This event will be Dutch. Please contact MU Play&Learn if you are interested in educational activities surrounding the Poetics of Prompting expo in English or other languages: educatie@mu.nl.If you would like to sign up for the TeachersMeet@MU, please...
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Current generative AI has us used to crafting text prompts. What if our movements and gestures became the language we use to communicate with AI? In this event, we’re exploring a future of “Motion Prompting”. What will happen when AI...
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Celebrate the festive opening of Poetics of Prompting with us!Language has shaped the Internet from its very beginnings. But with the rise of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney, which are built on large language models, digital takes...
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What if creating and carrying out artistic expressions are not just ways to achieve goals, but also ways to break free from fixed habits and identities? Such liberation offers the opportunity to become something or someone entirely new.Join Current...
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What happens when science meets art and ecology meets music? On Thursday, September 12, Ernst Reijseger will perform live within the TRANSMISSION exhibition at MU.TRANSMISSION by Amsterdam-based collective Touki Delphine visualizes the mycelium network—the hidden web of...
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Are you between 6-12 years old? Tell your favourite grown-up and join one of our Open Morning workshops during the Hackers & Designers Summer Camp 2024. On several mornings and on the weekend, the camping grounds will be opened for visitors for...
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Are you between 6-12 years old? Tell your favourite grown-up and join one of our Open Morning workshops during the Hackers & Designers Summer Camp 2024. On several mornings and on the weekend, the camping grounds will be opened for visitors for...
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Are you between 6-12 years old? Tell your favourite grown-up and join one of our Open Morning workshops during the Hackers & Designers Summer Camp 2024. On several mornings and on the weekend, the camping grounds will be opened for visitors for...
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Are you between 6-12 years old? Tell your favourite grown-up and join one of our Open Morning workshops during the Hackers & Designers Summer Camp 2024. On several mornings and on the weekend, the camping grounds will be opened for visitors for...
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Are you between 6-12 years old? Tell your favourite grown-up and join one of our Open Morning workshops during the Hackers & Designers Summer Camp 2024. On several mornings and on the weekend, the camping grounds will be opened for visitors for...
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Are you between 6-12 years old? Tell your favourite grown-up and join one of our Open Morning workshops during the Hackers & Designers Summer Camp 2024. On several mornings and on the weekend, the camping grounds will be opened for visitors for...
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Celebrate with us the grand opening of our two new exhibitions: Hulda, Lilli & The Roach and TRANSMISSION!Hulda, Lilli & The Roach by Maija TammiThey are called Hulda & Lilli, and simply by giving them a name you feel closer to them. Hulda & Lilli are a...
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On the last afternoon of WOMBTOMBS, MU Hybrid Art House invites artists Ginevra Petrozzi and Cecilia Casabona to stage one of their Funerals for Digital Data. With this performance they re-enchant and restore our relationship with the internet and technology by...
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On Sunday June 16, we will bid farewell to the WOMBTOMBS exhibition. However, it will be a memorable one. For the last time, artist Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti will perform one of her mourning ceremonies in the heart of the exhibition....
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Who Will Win The BAD Award 2024????Twelve teams of artists/designers & scientists are competing again this year for the Bio Art & Design Awards. All will pitch their grand plans on Friday 7 June, first to the jury in the...
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After their first successful edition FAUXBIA Collective will again present eight designers with non-EU backgrounds on June 6. Their performative narration W(here!)? reflects on a shared narrative, questioning ‘What is left behind?’ The performance creates a sonic anthology by mixing repeating voices and echoing sounds. Within...
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How do we grieve over the loss of things, of humans and non-humans, or of whole species even, alone or collectively? During WOMBTOMBS, visitors can participate in mourning and swaddling rituals.Hidden in the exhibition, artists Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot and Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti...
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On May 16 and June 6, FAUXBIA Collective presents eight designers with non-EU backgrounds. Their performative narration W(here!)? reflects on a shared narrative, questioning ‘What is left behind?’ The performance creates a sonic anthology by mixing repeating voices and echoing sounds. Within the silent moments,...
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Celebrate with us the festive opening of TRANSMISSION!Far from the noise of the surface, where humans and technology call the shots, lurks an underground world full of life and cooperation. Here, plants, organisms and fungi whisper undisturbed in their own language. Amsterdam-based collective ...
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You are invited to celebrate the festive opening of WOMBTOMBS by Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot at MU Hybrid Art House.Cocoons like bandaged shelters suspended in an undulating landscape with hidden small pools. The landscape is an in-between space, a bardo, of dust that...
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"More and more cultural institutions and creators are initiating a digital transformation. To do this successfully, an institution also needs an environment that encourages and advances this fundamentally different way of working. ", said Maaike Verberk, director DEN. DEN is the...
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This intergenerational event will be in Dutch. For English programs, please contact educatie@mu.nl...
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The live performance of re-c(O)unting: self-exploring bodies, stories, laboratories, was one of the highlights of this year Bio Art and Design exhibition Plotting Patterns and Portals. This @bad__award 2023 winning project by @pavamere.la and @ellahbndnz in collaboration with @joris.koene took full attention of...
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When Karel van Laere attended a six-hour surgery in a hospital, he saw surgeons using very precise laparoscopic instruments. In the heat of the moment, they made vital decisions hanging above the body, talking as they determined how much flesh to cut...
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Are you an adventurous sci-fi fan, always looking out for ufo's and the latest extraterrestrial blockbuster? Are you then also prepared to completely turn your perspective around and get closer to your inner aliens for once? But our imagination of aliens is largely...
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This event will be in Dutch. For English educational programs, please contact educatie@mu.nl...
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POV: It’s 2024. Winter has come, and along with it the seasonal zombies. You might not mind the whole planet shutting down until this ghastly Dutch weather passes, but instead people barely blink as COVID19 infections become commonplace again. Is...
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This program is in Dutch. If you are interested in English spoken events or educational activities regarding this topic, please contact educatie@mu.nl for possibilities....
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When Karel van Laere attended a six-hour surgery in a hospital, he saw surgeons using very precise laparoscopic instruments. In the heat of the moment, they made vital decisions hanging above the body, talking as they determined how much flesh...
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With PLOTTING PATTERNS & PORTALS. Mapping life and landscapes, past and future, MU gives all its space to international leading bio art & design, for the tenth time in a row.From December 15 onwards, the three teams of...
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Forgetting time while dancing. Not as an escape, but as a treat, sipping a Dark N Stormy or a Pink Roses cocktail. That's what we will be doing on Friday 27 October together with the tireless MAISON the FAUX.Where almost...
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How does an ambitious creative studio get through a tough time like the corona crisis? Filmmaker Anduo Lucia followed MAISON the FAUX from 2019 to 2021 with his camera, recording how their grand plans for international projects were suddenly stifled...
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This event is dutch. Please contact the educational team for inquiries in English: educatie@mu.nl photo by Boudewijn Bollmann...
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For this special occasion (De Popronde) 5ETRA will perform her music in the setting of MAISON the FAUX Timeless Time installation. 5ETRA's dramatic songs tell the story behind suppressed desires and the ultimate release of finally letting her fire to burn.Performance...
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You are invited to celebrate the festive opening of TIMELESSTIME by MAISON the FAUX. Do we lose or gain time with the passing of the years? Is mortality on our heels or do we just think it is? Does physical deterioration only make...
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Not unlike a relay race, 25 artists have passed the spaces of MU Hybrid Art House to each other over the past four months under the motto Hybrid Tales For Hybrid Times. This gave audiences a fluid taste of seemingly disparate...
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What moves humankind? In the multi-year art project Motus Mori, Katja Heitmann collects and preserves human movement. Since 2019, more than 1,000 people have already donated their personal movement to this embodied archive, an ever-growing foundation from which the choreographer...
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On Saturday July 22nd from 14:00 - 16:00 performance group Zwermers will have an open studio in their space in our exhibition ‘Hybrid Tales For Hybrid Times’...
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Rhetorical Bodies is a collaborative extended reality (XR) installation by Paula Strunden. It virtually connects two dancing bodies, translating their movements into sounds and transforming their physical forms into interactive embodied synthesizers. Through this immersive XR experience, you can explore the...
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Our digital age has accelerated life to no end. In nanoseconds, we can access anything we want to know, interact with anyone, and create new worlds. You might think we have gained control over time, but have we? On the...
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Join us at MU for an afternoon of street art and photography with Martha Cooper. We will screen her documentary Martha: A Picture Story and have an in-depth conversation about her work, her life and 'Repainting Subway Art' by Tripl/Furious,...
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The Drag/Gametheatre group "Queer Arcana" hosts a mass theatre exercise where they, together with the audience, will create the story of a real Dungeons and Dragons game theatre show, by using Mentimeter! The unknowing drag performers from Queer Arcana will theatrically improvise their...
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On Saturday, June 10th, from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm, Repainting Subway Art - Tripl / Furious will have a soft launch with bar. Entrance is free, so be among the first to attend!More information on Repainting Subway...
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Want to know which three teams of artists & scientists will win this year’s Bio Art & Design Awards of 25.000 euro each? And do you also want to give your opinion on which of the other proposals deserves the...
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Many people are familiar with having a part-time job and this is especially true for students, recent graduates and most of the members of the Vis-à-Visa collective. To start a conversation the collective members invite their co-workers from their...
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In collaboration with the Vis-à-Visa collective, Lawyer Susanne Mooij gives a lecture on how to get an artist visa. Afterwards artists WAEW and Pete Fung share their experiences with getting their visas.During this event the collective...
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A theatrical experience in a parallel universe where sexuality is a choice.Queertopia is a conversion machine; no matter what your sexual preference is when you enter, you come out as queer. Because sexual preference is a choice. At least,...
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In their newest book Against Ageism A Queer Manifesto, Simon(e) van Saarloos weaves a wealth of militant sex-liberationist, afrofuturist, transfeminist, and decolonial imaginaries into their anti-ageist sails. Today, neoliberal societies increasingly render the proletarian "elderly" not...
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Come celebrate the festive opening of Hybrid Tales For Hybrid Times, featuring a performance by Ariah Lester. You are welcome from 7.30pm at MU Hybrid Art House, entrance is 5 euros including a free drink.[edit] Thanks everyone for coming to...
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This weekend MU is adding additional content and engaging depth to the exhibition Beyond Borders and Binaries with a public program consisting of lectures, film and workshops. Friday evening, March 24thCurator and writer Ariane Koek, founder of Arts at CERN has made...
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Take a seat in a shiny racing chair, get hooked on to an AI-system and take the controller. It’s time to fly off into three dimensions of Spectral Plain. Let's explore and build new cosmologies. Spectral Plain the interactive game-installation strikes down...
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70 minutesStudio Dries Verhoeven, together with MU, presents an exclusive screening of the documentary 'The recruitment' in which theater maker and visual artist Dries Verhoeven travels to Bulgaria in search of migrant workers who want to sing in his performance Brothers exalt...
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This event is Dutch spoken. For educational enquiries, please contact educatie@mu.nl...
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Think and imagine beyond existing boundaries and binary devisions in Beyond Borders and Binaries, on show at MU from the opening at December 16 from 20.00. The exhibition, dedicated to the Bio Art & Design Award 2022, shows work by...
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In Drawing an Atlas of Queer Anatomy, designer Kuang-Yi Ku and scientist Henry de Vries introduce us to their re-examining of the existing anatomical textbook ‘Atlas of Human Anatomy’ drawn by Frank H. Netter (1906-1991), a white male scholar, as...
