FYI Talent Program

// about

// the programme

FYI Emerging Digital Maker Program 2023

The FYI Emerging Digital Maker Program is designed to teach you about the digital culture ecosystem in the Netherlands and how you can develop your professional art practice within it. This includes not only developing your own practice, building a network, and presenting your work, but also learning about working conditions, your rights as a cultural worker, and different avenues for subsidies and financial support. Taking the form of seven intimate sessions and three studio visits, you’ll have the opportunity—together with 25 other emerging makers in digital culture—to learn from experienced mentors and professionals in the field. 

Organised by The Hmm. Supported by the Creative Industry Fund.

▶▶ programme webpage

// location

Framer Framed, Amsterdam

Framer Framed is a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice. Each year the organisation presents a variety of exhibitions alongside diverse cultural and educational programs at its main location in Amsterdam Oost, as well as its project space Werkplaats Molenwijk in Amsterdam Noord.
With the belief that critical and contextualised programming is best explored with an open door and low threshold, Framer Framed’s public programs are always free of charge and resources are made readily available to emerging and established local and transnational communities, artists, and curators to turn their own ideas into tangible realities.
Framer Framed regularly commissions and co-produces new artworks and publications, organises international projects, and houses a bookshop and open reading space.

▶▶ website

// mapping the scene

we worked in pairs to add on the map places we know personally

📍 6-10-2023 // @Framer Framed, Amsterdam

_summary
During this session, we had an introduction to the history of digital culture in the Netherlands & some reflections on what exactly it is (to us), facilitated by Lilian Stolk (co-founder of The Hmm). Afterwards, we did an elaborate brainstorming about institutions, education, festivals and funds that work in the same field. Altogether, we made a visual map and discussed what is our personal experience with them.

_highlights
We collected places in four categories: institutions, funds, festivals, and education. On my end, I have experience with a very small batch of those, but here are some that I've mapped during the last two years (the list is work in progress):

education xpub (experimental publishing) / wdka (willem de kooning academy

institutions (including spaces, galleries, museums, even collectives)
Rotterdam: WORM / Varia / Roodkapje /
Groningen: SIGN project space /
Nijmegen: Extrapool /

festivals FIBER / STRP / Rewire festival / Sounds of music /

funds Together with Erica (xpub) we started researching this last year, ▶▶ here is our summary so far.

Also, here is my personal research since I've moved to the Netherlands: ▶ art scene in NL

// further reads

_references that are connected to the programme or some reads that I am checking out [and are connected to the topic]

★ Janwillem Schrofer and Wendy Van Os-Thompson (2018). Plan and play, play and plan : defining your art practice. Amsterdam: Valiz. ‌
★ Nav Haq and Pascal Gielen (2020). The aesthetics of ambiguity. Understanding and addressing monoculture. Amsterdam: Valiz.