Exhibition
AUTO: Media Technology MSc exhibition
- Date
- Friday 7 December 2018 - Saturday 22 December 2018
- Location
- Old School
Pieterskerkhof 4-A
2311 SR Leiden
Invitation AUTO
Come, and immerse yourself in autogenous authenticity, autopia, or in some arbitrary autodestruction!
The Media Technology MSc program proudly invites you to this year’s semester project exhibition with the title AUTO. We are a creative research masters within Leiden University's Computer Science Department and encourage students to develop alternative approaches to academic research. Scientific explorations include the creation of installations, games and other forms of experiences. These practices are showcased every year within the scope of the semester project exhibition. This year, the exhibition’s theme is AUTO, with each individual exhibited work having its own auto-related sub-theme.
Exhibition
We have chosen ‘AUTO’ as global theme for this year’s semester project. From this global theme we derived multiple sub-themes: Autodestructive, Authentic, Arbitrary, Autocreation, Autopia, Autogenous, Autoregulation and Autogenesis. The students work in groups of three and two, each with their own sub-theme.
The semester project has three phases. First, students are asked to explore their theme in the broadest sense (social, mathematical, biological, etc.) and discover what it could possibly relate to. After gaining sufficient insight they formulate compelling statements related to the theme. Only once this stage is completed they translate their statements into installations. Together these installations form the semester project exhibition.
Exhibition Host: Old School
The host for this year’s exhibition is Old School in Leiden. Old School is a flourishing cultural initiative located right next to the Pieterskerk. It is a gallery, an intimate cinema, a cozy theater and a coffee bar in one, a place that shares the same creative and exploring approach as we do.
Exhibition Dates
Free admission. The exhibition is divided in two periods:
December 7, 8 and 9 the works are exhibited as ‘preview’ from 11:00-18:00. This means the students can still make small changes and learn from the audience’s reactions.
The final works are exhibited December 14, 15, 16, 21 and 22 from 11:00-18:00.
Exhibition Opening
The formal opening of the exhibition takes place on Thursday, December 13th at 17:00 hours and lasts till 20:00 with a ceremonial event at 17:30.
Events Parallel to the Exhibition
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On Saturday December 15th two Media Technology MSc alumni will speak about how they came to do what they do now.
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On Sunday December 16th Maarten Lamers will give a lecture on Artificial Creativity and its historical context.
Free admission, registration by e-mail. - On Friday December 21st we have the honor to present two lectures by Simon Kirby, professor of language evolution at University of Edinburgh. The first lecture 'Cultural Evolution in the Lab shows how Language is Built' will be about his work in academia, the second 'Robotic Wardrobes and Forgetful Musicians: how a Cognitive Scientist Ended up Making Device Art' on his work in art including the FOUND collective.
Free admission, registration by e-mail. Please note: these lectures are held in the Gravensteen building, around the corner of Old School where drinks, before, in between and after the lectures are served.
Summary exhibition and events AUTO
| Date in December | Time | Activity |
| Friday 7th | 11:00 - 18:00 | Preview exhibition |
| Saturday 8th | 11:00 - 18:00 | Preview exhibition |
| Sunday 9th | 11:00 - 18:00 | Preview exhibition |
| Thursday 13th | 17:00 - 20:00 | Opening |
| Friday 14th | 11:00 - 18:00 | Exhibition |
| Saturday 15th | 11:00 - 18:00 |
Exhibition |
| 15:00 |
Alumni event |
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| Sunday 16th | 11:00 - 18:00 |
Exhibition |
| 14:00-16:15 |
Lecture by Maarten Lamers |
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| Friday 21st | 11:00 - 18:00 | Exhibition |
| 13.30 - 14.30 | Lecture I by Simon Kirby | |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Lecture II by Simon Kirby | |
| Saturday 22nd | 11:00 - 18:00 | Exhibition |