NØ SCHOOL NEVERS
2023

NØ SCHOOL 2023

During 2 weeks NØ SCHOOL NEVERS will offer to its participants, the opportunity to follow a unique and intensive curriculum, mixing theory and practice, research and making, led by an international panel of artists, designers, critical makers and theorists.

Participants will be able to engage in workshops and conferences, led by artists, academics, critical makers, hackers, designers from all over the world. Topics covered will include:

Sustainability and the environmental impact of technologies, Web to Print, Low-Tech, DIY, Live coding, Limits and failures of information and communication technologies, Planned obsolescence, Consumerism and disposable society, Ownership and privacy, Hacking and recycling, Desire to incorporate modern technologies into our daily lives, Care, Modern day relationships, Contemporary desire to turn to technology for answers, Programming and algorithmic thinking, Hardware electronics, Speculative research, Tactile experimentation, Sound art, Interactive installations, Digital spaces and more…

Working in close collaboration with our team of guest teachers NØ SCHOOL aims at creating a safe, open and inclusive working + learning environment for our guests and participants.

NØ TEACHERS

NØ SCHOOL is led by artists, academics, critical makers, hackers, designers from all over the world.

Claire Williams FR/BE

The works of Claire Williams are at the crossroads of craft, sound and electronics. Her artworks try to sense the multiple variations in our electromagnetic spectrum taking the form of art installations, making tangible the electromagnetic movements of our magnetosphere. She is currently working on the exploration of ether, exploring our relationship to the world of the invisible by reviving abandoned leads of certain scientific and researches of the mid 19th century.

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Ioana Vreme-Moser RO/DE

Ioana Vreme Moser is a Romanian transmedia narrator and sound artist engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research and DIY experimentation.

She places electronic components and control voltages in different situations of interaction with organic materials, lost and found items and environmental stimuli. Her works are dominated by technological artefacts, bits and pieces of garbage, intimate objects and low-tech that resound in diagrams, installations, sound sculptures, hand-made instruments or sound- performance setups.

She has been closely engaged with the Electroacoustic Music Studio Krakow (PL), kinema ikon multimedia Atelier Arad (RO) and Simultan, Media Art Association, Timisoara (RO). Currently, she lives and works in the T10 artist community in Berlin.

ioanavrememoser.com

Eliza Struthers Jobin CA/FR

Eliza is an artist and programmer from Montreal, Canada, currently based in Paris, France. Fascinated by the influence that programming and algorithmic thinking have on the creative process, she has been creating artwork with code since 2015. Her work has spanned web-based playgrounds, to full scale interactive and audiovisual installations.

Imagining the hidden spaces that exist in the overlap between here and there, IRL and URL, the idea of transposing participants into parallel digital spaces in real-time, provide constant inspiration. How does it feel to be in two places at once? How can you feel something you can't quite touch?

Eliza collaborates with fellow artists, studios as well as brands creating works for festivals, shows, and to showcase new and emerging technologies from a purely creative POV.

elizasj.com

Geert Lovink NL

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), Organisation after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019) and Stuck on the Platform (2022). He studied political science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). His centre organizes conferences, publications and research networks such as Video Vortex (online video), The Future of Art Criticism and MoneyLab (internet-based revenue models in the arts). Recent projects deal with digital publishing experiments, critical meme research, participatory hybrid events and precarity in the arts.

From 2007-2018 He was media theory professor at the European Graduate School. In December 2021 he was appointed Professor of Art and Network Cultures at the UvA Art History Department. The Chair (one day a week) is supported by the HvA.

Institute of Network Cultures

DISNOVATION.ORG FR

Disnovation.org is a research collective set up in paris in 2012, whose core members include Maria Roszkowska (pl/fr), Nicolas Maigret (fr), Baruch Gottlieb (ca/de), and Jerome Saint-Clair (fr). They work at the interface between contemporary art, research and hacking, and compose tailor-made teams for each investigation together with academics, activists, engineers, and designers. More specifically their recent artistic provocations seek to empower post growth imaginaries and practices while challenging dominant techno-solutionist ideologies. Their research includes artworks, publications & curation.

disnovation.org

Adriana Knouf US/NL

Adriana Knouf, PhD (NL/US) works as an artist, writer, and xenologist. She engages with topics such as wet media, space art, satellites, radio transmission, non-human encounters, drone flight, queer and trans futurities, machine learning, the voice, and papermaking. She is the Founding Facilitator of the tranxxenolab, a nomadic artistic research laboratory that promotes entanglements among entities trans and xeno. All xenoentities are welcome in the tranxxeno lab.

