S†ëfan Schäfer | Dësign & Reseärch

NeverNeverLand

September 10, 2016 / 0 comments

Flag design for NeverNeverLand, a multi-located art space based in Amsterdam run by Anja Masling, Judith Leysner and Hélène Webers.

Selfie Related Deaths 2014-2016

August 12, 2016 / 0 comments

Examples of a continuing series of memorialising selfie related deaths. The images are implemented in a 400 cm x 240 cm memorial shroud, and around each one a memorial shirt as well as roadside memorials for selfie related deaths are designed which will be launched in September 2016.

Crypto Design Challenge 2016 Open Call

August 12, 2016 / 0 comments

Flyer for „Crypto Design Challenge 2016“ open call, initiated by Institute for Network Cultures and MOTI Museum Of The Image, NL Website cryptodesign.org i.c.w. Heerko van der Kooij

Dance Of Digital Death

Juni 10, 2016 / 0 comments

Dance Of Digital Death after „Totentanz“ (Dance of Death) by Hans Holbein der Jüngere, 1523–26. Carefully crafted digital animated miniatures,, and text. Released in September 2016. Preview stills

Design My Privacy Book

Juni 10, 2016 / 0 comments

„Design My Privacy“ book design for MOTI Museum Of The Image, author: Tijmen Schep, publisher: Bis Publishers

Zaaloverzicht-01, Design my Privacy, tentoonstelling MOTI, credit Tim Eshuis

Design My Privacy Exhibition

Juni 10, 2016 / 0 comments

„Design My Privacy“ exhibition design for MOTI Museum Of The Image in Breda, NL Photo credits: Tim Eshuis

Bachelor’s Delight

November 11, 2015 / 0 comments

Bachelor’s Delight is a project by artist Jasmijn Visser in collaboration with designer S†ëfan Schäfer and historian Tristan Mostert, designed for Museum van Loon in 2015. The exhibition takes shape of a quadriptych, with the website as the first part, together with a poster, digital installation, and objects from the museum’s inventory. These different elements…

#ImmortalNexusRexInstagram

April 16, 2015 / 0 comments

I.c.w. Selby Gildemacher, more info and photos come Size: 255 cm x 150 cm Material: Wood, Instagram In Christianity the cross symbolizes eternal life, in our digital age a Selfie remains for centuries. #ImmortalNexusRexInstagram investigates the relation between eternal life in the clerical world and the infinite existence of information in the digital world, which…

Digital Death and the Post-Mortem Self

Januar 5, 2015 / 0 comments

In collaboration with Emily West, PhD Medicine, we started the collective DigitalDeathDrive and organized our first symposium entitled Digital Death and the Post-Mortem Self, 3rd-5th of April, 2015. As the structure of families and local networks changes and becomes more geographically disparate, the structure of death and mourning must necessarily shift. The Western cemetery model…

Grindcore meets Selfies in the darkness of digital uncertainty

Dezember 3, 2014 / 0 comments

Talk about: „Physical Absence – Virtual Presence“ exemplified by extreme metal in social media and the conversion of images from representative objects to participative subjects. 17.11.2014 at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam.