Jan Schuijren, born 1964, lives and works as free-lance curator in Amsterdam. He studied sociology and did his postgraduate studies in New Media. From 1992 to 2001, he worked with the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Artswhere he was responsible for international exhibition presentations and thedistribution of the video collection.
Since 2002 he has been working as an independent curator in the field of visual arts, specifically the moving image, conceiving and presenting international exhibition projects as well as film and videoprograms. He lectured among others at the Arts Academy Minerva, Groningen, andthe Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam and is a member of the grant-committee of the Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (BKVB), Amsterdam and of Film Labat the Flemish Audio-visual Fund (VAF), Brussels.
Winter 2004 he presented the international group exhibition Drawn by Reality - Encapsulated in Life in Wood Street Galleries +SPACE, Pittsburgh PA, USA: http://www.drawnbyreality.info/.In 2006 his eleven-part film and video programme Sex and Sadness was presented at Witte de With, Rotterdam and at Platform Garanti in Istanbul, and heco-curated the 7th Werkleitz Biennial – Happy Believers in Halle, Germany.
In 2007 he presented the exhibition Confined Innocenceat the Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada and LIVING THE CITY atPlatform21, Amsterdam. The same year he developed the concept for CASZ –contemporary art screen Zuidas and since October 2007 he is curating theongoing program of film and video works and events for this 40m urban screenlocated on Zuidplein in Zuidas, Amsterdam, presenting moving images in publicspace 18 hours a day, 365 days a year. Currently he is developing the conceptfor a structure that regularly will intervene with art projects over the courseof the ten-year urban development taking place of the former Philips-terrainStrijp S in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
CASZUIDAS – moving images in public space | Zuidas, Amsterdam
www.caszuidas.nl
Drawn by Reality – Encapsulated in Life | Wood StreetGalleries + SPACE, Pittsburgh PA, USA
www.drawnbyreality.info
Day 2: Saturday 4th October, Public Screens and public space broadcasting: a new public sphere?
'CASZ | 362 days | 6516 hours | 219 artists showing 527 works | and counting'
Since October 5, 2007, 'Contemporary Art Screen Zuidas - moving images in public space' intervenes in the public space of the new district Zuidas that is currently in full development. With nearly 18 hours of motion art - up to 90 titles every day, CASZ presents the images and visions of internationally renowned artist and young talents on a 40 m2 urban screen, addressing a mixed crowd of managers and office workers, inhabitants, students, scholars and other passers-by of Zuidas, Amsterdam. The program is curated in close collaboration with international art organizations and offers a distraction as well as a thinking space against a backdrop of high office rising and public transport infrastructure - moving, inspiring images, allowing for different perception of the surrounding and the everyday, and inspiring a reclaiming of the public space.
www.caszuidas.nl
