GLUE Amsterdam connected by design” offers the city a three-day design route. From Thursday, September 15th through Saturday, September 17th, 2022, GLUE will literally bind parties from the flourishing Amsterdam creative scene.
Contact – House of Creators – bridges the gap when it comes to conceptualizing, designing and concrete development. Not by adding more stuff to the pile, but according to our recently developed critical making framework.
More than 30 members of the Contact community present their work, using this recently developed framework, as part of a large group exhibition in our central hallway. There will be interesting speakers by leading ‘critical making’ authorities, workshops, and the opportunity to meet your favourite artist or designer in their studio.
GLUE Amsterdam connected by design” offers the city a three-day design route. From Thursday, September 15th through Saturday, September 17th, 2022, GLUE will literally bind parties from the flourishing Amsterdam creative scene.
Contact – House of Creators – bridges the gap when it comes to conceptualizing, designing and concrete development. Not by adding more stuff to the pile, but according to our recently developed critical making framework.
More than 30 members of the Contact community present their work, using this recently developed framework, as part of a large group exhibition in our central hallway. There will be interesting speakers by leading ‘critical making’ authorities, workshops, and the opportunity to meet your favourite artist or designer in their studio.
10:00-19:00 EXHIBITIONS / OPEN STUDIOS
CONTACT BUILDING
ALISON SAREN / ATELIER KROUWEL / ATELIER WOLFSON / BEELDREIZIGER / BUREAU AAT / CIRCUFORM / COWERK / DEBORAH APOL / DENNIS KONIJNENBURG / DHIREN RAO / FORPEOPLE / FRANÇOIS DUMAS / HANS ARETS / HERTOG NADLER / HOUT&MOS / ILIAS ERNST / INSIDE STUDIO / JOLANTA IZABELA PAWLAK / JORIS WINTGENS / KARTENT / KITTY DE GROOT / LFTOVR / MAX DEGEN / MIU WATANABE / NOVO TYPO / OLIVIER FOCK / OSSO / ROSALIE APITULEY / SIETO VAN DER SCHEER / STUDIO CHING-HUI YANG / TOEL / THOMAS RAVESTEIN / TRUE TONE / VICTIMO STUDIO / VINCENT RUIJTERS / WIWO.STUDIO / WOUTER VAN SAUS / ZSOFIA TOROK
10:00-01:00 EXHIBITIONS / MUSIC / DRINKS & BITES / AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION by wiwo.studio / OPEN STUDIOS
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
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We start with why we want to make it, rather than how and what we want to make. Before we develop a new product, we must research if it already exists, and if it does, how we can make it better.
We care for people and planet, always checking the source of resources. A product journey is often complex. That’s why we care about where to buy our raw materials. Whenever possible we source everything from the EU market. Making sure that the people who are producing our materials have a fair wage.
We believe in the power of collective knowledge. As we all know, two brains are better than one. And that’s where design sharing and prototyping comes in. We believe that collective knowledge help to make products that suits the end user better.
We are practicing local making with local material as much as possible. Whenever possible, we built our products in-house. We try to keep production within the borders of the Netherlands, and if not within the EU.
After an idea has been doctored out, a prototype or proof of concept is done at Contact. Then extensive testing with the end user is carried out, and through iteration we bring the product to the highest possible standard.
We focus on establishing zero environmental impact. Figuring out the right production or processing method for materials is key. How can you design your product while using a minimum of recourses?
We may go open source, and document our work on a version-controlled system (Github). For the hardcore open-source believers. One can create an account on a version-controlled system and open-source the project, covered by a creative commons license. This can create a chain reaction and contributing community. Remember the story of the Linux operating system?
GLUE FESTIVAL PARTY ON FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER!
Join us for a festive evening at Contact Amsterdam with:
Happy hour from 6 to 8pm
Pizzas and snacks from LFTOVR
DJ set & live music until 1am
And ANIMA, presented in preview in Amsterdam in our theatre - an art installation by Nick Verstand in collaboration with onformative, Salvador Breed and wiwo.studio.
FREE ENTRANCE
CONTACTWEG 47, 1014 AN, AMSTERDAM