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Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei (born 1983 in The Hague) is a Dutch publisher, translator, curator, journalist, and philologist. He received an MA in general linguistics from Leiden University, an MMus from the ArtScience department at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague,[1] a PhD from the division Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School,[2] and a PhD from the Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen. Van Gerven Oei is currently director/CFO of open access press punctum books[3] and director/CEO of open metadata platform Thoth Open Metadata.[4]

Art and curating

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In 2007, Van Gerven Oei started his art career as a part of an artist duo with artist Jonas Staal, exploring the relationship between art, morality and society.[5] They completed art residencies in Chicago, Beijing, Johannesburg, and Tokyo. In his review of their installation “Forty Years of Boredom 1968–2008,” writer Thomas van Aalten referred to Staal and Van Gerven Oei as “new ascetics.”[6] Since 2012 he has been involved in Staal's New World Summit and New World Academy projects as advisor and editor.[7][8] He also appears in his work 94 Million Years of Collectivism, Video Study as “proletgeologist” and narrator.[9]

In 2011, he established the Department of Eagles foundation in Tirana, as an “independent project bureau for artists and thinkers in and beyond Albania.”[10] With the Department of Eagles, Van Gerven Oei started his curatorial work, including Kukafshehti (2013),[11] developed through his engagement with the LGBT community in Albania,[12] with whom he also organized the first “Gay Ride” in 2012.[13] In 2015, he organized the exhibition Workers Leaving the Studio. Looking Away from Socialist Realism. at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Tirana and raised the alarm about the deplorable state of the museum's holdings.[14] The exhibition Teatri i Gjelbërimit (The Theater of Greenery) (2016),[15] provided an overview of two decades of art in Albanian public space.[16] Other projects included the Albanian Lapidar Survey, the first survey of socialist monumentality in Albania, which Van Gerven Oei conducted with multimedia artist Marco Mazzi in 2014. Their findings were published in the 3-volume publication Lapidari in 2015.[17] From 2021 to 2024 he was editorial board member of Stedelijk Studies, the open access journal of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Since 2022, Van Gerven Oei is a member of the art collective Manifesto.

As an art writer, he has engaged with the work of Armando Lulaj,[18] Bruce Nauman,[19] Edi Rama,[20] Anri Sala,[21] Martin Wong,[22] and the rebranding of Kunstinstituut Melly.[23]

Journalism

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After moving to Albania in 2010, Van Gerven Oei started writing regularly about the architecture, culture, and politics of the country, first for the blog of open access scholarly journal continent. and subsequently for literary magazine Berfrois.[24] In 2015, he started the independent online media platform Exit Albania together with Neritan Sejamini and Carloalberto Rossi,[25] for which he continued to write regularly until 2021. A selection from his writings from this period was published in Albanian under the title Rënia e së ardhmes: Arti, korrupsioni dhe fundi i tranzicionit shqiptar (The Collapse of the Future: Art, Corruption and the End of the Albanian Transition) in 2023. His recent writings on Albania have appeared on the blog The Albanian Mechanism.[26]

Open access publishing

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In 2011, Van Gerven Oei started publishing house Uitgeverij, focusing on poetry and theory. In 2015, he joined open access publishing house punctum books as director. Van Gerven Oei is a prominent voice for open access in academic publishing.[27][28] In 2020, he was elected to the board of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association,[29] and in 2021 he became the founding chairperson of the ScholarLed foundation.[30] In 2022, he was one of the initiators of the development of FLOSS open metadata platform Thoth.[31]

Philology

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As a philologist, Van Gerven Oei is one of the foremost experts of the Old Nubian language. In 2021, he published ‘’A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian,’’ considered a seminal work in the field.[32] He has further published various editiones principes of Old Nubian texts from Old Dongola,[33][34] Askut,[35] Akasha West,[36] Faras,[37] and Gebel Adda,[38] as well as numerous articles on aspects of Old Nubian grammar. He is co-founder of the Union for Nubian Studies and the open access journal Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies.