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Building Dialogue is a collective role game in which players and an audience surrounding them immerse themselves in a provocative scenario and are guided to question the status quo of today's world. The aim is to offer the participants a...
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When it comes to the Bio Art & Design Award, we usually look ahead: we look at what the future of Bio Art & Design can be. Now, however, we have a reason to have a festive look back. Discover ten...
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Come and swing onsite & online with your avatar on invitation of The Hmm, affect lab and MU Hybrid Art House as a part of the Innovatielabs research program Toolkit for the Inbetween. Get your tickets here.Can...
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This performance is in EnglishHow much control should we be able to exert over an unborn child? Or over the body that carries an unborn child? And what does family mean when rapidly developing reproductive technologies - such as in vitro...
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‘Let’s be beatific in our leaky and limitless contagion. Usurp the body. Become your avatar,’ writer and curator Legacy Russell writes in her book Glitch Feminism. She describes the possibilities that digital tools have opened up for queer identity and...
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Dreaming Release: artist/activist Bambi van Balen and singer/performer OTION invite you to a collective dance—not standing up but lying downWith Dreaming Release artist/activist Bambi van Balen and singer/performer OTION invite you to a collective dance - not standing up but...
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As a smashing ending to the exhibition MOVE ! and a prelude to a new cultural season, MU offers a number of exciting programs during the weekend of 16 to 18 September. On Friday night 16 September, MU welcomes MOVE ! co-curator Jess Øberlin and her PLASMA...
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SAVE THE DATE! FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER ITS PLASMA LIVE!19.30 doors open20.00 start MOVE ! X PLASMA session21.30 start PLASMA DJ CollectiveFor the last weekend of MOVE ! Body Politics in Motion MU teams up with PLASMA for a deep dive...
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Sorry - this event is in Dutch! If you'd like to receive some info about our educational program in English, please contact us via educatie@mu.nl....
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From Saturday 3 to Sunday 4 September, the very first edition of De Nacht van Strijp-S (The Night of Strijp-S) takes place: drop by for 24-hours packed with music, performances and art at Strijp-S, and a market with vintage & food...
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MU zooms in on the liberating power of the dancing body this summer with MOVE ! Body Politics in Motion, which opens on Friday 8 July from 20.00. From rave to ballroom, from peepshow to festival, from TikTok to street parade; how and where...
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Get mesmerized by their performances and let's move to the beats of YaYa Bones, SOUL VENUXX, sWitches en Ibelisse Guardia Ferraguttiand, as an energetic offering to Mother Earth. Making music for the body, mind, soul and most of all: the soil. For one...
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The BAD is BACK! After a year of radio silence, the Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award 2022 is back. And how! No less than 5 partners from Brabant - besides MU also BioArt Laboratories, Dutch Design Foundation, Next Nature...
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Let’s invite the sacred back into the land during the EARTH FUNGUS BLESSING prayer-performance with Diva-Priestesses Jasper Griepink and Victoria McKenzie. While soil will be inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi in a ritual that fuses science and the sacred, the artists...
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What does it mean to be an artist-activist, to align and connect the personal–political–aesthetic? How can we understand or re-interpret our world as nature, instead of nature disconnected from the world? And is soil sacred? Join artist Jasper Griepink, eco-warrior...
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Meet Me @ MU is in Dutch. If you are interested in visiting MU with your students, please contact us via educatie@mu.nl....
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Friday 13 May, the exhibition EARTHSHRINE: Sensing Sacred Soils opens at MU.The lush touch of earth; the taste, the smell of dirt before it was dirty. Sensing beyond the prophecies of doom (rising seas, exhaustion, extinction), art-bard and modern-day druid...
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Together with The Hmm and affect lab, MU experiments with hybrid cultural experiences and meaningful interactions between the physical and digital audience, thanks to the programme Innovatielabs. The knowledge gained will be shared in the Toolkit for the Inbetween,...
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The event will be in Dutch. Are you a teacher / educator and do you want to visit MU with your students? Contact educatie@mu.nl....
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The BAD Award is back and the Call is open!Are you a recently graduated artist/designer interested in bio art & design? Do you have a creative, mind-blowing idea that pushes the boundaries between art and science? And would you like...
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The new exhibition is up and running and our doors are open again: reason enough for a little opening party! On Friday 11 February from 20.00, we'd like to toast to Spiraling into Infinity.19.30: doors open | 20.00: Welcome by Children...
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The coming weeks our doors will be closed. Luckily, there is still plenty to see and hear from outside. Bring your phone and headphones, scan the QR code on the window and let the sleepers take you along a dreamed reality. You...
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Following the current COVID-19 measures, MU is closed from Sunday 19 December till at least 14 January 2022. This means the sleep ceremony will be cancelled. We hope to welcome you soon again in the new year!Sleeping is an elusive activity...
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Sleeping is an elusive activity in which reality and reason are abandoned. Could we see the associative stream of images that proceeds in our subconscious at night as a source of wisdom? According to performance duo Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot, it might be...
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What knowledge about ourselves and our place on this earth is hidden in our subconscious? Is there a source of wisdom hidden in the dream world? During the Fremdkörper Special on Saturday 11 December, we dive deeper into the world...
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It is time again for GLOW, Eindhoven's annual light art festival. Till Saturday 13 November, national and international artists will light up the dark fall nights at four different locations: besides the city centre, Campina and the TUe site, Strijp S...
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Lately the Dutch design field got enriched with two important figures: Aric Chen as new director of Het Nieuwe Instituut and Francesco Veenstra as new government architect. Both will visit DDW to spot the latest developments in the Dutch design field....
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During Dutch Design Week, the designers of SMELT & the performers of The Performance Bar take over the MU container in Plug in City. They present a brand-new science: Roesologie - which might best be translated as ‘trance-ology’,...
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It's in our Nature is about rediscovering how we can be one with nature. What’s it like to design and collaborate using living organisms? How do we establish an ethical and balanced collaboration, and what skills do we need in order...
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Mapping Typology: the decision to not do something is a workshop in which Atelier NL, together with MU, reveals the wonders of the everyday and the local. Atelier NL specialises in transforming everyday environments by shifting perspectives. As a participant, you...
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In the era of information (overload), it becomes harder and harder to analyse and question the influence that comes along with what we consume. As a response to this paralysing and overwhelming influx, the students of Critical Inquiry Lab (Design...
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How does our judgement whether something is valuable or not change, now that almost every imaginable product is within reach?The rise of mass production in the 20th century has changed the way we relate to our products. When something stops...
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Sunday 17 October at 13.30, the Hara Hachi Bu village officially opens with a Gentle Disco in collaboration with Mediamatic. Enter the mycelium dancefloor and - very gently - press the mycelium bricks whilst dancing slowly to some...
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Would you like to dive deeper into the DDW21 theme The Greater Number? Then join us for The Greater Number Sessions at MU: in-depth talks with surprising line-up of speakers, organized by DDW. Each session is dedicated to a different...
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During DDW you can visit the Hara Hachi Bu village: a circle of second-hand garden sheds, refurbished and ready for a second life. Not grand, not geared towards more, but towards together. A space to practice taking a step back....
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During DDW, the roesologists of SMELT & The Performance Bar will take over the MU container in Plug in City, where they will present a brand-new science: the roesologie - which might best be translated as ‘trance-ology’...
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We stand at the dawn of a new science. The discipline of synthetic biology promises to make us architects of the living world. Multiple futures are possible. The choices we make now about how, when and why we design nature...
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This year, MU is joining forces with Romaeuropa. Visit the multi-disciplinary art festival – live in Rome or online via various talks and performances – and experience the works by Coralie Vogelaar, Mara Oscar Cassiani, Fuse* and Umanesimo Artificiale in the framework of...
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It’s almost time for the very first experimental, hybrid event by The Hmm : the inclusive platform for internet cultures. Thursday 9 September, 8 guests will take us along the world of emotions and technology in the context of MU’s...
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How documentary makers relate to the world they document is changing - due to the use of new technologies, changing social relations, experimental ways of storytelling and multidisciplinary practices. Journalism becomes intimately entangled with art, design and activism. The two...
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With Digital Esoterism, Ginevra Petrozzi investigates the role of witchcraft, divination, magic and fate in the digital age. Traditionally, the magic art of foreseeing the future allowed agency over an intangible, mysterious future impossible to control. A sneak peek into...
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At Strijp-S, you’ll find a small, concrete building that at first sight seems to be a mix between a public toilet and a pharmacy. As you step inside, you are welcomed by a humanoid: a human-looking robot.She runs this illicit...
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Thursday 29 July, MU invites artist Robert Glas and jurist & writer Maxim Februari to talk about the video installation 'Afwezigheid van Alle Schuld' (Absence of All Guilt). After the film screening, Glas and Februari will discuss the many and...
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KONT, the annual magazine and at the same time nomadic, artistic vehicle based in Eindhoven, will present the premiere of its documentary 'Staying With The Tides / Bij De Getijden Blijven' at MU. The title of the documentary is...
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Immuno-ecology is an imaginary field of study thought up by Sissel Marie Tonn (BAD Award winner 2020), inspired by her collaboration with ecotoxicologist/chemist Heather Leslie and immunologist Juan Garcia Vallejo. During their collaborative process of creating the science-fiction...
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In Real Live Thursdays #1: Oxygen DebtPut on your sportswear and get ready for an hour of sweating in MU during the philosophical spinning class Oxygen Debt, training both body and soul. Together with Luit Bakker as your tireless...
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RESERVE A TIME SLOTReal Feelings is now officially open for real people! Of course we’d like to celebrate that, but unfortunately we’re not allowed to throw an opening party yet. Still, we don't want to let this...
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The performative VR experience Symbiosis transports you 200 years into the future. To a post-human world that has been radically altered by climate change and in which Homo sapiens have been absorbed into a biotope teeming with...
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Attention art educators! MU’s De Creatieve Code, Nieuwe Veste and Makersbase organize an online inspiration session about cross-curricular tech education. The event takes place on 30 March from 15.00 – 17.00 and will be in Dutch. Click...
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Every Thursday, LKCA presents LKCAtelier: an online knowledge sharing session, in which a different topic will be discussed each time. Thursday 4 March, MU and STRP are invited to talk about a learning ecosystem and creative education in...
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Join the Center for Genomic Gastronomy on Thursday 21 January from 20.00 (19:00 for our friends in the UK) on Zoom for a 1-hour live meal and conversation, exploring recipes from a post-Brexit food system. Guests to the Brexit Banquet are...
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Save the date! Despite the pandemic, the culture sector in Eindhoven is certainly not standing still. To support the makers in the city and to let the residents of Eindhoven discover what we have in store for them, the cultural...
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It's that time of the year again... MU hosts its highly acclaimed yearly Bio Art & Design exhibition. From Friday 11 December till Sunday 7 March 2021, Evolutionaries will be on show. Even, or maybe especially, in times of a global pandemic it is crucial...
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Dive into the world of self-malleability during In Real Live Sundays, when participating artist in The Self Design Academy are present in MU and their works are 'live' - both on-and offline. Visit the bff's Hanneke & Nadiah, follow the course...
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Take off your sweatpants and put on your prettiest outfit for an overstimulating evening dedicated to our endless search for dopamine. After two weeks of lockdown, it’s time for the DIGIDOPAMINE DINNER SHOW! Harm and Nadine will help you find...
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Friday 20 November, Zwermers presents the long version (70 minutes) of Pan ~// Catwalk: a performance project about humanity’s multicoloured nature. From worn-down jeans jacket to extravagant glitter dress: our attire is an expression of who we are, want to be,...
