plays off the recent press releases about the Netherlands Media Art Institute putting up the shutters at the end of this year. With its approaching closing, the NIMk is seizing the chance to deal substantively with the subject of 'openness' in art. Openness 'as a theme, in form and as a quality' is central in 'Yes, we're open'. What can a term like openness mean in art today, and in an internet society? Currently people regard the internet as an 'open' and free medium for the distribution of massive quantities of information, but at the same time politics and commerce meddle with it to an unbelievable degree. The internet has its boundaries, literally and figuratively, and is not infinite. On the other hand, the internet has also contributed immensely to a more or less successful effort toward achieving the transparency and openness that the public wants to see on the part of businesses and organizations. The question of copyright, which is playing a more complex and prominent role in the present era, is also related to this. How does this issue influence art and artists?

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OPENING June 1, 5-7 pm. !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Dus Architects, Martijn Engelbregt, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Elín Hansdóttir, Wayne Horse, INTK, Hamid el Kanbouhi (not yet confirmed), Caleb Larsen, Moniker, Pawel Kruk, Baden Pailthorpe

 

Openness - as a theme, in form and as a quality - is central in 'Yes, we're open'. What can a term like openness mean in art today, and in an internet society? Currently people regard the internet as an 'open' and free medium for the distribution of massive quantities of information, but at the same time politics and commerce meddle with it to an unbelievable degree. The internet has its boundaries, literally and figuratively, and is not infinite.

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Pawel Kruk performance 

unCloud control your own cloud

 

June 1st — Pawel Kruk gave a performance during the opening of Yes We Are Open on June 1st.

 

unCloud is an application that enables anyone with a laptop to create an open wireless network and distribute their own information. Once it is launched, a passerby using a mobile internet device can connect to this open wireless network.

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Guerilla Media: Control your own cloud 

BMW Tate Live Performance Room Harrell Fletcher

 

Friday July 13, 14.00-16.00, Netherlands Media Art Institute — NEW DATE: Friday July 13th, 14.00-16.00 - Workshop Guerilla Media: Control your own cloud by Rui Guerra, based on an existing application, unCloud, that enables anyone with a laptop to create an open wireless network and distribute their own information.

 

Thursday 28 June at 21:00 Doors open: 20.00 (to see the exhibition 'Yes We Are Open') — Thursday 28 June: NIMk (Netherlands Media Art Institute) is pleased to invite you to a live streamed performance by Harrell Fletcher, taking place at the BMW Tate Live: Performance Room.

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Hamid el Kanbouhi 

The Value of Openness

 

14 September - 5 October opening on 13 September, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. — 14 September - 5 October // Within the framework of the exhibition 'Yes, We Are Open' we have asked Hamid el Kanbouhi to provide a contribution to this final exhibition of the present NIMk.

 

Tuesday October 16th 2012 // Start: 20.30 // Entrance fee: 2,50 Euro — October 16, 2012 // During one of the last events at NIMk we will be searching for answers and allowing experiences, solutions and new problems to intermix. With Eleanor Greenhalgh (artist), Aymeric Mansoux (lector Piet Zwart Institute, artist), Rosa Menkman (artist, theoretician, GLI.TC/H festival) and Paul Keller (Kennisland). Moderated by Annet Dekker.

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A Piece Danced Alone - A performance by Alexandra Bachzetsis 

High Definition

 

Thursday 29 November Doors open: 20.00 hrs | Start: 20.30 hrs | Tickets: 10,00- | Location: Smart Project Space | Arie Biemondstraat 111 | 1054 PD Amsterdam | — This performance is brought to you on the occasion of the exhibition Yes, we're open. The exhibition, with its perhaps cynical sounding title, ran at NIMk from June 'till the end' and played off the fact that the institute was putting up the shutters. NIMk seized the chance to deal substantively with the subject of openness in art: as a theme, in form and as a property. Further, in keeping with the concept, NIMk itself has 'opened up' in different ways at different locations. Organizing this performance at another venue is therefore not just reminiscent of the space at the Keizersgracht, but also honours the new presentation institute NASA.

 

13 - 15 December 2012 Location: BCC, Bilderdijkstraat 91, 1053 KM Amsterdam Opening: Thursday 13th December 19:00 - 21:00 — Join us for ProsumeThis!, a cultural consumption spree at the electronics shop BCC on the Bilderdijkstraat in Amsterdam. Works from the collection of the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) and others will be displayed on all the television screens in the store. This edition of ProsumeThis! takes place in the context of Yes we're open, NIMk's final exhibition, which touched upon issues of open and eventually closed systems in art and contemporary society.

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Call
Open Collection 

Call for new Annlee art works

 

As part of 'Yes, we're open', an artist's or viewer's favourite work from the collection will be seen on the homepage of the website and in the project space: 'pick of the week' each week.

 

NIMk wants your interpretation of the Annlee project! — Call for new Annlee art works to be shown within the show Yes we're open. NIMk wants your interpretation of the Annlee project!

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