Selected publications

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  • Rënia e së ardhmes: Arti, korrupsioni dhe fundi i tranzicionit shqiptar. Translated by Bledar Qalliu. Biblioteka Art & Politikë 2. Tirana: Pika pa sipërfaqe, 2023. ISBN 9789928373120
  • A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 299. Louvain: Peeters, 2021. ISBN 9789042941861
  • Cross-Examinations. Gent: MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015. ISBN 9789492321077

Translations to English

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References

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  1. ^ "Alumni MMus ArtScience". Royal Art Academy of The Hague. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Alumni". European Graduate School – Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Organization". punctum books. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Team". Thoth Open Metadata. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Impakt Invites: Jonas Staal en Vincent van Gerven Oei". IMPAKT. 18 October 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  6. ^ van Aalten, Thomas (28 July 2009). "De nieuwe asceten". Vrij Nederland. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  7. ^ "New World Summit—Berlin". Jonas Staal. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  8. ^ "New World Academy". Jonas Staal. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  9. ^ "94 Million Years of Collectivism, Video Study". Jonas Staal. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  10. ^ "About". Department of Eagles. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  11. ^ "Kukafshehti". Department of Eagles. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  12. ^ Nyje.al (13 May 2019). "Të bësh një vepër arti është akt politik". Nyje.al. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Gay Ride in Albania (IDAHO 2012)". YouTube. ProLGBT. 16 May 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  14. ^ Mile, Alma (5 March 2015). ""Gjendja në fondin e Galerisë alarmante, rrezikon të humbasë"". Panorama. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  15. ^ "Teatri i Gjelbërimit". Department of Eagles. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  16. ^ Dervishi, Ivan (23 October 2016). ""Teatri i Gjelbërimit" ekspozita protestë e artistëve në Shqipëri". Reporter. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  17. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (2015). Lapidari, Volume 1: Texts. Earth: punctum books. ISBN 978-0-692-35046-1. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  18. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (2015). Workers Leaving the Studio. Looking Away from Socialist Realism. Earth: punctum books. ISBN 978-0-692-48041-0. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  19. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (13 October 2021). "Straight Innocence". Stedelijk Studies. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  20. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (25 April 2016). "Give Me the Colors . . . and the Country". ArtPapers. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  21. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (2018). "Subtitling Communism: Beneath Anri Sala's "Intervista"". Afterall. 45: 58–67. doi:10.1086/698395.
  22. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (27 October 2023). "No White in Sight". Stedelijk Studies. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  23. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (27 October 2020). "Who Is Melly Shum? On FKA Witte de With's Name Change". Ocula. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  24. ^ "Search Results "van gerven oei"". Berfrois. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  25. ^ "About Us". Exit – Explaining Albania. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  26. ^ "The Albanian Mechanism". Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  27. ^ Fradenburg Joy, Eileen A.; van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (2023). "What is Your Threshold? The Economics of Open Access Scholarly Book Publishing, the "Business" of Care, and the Case of punctum books". The Journal of Electronic Publishing. 26 (1). doi:10.3998/jep.3627.
  28. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J.; Fradenburg Joy, Eileen A. (2024). "Scenes: Punctum Books: An Interview with Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei and Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy". American Book Review. 45 (2): 168–73. doi:10.1353/abr.2024.a937815.
  29. ^ "Our Board". OASPA. 22 December 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  30. ^ "Scaling Small". ScholarLed. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  31. ^ Gatti, Rupert; van Gerven oei, Vincent W.J.; Snyder, Livy Onalee (30 August 2022). "Developing Thoth's "Software as a Service" Model". Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs. doi:10.21428/785a6451.8ffabe1b. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  32. ^ de Voogt, Alex (2024). "Review of A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian". JAOS. 144 (1): 207–8. doi:10.7817/jaos.144.1.2024.r013.
  33. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (2017). "A dance for a princess: The legends on a painting in room 5 of the Southwest Annex of the Monastery on Kom H in Dongola". The Journal of Juristic Papyrology. 47: 117–35. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  34. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J.; Łajtar, Adam (2020). "Three Bilingual Greek-Old Nubian Psalms from Dongola (DP 2-4)". Orientalia. 89 (2): 287–316. doi:10.2143/ORI.89.2.3293055.
  35. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J.; Tsakos, Alexandros (2018). "An Old Nubian Letter from the Daughter of an Eparch". Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies. 5: 91–98. doi:10.5070/D65110022.
  36. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J.; Łajtar, Adam (2019). "Two Old Nubian Inscriptions from Akasha West". Études & travaux. 32 (32): 89–97. doi:10.12775/EtudTrav.32.006.
  37. ^ van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. (2019). "An Old Nubian Curse from the Faras Cathedral". Études & travaux. 32 (32): 81–88. doi:10.12775/EtudTrav.32.005.
  38. ^ Łajtar, Adam (2020). "An Old Nubian Lunary with a Greek Addition from Gebel Adda". Le muséon. 133 (1–2): 13–30. doi:10.2143/MUS.133.1.3287659.
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