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MU will re-open this Thursday 19 November! Reason enough to celebrate the last weekend of The Self Design Academy with a Self Design Academy Special Weekend from Friday 20 till Sunday 22 November.On Friday evening we kick off the weekend...
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Every day we see ourselves reflected in the bathroom mirror, tram windows, the water at our feet; our reflection is something we live with. But who are we if we only have our reflection, if nobody else sees us? In...
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Communities and the ways they are formed have changed due to the rise of the Internet. On the one hand, we are living in a more individualized and atomized society. On the other, online spaces offers us new ways to build...
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Dive into the world of self-malleability during the In Real Live Sundays: at Sunday 18 and Sunday 25 October (more dates will follow), participating artist in The Self Design Academy are present in MU and their works will be 'live' -...
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Watch the evening via Vimeo. In collaboration with MU Hybrid Art House, Karaoke Discourse presents a series of online events during Dutch Design Week 2020. Join us online on Monday 19, Wednesday 21 and Friday 23 October at 20.00...
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Watch the evening on Vimeo. In collaboration with MU Hybrid Art House, Karaoke Discourse presents a series of online events during Dutch Design Week 2020. Join us online on Monday 19, Wednesday 21 and Friday 23 October at 20.00...
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Watch the evening on Vimeo.In collaboration with MU Hybrid Art House, Karaoke Discourse presents a series of online events during Dutch Design Week 2020. Join us online on Monday 19, Wednesday 21 and Friday 23 October at 20.00...
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Dive into the world of self-malleability during the In Real Live Sundays: at Sunday 18 and Sunday 25 October (more dates will follow), participating artist in The Self Design Academy will be present in MU and their works will be 'live'...
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Saturday 17 October, Zwermers presents the long version (70 minutes) of Pan ~// Catwalk: a performance project about humanity’s multicoloured nature. The safety of MU visitors is our priority. That’s why there is a limited capacity for the live events we...
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As part of her work Melding (2020) – an experiential design process modelled on Carl Jung’s therapeutic technique of active imagination – Briony O Clarke organizes online, interactive sessions of twenty minutes to work collaboratively with you through the four-stage...
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As part of her work Melding (2020) – an experiential design process modelled on Carl Jung’s therapeutic technique of active imagination – Briony O Clarke organizes online, interactive sessions of twenty minutes to work collaboratively with you through the four-stage...
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How is your mind? Calm and peaceful, focused or rather full? Do you feel the need to reflect and get closer to your real self? Then join a special meditation session as part of The Self Design Academy. Under the...
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Thursday 24 September, Zwermers presents Pan ~ // Catwalk: a performance project about humanity’s multicoloured nature. While we can attend this live in MU, visitors of Istanbul Fringe Festival can watch with us via a live stream....
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As part of her work Melding (2020) – an experiential design process modelled on Carl Jung’s therapeutic technique of active imagination – Briony O Clarke organizes online, interactive sessions of twenty minutes to work collaboratively with you through the four-stage...
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How is your mind? Calm and peaceful, focused or rather full? Do you feel the need to reflect and get closer to your real self? Then join a special meditation session as part of The Self Design Academy. Under the...
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On 18 September opens the expo The Self Design Academy at MU Hybrid Art House.Our self is elusive, to say the least. It roams in memories and dreams, it briefly shows up on x-rays and personality tests, reflects in other...
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[The book presentation is in Dutch]Thursday 27 August, the remarkable book Kunst & Wetenschap (Art & Science) by Peter de Jaeger will be presented at MU Hybrid Art House. The illustrated book describes numerous examples of cross-pollination between artists and scientists, and the...
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This MU Play&Learn activity will be Dutch spoken. For information on this topic, please contact us via mail. ...
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When the sun sets and the shutters close, party animals find each other in clubs, bars and festivals – covid-prohibited place since what seems like eternity. Especially for the night creatures who can’t wait any longer: No Room to Dance,...
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The Live Action Role Play House for Sale takes you to September 2021, when the sitting progressive government has just initiated a plan to disown all existing homes to be redistributed every three years to new occupants based on their neighbourship...
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Isolation and fear for the Apocalypse take an unexpected turn in tonight’s double bill of MU In Real Live Thursdays. It features Being Here for You, Rita Hoofwijk’s investigation with South-African Hannah Loewenthal into how distance might become an advantage,...
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Knuffeltherapie (Cuddle Therapy): Dutch Lyrics, universal energy! We can all use a cuddle! Stippenlift and Bas Kosters embrace their audience – from an appropriate distance – in MU Hybrid Art House. For an hour, Stippenlift en Bas Kosters take you along in...
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Andrew Thomas Huang’s film Flesh Nest, with its spectacular animations, is one of the central pieces of the MU exhibition Worlding Worlds. Standing out from his other work for its rawness, it reveals the making process, the actual world building,...
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Enter the virtual grove of Jasper Griepink, who will transform MU into a digital forest for a one-night story telling experience of the tale D E E P S O I L, supported and interspersed by his recent music project...
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Five creative perspectives on documentary making and activism around the globe, combined with new technologies like VR, AR and 360 filming. Each speaker will share recent projects from their own practice as well as inspiring examples of other documentaries, ...
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This performance is in EnglishMU In Real Live Thursdays #4: New Skin by Hannah While we’re gradually leaving the lockdown behind, MU Hybrid Art House treats you to a summer of cultural encounters on regular Thursday evenings. Join us for...
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MU In Real Live Thursdays Tentatively leaving the lockdown behind, MU Hybrid Art House treats you to a summer of cultural encounters on regular Thursday evenings. Join us for a series of surprising performances, films, music, theatre, workshops and whatever this...
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MU In Real Live Thursdays Tentatively leaving the lockdown behind, MU Hybrid Art House treats you to a summer of cultural encounters on regular Thursday evenings. Join us for a series of surprising performances, films, music, theatre, workshops and whatever this...
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MU In Real Live Thursdays Tentatively leaving the lockdown behind, MU Hybrid Art House treats you to a summer of cultural encounters on regular Thursday evenings. Join us for a series of surprising performances, films, music, theatre, workshops and whatever this...
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OPEN CALL SELF DESIGN ACADEMYa project by MU and Image SocietyMU Hybrid Art House and Image Society are inviting designers and artists to send in proposals for the first Self Design Academy, to open this fall at MU.From self-malleability and...
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Starting 1 June, you van finally experience Worlding Worlds In real Life. For the time being however, you can't walk into MU spontaneously. Call 040 - 2961663 during opening hours, or send an email at least 24 hours ahead of...
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Working Worlds is going online on Wednesday 22 April at 20.00!While the corona virus is creating a new reality around us, MU has found a way to virtually lead you into an array of alternative worlds. Especially now, imaginary worlds...
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MU's winter exhibition Polarities | Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological, almost comes to an end. Inthe last weekend, on Friday February 28 and Saturday February 29 between 4 and 10 PM, MU offers a full closing program of...
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This evening is in Dutch Bildung Brabant verzorgt speciaal voor docenten en studenten een verdiepend programma bij Polarities.De tentoonstelling Polarities laat zien hoe we als mensen uit balans geraakt zijn. De vraag Hoe bewegen we van verlammende besluiteloosheid naar onontkoombaar ingrijpen? Wordt niet alleen bij...
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The Object is Absent is a manifesto for less materialistic design. The MU Hybrid Art House collaborated with Lucas Maassen, Alexandre Humbert and Tom Loois to make an exhibition that takes a radical step against the cheap abundance of things....
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Grab your your chance to engage in a conversation with one of the most fascinating philosophers of our time.Join us on the 30th of Januari at Domusdela for STRP Scenario #5 An Evening with Timothy Morton.More info at ...
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“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.”These iconic words were spoken at the end of 2014 by the late groundbreaking science fiction, fantasy and feminist writer Ursula Le Guin....
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An evening with Irene Stracuzzi and Xandra van der Eijk. Stracuzzi presents the publication on her arctic border research, Van der Eijk presents the latest steps in her ongoing glacier research project. Both discuss their method of working with...
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With Polarities - Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological is opening on Friday 29 November at 20.00! With this exhibition MU is questioning the extremities of our age. Is economy truly the opposite of nature, female the opposite of...
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In this year’s last Re-Create Out Loud, the audience itself is the subject of discussion. Or actually, not the people, but the objects that are dear to them.Tom Loois and WhyNot, platform for contemporary dance and performance, reach beyond...
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On two special nights The Singing Chair - designed by Lucas Maassen - will tell you the story of its life as an object. Not many people have the opportunity in their lives of really becoming an object. But...
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Adelaide Tam is a designer fascinated by food, but not in the traditional sense. She does not cook or create meals, she explores the complexities of different food chains, unearthing their untold stories. This time however, she wants to...
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On two special nights The Singing Chair - designed by Lucas Maassen - will tell you the story of its life as an object. Not many people have the opportunity in their lives of really becoming an object. But...
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It’s very unlikely that anyone will show up at MU this evening without a smartphone – maybe one person? But that person would be the only one to get away scot-free, because digital artist Dries Depoorter will make off...
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In this talk show, Arvid & Marie practice a collaborative approach to design, to work with the rivers, the soil, the weather - not against them. They aim to find ways to join forces, to make it a winwin...
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MacGuffin will kick off on Monday 21 October at 18.00, zooming in on the typical talk show stage set. Think of Beau van Erven Dorens’ desk, Pauw & Jinek’s table (or Sonja’s in her days), the screens behind Matthijs...
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Speculative storytelling offers us a tool to re-think the gaps we experience in our society today, to better understand the present and to create...
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In this workshop we will dive into the collection of technofeminist manifestos that are presented in the Computer Grrrls exhibition. Together we will follow a set of cross-readings created by the TF-IDF algorithm, a digital artefact that has been important...
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Josephine & Data Bosma on Computer GrrrlsJosephine and Data Bosma, mother and daughter, could be called two Dutch Computer Grrrls. The difference between them is in their generations and in their practices - Josephine has been a critical observer of...
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September 18, 2019 MU starts with a new series of workshops on designing and printing in 3D for seniors.Learn in five morning sessions (9:00-12:00) how to draw on the computer with Tinkercad en make your own brand new 3D print....
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The teacher tour is in Dutch only. If you are interested in visiting MU with your class, contact educatie@mu.nl....
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The first computers were programmed by women, 75 years ago, and women wrote the software behind Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap for mankind’. Since then, IT has become ever more important and gradually turned into a field for nerds where women seem out of place altogether. But...
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A screen switched off. Humans pushing it all away. Delete. A black box in a white cube. Saturday July 29th Tamar Blom and Karel van Laere will present a performance inspired by the work of Li-Binyuan during the last weekend...
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In their research on Immersive Journalism designers Jim Brady and Ward Goes look at the use of VR technologies in both current day and future journalism. Immersive journalism is a type of journalism that relies on ‘experiece’ rather than ‘report’....
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Experience the future of food, play futuristic games and learn to optimize your senses. In the Future Cities exhibition young artists, designers and creative thinkers offer you a sneak peek into the future. With interactive installations by Polymorf, Next Nature...
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Welcome to the future. Welcome to club Noir. Outside, algorithms, robots and drones have taken over the world, but you are safe in this analogue haven. To what extent can man still be himself? Unprogrammed, free thinking and acting in a future in...
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The performances and videos of Li Binyuan (1985) bring about a sense ofcatharsis. Whether he stands within an inch of a rapidly rotating, man-sizedcircular saw, or holds up a board against a thundering waterfall for severalminutes, in the end something...
