OpenLab 25

Termine
wednesdays, every two weeks,
additional meetings possible, depending on topics and needs.
starting on 23rd april 2025

-- 23.04.

first meeting, possibilities for the semester...

what topics are you interested in?

-- 30.04.

Poly, presenting the book project accompanying her new record.
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devise a plan for this semester
working in groups on specific topics for first details

-- 07.05.

we will talk another time about portfolios: so think about what questions you have, what you would like to show: on june, 4th.

Dudu, sharing a game jam experience by Young Academics Workshop Game Jam and introducing board games. Let's talk about games :)

some links/ images?

-- 21.05.

introduction book: Jeo
research for people who think they would rather create
btw: this book is from an interesting publication label: Onomatopoee, situated in Eindhoven, easy to reach by train

workshop Amon: head lamps
We will sort components, solder both through‑hole and SMD parts, and complete the final assembly of the devices.

Additional materials and links:
The Toaster Project
Performance: The Art of Becoming a Cyborg – Website, Video (PW: ask Amon)
Haraway, Donna: A Cyborg Manifesto – DE, EN
Anatomy of an AI System — map & essay on the human labour, data and planetary resources behind electronics

-- 22.05.

same week

excursion to interzum, fair cologne
open 20.-23.05.25
(you will get access codes which you have to personalize online. an email with information follows.)

let's go for a first walk on the fair on thursday, 22nd may, at 12:00 and take a look together, starting eg
at the special show of "materials and nature"

-- 28.05.

Short review of our visit to the Interzum, taking a look at our collected materials and giving some feedback.

Chanmin received three boxes full of dias of an archive, showing old exhibitions, art works, architecture of the 20th century. Viewing some of them on three dia projectors as a preparation how to deal with the huge amount of material and the manner how to include them in a performance.

-- 04.06.

in zoom due to bomb defusing in deutz: Talking about the approach for representing a range of works, in portfolios/ artist books/ catalogues etc
What are your questions and thoughts on how to prepare, edit and do your portfolio.

Bring your own portfolio and printed out or otherwise materialized overview of your work, catalogues, artist books (of yourself or others), also drafts and plans,
and other examples you find interesting.

Also touching the subject on how to archive and structure your own material.

after the discussion: wish to continue with the chaos-portfolio-club, see discord-channel for more information.

-- 18.06.

Drawing and Process and Space
Jeongan is showing us her drawings, talking about methods and ideas. afterwards she is making a small experiment with us.
some pictures will follow.

-- 02.07.

canceled due to too much heat etc

11:00
Riso introduction (Karin)
(we'll be catching up after Rundgang, see separate email)

14:00
zines/ topic of reproduction/ publication
bookbinding

Jeo/ Jeongan/ Theresa/ Poly

please bring some leftover materials that you can use making your own zine. Such leftovers can be 'found' leftover materials (pieces of paper, photos, fabric, threads, newspaper/magazines, objects that we can scan, etc.) and that you have no use for — or 'made' leftovers from projects (written texts or notes, photos, etc. etc.) which you do not know what to do with. We will use this opportunity to cut up, glue together, collage. In other words, we will try to find forms for something otherwise considered as waste, to be left out. Your leftover zine can have a topic, or simply be an experiment.

So: Please remember to bring leftover materials!

(It would be great to have some materials for everyone to use, so if you have or find anything — from old magazines, fragments of paper, drawings, photos, printed out texts, etc. — that you want to get rid of or that you think could be interesting to work with, bring it! :)

-- 16.07.

week of Rundgang, no seminar.

seminar text

The “Open Lab” is colloquium and meeting place for discussing current projects and shared research focuses in the context of the exMedia Lab. It offers an environment for presenting and testing artistic works, cooperative strategies, experiments, installations, workshops, lectures, texts, etc. in various stages of development. Workshops and introductions to topics from the fields of DIY, methods/processes, planning/design, prototyping and printing techniques, biomedia and other materialities can also take place in addition or as needed.

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