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Leestip: Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:13:26 +0000

Zeer interessant artikel van Ted Chiang in The New Yorker. Boordevol interessante quotes. Een selectie:

Art is notoriously hard to define, and so are the differences between good art and bad art. But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices. […] If an A.I. generates a ten-thousand-word story based on your prompt, it has to fill in for all of the choices that you are not making. There are various ways it can do this. One is to take an average of the choices that other writers have made, as represented by text found on the Internet; that average is equivalent to the least interesting choices possible, which is why A.I.-generated text is often really bland. Another is to instruct the program to engage in style mimicry, emulating the choices made by a specific writer, which produces a highly derivative story. In neither case is it creating interesting art.

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:51:34 +0000

Proud of all my students who graduated in the last few weeks! And happy to be the owner of this beautiful and limited edition book by one of them (a side project of a bigger project including a short documentary on bicultural identity).

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:00:47 +0000

The more convincingly lifelike AI-generated text, images, audio, and now video become, the more I am drawn to tactile, analog, lo-fi, and more human forms of expression.

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:48:12 +0000

My sound walk mens maakt landschap maakt mens has been added to the catalogue of the excellent walk • listen • create platform.

Interactieve luisterbeleving mens maakt landschap maakt mens

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 22:57:51 +0000

Voor alle thuisblijvers: mijn interactieve luisterfietstocht mens maakt landschap maakt mens is nu beschikbaar en kan op eigen gelegenheid worden gefietst en of gewandeld.

Voor mij nu eerst vakantie, maar op 10 september ben ik zelf aanwezig bij Museum IJsselstein om een introductie te geven en in gesprek te gaan met deelnemers. Meer informatie op mijn website!

mens maakt landschap maakt mens - interactieve luisterbeleving

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 11:55:27 +0000

Mens maakt landschap maakt mens

interactieve luisterbeleving

Een interactieve luisterbeleving, gebaseerd op gesprekken met kunstenaars en experts over de menselijke omgang met cultuurlandschap in verleden, heden en toekomst.

Tegen de achtergrond van soundscapes, opgenomen in diverse stiltegebieden binnen het Groene Hart, geven zij verschillende genuanceerde perspectieven op de uitdagingen die er momenteel spelen binnen het Nederlandse landschap in het algemeen, en het oercultuurlandschap van Het Groene Hart in het bijzonder.

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:23:25 +0000

Can ActivityPub save the internet? (David Pierce, The Verge, yesterday)

I’m hopeful, and would answer yes! Owning your own domain name should be the norm:

“But the advice you’ll hear from most people in this space is this: own your own domain. Don’t be john@/mastodon.social or anna@/facebook.com. Have a space that is yours, that belongs to you, a username and identity that can’t disappear just because a company goes out of business or sells to a megalomaniac.”

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:02:58 +0000

Momenteel werk ik aan een interactieve geluidswandeling /-fietstocht, als vervolg op de tentoonstelling mens maakt landschap maakt mens in Museum IJsselstein.

En goed nieuws! Onze gelijknamige videoinstallatie zal nog tot eind januari 2023 te zien zijn, nu als onderdeel van de nieuwe tentoonstelling Vensters.

Beide projecten zijn gebaseerd op diverse gesprekken die we met deelnemende kunstenaars en historici hadden over de menselijke omgang met cultuurlandschap in verleden, heden en toekomst. Met bijdragen van Niels Stomps, Wumen Ghua, Esther Polak, Ivar van Bekkum en historicus Arjan van ’t Riet. Binnenkort meer!

Mens maakt landschap maakt mens

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:53:27 +0000

Mens maakt landschap maakt mens

Curatorial project

Audiovisual Installation

From 16 July – 25 September 2022, I presented a new curatorial project *mens maakt landschap maakt mens*at Museum IJsselstein (MIJ). In cooperation with investigative journalist Dennis l’Ami, this project focuses on the history and future of the ‘Groene Hart’ area in The Netherlands, more specifically on how the historical development of this man-made landscape has shaped a collective identity.

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:15:35 +0000

On behalf of everyone at my shared workspace 7zes7vijf, I wish you all a merry Christmas and very happy new year!

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:05:07 +0000

Graduation of first class of students Ad Design Digital Media

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:56:03 +0000

I just finished the first part of the examination assessment of the first group of students from the new Associate Degree Design Digital Media (HKU - Utrecht University of The Arts). I’m very proud of all our students: their hard work has certainly paid off, especially in these difficult times!

Be sure to take a look at the online exhibition at exposure.hku.nl. The students will have a Q&A with visitors on Friday 26 june 2020 from 16:45 - 19:00, you’re cordially invited! More info can be found here.

