The Appeal of the Unreal

Alexandra Crouwers is part of the second Hydromedia residency in Utrecht. The project will run in April 2023 hosted by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (BE), in October 2023 by HKU in Utrecht (NL) and in April 2024 by HfG Karlsruhe (DE). Hydromedia mobilizes the arts to visualize the Green Deal (area 7) agenda in tangible ways so to promote transnational dissemination and audience engagement. The project is co-funded through the E.U.’s Creative Europe programme.

Symposium: October 5. Register link in post.… Read More

A brief account of Alexandra Crouwers’ writing residency at Art Lab Gnesta (Sweden), August 21 – September 2, 2023.… Read More

(wip) This post collects artists that are working with Ips typographus: overwhelmingly with its tunnel patterns. It accompanies a chapter-in-progress of Alexandra Crouwers’ thesis.… Read More

Alexandra Crouwers shows ‘The White Hide (v)’ in Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest (Hungary) as part of the group show ‘Smaller Worlds. Diorama in Contemporary art’. October 14 – January 15, 2023.… Read More

Alexandra Crouwers’ Research Catalog exposition, as part of the peer reviewed VIS Nordic journal for artistic research was awarded 2nd place of the SAR Prize 2021.… Read More

Opening Saturday, June 11 and running until September 11: NGMI, a solo show by Alexandra Crouwers in De.Groen, Arnhem. NGMI stands for ‘not going to make it’.… Read More

De letterzetter. 51°24’49.8″N 5°39’19.9”E
Alexandra Crouwers. A visual essay for Forum+ magazine for research and arts. vol. 29 nr. 2, pp. 24-29, May 2022.… Read More

On May 11, 2022, a small gathering took place to celebrate the permanent installation of a research related artistic information panel on The Plot.… Read More

By Alexandra Crouwers. On collecting digital art in the NFT space. Published in HART art magazine issue #222, March 2022.… Read More

A peer reviewed publication, as part of VIS Nordic Journal for Artistic Research issue #6, Contagion by Alexandra Crouwers. October 19, 2021.… Read More

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 anno covidi, I was supposed to give a talk over lunch at the end of my two months involvement in Residency Unlimited. This, of course, took place in another universe. … Read More

Announcing my research blog at www.theappealoftheunreal.com. Posts may appear both there and here, at the dhfm blog.… Read More