Florian Cramer
lecturer, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy

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Florian is the head of the Networked Media Master programme at the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Netherlands (an school for art and design). He also oversees the design research programme Communication in a Digital Age. His background is Comparative Literature (where he received a Ph.D. from Freie Universitaet Berlin in 2006), the arts and media studies. He is a GNU/Linux user and FLOSS activist since 1998.

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10:00am Friday, 07/23/2010
How to Run an Art School on Open Source
Education
 Location: Portland 252
Tags: education, design, art
Florian Cramer (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy), Michael Murtaugh (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy), Aymeric Mansoux (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy)
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Open Source plays an increasingly important role in arts and design through Web applications and open licenses. The Networked Media design programme of the Piet Zwart Institute has, for years, employed Open Source more radically for all course work, on servers and clients, with a focus on the command line, coding and FLOSS philosophy to foster rethinking of media instead of off-the-shelf design. Read more.
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