Piet Zwart Institute
The Piet Zwart Institute is the center for postgraduate study and research of the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam's art school. The de Kooning Academy is a part of Hogeschool Rotterdam, a university of applied sciences. Named in memory of the Dutch designer Piet Zwart, it was inaugurated in 2001. The current postgraduate study program structure had been introduced earlier in 1999.
Master programs
The Piet Zwart Institute currently includes five Master study programs and one research program: Masters in Fine Art, Retail Design, Interior Architecture, Media Design and Communication (until 2012 with the specializations Networked Media and Lens-Based Digital Media) and Education in Art, and a research program Communication in a Digital Age. The academic degree of Masters is validated by the NVAO, the joint accreditation organization of the Dutch and Flemish ministries of education.
Research programs
Since 2002, the Piet Zwart Institute initiated three research programs, Media Design Research (2002-2006, led by Matthew Fuller) and Communication in a Digital Age (since 2008, led by Florian Cramer) and Cultural Diversity (since 2010, led by Hugo Bongers). Research fellows included Lev Manovich, Alexei Shulgin, jodi, Simon Yuill and Alessandro Ludovico. Among the publications were an early handbook on open content licenses and the anthology Software Studies (ed. by Matthew Fuller, The MIT Press, 2008).
Publishing and collaboration
Since 2000, the study and research programs of the Piet Zwart Institute have published books on contemporary art, media and design in collaboration with publishing houses like Revolver Books, The MIT Press and OpenMUTE. The institute also collaborates with local organizations such as TENT/Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Witte de With, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, WORM, Duende, Het Wilde Weten and Goethe-Institut Rotterdam.
Staff
All study and research programs are based on a small core staff and a great number of visiting tutors. Course directors have been Anke Bangma (1999-2007), Vanessa Ohlraun (2007-2011) and Vivan Sky Rehberg (since 2011) for Fine Art, Raphael van Amerongen (2001-2007) and Margaret Wijnands (since 2008) for Retail Design, Matthew Fuller (2002-2006), Florian Cramer (2006-2010) and Renee Turner (2010-2011) for Networked Media, Simon Pummell (2009-2011) for Lens-Based Digital Media, Simon Pummell (since 2012) for Media Design and Communication, Robin Punt (2006-2010), Mirjam van Tilburg (since 2010) and Jojanneke Gijsen for Education in Art.
Alumni
- 2002/2004
Ana Gabriela Jimenez, Claudia de Azevedo Borges, Nick Koning, Todd Matsumoto, Victoria Donkersloot, Wijbrand Stet.
- 2003/2005
Alejandra Pérez Núñez, Anna Andersson, Dirk van Oosterbosch, Kim de Groot, Oliver Meskawi, Roxana Torre.
- 2004/2006
Cheryl Gallaway, Dragana Antic, Sasson Kung, Tsila Hassine.
- 2005/2007
Andrea Fiore, Andreea Carnu, Audrey Samson, Dominik Bartkowski, Jorrit Sybesma, Marc de Bruijn, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Shahee Ilyas, Walter Langelaar.
- 2006/2008
Annemieke van der Hoek, Danja Vassiliev, Gordan Savičić, Ivan Monroy López, Linda Hilfling, Maria Karagianni, Michael van Schaik, Ricardo Lafuente, Salvador d' Souza.
- 2007/2009
Alexandre Leray, Dennis de Bel, Leonie Urff, Marc Chia, Sauli Warmenhoven, Serena Williams, Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Timo Klok.
- 2008/2010
Emanuele Bonetti, Farah Shakeel, Loredana Bontempi, Selena Savić.
- 2009/2011
Networked Media: Albert Jongstra, Birgit Bachler, Darija Medić, Megan Hoogenboom, Özalp Eröz, Renée Olde Monnikhof.
Lens-based Media: Chris Baronavski, Femke de Bruijn, Marleen Leuverink, Roeland Veraart, Tanja Deman, Tiddo Roozendaal, Vincenzo Onnembo, Yuko Uesu, Zafer Topaloglu.
- 2010/2012
Networked Media: Amy Suo Wu, Danny van der Kleij, Dušan Barok, Fako Berkers, Inge Hoonte, Laura Macchini, Laurier Rochon, Lieven Van Speybroeck, Mirjam Dissel. Exchange students: Nataša Sienčnik.
Lens-based Media: Daan Bunnik, Lena Müller, Loes van Dorp, Luis Soldevilla, Quinten Swagerman, Sebastian Cimpean, Tomás Navarro, Zhang Yan.
- 2011/2013
Networked Media: André Castro, Dave Young, Eleanor Greenhalgh, Jasper van Loenen, Jonas Lund, Petra Milički, Marie Wocher. Exchange students: Bartholomäus Traubeck, Sebastian Schmieg, Silvio Lorusso.
Lens-based Media: Astrid van Nimwegen, Demet Adiguzel, Dennis van Vreden, Janis Klimanovs, Javier Lloret, Lucian Wester, Manó Dániel Szöllősi.
- 2012/2014
Lasse van den Bosch Christensen, Marlon Harder, Menno Harder, Michaela Lakova, Nan Wang, Nicole Hametner, Niek Hilkmann, Roel Roscam Abbing, Yoana Buzova.
Exhibitions
- Catching Art in the Alternet, 2011. Catalog for the graduation exhibition of Master Media Design and Communication: Networked Media.
- Exception Handling, 2012. Catalog for the graduation exhibition of Media Design & Communication Masters. Invitation.
Links
- http://pzwart.wdka.nl/
- http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Zwart_Institute
Art and design schools | ||
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Bauhaus (Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, 1919-33), Vitebsk Popular Art Institute (Vitebsk, 1919-22), VkHUTEMAS (Moscow, 1920-26), School of Arts and Crafts (Bratislava, 1928-39), Black Mountain College (Black Mountain/NC, 1933-57), Ulm School of Design (Ulm, 1953-68), Academy of Media Arts (Cologne, est. 1990), Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, est. 2001) |