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Comparative Arts and Media Studies

Internships

Internships offer you opportunities to prepare for your professional career. You will have the choice from a wide-ranging field of cultural institutions in and around the city of Amsterdam. You will be encouraged to find an appropriate internship according to your own interests. Past and current students have gone on internships at various Dutch and foreign institutions: media archives such as the Institute for Sound & Image (including the Dutch radio and television archives) and Eye Filminstituut Nederland (formerly the Film Museum), the Netherlands Media Art Institute, De Balie cultural centre, the Dutch Research Council, Vice, the Premsela Foundation, galleries and national newspapers. Note that finding an internship is your own responsibility and we cannot guarantee you will find a place.

Some of the institutions where students did their internships were:

CAMS - internships

Independent Films

Bram Davis carried out his internship at production company Independent Films that takes care of all aspects of advertising, distribution and sales of both Dutch and non Dutch films. “I was tasked with visiting cinemas and researching which films were being shown in each cinema. I would travel all over the country to collect information about how many advertisements for each film, in the form of posters, abri's standees and trailers were being used in each movie theatre and for which movies, and whether they were being used effectively. The information would then be written down and photos taken before relaying the information on a monthly basis to the managing director of the company.

Part of my role as distribution and sales intern was to attend film premieres to help with the preparation of advertising material, which was especially fun as several premier's required guests to wear suits and ties and there were often well known Dutch celebrities in attendance. My knowledge of the distribution and sales part of the film industry was also improved on, because every week or so I would be given information on the budgets, ticket sales and spending on the new releases of films.”
- Bram Davis

EYE Film Institute Netherlands

For her internship Anne van Oppen conducted a research on the programming of experimental film within international leading film institutions and museums for EYE Film Institute Netherlands. The institute was founded in 2010 when Holland Film, the Nederlands Instituut voor Filmeducatie, the Filmbank and the Filmmuseum merged into one organisation. In the spring of 2012 EYE Film Institute Netherlands moved to a new location situated at the Northern bank of the IJ, behind the Central Station of Amsterdam. At the new location there is more space for experimental film and this was an incentive for research on the programming of experimental film in other international leading film institutions and museums.

“I have approached several institutions to participate in this research by sending them a questionnaire and processing the information and conclusions in a research report. The participating institutions are: The Austrian Filmmuseum Vienna, Centre for Contemporary Culture Barcelona, Centre Pompidou Paris, Cinematek Brussels, Danish Film Institute Copenhagen, MOMA New York, Museo Nazionale del Cinema Turin and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid. The experimental film department (the former Filmbank) consists of a small programming team and with this internship I had the opportunity to put my academic skills into practice and develop them further under the supervision of professionals.”
- Anne van Oppen

CO-OP's project

"For our internship in the Comparative Arts and Media Studies MA we, have been working as travelling reporters for the CO-OP's project, which is part of the NWO-programme Transformations in Art and Culture. We’ve criss-crossed the country with our camera to interview the participating scholars and artists. Alongside this, we’re also responsible for the documentation and archiving of word and image material. You can read more about our activities and experiences on our weblog (in Dutch). You can also learn more on the Internships page in this site."
- Femke Stokkel and Annejet Riedijk

InfoWarRoom

"At the moment the organization is made up of three people. The intention is that I provide them with both editorial and production assistance. Their activities are focused on analysing and debating and delivering criticism on pop-culture images and the mass media. They take a handful of themes and come up with programmes that link up with them.

There’s no set list of tasks for me as such – it’s more about supporting and helping them as necessary. This could be: helping with aspects of programming, watching videos which I then assemble into a useful product, helping with sponsoring or publicity, and production activities for the realization of a programme. There is also time for independent research (meaning I can suggest my own ideas), which – provided it’s feasible and interesting – can be used by the InfoWarRoom in the form of a presentation, viewing and/or website. So there’s a lot for me to do."
- Lea Brinckman

Cubitt Gallery and studios

"Cubitt Gallery and studios has a gallery manager, 32 artists who rent studios in the rear of the gallery and a new curator every 18 months. The present curator is Tom Morton who, in addition to his work for Cubitt, is also the curator for several other projects and writes for Frieze . My tasks are mostly to do with assisting the curator, manager and artists. This means doing preparatory work for exhibitions, including preliminary research for forthcoming exhibitions and helping with production aspects of current exhibitions.

Aside from the internship, I’ve also gotten a lot of help with research for my MA thesis, in which I’ve been able to rely on their network of contacts and familiarity with all the great libraries in London. I’ve also been given plenty of opportunity for carrying out my research. The thing I like most about this internship is the direct contact with artists and collaborating with them on exhibitions. Alongside my internship and thesis I’m writing a monthly column for the Utrecht arts platform Expodium about my experiences in England, and am putting together an exhibition with a friend who is an artist in London. "
- Jeanine Hofland

Graphic Design Museum

“The future Graphic Design Museum in Breda, has recently purchased a huge collection of newspapers dating from 1978 on, comprising the NRC Handelsblad and de Volkskrant as well as issues of Het Parool and Trouw. Before they can be preserved and archived or put on display, the collection has to first be reduced to about 10% of its present size. To help in making a representative selection I am researching the literature, going through archives, and interviewing designers and others who are involved in one way or another with newspapers; this will allow me to formulate criteria to use in making the selection.

A variety of angles can be taken in investigating and explaining the motivations for a change in design. I am trying to identify those angles, set them in some sort of framework and find the reasoning behind them. For the moment I’m concentrating on just this project because the museum is very busy with all the installation activities that have to be finished by the Spring of 2008. The idea is that my research will be the basis – a sort of advice – for how the newspapers will actually be arranged later on. For myself I also see this internship as preparation for my thesis, for which I will examine a specific aspect of newspaper design."
- Maya Faes

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