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===Design Nonfiction by Tellart explores the role of designers in a technological landscape that changes much faster than humans can. For whom should you design, with what concept of humanity in mind? Who makes the rules and who has a...
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A new landscape is taking shape around us, made of artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and synthetic biology. Science may not completely comprehend this complex, elusive matter yet, but designers are already working with it anyway. How do they do it?...
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After Dortmund and Paris, the exhibition Computer Grrrls will travel to MU this summer. Computer Grrrls deals with the complex link between women and technology. Did you know for example that the first human computers were women? In fact, that...
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During the BAD Special Weekend, on Saturday 9 March, MU will screen the film Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival, an insightful glimpse into the life and thought of a major contemporary figure in the fields of feminism, science and technology. Donna...
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The ReShape special weekend on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 March provides an opportunity to work together with artists and discover their practice. During the extensive program with talks, masterclasses and a film screening, artists and scientists, designers and thinkers...
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Have you never heard of Fiverr.com? Then you're probably not a freelancer. Fiverr is like a digital crowdsource factory - an online platform (one of many) on which freelancers from all over the world offer their services. Artists Michael Mandiberg and...
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The internet requires a lot from us. Take a break and come to The Hmm @ MU on Thursday 28 February, where we will scroll for you. We scroll daily through a gigantic amount of images. We even communicate visually via...
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Thursday 7 February MU will screen the film Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival: an insightful glimpse into the life and thought of a major contemporary figure in the fields of feminism, science and technology.Donna Haraway became known in the '80s through...
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Are you an artist or designer with an interest in life sciences? We are happy to invite you to propose a project for the Bio Art & Design Award 2019! The Bio Art & Design Award (BAD Award) is a unique...
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Some things never change: electrons, the speed of light, the smell of fresh coffee. But everything is constantly in motion and the universe looks different from moment to moment as particles, waves, forces and objects everywhere act upon each other....
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Welcome to the future. Welcome to club Noir. Outside, algorithms, robots and drones have taken over the world, but you are safe in this analogue haven. To what extent can man still be himself? Unprogrammed, free thinking and acting in a future in...
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Who are we really? Who do we want to be? What do we tell Google, within the intimacy of our telephone, that we would rather not share with the rest of the world?Artist Romain Tardy presents visitors of GLOW 2018...
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Journalism for Design?Design & journalistic research: a mutual benefitThe New Newsroom addresses the important question: how can design be relevant for journalism? We see a lot of potential for design research in journalism, especially in the human centered...
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Shocking real-time images of suicides, murder and abuse have put a rather harsh light on livestreams. “Raw and visceral”, as Mark Zuckerberg put it. Raw indeed. But there is a flip side to all of these horror stories: millions of...
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Studio Arvid & Marie, Martina Huynh and Jonas Althaus invite Ruben Pater, Merien ten Houten and Daniëlle Arets to talk about filter bubbles in news media.Hello there, reader. So, you are interested in today's journalistic landscape? Actually, I...
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Are you a creative, maker or curator and are you looking for an inspiring collaboration? Come slowdate at the INBETWEEN #5: KONT Portfolio Slow Date! During INBETWEEN #5, KONT organises its third Portfolio Slow Date: an informal gathering for makers,...
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You speak. It prints! During the Publishing Karaoke workshop we will experiment with co-producing an instant publication, utilising an interactive publishing tool. How does it work? With the help of speech-to-text technology the tool translates spoken word to text....
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A regular talk show predominantly appeals to the eyes and the ears. If it weren’t for logistical inconveniences, we might as well leave the rest of our body at home. But isn’t that a bit of a sad situation? Would...
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What does it mean to be a female designer in the age of social media, or to become a public speaker at creative conferences? We’ll tackle these questions and many more with graphic designers Simone Trum and Loes van Esch...
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THE WORKSHOP IS FULLFrom wildly exaggerated stories and jokes that got out of hand to conspiracy theories and military-operated political campaigns: disinformation comes in all shapes and sizes. Meanwhile, it has a detrimental impact on society. It is...
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All through their evolution, Homo Sapiens’ mobility has been surprisingly consistent: on average we spend just over an hour a day moving around. Long ago that amounted to about 10,000 steps, but present-day Europeans walk, cycle, drive and fly an...
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To take a train to Amsterdam, visit a friend at the hospital, go to a museum or fly to London: it may sound easy but not for people who cannot see. Wayfinding in public buildings is mostly visual, which makes...
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When texts and images are shared, memes go viral. How can journalism respond to this simple law of likeability? Create your own eight-second video meme and find out. In this workshop we will zoom in on how news is...
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Where would YouTube be without unboxing? For years now, vloggers are raking in royalties just by unpacking the latest gadgets and some have actually amassed a fortune. We thought we should investigate this amazing phenomenon: what does unboxing look like...
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There’s Airbnb to arrange a city trip, Uber to hail a cab and Just Eat to have a special meal delivered at your doorstep. Digital platforms have made life easier for us, cheaper, faster, more efficient: a telephone is all...
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The influence of algorithms and the constant hunt for clicks have changed the way we consume media and how media organisations are communicating. Learn the tactics to find alternative use of written information. Focusing on a specific subject, we...
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Ever since the talk show was invented, the concept has been virtually left unchanged. One or two anchors, some opiniated and interesting guests, a few musical performances in between to liven up the conversations – et voilà. An untenable situation,...
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Do you know all there is to know about design? Do you know four people just as mad about design as you? Then sign up for the brand-new first Eindhoven edition of the Dol Dwaze Design Pubquiz (Crazy Insane Design...
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Online news channels form one large echo chamber, where the orientation of news becomes increasingly fluid. Based on one specific news topic you will explore the broader use of image (satire, comic illustration, memes, edited image) to highlight and direct...
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Wendy Plomp is one of this year’s three ambassadors of Dutch Design Week. She is the moving force behind Dutch Invertuals, the organically changing collective of multidisciplinary designers that has been manifesting itself for ten years now, with exciting conceptual...
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This year’s Create Out Loud is set in the MU exposition The New Newsroom: Reporting Redesigned, where artists, journalists and designers take a closer look at the news as a phenomenon in itself. Traditional forms of news like the papers...
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Ongesigneerd (Unsigned) is a VPRO podcast on inconspicuous design, inspired by the American podcast 99% Invisible. We are surrounded by things that you never see as being meticulously designed. Radio makers Laura Stek and Tjitske Mussche lead the way into...
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Emoji bring feeling to our digital conversations with faces, drinks, fireworks, animals, you name it. Every year, another 100 new image-characters are added to Unicode. Anyone can make suggestions for a new emoji. The strict selection process, however, is...
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Rogier Klomp X ACED and Donghwan Kam are both exhibiting their work during the exhibition The New Newsroom. On 18 October, they will individually give a workshop linked to their works. You can either attend one of the workshops, or both. Workshop 1:...
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News apps, videos, podcasts, Twitter feeds, VR: we’ve come a long way since the days of the town crier or the printed press. Submerged in media, we have numerous ways to generate and share stories – literally at our fingertips....
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Both launched at one night: a book you can smash the window of a phone booth with and a shirt a whole party crowd will fit in. Yes!At friday 21 September – during the Plug-in-City 2.0 opening party...
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Images that are endlessly remixed, taken from their context, given a new subtext and placed back online, gifs of grumpy cats and videos that go viral are part of our daily life. What do you meme? Besides emoji’s, we...
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Where NDSM-square AmsterdamWhen Thursday 6 September, opening 17.30Iron deserves an ode. And not only in the Iron Age or the era of industrialization. Iron is everywhere, then and now. In us and around us. Many heavy industry can not do...
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The teacher tour is in Dutch only. If you are interested in visiting MU with your class, contact educatie@mu.nl...
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With each expo MU organises family guided tours with ARTOGETHER. For these tours we especially account for all ages so that the expo is accessible to the whole family. Together you will learn to watch art in a different way. We...
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What privacy, artificial intelligence and digital connectedness have in common? They are all interwoven in the work of Dries Depoorter. In Back End he shows how boundaries can be dissolved with a few simple interventions. How human creativity and machine...
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Try to book a romantic diner for three, or find the third end of spaghetti. The stereotypical notion of love that is mainly based on duo-love. Designers and lovers Tim, Dasha and Chris, take a playful approach towards what they...
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The exhibitions The Objectivist Drug Party and Genomic Intimacy pose some challenging questions. What makes us who we are, for instance, and who defines our identities? When companies and states have the computing power and algorithms to handle information of...
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In need of a braingasm with Peaches or Bruce Sterling? A brainwrestle with Rachel Armstrong and Moon Ribas? Chat with ME or MU and...
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‘Do You Trust This Computer?’ is a documentary that explores the significance of A.I. for humanity. According to several leading scientists, artificial intelligence is probably the greatest threat to our existence. The documentary casts a grim look at the future...
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With each expo MU organises family guided tours with ARTOGETHER. For these tours we especially account for all ages so that the expo is accessible to the whole family. Together you will learn to watch art in a different way....
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The organisation of the Bio Art & Design Award (BAD Award) warmly invites you to the Award Ceremony of the BAD Award on Friday 25 May from 14.30 to 17.30 at art centre Stroom The Hague. The BAD Award encourages...
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Zach Blas - The Objectivist Drug PartyWhat will become of the internet? Where will AI take us? These pressing questions get the radically queer treatment of artist Zach Blas, at MU, from 11 May to 8 July.More about the exhibition...
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On 5 May, MU will be taken over by Daan Rijkers with hiphop duo Dada. Dada aims to strengthen the bond between the audience and the artist and investigates the experience of music. With this performance the artist will be...
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The last couple of weeks the guys from Motion Paintings have endured the weather to transform the walkway on Strijp S into an artwork. They applied a colorful painting on both sides of the walkway, which will be...
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MU and We Are Foundation host a Design and Human Rights Forum on 19 April. We Are Foundation asked itself: how does design contribute to human rights issues? The conclusion was that there is much room left for improvement....
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Less than 10% of editors on Wikipedia is female. Research shows that this is the cause for a poignant lack of documentation on women, gender, feminism and the arts on one of the worlds most visited websites. Men and...
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As part of 'Reverse Culture Shock' Brad Downey collaborated with fashion designer Jess Oberlin. Jess designed a special collection: 'My Mind Always Drifts', which is also the name of the fashion show that will be held during the opening and...
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Sometimes poetry is not enough, and sometimes is now. Artist Brad Downey, notorious for his subversive pranks and minimalist interventions in public space, shifts his focus from the street to the state. Instead of pairing a shopping cart to...
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Once a month MU organises ARTOGETHER. An art program for all ages: grandparents with their grandchildren, parents with children, aunts and uncles with their nieces and nephews. Together you will learn to watch art in a different way. We will...
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The awareness that the next mass-extinction will most likely be man-made—and that we as a species will be among the victims too—is clearly manifest throughout Life Time. The performance An Incomplete Life is an attempt to give a place to...
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Life Time, Biological Clocks of the Universe explores different dimensions and scales of time, from the universal to the personal and from the cellular to the geological, even the astronomical. The Life Time special weekend from Friday 16 until Sunday...
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MU, Institute of Network Cultures and The Image Society organise a presentation of Van meme tot mainstream at SPUI25 in Amsterdam. This program will be in Dutch. Where: SPUI25, AmsterdamWhen: 25 January 2018Time: 5 - 7 PMFree...
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On 25 January, 2018, music label Barreuh and MU are organising a mixtape event at MU Artspace on Strijp-S in Eindhoven. Cause for celebration is the launch of BARxMU, a new collection of unique mixtapes and cassettes made by artists,...
