About



Sabina Scorțanu Iacub is a Moldovan-Romanian graphic designer and multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. She holds a BA degree in Graphic Design, from ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands.
Her work evolves from a long-lived fascination with the power of scale and networks, and how different natural and technological phenomena exhibit different properties and behaviours at different scales. These scales are defined through a geographical, geopolitical, geo-psychological, communicational, and socio-affective context.

She seeks to create affective and cognitive experiences through designing poetic circuits, which address the increasing tensions between the current exponential technological evolution, and the intangible heritage or knowledge that is being lost, in an increasingly interconnected network of global communication infrastructure. Her method could be defined as “infrastructural geo-poetics” , where she looks at various technologies, particularly radio, as both a method and medium, sound as a career of information, poetry as performance, and DIY tools, in order to expose the imperceptible scalar complexities, and frictions, between communication devices, between humans and technology, between humans and the architecture of energy and telecommunications, between users and users, between humans and more-than-humans, between software and hardware, transmit- ter and receiver, private and public, immediate and distant, [...]



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Residencies:
01/03/2024-30/03/2024
Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania



•Exhibitions

22/10/2024
Melted Film Festival, screening of the short film Descântec de satelit/ Satellite Incantation
Lab1, Eindhoven, Netherlands

02/08/2024-02/09/2024
Descântec de satelit / Satellite Incantation solo show /installation, film, print/ 
Iusty Art Gallery, Chișinău, Moldova

31/01/2024-04/02/2024
The New Current, part of Rotterdam Art Week
Exhibiting “Gradual change: From cell to nothingness”
Brututs, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Coolsingel, Rotterdam, Netherlands

21/10/2023-29/10/2023
Dutch Design Week
Exhibiting ‘Disembodied voices from beyond the horizon’
DeFabriek, Eindhoven, Netherlands

27/09/2023-01/10/2023
W139 Hosts...
Exhibiting ‘Disembodied voices from beyond the horizon’
W139, Amsterdam. Netherlands.

10/12/2022 
Video projection of “Gradual change: From cell to nothingness” 
Bring Your Own Beamer media art exhibition
Oedipus Brewing, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

29/09/2022-02/10/2022
Filling the Void, solo exhibition of ‘Disembodied voices from beyond the horizon’,
The Grey Space in the Middle, the Netherlands.

29/06/2022- 03/07
‘From A to X’ Graduation Show,
exhibited ‘Disembodied voices from beyond the horizon’
ArtEZ graduation show 2022


29/10/2021
Fiber Festival, Mutation film programme,
Screening of the film ‘Gradual change: From cell to nothingness”.
Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

04/06/2021
Yet to be named exhibition, 
Screening of the film ‘Gradual change: From cell to nothingness”.
Oude Kraan, Arnhem, The Netherlands.

04/07/2017
Poetry Fest, 
Exhibited a series of street photography,
Atrium Center, Chișinău, Moldova.


•Education

10/2021- 12/2021
Internship at Post Neon, multi media design and production studio,
A-Lab, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2018-2022
BA Graphic Design at ArtEZ University of the Arts,
Arnhem, Netherlands.

2014-2017
School of Fine Arts ”Alexei Șciusev”,
Chișinău, Republic of Moldova.


•Talks

04/2023
„Acasă și în Lume” weekly radio program at Radio Moldova, live broadcast in Chișinău, Moldova.

01/2023
Tools we use Symposium, Rozet, Arnhem, Netherlands


•Mentions

Introduction mention of "Disembodied voices from beyond the horizon" in Dutch designers yearbook Dd'22, BNO, Association of Dutch Designers.