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Visual identity for an interactive debate experience by Nienke Huitenga and James Bryan Graves
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Gloss connects virtual and material worlds. Rocks polished into diamonds, screens, 3D renders, light bouncing off a surface, sun, shining into a puddle. Gloss lays between our naked eye and what we see. Our faces reflect in screens streaming social media content, browser meeting the shopping window, a virtual ‘real deal’. Insta-beauty demands gloss, glow and skin as smooth as a render.
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Untitled is a publication which contains my research on the 'terms and conditions' of establishing an autonomous creative practice as a non-EU citizen in the Netherlands, accompanied by an installation. The idea of getting fit to satisfy the requirements for remaining in the country is taken quite literally in an exhibition setup, where the book (as an ebook) is displayed on a treadmill. MA graduation work: book (print+digital), installation, 2019 photo by Sander van Wettum
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In collaboration with Simona Koutná. Seeking digital beauty in shopping malls, glossy images, talking to voice assistants, befriending interfaces, our devices and each other. Written content collaboratively developed in a (now largely private) blog, available at http:// zavidova.com/machine_collaborator/ photo by Hans Poel
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Untitled is a publication which contains my research on the 'terms and conditions' of establishing an autonomous creative practice as a non-EU citizen in the Netherlands, accompanied by an installation. The idea of getting fit to satisfy the requirements for remaining in the country is taken quite literally in an exhibition setup, where the book (as an ebook) is displayed on a treadmill. MA graduation work: book (print+digital), installation, 2019 photo by Hans Poel
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Print/Press teamed up with printers (KVGO, Aeroprint and Jubels), inviting 12 designers to work with new technologies in print. The designer's task was to work with variable data to make a design for one month. Variable data allows for the reproduction of unique multiples in a single print run. I was given the month of April, and made the design that reflected the season (plants growing and extending the roots) and the unpredictability of planning (the labyrinth)
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Visual identity for an exhibition: website & catalogue. To connect physical and digital spaces our team developed a website which changes moods and colours depending on the time of the day. In collaboration with with Lucie de Brechard, Sascha Krischock and Alex Walker.
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Confidence & Alienation exhibits and preserves the feeling of the non-belonging, archiving it in a simulated conversation between two figures. Produced during TempStudio residency in Lisbon, Portugal, 6-12 November 2017. http://zavidova.com/Confidence_alienation/
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User, aligning to The Grid, part of The Comfort of Control, video & installation, video stills
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Follow-up publication for the Hackers&Designers summer academy 2017
Websites
personal website
zavidova.comSocial media
Curriculum vitae
Opleidingen
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2017 - 2019Design Amsterdam, Sandberg Instituut Diploma behaald
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2012 - 2016Graphic Design Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
tentoonstellingen
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2020Dutch Design Week 2020 Online Eindhoven, Nederland Follow The Gloss, virtual exhibition tour at the Dutch Design Week, as Rude Strategies (Karina Zavidova and Simona Koutná) ddw.nl/en/programme/3730/follow-the-gloss Groep
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2020The Hmm @ Hackers&Designers Online Amsterdam, Nederland Virtual event, talk. Together with Simona Koutná thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-hackers-designers-2020/ Groep
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2019The Other Book West Den Haag Den Haag , Nederland Backlash in print: Publishing as an artistic practice – a panel discussion with Karin de Jong, Karina Zavidova, Mortiz Grünke, Astrid Vorstermans, and Aymeric Mansoux theotherbook.eu/ Groep
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2019BARTALK:17 Future Historians The Haley's Comet Breakfast Club Den Haag, Nederland ‘Software: relationships’, talk bartalkdh.wordpress.com/ Groep
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2019Not Too Close To The Walls Or The Corners Studio Spijkerkade Amsterdam, Nederland Sandberg Instituut Design Departement Graduation Show sandberg.nl/graduation2019/graduates_design Groep
Internationale uitwisselingen / Artist-in-residencies
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2018Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, Verenigde Staten Summer Program 2018, Otis MFA GD Art Book Fair www.otis.edu/
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2017Temp Studio Lissabon, Portugal Artist-in-residence program for new media artists www.instagram.com/temp_studio_/
opdrachten
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2020WINWIN WINWIN Nederland Visual identity for a research on consensus-making algorithm winwin.zone Uitgevoerd
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2018Celestial Services Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Nederland Visual identity & web design for the Sandberg Design Department Graduation show 2018, in collaboration with Lucie de Brechard, Sascha Krischock and Alex Walker sandberg.nl/design/celestialservices/ Uitgevoerd
publicaties
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2019Untitled. Practice within the limitations of citizenship (with a smile) Boek Self Published Karina Zavidova Amsterdam - Den Haag, Nederland MA Graduation work, book.
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2019The Argumentation Machine Boek Sandberg Instituut multiplle Amsterdam, Nederland MA Thesis, included in ISSUE 4, a collection of essays published by the Sandberg Instituut
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2019Influencers Aren’t Very Good At Influencing Anymore Boek Self Published Karina Zavidova, Simona Koutná Arnhem - Amsterdam - Den Haag, Nederland Written, designed and edited in collaboration with Simona Koutná, magazine, 2019. Seeking digital beauty in shopping malls, glossy images, talking to voice assistants, befriending interfaces, our devices and each other.
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2018Artficial Intellignence Never Has A Headache Boek oneacre.online Karina Zavidova Den Haag, Nederland www.oneacre.online/?id=karina-W1523627434967 BA Thesis, published by/at www.oneacre.online
Recensies
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2020Under unwritten terms & conditions: situatedness as a muscle Magazine Anastasia Kubrak Amsterdam, Nederland www.valiz.nl/publicaties/design-dedication-adaptive-mentalities-in-design-education.html included in Design Dedication: Adaptive Mentalities in Design Education, Valiz, 2020
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2019(Not) Giving Form To Interfaces - On Bureaucracy, Datafication And Supply Chains Magazine Laurens Otto Amsterdam, Nederland sandberg.nl/graduation2019/editorials/laurens-otto Sandberg Instituut graduation show 2019 editorial
Prijzen en stipendia
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2020Kunstproject Subsidy, Stroom, The Hague, NL Den Haag, Nederland work in progress, publication
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2019Follow The Gloss Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Nederland Startsubsidie Design, met Simona Koutná
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2017Multiple titles Stroom Pro onderzoek Den Haag, Nederland A research project on user interface design and gender, existing in three phases: A blog, a workshop and a magazine ( therefore single title is not applicable anymore ).
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2016The Comfort of Control GOGBOT festival, Enschede Enshede, Nederland BA graduation project, nominated for Blink Youngblood Award
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2016Artificial Intelligence Never Has A Headache KABK Thesis Award Nominee Den Haag, Nederland BA thesis
artistieke nevenactiviteiten
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2021 - 2022Communications lead & social media at AIxDesign
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2020 - 2020Guest teacher, Sandberg Instituut Design department
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2020 - --Grant & application writing: I help professionals from the fields of art & design develop their funding application proposals Loopt nog
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2016 - --graphic & digital design Loopt nog