Posts By: Leonieke van Dipten

Cross Critique: Experiments in Art Criticism

By Leonieke van Dipten, 24/05/2018

A collaborative art critique residency took place at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. For 5 days, 12 international critics, video- and sound artists worked together to re-invent classic forms of art criticism. Forget that dry black print on white paper and immerse yourself in the mesmerizing longreads and podcasts about La Plaza by El Conde de Torrefiel [...]

Symposium and closing party: Criticism in the Post

By Leonieke van Dipten, 15/05/2018

When? Saturday 2 June at 11:00 – late, Sunday 3 June at. 11:00 – 14:00. Where? MDT, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm For almost two years, Kritiklabbet has explored the future of criticism in the post-digital public sphere, together with researchers, critics, politicians, officials, artists and many others. Now they finish their work with a two day symposium [...]

How-to: Digital Art Criticism

By Leonieke van Dipten, 15/05/2018

On Thursday 19th of April the Domain of Art Criticism and the INC launched the How To Digitale Kunstkritiek at SPUI25 in Amsterdam. We are happy to announce that the How To is freely available (in Dutch). The How To Digitale Kunstkritiek is a practical guide, which discusses tools and methods for digital criticism. It [...]

The Art of Criticism in Brussels 4 – 9 May 2018

By Leonieke van Dipten, 19/02/2018

By Sonja van der Valk Last November we talked about common projects and, with some beers in our hands, we decided to bring some of us together during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (KFDA) in Brussels, May 2018. This much I can tell you, it is going to happen. Axel Andersson (Kritiklabbet), Wouter Hillaert (rekto:verso), and Daphne Rieken [...]

Publishing Against The Grain: a traveling exhibition that provides a space for reading, thinking, and conversing

By Leonieke van Dipten, 09/11/2017

Publishing Against the Grain is a new traveling exhibition that provides a space for reading, thinking, and conversing, where slowing down can become a form of intellectual resistance, organized and produced by Independent Curators International November 18  – January 29 | Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MoCAA) | Cape Town, South Africa January 19 [...]

Can a critic become a developer?

By Leonieke van Dipten, 25/09/2017

Hybridisation in the (digital) publishing work flow, by Fabiola Fortuna Can a critic, or a humanist, become a developer? This question was brought to me some weeks ago by Sonja van der Valk (Domain for Art Criticism). My reply? Yes, surely. The necessary condition to do this – next to passion, of course – is [...]

Debate online – Tribute to Julian B. Coco

By Leonieke van Dipten, 25/09/2017

Tim and Katrein Breukers are artists in residence in Hotel Maria Kapel in the little Dutch town Hoorn. For a period of three months they have been researching  the work of the musician and good friend of their grandmother’s, Julian B. Coco (1924-2013), trying to find a connection between his work and person and the [...]

Cross Critique – art criticism in (moving) images

By Leonieke van Dipten, 25/09/2017

Nine Dutch and Flemish critics and video artists landed on the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussel in May 2017. Their mission: to experiment with the possibilities of audio-visual criticism. Can you ‘write’ a critique in images? In which ways does text relate to a moving image, or audio to image and text? What kind of consequences does [...]

Cross Media Publishing: Cinekid MediaLab 2016

By Leonieke van Dipten, 20/09/2017

In a joint project in fall 2016, Cinekid MediaLab (an annual exposition of media art for children), PublishingLab (part of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and Domain for Art Criticism produced forty-seven blogposts, a collection of essays and a website. Five critics and artists were involved in research and writing, while four students developed [...]