Total lockdown vs. herd immunity

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:03:06 +0000

So, yesterday was quite a surreal day over here in the Netherlands. It was the first, sunny day of ‘the ‘Covid19’ lockdown, the Dutch way’. Instead of a total lockdown like China, Italy and now Spain and France, the Netherlands are opting for a controlled spreading of the Corona virus throughout the population.
By taking less stringent measures, society will be less disrupted, but a lot of healthy, less vulnerable people (possibly up to 60% of the population) will get sick with mild symptoms of Corona over the next coming months.
— Lees op arnoldhoogerwerf.micro.blog/2020/03/17/total-lockdown-vs.html

Over mij

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:24:09 +0000

In 1999 ben ik afgestudeerd aan zowel kunstacademie als conservatorium. Sindsdien werk ik als autonoom mediakunstenaar, docent en onderzoeker.

Ik maak audiovisuele installaties en componeer muziek en klank voor muziektheater en film. Als artistiek leider / curator initieer ik ook (onderzoeks)projecten op het raakvlak tussen de verschillende kunstdisciplines en de wetenschappen.Een doorlopend thema binnen mijn werk is de menselijke relatie met technologische en wetenschappelijke vooruitgang. Ik ben gefascineerd door de oorsprong van mediatechnologie door de tijden heen, en de invloed van historische wetenschappelijke en technologische ontdekkingen op onze hedendaagse cultuur. Met mijn projecten probeer ik voelbaar te maken hoe deze historische ontwikkelingen onze huidige en toekomstige waarneming van de wereld beïnvloeden.Ik geloof in interdisciplinaire samenwerking tussen kunstenaars en wetenschappers. Ik ben ervan overtuigd dat kunstenaars een belangrijke rol kunnen spelen in het overbruggen van de vaak waargenomen kloof tussen zich voortdurend versnellende wetenschappelijke en technologische vooruitgang en maatschappij.Naast mijn werk als autonoom kunstenaar werk ik freelance als kunstenaar, onderzoeker en docent voor verschillende opdrachtgevers in de culturele, wetenschappelijke en educatieve sector.Mijn studio bevindt zich in het prachtige Utrecht, waar ik ook woon, samen met mijn partner en twee prachtige dochters.

Video and sound workshop on ‘Identity’ at Academy of Theatre and Dance Amsterdam

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:39:09 +0000

Had a great start of a new video and sound workshop at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam. We had a brief discussion on the fine art of mass manipulation, and on the uncanny similarities between this fake news fragment from a few days ago and the famous ‘Lambeth Walk’ parody of Nazi propaganda during the Second World War.

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:07:28 +0000

My soon-to-be-former workspace is available for rent per june 1 2019. Spread the word!

https://deplaatsmaker.nl/huuraanbod/locaties/vlampijpateliers/35

Shell Shock sound installation at Eye Amsterdam

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 11:55:41 +0000

I made a commissioned sound installation for the Shell Shock programme in Eye Filmmuseum! You’re welcome to experience it until 22 May 2019. It’s free, since the installation is at the entrance of Eye, but I highly encourage you to also visit one of the great talks, films and other events as part of Shell Shock, or the parallel exhibition A Tale of Hidden Histories.

More info can be found on the project page.

Shell Shock

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:50:52 +0000

Shell Shock

Commissioned Sound Installation

As part of the Shell Shock programme at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, I created a commissioned interactive sound installation. Visitors can listen to stories of refugees by picking up old rotary telephones. These stories were recorded and provided by the BMP Foundation as part of the European refugees oral history project Specially Unknown.

Coinciding with the exhibition A Tale of Hidden Histories, Shell Shock provides a forum to the cinematic representation of violent conflicts and traumatic memories. It not only includes films but also socially engaged specials featuring talks, Q&As and performances. The programme focuses on such themes as memories and narrativity (Hannah Arendt), psychiatry (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) and the tales of Syrian refugees (storytelling).

Moving Image Course at HKU

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:41:52 +0000

This week I started a new Moving Image course at the HKU Brede Basisopleiding (University of the Arts Utrecht). Here you can see the students creating a Light Modulator. It’s so nice to see young students getting enthusiastic by an art excercise developed almost 80 years ago at Moholy-Nagy’s New Bauhaus.

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:20:03 +0000

Looking back at a successful workshop with students from the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance!

Sat, 15 Sep 2018 07:44:21 +0000

I love the new hingeless strandbeest UMINAMI by Theo Jansen.

