10:00-01:00 EXHIBITIONS / MUSIC / DRINKS & BITES / AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION by wiwo.studio / OPEN STUDIOS

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10:00-22:00 ANIMA, immersive installation presented by wiwo.studio.
A work by Nick Verstand in collaboration with onformative, Salvador Breed and wiwo.studio.

Fluid, shimmering patterns flow on the surface of a luminescent orb suspended in space, tones oscillating, encompassing the room. ANIMA (2014) is an immersive installation that investigates the emotional relationship between humans and artificial entities, through the use of movement, texture, light and sound.

The spherical imagery, which emanates from inside the object, is achieved by use of a single projector coupled with a hemispherical lens. Both image and sound are generated in real-time, based on the entity's contingent perception of our presence.

ANIMA interprets our behaviour and portrays its character by responding to the viewer with an array of audiovisual expressions. Through this behavioural process, the installation creates the illusion of being a sensory autonomous entity, thereby challenging us to reflect upon our position in relation to artificially created intelligence. ANIMA creates the context which allows us to investigate the extent to which an object can feel, acquire agency, or even possess a soul.

16:00-01:00 GLUE WEEKEND PARTY

HAPPY HOUR FROM 6 TO 8

PIZZAS AND BITES BY LFTVR

MUSIC by DJ JIM

10:00-19:00 EXHIBITION / TALKS / WORKSHOPS / OPEN STUDIOS

CONTACT BUILDING 

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11:00-15:00 WORKSHOP: LASERCUT A SOUVENIR!
by Contact Amsterdam

Between 11am to 3pm, our makerspace manager Rutger will introduce you to all the machines in our makerspace and more specifically to laser-cutting techniques.
Take a picture and Rutger will show you how to engrave it and laser-cut it. Design your own frame, and bring your souvenir home!

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12:00-18:00 WORKSHOP: LIVE SCULPTING

by Jolanta Izabela Pawlac

Jolanta Izabela Pawlac is a Polish multidisciplinary artist, now based at Contact Amsterdam. Her work as an artist has gone through various metamorphosis, reinforced by her education and shaped by different mediums including sculpture, jewelry, painting, photography and stage set. Living and working in culturally diverse areas of the world stimulated her imagination and brought inspirations derived from nature and the sea which she was surrounded by. Jolanta will perform live sculpting through the afternoon - feel free to join her and to discover her various techniques and creative inspirations!

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13:00-14:00 THEATRE SCREENINGS: SHORT FILMS BY HERTOG NADLER
and again from 18:00 to 19:00

Chaja Hertog (Amsterdam, 1978) & Nir Nadler (Haifa, 1977) are an Amsterdam based artist duo, operating across disciplines of visual arts, performance, and film. Coming from different backgrounds – Europe and the Middle East – their collaboration combines two approaches into a single vision that embraces contradiction. In their work, Hertog Nadler often explore relations between the natural and the artificial, between politics and poetics; often combined with physicality, humour and the passage of time.

The following short films will be screening in our theatre:

Harvest - Short film, 11:09 min.
An abnormal phenomenon in an olive grove draws riot police to suppress the uprising. Inspired by the ancient olive harvesting method in which aggression and cultivation come together, the film portrays the absurdity of enforced ideologies.

Nation for Two -Short film, 15:16min. 
A man and a woman dig their way towards each other from two remote locations.Their subterranean journeys pass through a wide collage of natural and urban landscapes and address the absurdity of land borders. 

The Four Riders- 4-channel video installation, 07:52 min.Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s photography series of animals in motion (ca.1866), The Four Riders is a video installation that deconstructs horses’ anatomy into massive landscapes of moving flesh.

14:30-15:00 THEATER TALK: Lab Grown Futures / Designing the food and materials of the future

by Patrick Niall, Creative Director, ForPeople

With a population approaching 10 Billion by the second half of this century, and a likely increase in global temperatures of around 2°C, the way we live together will face fundamental and unprecedented challenges.

Rather than looking to Mars, or digging deeper in the Earth, potential solutions can be found on a much, much smaller scale. A global movement of scientific creators are turning to proteins and microorganisms as a source for sustainable and impactful solutions— using these building blocks to reshape how we eat, how we build, and how we recycle the world around us.

Are microbes the factories of the future? Would you eat a lab-grown burger? How far should a mozzarella stretch? Is all of this natural? Does it even matter?

At forpeople we've been navigating the human questions around a new frontier of bio-production, and trying to understand how design, branding, and strategy can bridge the divide between lab and living room. Come and join us for some microbial musings.

