Visual artist Adri Schokker has been affiliated with the HLaS research project as a researcher since May 2024. From working group 2, Social People, Adri is researching citizens' relationship with technology and their technological devices.
In his artist practice, Adri develops interactive installations, games and workshops at the intersection of art, craft, media and digital technologies. He does this together with a teamother artists, designers, software developers, hardware developers and game developers. As an artist, he is interested in what the impact is of creative making processes with media and technology, on the daily dealings sometimes unhealthy relationship with our devices.
To explore this for HLaS, he began a search for a location for a new studio and making space in the province of Groningen. In this he teamed up with traveling music school the Rijdende Popschool, who were also desperately looking for a new place for their organization. Not much later came the good news that the Rijdende Popschool, together with a number of other cultural organizations, had taken the initiative to establish a new breeding ground in a former school building of the Dollard College in Winschoten, and that Adri and his artistic practice and research were welcome to be part of the new breeding ground. Under the name Powerlab, cultural organizations CultuurLab, Cultuurhuis de Klinker, the driving Popschool, and the municipality of Oldambt, are joining forces to develop a new creative breeding ground that should be especially open and welcoming to the residents of the municipality of Oldambt and its surroundings.
The new studio and field lab is just about ready for use, and right now a program of creative making sessions and workshops is underway for anyone specifically interested in learning more and working with art, media and digital technologies. These sessions will form the basis for Adri's HLaS research. If you would like to know more about this field lab or about the program and making sessions, please feel free to contact Adri Schokker, talk@adrischokker.nu.
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