symposium Transparant vision- The art and science of glass
Biennale Kijkduin Symposium 2011 Friday 10 June 2011
Transparent vision – the Art and Science of Glass
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag Official language: English
Moderator
Caroline Prisse, Head Glass Department Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
9.00 Welcome
Benno Tempel
Directeur Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
9.05 Keynote speech ‘Between Science and Art’
Prof.dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Amsterdam
President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam
Member Supervisory Board, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
9.30 30 minutes lecture ‘GLASS MATTERS! - How Glass changed the World’
Angela van der Burght
Curator Biennale Kijkduin, general editor FJOEZZZ
20 minutes lecture ‘Delft Glass Design Innovations’
Prof.dr.ir. Mick Eekhout
Professor of Product Development, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft
Architect, director Octatube International, Delft
Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
20 minutes lecture ‘Counterintuitive considerations’
Peter Drobny
Artist, Corning Incorporated, New York
20 minutes lecture ‘IN-VETRO – The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project’
Koen Vanmechelen
Visual artist and dr. H.C. University Hasselt, Belgium
20 minutes lecture ‘Science, industry and art influencing the developments
from studio glass until now’
Prof.dr. Sylva Petrova, director Institute for international research
in Glass, Faculty of Arts, Design & Media, University Sunderland, UK
Biennale Kijkduin Symposium 2011 Friday 10 June 2011
Transparent vision – the Art and Science of Glass
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag Official language: English
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Moderator
Caroline Prisse, Head Glass Department Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
12.45 Lunch
13.45 20 minutes lecture ‘Porious glass experiments’
Arnout Visser, designer, NL
20 minutes lecture ‘Light and Glass’
Paul Cocksedge, designer, UK
20 minutes lecture ‘Create, integrate and illuminate with Philips Lumiblade OLED’
Kristin Knappstein
Head of Business Creation, Business Center OLED Lighting
Philips Technology, Aachen, Germany
20 minutes lecture ‘Beauty in Science’
Prof.dr. Hans Galjaard
Emeritus professor of Human Genetics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Guest curator of the exhibition ‘Beauty in Science’, 2011
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
20 minutes lecture ‘Designing new Materials’
Els Zijlstra
Director Materia, Naarden, NL
Dutch platform for new materials in Architecture and industrial Design
16.45 Departure bus to Biennale Kijkduin 2011
Guided tour exhibition ‘CHEMISTRY – Creating new Worlds‘.
Twenty monumental glass and light art installations to be seen
on the boulevard, the dunes and Deltaplein – KIJKDUIN
Posted on August 7, 2011
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