Adriana regularly presents her artistic research around the world and beyond, including a work that has flown aboard the International Space Station. Her work has been recognized by a number of awards, including an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica (2021), an Honorary Mention from the Science Fiction Research Association’s Innovative Research Award, and as a prize winner in The Lake’s Works for Radio #4 (2020).

Adriana is currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

zeitkunst.org

Dasha Ilina RU

Dasha Ilina is a Russian digital artist based in Paris, France. Through the employment of low tech and DIY approaches her work highlights the nebulous relationship between our desire to incorporate modern technologies into our daily lives and proposed social imperatives for care of oneself and others. Her practice engages the public in order to facilitate a space for the development of critical thought regarding our modern day relationships, privacy in the digital age, and the reflexive contemporary desire to turn to technology for answers.

She is the founder of the Center for Technological Pain, a project that proposes DIY solutions to health problems caused by digital technologies for which she has received an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica.

dashailina.com
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Gijs Gieskes NL

Gijs Gieskes is an industrial-designer/artist from the Netherlands specializing in the design of electronic devices, for audiovisual use.
When he started to make electronic things he knew almost nothing about how they work, but with simple solutions he managed to make usable instruments anyway. For instance he used a speaker as a relay, where a transistor should have been used. Because of knowing little he used his creativity in a none efficient way, he invented things that already existed. But he feels proud of these inventions, for instance the Relay, the Vactrol and the Phase Locked Loop. Nowadays he knows much more about electronics, but he still want to work the same way as when he started.

gieskes.nl

Nicolas Maigret FR

Benjamin Gaulon is an artist, researcher, educator and cultural producer. He has previously released work under the name "recyclism". His research focuses on the limits and failures of information and communication technologies; planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society; ownership and privacy; through the exploration of détournement, hacking and recycling. His projects can be softwares, installations, pieces of hardware, web based projects, interactive works, street art interventions and are, when applicable, open source.

He is currently co-director of NØ SCHOOL, a non profit organisation whose mission is to support and promote emerging art and design research and practices that address the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies, in France and beyond. Co-organiser of NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2019. And he is the CEO of IoDT the Internet of Dead Things Institute.

recyclism.com
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Teresa Dillon IE/DE

Teresa Dillon is an artist and researcher whose work symbolically and critically examines the techno-civic systems that affect and shape everyday urban life. Over the last 15 years, her research has contributed to policy thinking on open data, and she has written on the role of open source within art and education, repair, surveillance histories, and urban wildlife; sound, noise, and the electromagnetic spectrum, infrastructural literacy, and the urban commons.

Since 2013 she has been hosting urbanknights.org, a program of talks and workshops that provoke and promote practical approaches to urban governance, city living, and civic wellbeing. She is currently Professor of City Futures at the School of Art and Design, UWE Bristol.

polarproduce.org

Ted Davis US/CH

Ted Davis is an American media artist / designer / educator based in Basel, Switzerland, where he teaches interaction design and coordinates the UIC/HGK International Master of Design program within the Visual Communication Institute, The Basel School of Design HGK FHNW. His work and teachings explore the volatility of digital media through glitch and reactivating older ‘new media’ through newer programming means. His open source projects (basil.js, XYscope, P5LIVE) enable designers to program within Adobe InDesign, render vector graphics on vector displays, and collaboratively create live coded visuals. With international exhibits, lectures and workshops, he empowers students to take hold of the computer’s ability to design possibilities beyond that of the hand or mouse.

teddavis.org

Romain Cazier FR/BE

Romain Cazier is a creative coder based in Brussels. Having graduated from ECAL in Media and Interaction Design, Romain has always had an interest in using code for creative purposes. Currently he operates within EPRC, a studio co-founded with the graphic designer Emilie Pillet, where he creates websites and tools for European institutions working in the field of culture and design. Renewing an experimental practice initiated during his studies, he seeks to implement his technical and creative abilities for his own research.

eprc.studio

Jamika Ajalon US

Inter-disciplinary artist and lecturer, fortunate enough to have collaborated with many brilliant creatives across the globe, Jamika Ajalon is a creative polymath; writer at base (poet, novelist essayist), she uses a melange of interdisciplinary practice as her pen, (filmmaker, producer, songwriter, electronic/digital artist/archivist).