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15:00-15:30 THEATER TALK AND DEMONSTRATION: "Nat Land” (wetland)
by Max Degen (ArtEZ, Product Design, BA (2022))

Designer, researcher and (stop-motion) filmmaker MaxDegen graduated cumlaude from the product design department at ArtEZ Arnhem. In line with the theme of his graduation work "Nat Land" (wetland), he will talk about the role of water in climate adaptation in the Netherlands and the importance of good (visual)storytelling within scientific research dealing with urgent topics such as climate change.

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15:30-16:00 THEATER TALK AND DEMONSTRATION: "Uit de Meterkast”
by Rosalie Apituley (ArtEZ, Product Design, BA (2022))

In a fifteen minute presentation, Rosalie will demonstrate her graduation project about our daily interaction with energy. Afterwards there is time for debate/questions.

"As a child, people told me to turn off the light whenever I left a room, because I should think of the polar bears. However, it always remained rather unclear how the polar bears at the North Pole would actually benefit from me flipping my light switch."

Rosalie made her graduation project about visualising our daily energy use. She was frustrated by the fact she didn’t understand anything about energy, while at the same time, being very dependent on it. She started wondering: “Why do we actually hide the meters in the meterbox in the hallway? Why don’t we start living with them?”

Her collection consists of two lamps, a redesigned meter box for the public space and a short animation. All objects work as energy meters. The collection forms a manifest for a prepaid infrastructure for our energy use, like we used to have in the past. She believes by returning to a ‘prepaid system’, we will find back our sense for quantities like KiloWatthours, that we have lost, due to technological developments.

16:00-17:00 INTRODUCTION TALK: BOWS AND ARROWS

by THOMAS RAVESTEIN

Inspired by the ingenuity of the many cultures around the world Thomas Ravestein makes traditional bows and arrows with efficient use of local natural materials that are nowadays often overlooked and seen as waste such as firewood, garden clippings, weeds, rubble and empty bottles. In this talk Thomas Ravestein demonstrates through the example of bows and arrows from different cultures and time periods how environmental factors determine a certain design and how in modern times a self-imposed dogma can help to make a product more authentic.
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While now primarily reduced to one of many sports disciplines, archery plays a role in the history of almost any culture. Thomas Ravestein aims to let people experience archery in its historical and anthropological context. With professional guidance from Thomas Ravestein participants in this workshop can practice shooting a historically authentic bow and arrow.

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17:30-18:00 THEATRE TALK: NOVO TYPO OFFGRID PROJECT

by Mark van Wageningen

Can graphic designers recycle their own work? Can graphic designers be self-sufficient?

Mark van Wageningen / Novo Typo present its return to the three fundamental elements of analogue graphic design: letters, ink and paper.  The Offgrid Color Harmony Models is a reflection on on how to destandardize and autonomize graphic design in order to be truly self-sufficient.

Based on the core idea that a typographic design studio that designs and produces its own letters should also be able to make its own ink and paper. Novo Typo Offgrid shows how we can produce our own locally sourced plant- and mineral based inks, in order to create our own color harmony model.

On the background of this exercise lies the need to face a global overly complex system of production, supply chains and restrictive industrial standards, that have shown their dangerous disruptive effects.

The Novo Typo Offgrid project is designed and produced during the lockdown and is executed within close proximity to Novo Typo’s Amsterdam studio. The designed products; Offgrid Color Harmony Models and Amsterdam Pulp Paper are available for purchase. The entire project is documented in the book Novo Typo Offgrid.

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18:00-19:00 THEATRE SCREENINGS: SHORT FILMS BY HERTOG NADLER
and also from 13:00 to 14:00

Chaja Hertog (Amsterdam, 1978) & Nir Nadler (Haifa, 1977) are an Amsterdam based artist duo, operating across disciplines of visual arts, performance, and film. Coming from different backgrounds – Europe and the Middle East – their collaboration combines two approaches into a single vision that embraces contradiction. In their work, Hertog Nadler often explore relations between the natural and the artificial, between politics and poetics; often combined with physicality, humour and the passage of time.

The following short films will be screening in our theatre:

Harvest - Short film, 11:09 min.
An abnormal phenomenon in an olive grove draws riot police to suppress the uprising. Inspired by the ancient olive harvesting method in which aggression and cultivation come together, the film portrays the absurdity of enforced ideologies.

Nation for Two -Short film, 15:16min. 
A man and a woman dig their way towards each other from two remote locations.Their subterranean journeys pass through a wide collage of natural and urban landscapes and address the absurdity of land borders. 

The Four Riders- 4-channel video installation, 07:52 min.Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s photography series of animals in motion (ca.1866), The Four Riders is a video installation that deconstructs horses’ anatomy into massive landscapes of moving flesh.

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