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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · 10d

Our dear friends at @sickhouse-nl.bsky.social need your help! They have finally gotten the keys to a permanent place and have to renovate everything 🏡

Consider donating! Here: sickhouse.creativefunding.nl/project/crow...

Sickhouse: Help ons nieuwe huis voor playful art te bouwen

Iedere euro die jij doneert draagt bij aan het openen van onze deuren zodat we exposities, films, concerten, game events, festivals, residencies, meet-ups en nog veel meer kunnen organiseren door het…

sickhouse.creativefunding.nl

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · 12d

Join us every month to work on your personal site and master your HTML+CSS skills. 📶
Use this night to help each other out with coding problems, and form social circles on the 'indie web'.

Next: Oct 14, - 6-10pm
More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

Pictured sites by Nikilia and DeBizon

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · 14d

Our month's news letter is out again. This time written by Ginevra 🌔
Ever wanted to know what multiverse you belong in? Take this quiz and find out!!
Not subscribed yet? Find the news letter archive button on our website: zipspace.nl

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · 16d

.zipper Lou is organizing an unconference with Anouk Geenen, Julieta Matos Castaño and Gemeente Rotterdam around technology in public spaces, and how to make space for community-centered design.

Date: 23 Oct 25, 18.15–21.15h
Location: het Timmerhuis, Rotterdam

RSVP via mail to [email protected]

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Sep 15

Reminder! Join us this Wednesday 17th for a Neocities code-a-thon. Starting at 17:00, come whenever you like.

More info: zipspace.nl/neocities-co...

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Sep 1

Join our code-a-thon at .zip this Sep 17th. Html newbies & pros welcome! We’ll serve vegan soup :)

More info at: zipspace.nl/Neocities-Co...

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Jul 7

.zip is officially an association (vereniging) ✨ It feels very official now!

.zip members Roos (woman), Remco (man) and Cyanne (genderfluid) sign the contract to the association while all holding one pen together

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Roos Groothuizen @roosgr.bsky.social · Jun 5

After a year-long research, I can finally announce the launch of my online smart doorbell publication "Someone is at your Front Door".

Featuring Simoon Hermus, @lauraodbeke.bsky.social, @danhf.bsky.social and @zeno4ever.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy .
Friday the 13th: buff.ly/7LPR04e

Someone is at your Front Door PublicSpaces Conferentie

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · May 28

We started a Signal group this morning for every small cultural organisation in Rotterdam North to share events in an easy way.

So far it’s an experiment! Support each other! Join today as reader.

Are you an organisation in Noord? DM or mail us to be added as admin.

signal.group#CjQKIJCvIeqw...

Signal Messenger Group

Follow this link to join a group on Signal Messenger.

signal.group

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · May 28

We started a Signal group this morning for every small cultural organisation in Rotterdam North to share events in an easy way.

So far it’s an experiment! Support each other! Join today as reader.

Are you an organisation in Noord? DM or mail us to be added as admin.

signal.group#CjQKIJCvIeqw...

Signal Messenger Group

Follow this link to join a group on Signal Messenger.

signal.group

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · May 15

This workshop is unfortunately cancelled!

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · May 5

Crocs as smart doorbells??
The smart doorbell is everywhere, but sucks as a privacy-forward, security-promising product, with shitty manufacturers…

We can do better than that!
Join us for beers and crafts.

Thu May 15, 19:30 - 21:30 at .zip
More info: www.zipspace.nl/the-smartest-doorbell

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · May 1

We are happy to share that Playground is back with a brand new LARP test at .zip this month:

Face It by Melissa Song Loong
Sunday, the 25th May from 14:00 to 18:30

RSVP via mail to [email protected]
More info on zipspace.nl/agenda

agenda — .zip

.zip is an artist-run project space based in Rotterdam Noord. Shaped as an interdisciplinary testing lab, .zip explores the roles of facilitation and fabrication within our digital society.

zipspace.nl

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Apr 28

This month's news letter is all about spring cleaning! Brought to you by @cyannevdh.bsky.social and our scrub daddy 🧽

We release a news letter every month, written by one of our .zippers. They feature events, tools, funny updates and small essays.
Read & subscribe here: buff.ly/1MiiaGv

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Apr 19

SPRING CLEAN ART SALE
26.04.25, 2 – 6PM
@1e Pijnackerstraat 75, ROTTERDAM
Join us our Kings' Day spring clean and find some gems looking for a new home!
We'll be selling original artworks, as well as art materials, tools, and electronics
~~> so be sure to stop by!

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Apr 7

.zipper Roos Groothuizen is hosting a workshop on the smart doorbell at Waag on May 1st. Craft the smart doorbell of your ideological dreams. Is it privacy friendly? Posting on TikTok every minute? Or turning everyone in a potential burglar?

waag.org/en/event/waa...

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Mar 30

Reminder (for those who always forget to reply)! This Thursday, Nicky Liebregts organizes the workshop Inbox Exorcism: a group therapy session for serial ghosters. Starting at 8pm. RSVP through: [email protected]

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Mar 27

.zip is part of calendar.klank.school : an online calendar featuring small-scale rotterdam initiatives organizing diy, performance, gatherings, etc! Find our events and those of other cool people there ❤️

010 kalender

Rotterdam agenda for everything related to diy, diwo, performances, workshops, readings, screenings, gatherings and more.

calendar.klank.school

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Mar 17

What ghosts of social media past are keeping you up at night? Is your inbox filled to the brim with spam? Why did you never reply to that heartfelt picture your aunt sent?

We will clear our inboxes together on April 3rd, 20:00-22:00 @ .zip.

Hosted by Nicky Liebregts
RSVP: [email protected]

Inbox Excorcism — .zip

April 3, 2025 20:00- 22:00 .workshop .therapy Inbox Exorcism Group therapy session for serial ghosters What ghosts of social media past are...

zipspace.nl

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Mar 10

Our latest newsletter is out! This month, Remco made Zodimac: A tool that scans your network for devices and tells you their horoscope.
Read about it here (or subscribe): buff.ly/qykunLX

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Mar 6

.zipper Erik Peters is exhibiting their work at Het Archief in Rotterdam west. Opening Friday at 17:00!

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Feb 5

.zip's 💨 Vape Life into Your Sextoys 💨 workshop is part of Privacy Salon's exhibition+symposium Feelings Inc. - on dating algorithms and human-machine intimacy. Check out the rest of the programme, or find @roosgr.bsky.social at the morning talk on Feb 13

Programme — Privacy Salon

Artistic practice has always reflected the times, and as technology advances, so does the art inspired by it. Throughout history, artists have used the latest technological innovations to create new…

www.privacysalon.org

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Feb 4

Join us 13/02 for the 💨 Vape Life into Your Sextoys 💨 workshop!

We’ll take apart vapes and build them into DIY prototypes of wearable queer sex toys! 🔧How to repurpose power sources 💡 And get a crash course into queer sex toys by Nastia Cistakova.

RSVP and info: https://buff.ly/3Q3S946

.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Feb 3

𝓢𝓵𝓾𝓰𝔃𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓪 𝘛𝘶𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 - Feb 11 at 19:00 (postponed date)
You can sign up by sending an email to [email protected]. This workshop has a limit of maximum 10 participants. Ticket price: €5 including surprise drink

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.zip @zipspace.bsky.social · Feb 3

Hello! This is .zip's Bluesky account. We are an artist space in Rotterdam (NL). We'll use this acount to update you about events & workshops we're hosting. ⚡

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