She has a BA film/video, Columbia University, Chicago / MA Communications in Culture and Society, Goldsmiths University London.

website

Steven Jackson US

Steven Jackson is a Professor of Information Science and Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, where he thinks and writes on questions of infrastructure, maintenance, repair, and hope, within and beyond worlds of technology (always plural!). He’s especially interested in places where new computing forms and practices meet wider/older/richer worlds, with implications for sustainability, justice, regeneration, change and endurance, and sometimes policy or design. At the most general level, he’s driven by questions of how things change and how things stay the same, in a world that is furiously doing both. (Piece of cake, right?).

website

NØ SCHEDULE WEEK 1

Please note that the schedule is subject to changes

SUNDAY 02

Informal meet-up all day Sunday. Get your housing keys + starter pack.

Meeting at Espace USANII (all day)

MONDAY 03

Short city tour with Vincent and our team. Discover the city center of Nevers and its hidden gems.

TECH MINING WORKSHOP led by our co-director Ben Gaulon aka Recyclism. HardwareHacking, Circuit Bending, Recycling and Shredding of obsolete media and hardware.

NØ TALK
These talks are led by NØ teachers and participants. Schedule tbc.

TUESDAY 04

OPEN PUBLISHING WORKSHOP led by Romain Cazier. Learn about web standards, web to print and more. A collective publication will be produced as a result of this workshop available online and as a printed publication.

NØ TALK
These talks are led by NØ teachers and participants. Schedule tbc.

WEDNESDAY 05

NØ STUDIO
During NØ STUDIO participants are invited to work on their own research, exchange with the NØ TEACHERS, collaborate, discover the city and more...

During our closing festival, NØ RETURN, a group show and performances will be open to the public.

NØ TALK
These talks are led by NØ teachers and participants. Schedule tbc.

THURSDAY 06

CREATIVE CODING WORKSHOP
led by Eliza Struthers Jobin. Learn about shadders, live coding and more with Eliza. This workshop is designed for both beginners and people with coding experience. Collaborations and improvised performances will be encouraged and presented during the NØ RETURN festival.

NØ TALK
These talks are led by NØ teachers and participants. Schedule tbc.

FRIDAY 07

NØ SCHEDULE WEEK 2

Please note that the schedule is subject to changes

MONDAY 10

FLUIDICS COMPUTING WORKSHOP PART I led by Ioana Vreme-Moser.

Transistors become tinier, computers become supercomputers, Fluid Memory sets up a mirror that reflects back to a digital technology that doesn't require many resources to operate, only simple fluid matter guided by natural phenomena.

NØ TALK
These talks are led by NØ teachers and participants. Schedule tbc.

TUESDAY 11

FLUIDICS COMPUTING WORKSHOP PART II led by Ioana Vreme-Moser.

Fluid Memory reflects upon the inconspicuous anatomy of modern computers and our incandescent love for them. It displays an anachronistic machine that operates with natural irregularities, commuting electronic hardware to a humanesque geometry.

NØ TALK
These talks are led by NØ teachers and participants. Schedule tbc.

WEDNESDAY 12

SOLAR CELL WORKSHOP led by Gijs Gieskes.

Learn how to make solar powered electronic circuits in a "non-expert" approach, which is a key part of Gijs' work, despite his great knowledge of electronics. He is characterized by a fascination with absurd machines, novel and implausible technological relationships, convoluted designs, modest materials, and avoidance of high-tech.

NØ TALK
These talks are led by NØ teachers and participants. Schedule tbc.

THURSDAY 13

REPAIR ACTS WORKSHOP led by Teresa Dilon.

Fixing, repairing and maintaining objects is essential, even vital to everyday life. Our ‘Right to Repair’ the objects should be a necessary given as it empowers us to take care of our tools and things by demanding good design and addresses issues relating to planned obsoletism. Repairing things can support local economies and crafts persons and when we mend something, we love or care for it also contributes to our wellbeing and autonomy in the world.

NØ TALK
These talks are led by NØ teachers and participants. Schedule tbc.

FRIDAY 14

NØ RETURN FESTIVAL
NØ LIVE at EGLISE SAINT-ETIENNE.

08PM SCREAMING MINERALS
09PM CABLE KNIT SWEATER
10PM MA:E
11PM LIVEP5LIVE

SATURDAY 15

NØ RETURN FESTIVAL
NØ TALK at ABW Architecte.

11AM TED DAVIS
12AM CLAIRE WILLIAMS
BREAK
03PM ADRIANA KNOUF
04PM GEERT LOVINK
05PM JAMIKA AJALON

NØ ART at ESPACE USANII.
06PM NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2023 GROUP SHOW

NØ LIVE at ABW Architecte.
8PM SKINNY BOUDDHA
9PM CANILLA
10PM CLAIRE WILLIAMS
11PM GIJS GIESKES

NØ PARTY
Invite only closing party.

