Z33

‘Sense of Sound’ symposium brought together six curators specialized in sound art to discuss the status of sound art within the field of visual arts. The speakers include Joost Fonteyne, director of Festival van Vlaanderen Kortrijk and Sounding City, Carlo Fossati, director of sound art gallery E/Static, researcher, curator and author Nicole Gingras, Justin Luke, founder of Audio Visual Arts AVA gallery, curator Bernard Schulz, and Carsten Steiffart, founder of sound art gallery Singuhr.

Steve Robyns (1981) is een Limburgse maker, ontwerper en kunstenaar. Met Into The Unknown presenteert Z33 zijn eerste solotentoonstelling, in samenwerking met Kunstenwerkplaats VONK. De expo toont Robyns’ volledige collectie functionele sculpturen, ontstaan vanuit een jarenlange fascinatie voor het buitenaardse. Zijn inspiratiebronnen zijn documentaires en sciencefiction films.

In the first Z33 Debate, ‘Future Thinking,’ Jan Boelen and Tobias Revell explore a series of questions related to design and future thinking. Whereas all designers design for the future, some do it more intentionally than others; for some, proposing or facilitating alternative future visions is the core of their work.

Jan Boelen, Johanna Agermann Ross of Disegno magazine and  freelance design writer and critic Tamar Shafrir discuss the role of design discourse and critique at the horizon of Milan Design Week.