HKU Media Bot

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:42:35 +0000

HKU Media Bot

Tweets by HKUMedia_bot A twitterbot that publishes an auto-generated poem once every hour, based on the words used in all first grade teaching modules within the Media Faculty of the Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU).

For this twitterbot I used tracery, a story-grammar generation library for javascript. The script generates a short new poem, loosely based on the Japanese Haiku poetic form. It uses all nouns, verbs and adjectives from the teaching module descriptions of all the fields of study within HKU Media (Audio Visual Media, Image and Media Technology, Animation, Illustration, Graphic Design and Photography). I used cheapbotsdonequick to create the twitterbot part.This twitterbot, together with the Teaching module generator installation, was part of a research project commissioned by the Expertisecentrum Educatie of HKU Utrecht University of the Arts, on the possibilities of language technology within an art curriculum, whether for analytical purposes, or as a toolkit within a creative process. This project, with this installation as a ‘proof of concept’, is also a plea for embracing more emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, data visualization and natural language processing in art education.

Teaching Module Generator

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:11:58 +0000

Teaching Module Generator

In cooperation with David Jonas Castanheira, I developed an automatic Teaching module generator, that generates new lesson content, based on the texts of all first year teaching modules within the Media Faculty of the HKU.

We used Processing and the RiTa library (Version 1.12; Howe 2015) to perform natural language processing of all existing teaching module descriptions and made an automatic teaching module generator. It generates a randomly assembled, but perfectly readable text. This way, one gets a good impression of the language use and ’tone of voice’ across the different disciplines.This installation, together with the HKU Media twitter bot, is part of a research project commissioned by the Expertisecentrum Educatie of HKU Utrecht University of the Arts, on the possibilities of language technology within an art curriculum, whether for analytical purposes, or as a toolkit within a creative process. This project, with this installation as a proof of concept, is also a plea for embracing more emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, data visualization and natural language processing in art education.

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:07:56 +0000

Slow motion in slow motion, through AI. Seems bad news for high speed camera manufacturers.

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:04:35 +0000

From now on, I will use this in my classes on continuity editing ?

Essence of the Indian soap opera. pic.twitter.com/7Fq1oJkSll

— Mr. Drinks On Me (@Mr_DrinksOnMe) June 11, 2018

Realtime Motion Design

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:18:58 +0000

About me

Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:42:11 +0000

In 1999, I received bachelor’s degrees of art and music from both art academy and conservatoire. Since then, I have been working as an independent media artist, teacher and researcher.

I create audiovisual installations and compose music and sound for theatre and film. As a creative director / curator, I also initiate (research) projects at the interface between the different art disciplines and the sciences.A continuing theme throughout my work is the human relationship with technological and scientific progress. I’m fascinated by the origins of media technology throughout the ages, and the influence of historical scientific and technological discoveries on contemporary culture. With my projects, I’m trying to make tangible how those historical developments are shaping our current and future perception of the world.

The supernormal - Artist-in-residence / Book Project

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:30:56 +0000

The supernormal

Artist-in-residence

Book project

From september 2017 - february 2018, i have been working at NIAS (Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences) as part of a fellowship offered by the KNAW and the Akademie van Kunsten. I worked on my upcoming project The supernormal, a more theoretical follow-up of my interdisciplinary art project De meeuwen van Tinbergen.

Besides doing more research on the effects of Niko Tinbergen’s concept of the supernormal stimulus on human behaviour in general, I focused on the implications of this kind of scientific knowledge on art, art theory and art education.

Soundtrack for short film Zelfportret

Tue, 17 May 2016 11:16:30 +0000

A couple of years ago i composed the soundtrack for a short film directed by Kristjan Knigge. It won a Golden Remi Award at the WorldFest Houston 2015.

Soundtrack final scene:

Masterclass with Alvin Lucier

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 08:55:18 +0000

On Sunday, october 19th 2014, i was given the opportunity to attend a masterclass by Alvin Lucier at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. This very inspiring masterclass was part of the Alvin Lucier Festival and was organized by Sonic Acts. Mr. Lucier talked extensively about his work and we attended several of his compositions being performed across the museum. Several of my own projects were inspired by the ideas and work of Alvin Lucier.

De Hoop van Leiden - PS|Theater

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:14:47 +0000

Together with Alexander de Vree, I created 3 installations for the theatre performance “De Hoop van Leiden” by PS|theater. More info here.

Cowboy bij Nacht - Music and Sound Design

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:34:00 +0000

Cowboy bij nacht

Music and sound design for theatre

https://vimeo.com/showcase/7408696

From 2005 until 2014, I was a core member of theatre group Cowboy bij Nacht in Utrecht.