SUNDAY 16

NØ RETURN FESTIVAL
NØ ART at ESPACE USANII.

02PM NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2023 GROUP SHOW

NØ HOUSING

Individual Housing located in the city center of Nevers.

HOUSING REGISTRATION

Located in student housing complex, in the city center of Nevers. 10 min away from the NØ SCHOOL Building.

Individual rooms with bathroom and mini kitchen. NØ SCHOOL will include a set of bed sheets and kitchenware.

Housing available from all of july for those of you who wish to stay a bit longer in Burgundy.

NØ NETWORK

NØ COLLECTIVE

NØ is a non profit organisation whose mission is to support and promote emerging art and design research and practices that address the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies, in France and beyond. NØ supports experimental research and creative practices; explores and proposes new ways of learning rooted in media, art, design, activism and more; and organises public events, from concerts and festivals, to exhibitions and symposia, that are critical to its mission.

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NØ SCHOOL

Initiated and led by artists and educators Benjamin Gaulon and Dasha Ilina, NØ SCHOOL is an artist run school founded in 2018 in Paris and Nevers.

Designed as a hybrid between learning, residency and research, NØ SCHOOL is aimed at students, artists, designers, makers, hackers and educators who wish to further their skills and engage in critical research and discussions around the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies.

noschoolnevers.com

ESPACE GANTNER

Since our first NØ SCHOOL NEVERS in 2019, l'Espace Gantner Multimédia is our partner.

The Espace multimedia Gantner was founded in 1998 by the Municipality of Bourogne. Since 2001, it has come under the aegis of the Territoire de Belfort as the contemporary art and new technology branch of the Departmental Media Lending Library. It has been registered with the French Ministry for Culture as a Contemporary Art Centre since 2012.

Espace Gantner

ESPACE USANII

An artistic initiative founded in 2015 by Michèle Magema, USANII means Art in Swahili. Located in the city center of Nevers, two hours from Paris, it is located in the historic district of the city.

USANII is a place in the making and under construction. Its ambition is to open up the field of possibilities in contemporary art. Thus, for its first exhibitions, it offers an eclectic and demanding program based on a sensitive approach to the works, punctuated by literary, musical and performing arts events. The notion of exchange, a privileged axis of the space, opens up, among other things, to museums, heritage sites, schools, all places where the city lives.

Since 2022, Usanii is under the artistic direction of Benjamin Gaulon.

NØ TEAM

Vincent Valéry FR

Vincent Valéry is an artist / paysartiste, sculptor, landscape architect and self taught botanist based in Nevers. He has been working as production manager and technician at the The Parc Saint Léger Contemporary Art Center for 15 years. He has since created his own company Verte Incarnation designing indoor gardens and various organic installations mixing plants and spatial design. He is part of the NØ SCHOOL organisation and improvised city guide for the occasion.

Niklas Ayris UK/FR

Niklas Ayris is an MA student in the Ecole de recherche at Sciences Po, Paris and former chef. Having worked in the restaurant industry over the course of the last decade across several countries, his current research project combines qualitative and computational methods to examine the production and dissemination of expert knowledge - this in service of understanding how the Guide Michelin successfully establishes itself as an industry standard transcending cultural boundaries.

Adélaïde Quenson FR/CH

Adélaïde Quenson is an art history researcher. She is preparing a PhD, questioning the links between digital art and street art.

She holds a Master Degree from Paris Nanterre University. Her master thesis questions digital art and artivism, based on a monography on Benjamin Gaulon.

In 2021, she joins the team of Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (teaching, research and creation on the circulation of images in Europe) to pursue her research in Digital Humanities at the Geneva University.

NØ SCHOOL

NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2022 is hosted in the city center of Nevers, mixing learning, working and social times.

NØ RETURN FESTIVAL

NØ RETURN FESTIVAL is the closing festival of NØ SCHOOL NEVERS.

Hosted at L'ESACE USANII + OTHER LOCATIONS
JULY 15 / 17 in NEVERS FRANCE

NØ RETURN

NØ ART

NØ ART is a group show by NØ PARTICIPANTS + NØ TEACHERS.

NØ TALK

NØ TALK are a series of talks and discussions led by NØ PARTICIPANTS + NØ TEACHERS.

NØ LIVE

NØ LIVE are sets of live audio visual performances.

CONTACT REGISTER

Avec le soutien du Conseil départemental de la Nièvre, de la Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté et de la Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelle Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

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