The new website of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, by design agency GRRR, has been awarded gold twice at the European Design Awards and is now coming to the USA. As part of the MuseumNext conference, Rolf Coppens (GRRR) and Robin Holland (Stedelijk Museum) will share the stage to offer insights into process, choices and problems that they have overcome.

Ivan Henriques will present his works from the past 8 years in the frame of the conference concept. Quite Frankly It's a Monster Conference that takes place between 18th and 19th October. The conference is organised by SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia in honour of celebration of 200 years that Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was created.

Ricardo O'Nascimento participates as a guest lecturer at the "CITEXIM 2018 - Congresso Internacional Textile e Industria de la Moda". He will talk about the use of 3d printing technology in fashion and its impact on the industry 4.0.

Mark Henning is invited by the Vitra Design Museum to present his project Normaal during the travelling exhibition 'Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design'. The project Normaal is a performative design research that explores how the handshake – a simple social gesture - has become coded with immense nationalistic meaning and examines how our definition of normal influences our suspicions of others.

Tivon Rice participates in GLOBAL CONTROL, the 3rd Open Fields conference in the framework of the RIXC Art Science Festival 2018. He presents his project “The Voices of Nandimul X” and is part of a panel discussion. The project “The Voices of Nandimul X” creatively explores a Machine Learning system, being trained to emulate the voice of science fiction author J.G. Ballard. The language model describes images of mysterious landscapes and hallucinates about Ballards artistic style, recalling his many critiques of modernism. The conference is taking place in the National Library of Latvia between 13 and 15 September 2018.