Over the course of almost ten years, we made several theatre performances and participative performance installations, which were shown on national theatre festivals like Oerol, Over ’t IJ Festival, Spring Performing Arts Festival and Karavaan Festival. We also made a several nationwide theatre tours.

Pecking the red dot

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 08:26:05 +0000

Pecking the red dot

a theatrical lecture

To celebrate the 65th anniversary of Behaviour and the 40th anniversary of Niko Tinbergen’s Nobel Prize, Dutch theatre company Cowboy bij Nacht and behavioural biologist Carel ten Cate will team up to deliver a special theatrical lecture about the life and work of Niko Tinbergen (1907 - 1988).

Inspired by Tinbergen’s work with herring gulls and his classic experiments on supernormal stimuli, this lecture will provide a brief account of Tinbergen’s experiments on the begging responses of Herring gull chicks, illustrated with a short movie and pictures of Tinbergen’s old notes. Tinbergen’s original data on the famous experiment on the colour of the spot on the lower mandible differ from the well-known textbook figure showing the strongest response to a red spot.

Tesla Theatre

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:41:37 +0000

Tesla theatre

Tesla Theatre is a short musical theatre performance about inventor and eccentric genius Nikola Tesla. In this performance for actor and a musical tesla coil, we share our fascination with wayward inventor, physicist and futurist Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943). Although he was often regarded as a mad genius in his own times, nowadays Tesla is seen as one of the biggest inventors of all times in the fields of electricity and magnetism. In this performance his miracles and radical ideas regarding a global network of unlimited wireless energy come to live.

Lecture on Niko Tinbergen during 'De Academie' (De NUTtige winkel)

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:37:03 +0000

On january 15, Alexander de Vree and i presented a lecture on Niko Tinbergen, his research on supernormal stimuli and human behaviour during De NUTtige winkel (an annual series of performances by Nieuw Utrechts Toneel) in Theater Kikker. The lecture was based on our research for De Meeuwen van Tinbergen and focused on the implications of research in behavioural biology in relation to economics and the economic crisis. A small part of the lecture also focused on his brother (and fellow Nobel Prize winner), the famous economist Jan Tinbergen.

De meeuwen van Tinbergen

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:57:18 +0000

De meeuwen van Tinbergen

Theatre performance

exhibition

bird excursion

lecture

De meeuwen van Tinbergen was een interdisciplinair kunstproject over supernormale prikkels en het leven en gedachtegoed van Niko Tinbergen (1907 – 1988), dat plaatsvond van 2010 - 2013. Het project vormde een eerbetoon aan deze Nederlandse gedragsbioloog, vogelaar, schrijver, tekenaar, filmer en Nobelprijswinnaar en bestond uit een proloog in 2011 en deze theatervoorstelling, tentoonstelling en excursie in 2012. Daarnaast werden in het academische jaar 2012 - 2013 een reeks theatrale lezingen georganiseerd rondom supernormale prikkels en menselijk gedrag op Nederlandse Universiteiten. De meeuwen van Tinbergen werd daarmee een interdisciplinair project op het kruispunt van kunst, natuur en wetenschap.

Student film screenings at Filmin Festival

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:10:36 +0000

A selection of short films made by students of my video courses at Utrechts Centrum v.d. Kunsten will be screened at the Filmin festival on sunday june 10 2012. Filmin is a European project aimed at improving cultural exchange through the use of audiovisual media.

Location: PodiumWerkPlaats ( Burchtpoort 5  3452 MD Vleuten)

Lecture Performance on supernormal stimuli with Bas Haring

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:08:45 +0000

On march 12 2012, I will present a lecture performance about supernormal stimuli in cooperation with philosopher Bas Haring and actor/director Alexander de Vree. This presentation is part of the project De meeuwen van Tinbergen and will take place within the scope of the Art and Science Month of art society De Kring in Amsterdam. More information can be found here (in Dutch)

Smile! You're on cctv

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:26:15 +0000

Smile! You’re on CCTV

“Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they’re different. You can feel secure even though you’re not, and you can be secure even though you don’t feel it.”

— Bruce Schneier

An installation about feeling secure even though you’re not, and being secure even though you don’t feel it. In Smile! You’re on CCTV the visitor enters a room with several hidden IP cameras and one central video surveillance monitor placed on a desk. On several sticky notes placed on the walls and the floor, the visitor can read quotes on the subject of privacy, CCTV, security, safety and the rise of the ‘politics of fear’. The video monitor shows several (delayed) video streams of the cameras capturing the image of the visitor. