Bacteria Batteries

Building a battery out of mud during the Art+Communication festival, 5 and 6 October in Riga.

Color by Numbers

Yesterday the exhibition MOBIBOM opend in the NP3.tmp project space. All the artist from the MOBI studio's presented recent or new works. During the opening my new 'work in progress' installation 'Color by Numbers' kicked off. The installation is inspired by the world famous 'Paint by Numbers' hobby paint products. The photoprint is an enlarged photo originally taken by Turkia Mahmud, during the Libyan civil war, after Gaddafi got killed. The visitor is invited to participate in the creation of a new colorful Playmais painting. Below some pictures.

3D Sketch

Sketching the head of a blond Dutch politician.

The Tower, Reconnecting People

Last December 2011 we exposed the Tower in an empty store close to the new Zaailand. A new shopping area im the centre of Leeuwarden in Fryslan. Interested passants were invited to register themselves in this Tower store. Based on the answers of 8 questions, the installation calculates your postition on the square of the virtual Zaailand. The groups of people that are formed by the system are invited to come back during the opening of the actual new Zaailand in September 2012. Every group will be photographed at the new square. The Tower, Reconnecting People was part of the temporary exhibition Copy:Paste

The Geocities of Things

Already a month ago I visited the conference day of the STRP Festival in Eindhoven. There was one lecture I enjoyed a lot. Russel Davies, a team-member of the RIG, presented his playfull crititque about The Internet of Things, which he called the Geocities of Things. Check his blog for an article about this! Some examples he showed were the hilarious Halloween Light Shows. And this one because its Christmas :-)

Nou&Herkauw MicroGarden VJ-Set

A couple of weeks ago Nou&Herkauw did a new VJ experiment. For a special party in the Blokhuis Poort, a former prison in Leeuwarden, we created a small garden, extracted all kinds of organic colour liquids, collected some finger cams and usb microscopes, bought very old books about nature, developed some loop and buffer software, created 2 stop-motion sets, and used all this as source for a bio-vj-set. Here are some pics. :) Many thanks to Marin de Boer for growing the garden, and Erwin Zantinga for his great animating efforts!

Catastrophe nominated for the STRP Talent Pit Award!

UPDATE! Reconstruction of a Catastrophe wins the STRP Talent Pit Jury Award! Check this link for more information! - - - It's official!! I am very happy to announce that my graduation project 'Recontruction of a Catastrophe' is nominated for the STRP Talent Pit, Peoples choice Award! If you like my project and you think it deserves an award, you can give your vote on the STRP website...I will be very grateful :)

Recontruction of a Catastrophe from Snow on Vimeo.

Hot100@Picnic

Thursday September 15 Virtueel Platform Hot100 day at Picnic in Amsterdam. We are happy to be part of it.

Me TV at MoPA

Some new photo's of the restyled Me TV at the opening of MoPA at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, last friday the 26th of August.

GiantMiniMediaLab

We developed a new workshop for kids. The GiantMiniMediaLab is a studio set-up where kids (also parents) can create and edit 3 spectaculair short movies. The theme is gigantic and mini. Like giant robots, mini people, and big insects.

With scale models, miniature puppets and cars, cardboard, costumes, a greenscreen, finger-camera's, and the kids as actors and actresses, we create on the spot and live movie scenes with wonderfull environments and special effects. After the workshop we add a soundtrack and sound effects. It was hilarious!

Exhibition FMI International Masters

Hack Pro Art!

Sometimes I wish I was a hacker, but unfortunately I'm not...

A call for help to all the hackers around the globe to join the battle for art, by artistically modifying all online services directly relating to Halbe Zijlstra and his ministry.

I agree that sometimes measures have to be taken to controll government expenses by cutting down funding in almost(not the weak, unprotected and the ill) every layer of society. But the measures taken by our State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science Halbe Zijlstra to cut down funding in Culture, lack any possible vision and knowledge of the relevant developments in art and new media of the past decade. He really has no idea about the valuable and leading international position of Dutch New Media Art in the world. By cutting down all structural government funding to all renowned New Media Labs in the Netherlands, he helps destroying a young scene essential for innovation and research in the field of art, society and digital culture. Why is he choosing for this destructive strategy??? Does he really has no clue what he is doing??? What about an extensive research to the consequences of this style of cutting???

The Mother of Google Maps

The first known aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by French photographer and balloonist, Gaspar Felix Tournachon, known as "Nadar". This photo no longer exists. The first surviving aerial photo was taken by James Wallace Black in 1860. A photo of the city of Boston.

Corpse-Close

Playing around with my digital remains...

Corpse

My first digital corpse. Or digital remains....