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MU has the pleasure to invite you for an informal New Years Meetup. The MU team likes to update you on the successes of 2017 and the plans for the new year.Do you join us for a toast? Straight from...
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This exhibition explores different dimensions and scales of time, from the universal to the personal and from the cellular to the geological, even the astronomical. Time can be seen as simultaneously binding us, through heredity, and separating us, by death, across generations....
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[ WITH US ] is a series of events focused on the Eindhoven design community with an eye towards personal practice, shared wisdom, and confronting topics design is currently facing. Here, you don't just meet designers and students, but also...
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What roles would humans perform in a future determined by artificial intelli-gence (AI)? Before too long, algorithms will be able to optimise our entire lives, including the most intimate contacts and interactions. The one thing algo-rithms aren’t good at yet...
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When Strijp-S was just a dirt pit where you could splash into a concrete pool on a summer's Sunday at Plan-2.Back when there were still illegal after parties in steamy techno tunnels until the early morning hours.In the summer of...
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In this data overloaded digital world, journalists have many new ways to research and craft stories. With tons of examples we will show how journalists translate data into new experiences for their audience. We will dive into the new...
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Taking inspiration from Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi (in Materialising the Internet), in this workshop by Roel Roscam Abbing and Dennis de Bel participants learn to construct their own do-it-yourself Wi-Fi antennas using locally sourced materials. During the workshop participants will be guided through...
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Around the turn of the millennium Eindhoven got thoroughly acquainted with the work of MVRDV. In 1999 they Zes Steden/Six Cities, their first major solo exhibition held at MU, which only just existed for a year at the time and...
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Taking inspiration from Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi (in Materialising the Internet), in this workshop by Roel Roscam Abbing and Dennis de Bel participants learn to construct their own do-it-yourself Wi-Fi antennas using locally sourced materials. During the workshop participants will be...
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He is Design Academy Eindhoven’s new trump card and the first foreign artistic director of the internationally acclaimed breeding ground of Dutch Design. Operating from Genova, Italy, architecture critic and curator Joseph Grima (40) made his name in recent years...
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“Remove from our lives everything that depends on sand and our world would look very different. We would have no glass, no computer chips, we would have no buildings. We’re just not aware of how important sand is to our daily lives.”...
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Koert van Mensvoort is on a mission. A philosophical mission even, and one that is easily translated into tangible projects. Koert is the founder and ambassador of Next Nature, a vision of the co-evolution of man, nature and technology that...
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Designer and Design Academy Alumnus Tom Loois believes in the importance of human interaction and in designing connections between people, objects and spaces. The closer he can bring people together the better, though not necessarily in a physical way. He...
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The title of this book ‘From meme to mainstream: internet art, aesthetics and offline luxury in a post-digital world’, refers to one of the most characteristic features of our time: the power of the internet that can focus all attention on something in...
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Nadine Roestenburg is a child of the digital revolution and she is fully aware of it. She even wrote a book about it: ‘Van meme tot mainstream: internetkunst, esthetiek en offline luxe in een postdigitale wereld’ that we...
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This year’s Dutch Design Week has no less than three ambassadors, or actually four, because Atelier NL from Eindhoven has been established and run by a duo for ten years: Nadine Sterk (N) and Lonny van Ryswyck (L). After graduating...
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None other than Ravi Naidoo, founder and inspirator of the famous annual Design Indaba Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, will get the ball rolling this year. Besides Design Indaba he is the driving force behind Interactive Africa and he...
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With the arrival of the smartphone, technology has finally entered our pants. Last summer, American Aaron Chervenak married his smartphone at a wedding chapel in Las Vegas. During the ceremony, Chervenak said that the deepest and most enduring relationship he...
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DEADLINE 15 OCTOBER On November 18th and 19th the second INBETWEEN will take place. This means that at MU, in Strijp-S - in between two MU exhibitions - for 48 hours you can do your thing. Ylja Band...
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The internet is everywhere. Set free from the websites and the screens, it now penetrates our thoughts and our bodies and everything around us. Each day, the digital and physical become more integrated – but how does this...
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Ylja Band and Tristan Roques are the winners of the first MU INBETWEEN open call! They came up with the idea to turn MU into the Most Extravagant Twister Game Ever - and we love it! You are invited to join us...
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Avant Tout, Discipline, in MU from 14 July to 17 September presents recent works by Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen, including the premiere of their latest film Trapped in the Dream of the Other. Through various projects, Cohen and...
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#ViralVandalsTalks Thanks to social media, graffiti writers have gained an extra infinite public space that is being used extensively. With #ViralVandals MU presents an exhibition about the second life of graffiti. Going virtually viral replaces the street in the quest for even greater...
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Starting point for this remarkable project was the discovery of a massive image database of graffiti in Eindhoven, a city in The Netherlands known for its technological innovation and industrial heritage including the Philips Factories. The photographs were made between...
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A drawing... made by a robot... that is programmed by you. Wow!In this parent & child workshop you will get to know GoTo, de drawing robot of De Creatieve Code. GoTo speaks coding language SNAP and works with Arduino. He...
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We welcome you to join the Award Ceremony of the Bio Art and Design Award on Friday May 19, 2017 from 2.30 pm at Kunstcentrum Stroom in The Hague. Please register here. PROGRAMf14.30 Gallery STROOM open to the public15.00 -...
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A drawing... made by a robot... that is programmed by you. Wow!In this parent & child workshop you will get to know GoTo, de drawing robot of De Creatieve Code. GoTo speaks coding language SNAP and works with Arduino. He...
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With #ViralVandals MU presents an exhibition about the second life of graffiti. Going virtually viral will replace the street in the quest for even greater visibility. New forms of expression emerge and the DNA of the scene changes irreversibly. A...
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Oron Catts will give a lecture about tissues. The lecture is part of the public program underpinning the bioart and –design exhibition Fluid Matter, Liquid and Life in Motion, that presents an exploration of fluidity inside and between bodies, cells...
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The Fluid Matter Special on Wednesday January 18, 2017 provides an opportunity to work together with artists and discover their practice. During the extensive programme with talks, masterclasses and performances artists and scientists, designers and thinkers will pursue questions on bioart...
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With the exhibition Fluid Matter, MU presents an exploration of fluidity inside and between bodies, cells and substances at vastly different scales. At the heart of Fluid Matter are the three winning projects of the Bio Art and Design Award...
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During Dutch Design Week, MU will host a lively talk show in which authors speak aloud. By welcoming different guests, we will push the boundaries of design in a manner that is both intriguing for a broad audience - and...
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During Dutch Design Week, MU will host a lively talk show in which authors speak aloud. By welcoming different guests, we will push the boundaries of design in a manner that is both intriguing for a broad audience - and...
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Building Conversation - Parliament of Things (session) on Friday, October 28th from 20.00 till 23.00h at MU.You’re invited to participate in the parliament and speak from the perspective of things. Led by Lotte van den Berg & Daan ’t Sas...
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Save the date: on October 27th a new edition of Open School wil take place during the Dutch Design Week as part of the exhibition Making School by the Stimuleringsfonds. Together with artists, students and teachers...
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During Dutch Design Week, MU will host a lively talk show in which authors speak aloud. By welcoming different guests, we will push the boundaries of design in a manner that is both intriguing for a broad audience - and...
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What does the school of the future look like? This film by Grey Whitely is a must see for everybody who is wondering! In Moste Likely To Succeed we follow teachers and pupils of High Tech High, a school without...
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During Dutch Design Week, MU will host a lively talk show in which authors speak aloud. By welcoming different guests, we will push the boundaries of design in a manner that is both intriguing for a broad audience - and...
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The cultural DNA of Eindhoven is innovative: design, creative technology and urban culture. But for many elderly this is unfamiliar territory. Something their kids or grand children would enjoy. Something they’d read in the papers. That’s a shame. Participating yields....
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During Dutch Design Week, MU will host a lively talk show in which authors speak aloud. By welcoming different guests, we will push the boundaries of design in a manner that is both intriguing for a broad audience - and...
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During Dutch Design Week, MU will host a lively talk show in which authors speak aloud. By welcoming different guests, we will push the boundaries of design in a manner that is both intriguing for a broad audience - and...
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During Dutch Design Week, MU will host a lively talk show in which authors speak aloud. By welcoming different guests, we will push the boundaries of design in a manner that is both intriguing for a broad audience - and...
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On Sunday October 23rd the MU evening program wil be all about For Play, Shaping Sexuality!17:30 - 19:30 Create Out Loud #1: FOR PLAY Shaping Sexuality Designers today are willing to approach almost any topic. But sex? Here’s where they hesitate. Or...
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With the large scale video installation Guilty Landscapes Dries Verhoeven brings the reality of uncomfortable news images confrontingly close. He poses the question of whether a personal connection is possible between the viewer and the person being viewed. What if...
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On Friday October 7th, during the opening of For Play, Shaping Sexuality, T.r.a.s.h. dance/performance group will perform Chapter#2:1, 'Beatrice on the treadmill' at MU. On Saturday October 8th, at 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00h, they will perform 'Beatrice on the treadmill' again,...
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The oldest dildo ever to be found dates back 28,000 years. Together with statuetteslike the Venus of Willendorf the toy is hard evidence that physicality and sex have sparked our imagination ever since the Stone Age. It also shows that...
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During Hallo Cultuur the exhibition Weather or Not will be on show at MU. Few topics are as trending as the weather. If it isn't our daily obsession with temperature, rain or wind it's the transformations in our atmosphere and...
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On Saturday September 3rd and Sunday September 4th the Weather or Not Special weekend will take place at MU as part of the exhibition. A weekend with films, keynotes and workshops by artists, designers and weather scientists.On Sunday Esther Kokmeijer...
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During the Weather or Not Special Weekend, on September 4th, from 13:00-17:00, Esther Kokmeijer and Evolutionair medical biologist Kelly Mostard wil give an Ice training at MU. Including power breathing, yoga and ice bath! The workshop will be in Dutch!...
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On Saturday September 3rd and Sunday September 4th the Weather or Not Special weekend will take place at MU as part of the exhibition. A weekend with films, keynotes and workshops by artists, designers and weather scientists.On Saturday Rob Sweere...
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In the Silent Sky Project#, Dutch artist Rob Sweere invites people to collectively watch the sky, lying on their backs in a particular setting, in silence. Lying in the sun we close our eyes and when it rains a bit...
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Ten years after Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, we seem to respond to climate change with pragmatism rather than panic. We separate our waste, put solar panels on our roofs and we just wait and see if there’s any need...
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Curated by MU as part of the Emoves festival. Please RSVP via EventbriteGood Guy Boris is an entrepreneur, director, visual artist and creator of The Grifters. His career started with photography in early teenage years, when he was shooting...
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During the exhibition Liminal Laws MU invites artist Addie Wagenknecht and information designer Maral Pourkazemi to talk about their artistic practices and Deep Lab. Deep Lab is a collaborative group of cyberfeminists...
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Clouds are visible from two sides, looking up from the ground but also when looking down from the sky. The exhibition 'Clouds from both sides' by Polish artist Karolina Sobecka wil be the eighth and last Weather or Not exhibition at the MU...
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Attention: The film is subtitled in English. But the discussion afterwards will be in Dutch.Melanie Bonajo questions our constant technological progress, and explores how this can alienate people from themselves. Communication is central in her work, using as many people and groups as...
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Haven’t seen For Play, Shaping Sexuality yet?This week is your last chance to visit the exhibition! This Sunday 13 November, co-curators Tom Loois and Sanne Muiser host a festive finissage.Program from 15.00h- Hypnotic moves: D.I.Y. belly dancing with Miss Laetana...
