Welcome to the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie website! To encourage critical making and thinking, Studium Generale offers a diverse and transdisciplinary programme every year on an urgent theme. Read more about the set-up and structure here.

This website consists of 3 substantive and informative layers that constantly feed each other.

The Programme Overview home page displays announcements of ongoing events and activities, and provides instant access to their live streams when appropriate.

Below the Programme overview is the Archive Picks area, which presents varying selections of older programme contributions, curated by guests or by ourselves. Older contributions can thus regain attention or meaning, or be presented in alternative arrangements.

At the bottom is the Archive. There you will find material from 2011 to the present: part of the video-recorded contributions to the annual conference of Studium Generale and since March 2020 also recordings of events and presentations of the preliminary programmes. The archive is searchable in various ways and offers a chronological overview of previous editions and links to the associated project websites. It also contains announcements and descriptions of previous programme components, which can no longer be relived, but do provide some glances in the histories of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

The purpose of the website is to inform and present what is happening at the moment, but it is also a memory, in which a lot can be found and unexpected encounters can take place.

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N.B. This website is still under construction! Not everything has been completed yet and the search functions in the Archive are not yet fully functional.

THE UNIVERSAL BLOB

HARD-CORE invites you to visit the Core of its system, The Universal Blob. Here voices are not what they seem and who they seem. Identities dissolve and are formed, the mundane gets blend with dreams and wishes for the fu-ture. Welcome to the power of plurality.

HARD-CORE is an Amsterdam and London based artist-run organization op-erating non-hierarchically and non-authoritatively by delegating tasks algo-rithmically between collaborative parties. Since its foundation in spring 2011, HARD-CORE has been developing curatorial methods which problematize aspects of exhibition-making, such as subjective choices based on notions of harmony and taste. It recently started an artist database supported by its ro-botic curator Asahi to organize exhibitions. HARD-CORE is kindly supported by the European Pavilion. Recent exhibitions include; Strictly Digital, Alter-nativa 2015, Wyspa Institute of Art (PL, 2015); IS IT ART OR IS IT JUST, NEW: ART CENTER, BWA Zielona Góra (PL, 2014); Logic if you want human if you like, Alpineum (CH, 2013).