Meten = Weten? is an educational project as part of the group exhibition Spending Quality Time With My Quantified Self, and was specially developed for year six students of primary school Het Landje in Rotterdam. The project consists of a series of six meetings, starting with a visit to TENT.
Data collection
Using apps, digital graphics, and portable measuring devices, we measure our heart rate, our sleep patterns, our condition, and the amount of steps we take. With this information, we learn about our performance, our endurance, and our identity. Spending Quality Time With My Quantified Self presents the work of young artists who contemplate, deconstruct, and rearrange the intimate and complex relationship between the human body and digital technology.
In a series of working sessions taking place at TENT and at school, students work together to investigate their own ‘quantified self’. We will measure, weigh, record, and follow each other and thus gather our own data. This information forms the project’s basis. But what can we do with this information? What do we learn when we know we are online for three hours daily and take 4971 steps a day? What would our lives be like if we constantly measured and tracked everything? What does it teach us? Meten = Weten? is a project giving free rein to experiment, creativity, and debate and in which the digital world is coupled with the imagination.
Pleun Peters
Pleun Peters is a student at the Theatre School in Amsterdam currently studying theatre directing and teaching. Her interdisciplinary interests inform this project – a cross-over between visual art and theatre. She uses the works in Spending Quality Time With My Quantified Self to inspire and, with the students, transform them through physical and visual theatre and performance.
For more information, please contact: judith@tentrotterdam.nl