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Perhaps DIT comes across as a messy dormroom of an envorionmentally conscious student, but this exposition is the contribution of MU to DIT festival. The installation ‘Why tide my exhibition space when the whole world is a mess?’...
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American artist Addie Wagenknecht critically examines the concept of borders and the laws that govern them. Zooming in on digital networks and developments that create a range of new liminal situations, she explores the tension between technology and expression. Computers...
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"Why tidy my exhibition space when the whole world is in a mess?" asks artist Sharon Houkema and transforms the space into the untidy 'oikos' of an imaginary environmentally consciouss consumer. Reminiscent of a natural history diorama we see animals...
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On March 20 at exactly 04:30 Dutch time the sun is directly above the equator and the Equinox takes place. On this day, all over the world, the day will be just as long as the night. And the astronomical...
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'Summon Wind, Call for Rain, Disperse Fog', is a series of installations by Esther Kokmeijer that are part of her ongoing research project Because we Meet. This trilogy, focusing on the human ambition to control nature and to collaborate with...
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A retrospective exhibition and the 20th anniversary of the Internet artwork My Boyfriend Came Back From The War (MBCBFTW) by Olia Lialina. Twenty years ago, in 1996, Russian artist Olia Lialina created My Boyfriend Came Back From The War (MBCBFTW)....
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With Body of Matter, MU zooms in on the body and the possibilities biotechnology has to offer to change, enhance, investigate and replace it, now and in the near future. In the thought-provoking essay presented with this exhibition, publicist and...
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During the second day of the Body of Matter / BAD Award Special weekend Kristin Neidlinger wil give one of the three masterclasses. During her masterclass, Interactive Inflatable – Amplifying Human Behaviors, she will guide the group in their expansion in technique...
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During the second day of the Body of Matter / BAD Award Special weekend Orion Maxted wil give one of the three masterclasses. Masterclass: Emergent systems thinking as performance.Orion Maxted: 'Together we'll make emergent systems of language. Make sure you bring...
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During the second day of the Body of Matter / BAD Award Special weekend Agi Haines wil give one of the three masterclasses. Masterclass: Artificial idiocyThrough brain training exercises participants will speculate about generating artificial intelligence with the ability to incorporate...
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With Body of Matter, MU zooms in on the body and the possibilities biotechnology has to offer to change, enhance, investigate and replace it, now and in the near future. In the thought-provoking essay presented with this exhibition, publicist and...
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The photographer Mike Roelofs from Eindhoven, visited Spain, Greenland, Ethiopia and Bangladesh to portray how landscapes change through climate change and how people interact with it. On show soon in the MU Weather or Not container.Open Thursday & Friday 10.00...
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An aesthetically manipulated pig heart-transplant because 'beauty is truly on the inside', a drone controlled by your own brain' and a DIY toolkit to manipulate your own bacterial data.Body of Matter presents the work of ten artists that...
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During the opening of Body of Matter on Friday, November 27th, Orion Maxted will perform his work Human Simulation at MU.The flow of control works in the opposite direction in the work Human Simulation by Orion Maxted. For...
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The closing night of this year’s GLOW Festival will be celebrated with a climax of theatrical interactions, experimental fashion and extravagance in a special edition of the infamous STUK X at MU. In this edition they will celebrate light, glow...
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For young creatives who would like hands-on experience discovering the creative possibilities of light, MU Play&Learn is working together with MakerClub to offer a workshop Making New Light Forms during the GLOW festival. Children are invited to discover the possibilities...
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Stable and fragile at the same time, a node between part and whole: the Holons invented by Jetske Visser and Michiel Martens capture the essence of our existence in one fluent movement during GLOW NEXT 2015. A Holon might best...
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Curtains of light floating in dark skies. Polar skies, the lights of winter. Made from woven fabric with a special glow in the dark yarn and a new technique invented to create very fluent transitions between delicate gradients in fabric. Digitally produced...
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IMMERSIVE FUN Designing experiencesThere is a great need for new stories in the new media landscape. New technologies such as immersive virtual reality and the gaming industry in theory have unprecedented opportunities, but the practice is still in its infancy....
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Together with Arne Hendriks and Mike Thompson we will celebrate the first birthday of FATberg during the Dutch Design Week, outside at MU. Party! In the meantime: refresh your FAT memory with these pics of FATberg during last year's bio...
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CREATIVE CODING & CRYPTO DESIGN Shaping our digital livesMust a good designer be able to encode in the future? As more designes takes place on or behind the screen, that question is more pressing than ever. Interfaces, serious games, applications...
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HEALTHY URBAN LIVING Social design practicesWhat do we need to properly set up our future urban life? According to many forecasts the growth of cities will only proceed. This requires new ways of living, working and recreating together. What will...
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New ways of designing research by Studio Knol and Afdeling Buitengewone Zaken. Both studios explore unique ways of socio-spatial research through desing. On Wednesday, October 21st, during DDW, Afdeling Buitengewone Zaken wil present the improved design and research methodology Hidden Design,...
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NURTURING COLLABORATIONS Balancing green & fair foodDevelopment organization HIVOS entered a long-term collaboration with Baltan Laboratories last year under the name Age of Wonderland, to explore how design, art and development can inspire each other. During Dutch Design Week a...
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Design is practically all around us these days, influencing everything from Alzheimer’s to herb gardens. And our own experiences have started to make us wonder. Again. Why does Design Academy Eindhoven have graduate tracks such as Man and Identity and...
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Design and science know how to find each other more and more. The innovative and exploratory spirit of the designer seems to combine well with the more analytical approach of science. But how can designers call themselves real researchers? Are...
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Design and science know how to find each other more and more. The innovative and exploratory spirit of the designer seems to combine well with the more analytical approach of science. But how can designers call themselves real researchers? Are...
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The government is highly committed to sustainable economic growth. But are growth and green compatible entities? How can designers contribute to a more circular economy focused on the maximum reuse of products? How do those missions combine green with sustainable...
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One of the only certainties in life is that of death. Yet it has been subject to far less technical and social (r)evolutions in comparison to all the other aspects of modern life. To challenge the public's perception of what...
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During Dutch Design Week 2015, hundreds of thousands of people visit Eindhoven to see the latest developments in design. They move from one location to the next in droves, they eat in restaurants created for the occasion and wait in...
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Get a Room!, organised by Firma Vruchtvlees in cooperation with MU, is a series of 4 film- and debate nights about the one subject that keeps fascinating us: sexuality. Everything can be a subject of discussion, nothing stays out. ...
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Studio KNOL, MU and SintLucas will present and demonstrate Pencil vs Pixel: classroom of the future during symposium Samen Slimmer (trans: smarter together). In May and June of this year 25 SintLucas students worked in an especially designed classroom by...
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The frequency of Frecuency Strijp-S has changed in every two year instead of every year. We'll be participating in 2016! Frequency Strijp-S, the open day of Strijp-S, will take place on Sunday September 13th. More informatie here or on ...
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Whenever you enter MU, you are likely to discover new ways of perceiving the world or ourselves. But in the installations by Marnix de Nijs perception itself is being dissected. The stable, solid view of reality we are so familiar...
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The old joke—“Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it”—isn’t so funny anymore. Lots of people are trying to do something about the weather. Climate change is on the geopolitical agenda, if only in time for us...
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Opening of exhibition Alternative Displays Displaying Alternatives Physical, moving and visual installations by Marnix de Nijs. Feel free to come by from 20.00 on and have a drink with us to celebrate this new exhibition! This is a preview of what is...
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Buy your ticket here. Cassils’ art is radical and incendiary. They are not afraid of violence but incorporate it in their work in a very literal way, not to glorify but rather to oppose violence. Queer opposition. Cassils...
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Get a Room!, organised by Firma Vruchtvlees in cooperation with MU, is a series of 4 film- and debate nights about the one subject that keeps fascinating us: sexuality. Everything can be a subject of discussion, nothing stays out. ...
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Incendiary, a solo by Cassils explores Cassils’s multidisciplinary practice, which crosses a spectrum of performance, sound, sculpture, photography and video. The show is anchored in Cassils’s live durational works and the resulting performative objects, which melt, vibrate, flash and burn...
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Friday May 22nd this year's Bio Art and Design Award (BAD Award) winners will be announced! The BAD Award (called Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award till 2013) is a unique competition that aims at stimulating young artists and designers from...
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SUPERHUMANS: SALVATION OR DESTRUCTION? Our relationship with technology is constantly changing; especially when it comes to the improvement of our human body. Is technology our salvation or destruction? Cyborgs, egg banks, anti-aging, how far would you go? For this debate we invited...
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At the invitation of SCHOOL AROUND, KNOL design studio is conducting an experiment about the future of the learning environment. During two months, 24 SintLucas students will be learning in settings ranging from 100% analogue to 100% virtual. In KNOL’s experimental...
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Soft Breaths & Soft Beats Mindful finissage of Soft Focus by Lady Aïda at MU Breath walk, meditation, soft beats, juice and more... Friday May 8 starting at 19.00 h Program: 19.00 h : doors open / get in 19.30 h :...
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Get a Room!, organised by Firma Vruchtvlees in cooperation with MU, is a series of 4 film- and debate nights about the one subject that keeps fascinating us: sexuality. Everything can be a subject of discussion, nothing stays out. On April...
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During the Salone del Mobile in Milan, MU presents the exhibition: Kneeling, Five years of We Make Carpets at Ventura Lambrate with a selection of their work and by presenting their first book, which was developed in collaboration with the...
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Soft Focus A Solo by Rafaël Rozendaal It was a fun night! You can watch the pics here. Thirty million unique visitors watched the websites of visual artist Rafaël Rozendaal – 30.730.587 to be exact – in 2014 alone. The...
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Workshop by Špela Petric and Pei-Ying Lin What happens when sexuality, usually considered as a uniquely human trait, becomes a prism through which we view the Other -- in our case plants? This controversial, humorous and insightfully absurd workshop invites designers,...
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The end of ‘Matter of Life’ exhibition is near and that's why we invite everyone for a ‘Food Phreaking’ afternoon! With presentations by two of the BioArt & Design Award winners and a book launch accompanied by phreaky cocktails...
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Matter of Art? Bio art is in full motion. It’s one of the most dynamic artforms of the moment and not just in an artistic sense.. There is also a discussion going on about the technological, scientifical and ethical...
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Arne Hendriks and Mike Thompson | FATraiser Save the date (and your fat). FATBERG is an ongoing critical design research project by Mike Thompson (Thought Collider) and Arne Hendriks (The Incredible Shrinking Man) focused on the construction...
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What do the emerging field of bio art and science have in common? Artist Charlotte Jarvis, professor of Molecular Genetics Hans Clevers (Hubrecht Institute) and writer Bas Heijne discuss societal, scientific and ethical questions regarding a challenging and innovative bio...
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg | DNA workshop 'Invisible' What is DNA? What is DNA fingerprinting? What are some issues with DNA evidence, why might we want to spoof it and how? In this workshop Heather shows all the do’s and dont’s of...
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Charlotte Jarvis | Performance 'Et In Arcadia Ego' Charlotte Jarvis aims to create a stomachcancer tumour of her own cells. To this day she still hasn't found a doctor that will help her realise that. Thursday 8 January she will...
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MU | Strijp S Matter of Life | Growing new Bio Art & Design Pigeons, human stem cells, fungi, cut-flowers – about anything that lives can serve as working material for bio art and design. In Matter of Life, Mu and guest...
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MU | Strijp S During the opening of the exhibition Matter of Life on November 28th, Tim Vermeulen of The New Institute takes you into an exciting debate that addresses various aspects within bio art & design. Program After presenting the winners of...
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NONOTAK | DAYDREAM V.4, SILHOUETTES & LATE SPECULATION NONOTAK plays with relationships between audience, perspective, light, shadow and setting in their two brand new installations DAYDREAM V.4 and SILHOUETTES. These audiovisual light installations that alter space and sound are accompanied...
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MU | Strijp S During the upcoming Dutch Design Week, on Friday 24 October, MU will celebrate We Make Carpets’ fifth anniversary with the launch of their first book: Kneeling | 5 years of making carpets. This book will be...
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MU | Strijp S Workshop FATberg with Arne Hendriks and Mike Thompson Looking out towards the ocean, FATberg is easily spotted by the flock of seagulls circling above, swooping down to take a welcome nibble of its vast store of energy. Only...
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During the Dutch Design Week STRP and MU will organize a nine-day workshop program in the STRP & MU WORKSPACE at Strijp S. Every day between 13.00 and 17.00 visitors of all ages can walk in and be surprised by...
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On Sunday September 14th the first edition of Frequentie Strijp-S takes place, the very day that many businesses and inhabitants of Strijp-S will open their doors! Over 50 entrepreneurs have signed up, so take advantage of this special day and walk...
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On September 12th, during the conference STRP SCENE 1 : The game is on, MU launches its new interactive website www.muplaynlearn.nl. Play & Learn.nl is MU’s online studio, where you can dive into the deep, and get hands on experience with...
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MU | Strijp S Hallo Cultuur! Workshop We All Make Carpets! One of the talented collectives that MU has followed from the beginning is We Make Carpets. No nonsense, conceptual and hard working, stubborn and working between art and design through a special...
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MU | Strijp S On Friday August 29th we open the exhibition Kneeling, Five years of We Make Carpets. What can you expect? A variety of simple, everyday materials, part of aesthetic patterns, build as temporary carpets. From 8pm on Kid...
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MU invited the young designers Marsha Simon en Eva van der Moer to make an anrtistic intervention with 4500 freshmen of Fonrys academy, to open their introduction week PURPLE 2014 at the Ketelhuisplein. [click on photo to see interactive image!] ...
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MU (Y)Art Sale MU has moved! Although we’ve already said goodbye to the Witte Dame during our farewell party, we’d love to invite you there for the very last time for our Art Sale. On Strijp S we’ll start with a...
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How does it feel to live as a man and what would this involve? Who is your inner drag king? Macho, businessman, player, or intellectual type? Discover who you are or want to be, guided by the inspiring leadership of new...
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THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED! How does it feel to live as a woman, and what would this involve? Who is your inner drag queen? Fancy, smart, austere? Discover who you are or want to be under the inspiring leadership of Eindhoven’s drag...
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After many years lived as seven different artists, Kuijpers thinks its time to throw herself in the ring with them. Meet Bobby, Fez, Isabella and others that show us that we are constantly truing to find out who we are...
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Have your personality captured in a colourful clay portrait! With her travelling studio, sculptress Efrat Zehavi travels through the country to give performances. On the spot, she models your portrait in colorful soft clay. In the meantime she tries to get...
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The weekend of 4th, 5th and 6th July will also be centred exclusively on GenderBlender. On 4 July a full-day conference will be held at Natlab, followed by a special GenderBlender evening programme. Then on 5 July the programme will...
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MU | Strijp S Dinnershow at 't Ketelhuis Not only is he the face of the Gender Blender exhibition, Sven Ratzke also shines in a dinner show specially made for GenderBlender, with a mix of old and new repertoire, he...
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MU | Strijp S GenderBlender Conference On Friday, July 4th, MU dives deeper into this subject with Professor Uta Brandes, specializing in the impact of gender on design and vice versa. Additionally artist Heather Cassils, renowned for the way she trains...
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MU | Strijp S 3 - 8 July 2014 What would it be like to change gender? How about going beyond and experiencing being somewhere between male and female? From the 3rd till the 8th of July, artist-researchers...
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LABO DJ'S / TITIA (Spacegirls) / PIRO (Broke) Friday June 27th from 10pm When MU turned 15 years old, we threw an amazing party at our new location, but also the old location deserves a dignified farewell. So before...
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This event is in Dutch! The next edition of MU Open School will be on June 20, from 13.00 pm - 5 pm at MU Strijp-S. For appllication or general information about Open School please contact Vivian van Gaal: vivian@mu.nl or see...
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For the final show in MU | Witte dame the boys of La Bolleur will take over the space for the entire month of June. La Bolleur is a renowned multidisciplinary design collective from Eindhoven that has moved its headquarters...
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Opening | Friday June 6th, 8pm The opening on June 6th will include the presentation of a special GenderBlender magazine made in collaboration with Et Alors? Also Gabriel Maher will give an amazing performance. And from 11.00 PM we will be...
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After seeying the GenderBlender exhibition this Friday, we close the evening at Lab-1! STUK X and MU take you to a new exciting location where the gender parade continues. On June 6th we overwhelm you with our DJs in multiple...
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Our education colleague Vivian van Gaal will give a lecture about MU Open School at the Paradigma event 'New Learning' at the library Breda. The program is in Dutch. more info ...
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MUtate No.4 Stan Wannet Dialogue Intérieur Sunday May 25th from 2pm Throughout the month of May you can visit Stan Wannet while he builds his show called Dialogue Interior. And Sunday, May 25th from 2 pm you are welcome to watch and...
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How will our cities look like in 2050. Is Eindhoven still the most innovative city and what is the role of design in shaping the city and its identity? With the tile City of the future the Dutch Flemish house...
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MUtate No.4 Stan Wannet Dialogue Intérieur Opening: Sunday May 4, 2 pm Special program on Sunday May 25, 2 pm The month May is for Stan Wannet, with this sunday the opening of his show called Dialogue Intérieur! Stan Wannet (1977),...
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MU | Strijp S Openingsparty April 18 2014, 8 pm For all gaming addicts and art freaks, the opening of Art & Arcade with a collection of ten gaming classics that have been given an artistic overhaul. Amid all this artistically sound...
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Work With Me People, part III This year MU and Bart Hess' Work With Me People (part III) are settling in the magnificent Palazzo Clerici in the heart of Milan, where Tiepolo once worked his magic on some of the ceilings....
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We are proud to announce that beginning April 4th, MU | the Witte Dame makes way for a new flexible workspace called Out of Office. Feel free to join us for the official opening on Friday April 4th from 5pm. For...
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Come in and Play! Attention! Restricted access - sign up via jasper@mu.nl On Friday March 21 you can go crazy in Heyniek's Arcade. For those who missed the opening, Heyniek transformed the Red Road by Willem Claassen, into a race...
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Workshop about creative coding. This program is in Dutch. ...
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HEYNIEK ARCADE KIDS NOON @ MU | De Witte Dame Every Wednesday noon in March 1 - 5 pm Games / Racing cars / Disco / Cotton Candy HeyNiek transformed MU | de Witte Dame into a spectaculair...
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MU | De Witte Dame Opening Friday March 7th from 8pm Come in and Play! Heyniek is already turning the Red Road by Willem Claassen into an racetrack for his fierce RC cars. With Mutate #2 he makes his childhood dream come true...
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'Dinner and Dancing on Red Road' met Piet, Sjefke de Kok and Joris (Groener Gras) February 28th from 5pm. Especially for the Red Road by Willem Claassen the creative chef Piet Bergman creates a once in a lifetime ‘walking dinner’....
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[vimeo:57863847] The International Space Orchestra Nelly Ben Hayoun ​ Zaterdag 22 februari 20:00 Natlab / De Nooijer Entree: €3,50 The International Space Orchestra is het eerste orkest met ruimte wetenschappers van NASA en het SETI Institute. De designer Nelly...
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What is the added value of journalism in the age of the internet? How can it keep on serving democracy, who is the audience and are there any serious models to make money off of it? Journalism is struggling to find...
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MU | De Witte Dame Opening party Friday February 14th from 8pm. With music from 10pm. On Februari 14th Willem Claassen has been working for two weeks on his Red Road. Visitors could already walk the first part of the road since...
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MU | Strijp S Script reading Friday Februari 14th at 8pm Together with the authors, writers and actors from The Sitcom! we will talk about the making of the script and the process of making a sitcom. We explore the roll of...
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MU | Strijp S Openingparty Januari 31th 2014, 8pm Join us this friday for the opening of Disaster Playground by Nelly Ben Hayoun. A pre-enactment of her opcoming full feature documentary shot in California in the months after. Nelly Ben Hayoun is known...
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MU | Strijp S Openingparty Januari 31th 2014, 8pm Join us this friday for the opening of Sitcom! A Re-enactment by Lucas Maassen. During the Dutch Design Week of 2013, Lucas Maassen and Twan van Bragt made the...
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An oft-quoted example for the chaos theory is the butterfly of Lorenz. The name is based on a metaphor that a flying butterfly on one side of the world could cause a storm on the other side. Could designers possibly...
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MU and FIBER present Coded Matter(s) #3: Transmaterials. During this evening programme artists, designers and theorists explore how digital fabrication technologies, such as laser cutting and 3D printers, provide unprecedented possibilities to translate coded virtual forms and digital processes...
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With great pleasure MU and FIBER offer a select group (20) of students and young professionals from the fields of (audio)visual art, design and creative technology the opportunity to attend a masterclass by Quayola at MU on Friday January 10....
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Join us after the evening programme for some drinks and music with a live set by FAH aka Robin de Bekker and a dj set by Artefakt. Tickets for the afterparty are €5 and only sold at the door. Tickets for the...
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Design Criticism: Alive and Kicking! Wednesday 18 December 16.30–17.30, Designhuis This lecture by Alice Twemlow dives into the notion that the venues for design criticism in the shape of newspaper and magazine columns are few and far between and most design...
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The next edition of MU Open School will be on December 13th, from 12.30 - 5 pm at MU Strijp-S. For all those who are trying to redesign their own learning environment, MU organises the second edition of MU OPEN SCHOOL,...
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MU | De Witte Dame Saturday 11:00 – 14:00 Workshopleaders: Greg Leuch & Jiashan Wu (F.A.T Lab artist & oprichters XOlator) Documentation is the core importance for any artist, designer, technologist, or creative. These days, creatives host their...
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Baltan Laboratories Friday 9:30 – 14:30 Workshopleader: Geraldine Juarez (F.A.T Lab artist) "Women in Tech" is a concept that has become very popular during the latest boom of the IT industry, to bring attention to th minority of "women...
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MU | De Witte Dame Friday 8pm - 1am On fridaynight we will open the exhibition F.A.T. GOLD EUROPE. Expect live actions, last minute contributions and interaction with the public. It won't be F.A.T is we didn't complete the night with some...
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Baltan Laboratories Thursday 14:30 – 17:00 Workshopleaders: Greg Leuch & Jiashan Wu (F.A.T Lab artist & oprichters XOlator) "Have you ever wondered what color the internet is? Learn how to build a simple web extension for searching the internet to quickly create your...
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F.A.T. Lab and Do-It-Yourself Publishing Wednesday 13 November 16.30–17.30, Designhuis Inspired by the software development philosophy of "Release Early, Release Often", the Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab have produced thousands of projects in the past five years on their...
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After 7 days of shooting The Sitcom it's time for a party. Music, drinks and of course chairs. Music by woody and Dj Douglas From 8 pm till late. ...
