The Medialab offers students a place to work, experiment with digital media, and gather knowledge. It is meant for all students to study, concentrate, collaborate, experiment, screenings and generally feel well.
Medialab’s staff organizes and facilitates workshops, lectures and events as well as audiovisual equipment rentals and technical production of exhibited works during the Sandberg Year Opening, Open Sandberg, Sandberg Graduation and various other exhibitions and presentations of the Sandberg students.
Zoom with Special Effects - a workshop by Lotje van Lieshout and MediaLab SI
16:00-17:00
During the Sandberg Institute Open Day 2021
Media Lab are livestreaming from the MediaLab Garden
The end of the academic year has arrived!!
Since we can't make a physical Glass Pavilion party, we'll make it in the Virtual Glass Pavilion together with Symbyosys!
The Virtual Glass Pavilion is an initiative that started after the cancellation of all the events due to Covid-19 restrictions.
We'll be celebrating all the beautiful events we've had in the past year in the Glass Pavilion, and the birth of a new digital platform that will continue to function from next year.
By Brian McKenna with guest speaker
Thursday 13 December, 10:00-18:00
by Ivo van Stiphout
Tuesday 4 December, 14:00-17:00
by Lotje van Lieshout, alumni Main Department Fine Arts (2007-2009) & Ineke Bakker
by Brian Mckenna
Sunday 1 November, 10:00-18:00
by Jan-Kees van Kampen
Monday 29 October, 18:00-21:00 (part 1/2)
Monday 5 November, 18:00-21:00 (part 2/2)
by Renée van Trier, alumni Main Department Fine Arts (2008-2010) and Ineke Bakker
Thursday 18 October
In this workshop we try to peel the layers to get to the core of an idea and create a sound or image piece.
Brian McKenna
Enrico Garzaro
Ineke Bakker
Ivo van Stiphout
Jan Kees van Kampen
Lauren Fong
BC basement + BC 5th floor
Zoom with Special Effects - a workshop by Lotje van Lieshout and MediaLab SI
Since the outbreak of the pandemic and everyone having to work from home we've entered the era of video calling. In this workshop we want you to rethink this medium. Could Zoom not only be used as a communication medium, but also an Art medium? Could a video call be art?
This idea, of course, is not new. Net Art emerged in the 1990s when artists found that the internet was a useful tool to promote their art uninhibited by political, social or cultural constraints. Sites like MySpace, YouTube and Instagram have become forums for art, enabling artists to exhibit their work without the help of an institution. This way of sharing your art outside of the realm of museums and galleries started already in the 1950's and 60's. The Mail Art Movement was initially started by the Fluxus movement and the New York Correspondance School. They mailed small collages, prints of abstract drawings and poems to art world notables. What once served as an alternative to the over commercialized and consumerist art market, is not so alternative or underground anymore.
This workshop asks for a fresh approach. Can we get loose from the dictated ways how to use the software? Can we use Zoom for nonverbal expressions instead of conference calls? Can we make something original and genuine using Snapchat filters? Can we manipulate the recordings of our laptop's camera with household items, like a desk lamp, a mirror and an empty jar? We will find out in this workshop. We will look at trendy digital apps as well as classic analogue special effects invented by the pioneers of film in the early 1900's.
The workshop will take place during two days and will be 4 hours long each day. The students will be given 8 exercises that they can do from home and share the results with the other participants on Zoom. Either as a prerecorded video or as a live streamed performance.
Programme:
Day 1: 1. Lighting and camera position / 2. Green screen / 3. Analogue filters / 4. Split screen
Day 2: 5. Forced perspective/ 6. Mirrors / 7. Sound effects / 8. Digital filters
Dates:
Workshop A:
Day 1: Monday 15. February 14:00-18:00
Day 2: Wednesday 17. February 18:00-22:00
Workshop B:
Day 1: Tuesday 2. March 18:00-22:00
Day 2: Friday 5. March 14:00-18:00
Subscribe for Workshop A before Saturday 13 February, and for Workshop B before Saturday 27 February.
Subscribe by sending a mail to: ineke.bakker@sandberg.nl
Minimum 6, maximum 14 participants
To participate you will need a computer with a camera and Zoom installed.
Unfortunately a smartphone or tablet with Zoom will not work.
After subscription we will send you a list with 'household items' that you can start to collect and a list of free software that you can use for the assignments.
The best results of this workshop will be part of the exhibition 'Mirror/ Mirror. Reflect yourself' in Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort.
