THE LABORATORY STUDIO

RESET - The Future of Visual Culture

Reset is a diverse and evolving mentoring programme for students and professionals working with all types of visual media. It offers week-long certificate courses, hands-on weekend workshops, portfolio reviews, and evening talks aimed at navigating, reimagining, and designing the future of visual culture.
All RESET courses apply transdisciplinary approaches and combine the development of practical skills with relevant theoretical frameworks. Our advisors, mentors, and speakers come from all over the world and range from institutionally established artists, curators, and theorists to talented young practitioners working with concepts and methods we find inspiring. Our curriculum is continuously revised to reflect the ideas, concepts and methodologies generated in conversations between our mentors, network, and participants. The aim is to provide not simply a theoretical model, or even a set of best practices, but to foster solutions for specific problems faced by artists and creative practitioners in their daily endeavours.
Our programmes are divided into three primary areas of research: society and visual culture, ecology and visual culture, and emerging technologies and visual culture. These courses of research offer subject-specific seminars as well as general introductory coursework and span image-making media including, but not limited to, film, photography, contemporary painting and illustration, augmented and virtual reality, forensic and bio-imaging, architecture, design, and information and projection mapping. Certificate programmes are tailored, as much as possible, to fit the objectives of course participants, and all students are offered curricula and assignments that are directly relevant to the projects they want to pursue.

Although we welcome all applicants, RESET programme would be especially relevant to students considering a change of direction, artists who wish to design their own education, or augment it by adding classes not yet introduced into more traditional academic curricula. RESET’s courses of study seek to be relevant both to young and experienced professionals aiming to sharpen or build on existing expertise, and to cultivate an expanded professional network. Our autumn portfolio reviews are constructed especially for students fresh out of foundation courses who are applying to art schools.

Our evening talks are open for the general public.
In addition to our diverse and exciting programming, RESET offers the opportunity to construct a lasting network from an inclusive and engaged community. Our online social accounts are dedicated to distributing and reviewing the work of our students. We offer timely and regular industry digests consisting of resources and grants tailored specifically for individual needs, and, whenever possible, assist with grant applications, recommendation letters, and other forms of tangible assistance.
RESET offers a limited number of fellowships for financially disadvantaged applicants. We are actively seeking to increase the number of students to whom we can provide assistance.

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