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Google: the ultimate designer? Wednesday, 23 October (DDW) 16.30–17.30, Designhuis In collaboration with Domein voor de Kunstkritiek / De Gids Google gives us the bigger picture, it shows us every street corner, every building, each passer-by, every answer to every question....
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Feel free to join us this sunday for the opening of The Sculpture Factory by Davide Quayola. Quayola will be present to answer any questions you might have about the project. We start at 4 pm. Hope to see you then! ...
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During the Dutch Design Week you can attend the filming of The Sitcom! in MU | De Witte Dame. The first sitcom starring chairs. And each world premiere needs a press conference! Besides Eindhoven designer Lucas Maassen, initiator of The Sitcom!,...
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Garage Grit enters its final week! Luckily you have a good reason to visit MU | De Witte Dame on the last Saturday. We are going to end the show with a finissage together with Lodown Magazine who launches...
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Bio-design: kindergarten for science? Wednesday 25 September 16.30–17.30, Designhuis Can we extend human life by redesigning our organs? This triggered Agatha Haines to re-design babies. She attempted to transfigure human organs by treating the human body just like another material to design...
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On Friday September 20 Vivian van Gaal will give a presentation on MU FlipLab at Incubate Festival. The lecture takes place in the framework of a symposium about storytelling and social design "How great stories create value", curated by researcher...
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During Hallo Cultuur!, visitors of the exhibition Garage Grit (Witte Dame) can join the workshop ' Design the car of the future'. The workshop is for kids. Date and time: 1 sept 12h00-17h00 Acces: ...
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During Hallo Cultuur, on Sunday September 1st, you can again use a free shuttle bus. Between 12:00 and 18:30 the bus shuttles between the following stops. 1. MU | Strijp S 2. Klokgebouw / Popei 3. MU | De Witte Dame...
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The outdoor performance ‘Bodies in Urban Spaces’ by Austrian choreographer Cie. Willi Dorner is a moving trail, choreographed for a group of dancers. The performers lead the audience through selected parts of the public and semi-public spaces of Strijp S....
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Searching for the poetry of concrete along the ragged edges of Eindhoven. In the context of the exhibition Small Gestures, MU has invited the street artist Wladimir Manshanden to repeat his successful city safari. In 2012, he took a bus load...
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MU15 and second MU at Strijp-S Great news: MU turns 15 and opens a second space at Strijp-S. Thousand square meters on the ground floor of building Gerard gives the next years room to MU's successful mix of international contemporary art,...
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Finissage & live performances Gijs Gieskes, TokTek, Pieterjan Pieters and Author & Punisher. Saturday May 4, from 20:01 h. Location: MU, Witte Dame On the last Saturday, after the Remembrance of the Dead, we will end the exhibition with live performances by Dutch...
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POWER TO/FROM THE PEOPLE Can designers shape the energy transition or will the energy transition shape design? March 27th 15:00-16:30 Designhuis Eindhoven, Stadhuisplein 3, Eindhoven A plenary discussion with Sytse Jelles, Mike Thompson and Peter Mensinga. Moderator: Gert Staal. Creating a sustainable energy...
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Together with artist Gijs Gieskes, school classes will build an electric acoustic instrument. Only in Dutch. More info on the Dutch pages. ...
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in cooperation with Databooth and STRP BIENNAL Saturday, March 9, 11.00 – 15.00 h, MU Always wanted to learn how to turn your own datasets into striking visualisations? That will be possible on Saturday, March 9 at MU where Sietse van...
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Health: The Next Level - What game-design offers healthcare February 27th 15:00-16:30 Designhuis Eindhoven, Stadhuisplein 3, Eindhoven A plenary discussion with Marlies Schijven, Susana Cámara Leret, Jan Willem Huisman en Adriaan Wormgoor. Moderator: Sabine Wildevuur. It is about time we discuss what games...
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February 19, MU, De Witte Dame Dutch-only meeting Mondriaan Fund....
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Saturday, February 16, 21.30 – 5.00 h, Paradiso, Amsterdam The Miracle of Eindhoven is a festival which will be held in Amsterdam, and comprises lectures, performances, exhibitions, presentations, pop music, design, visual arts, documentaries and science. Spread out over various locations,...
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Saturday, February 16, 21.30 – 5.00 h, Paradiso, Amsterdam Together with STRP and TAC, MU will present a contemporary programme during the late-night Old Eindhoven Acid Party to be held in Paradiso’s ‘Kleine Zaal’, featuring Melvin the Mini Machine, Gijs Gieskes,...
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Plagiarism vs. Inspiration - Copy Share Reference Steal Tribute Infringe Borrow 30th January 15:00-16:30 Designhuis Eindhoven, Stadhuisplein 3, Eindhoven A plenary discussion with Tim Vermeulen, Christine Lacroix, Gie van den Broek and Bob Copray "What you really worry about in the design of...
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November 30 - 2012, 19:00 - 20:30 Location: MU, Emmasingel 20, Eindhoven English spoken Lecture by John o\'Shea. Meet en greet the initiater of the black market pudding and the Meat Licence: The first \'Licenced Product\' will be called \'Black Market Pudding\' which is...
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November 29 2012, 19:00 - 22:00 Location: MU, Emmasingel 20, Eindhoven More information BioArt Laboratories ...
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November 28 - 2012, 19:00 - 22:30 Location: MU, Emmasingel 20, Eindhoven Première \\\'Design, Science, BioArt\\\' Documentary \\\'Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis\\\'...
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Workshop: Neighbourhood Satellites Energy Harvests November 27 - 2012, 12:00 - 16:30 Location: MU, Emmasingel 20, Eindhoven English spoken Meer informatie Baltan Laboratories en Holst Centre organiseren een opmerkelijke Art Science workshop: Neighbourhood Satellites Energy Harvests. Led by Myriel Milicevic...
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Shaking Science is the event where you can talk with the life sciences. Everything under the motto: science meets society, society meets science. From November 26 until November 30 MU will show the exhibition "BioArt not stirred" with work...
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Sunday July 22 From 3 pm Sunday July 22 is not only the last day to see The Tiny Tim exhibtion but also the first chance to glance through and buy a publication of the same name. Not...
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THE FUTURE OF OFFLINE FILESHARING Public presentation on friday june 8, 3 pm Locatie: Capital D, Torenallee 22-08 Strijp-S, Eindhoven, NL ----------------------- June 6 to 8, 2012 3-Day Masterclass during Dutch Technology Week A collaboration between STRP, Baltan...
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Artist Talk | Will Sweeney Book Launch | Erwin Thomasse From 8 pm Location MU Free entrance This evening Eindhoven-based artist Erwin Thomasse, co-curator of Seek Merry Hell, will launch his book Lust, Liberty and Teleportation....
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Friday, April 13 Mar Canet Sola and Varavara Guljajeva will open the doors of their studio at the MU house. Since January of this year they are artists in residence at the MU House in the...
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UNFORTUNATELY THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED On April 7 you are welcome at MU for a presentation by Zoe Strauss. More info A workshop for bloggers By Irma Driessen April 7 and 12, 2012 The workshop will be in Dutch. Please check here....
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From 4 pm Location: MU Free entrance icw Showroom MAMA As part of the exhibition Highbrow, Lowbrow, Nobrow – MOUSSE!, Showroom Mama presents 2 talks with photographer Zoe Strauss and curator Harlan Levey. On April 7 the will be at...
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MU and IMPAKT WORKS present: Robotics + digital fabrication, an introduction a workshop with Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet Sola March 22nd and 23rd MU and Impakt are joining forces for a collaborative workshop. This two day class is an introduction to robotics...
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!! Cancelled due to illness. We hope to be able to announce a new date soon. Master class in Digital Aesthetics Friday February 24 From 12.30 to 3.30 pm Location: MU and TAC Language: English The Tosso Variations, the current exhibition...
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!! Cancelled due to illness. We hope to be able to announce a new date soon. Friday February 24 From 4 to 6 pm Location: TAC, Vonderweg 1 Eindhoven Free entrance Commissioned by MU, KS12 (of which Gabriel Shalom is part)...
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Thursday December 8 Starts at 8 pm, free entrance During this MU&More the results of the After the Bit Rush workshop will be presented. Together with Unfold and Lucas Maassen designers and artists can participate in this one...
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Thursday November 10 Starts at 8 pm, free entrance Based on a simple pot of pumkinsoup, curator Arne Hendriks researches the principles of open source culture. Together with the audience he tastes and improves the recipe shared online by an unknown amateur...
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Sunday October 2th Starting at 14 h, Free entrance The members of the social and cultural collective Project Morrinho are continuously re-building models of their home, the Pereira da Silva favela in Rio de Janeiro. The MU installation was conceived by four...
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Thursday September 22 Starting at 20h, free entrance The representations of imagined spaces created by Speedism are always wilder and more ambitious than the realities from which they come. The Belgium artist/architect Pieterjan Ginckels, one of the two brains behind Speedism, is...
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Thursday September 15 Starting at 20h, free entrance Just back from Tsjernobyl, Liam Young from the London-based think tank Tomorrow\'s Thoughts Today is coming to MU to share his findings and experiences. Next to making installations like the Robot Zoo, now showing in...
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Thursday July 7 Starting at 20h, free entrance \'Think Space: Exploring Architecure in Visual Culture\' Lukas Feireiss runs the interdisciplinary creative practice Studio Lukas Feireiss, focusing on the discussion and mediation of architecture, art and visual culture in the urban realm. In his...
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Thursday 2 June Starting 8pm, entrance free Psychedelic clips That MU and Submarine Channel more often share the same fascinations was already obvious in their collaboration to make the exhibition Forget the Film, Watch the Titles. But also when...
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Thursday, May 19th From 20:00, free entrance Kamermans Kermis and MU present a psychedelic evening with a scientific input by American Techgnosis-writer Erik Davis, short films by DVD-magazine Wholphin and outspoken literature by Niña Weijers and Christophe Verbrugge. Kamermans Kermis...
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Thusday 5 May Starting 8pm, entrance is free BYOB, Bring Your Own Beamer is an open-source one-nightexhibition, invented by the Dutch media-artist and Neenstar Rafaël Rozendaal. For a BYOB evening artists are invited to bring their...
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Thursday 7 april Startin 8pm, entrance is free. The day before the opening of The New Psychedelica exhibition we are giving a little preview, but we also like the audience to a literally psychedelic pre-taste. In stead of the regular...
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Thursday 24 March Starting at 8pm, entrance is free. Location: The studio in the Van Abbe Museum In the studio of Van Abbe Museum the American curator and writer Harlan Levey will tell us all about the Moussism. Soon a...
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Thursday, March 10 From 20:00 UNLIKE U - Trainwriting in Berlin is not a normal Graffiti Video, in which action after action and train after train get shown, rather the Video is a sympathetic portrait of a scene which has never...
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Thursday, March 3 From 20:00 The Great Abnerio, the alter-ego of artist Abner Preis, is the "strong man" in his own traveling circus. In it he tells about his adventures as a superhero, as a fighter pilot in the Iranian...
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Thursday, February 24 From 20:00 HeyNiek presents EFFE, Eindhoven Fashion Film Experiment, where we take a closer look on the influence of experimental videoart and fashion films.. Especially in music videos and Hollywood movies, these influences are clearly present. The creators...
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Thursday, February 10 From 20:00 Digital Arts platform and festival Playgrounds, mixed media film producer Postal Panic and the componist Bram Meindersma, all like to work with Fons Schiedon. And Fons with them. Why and how? They will tell you this...
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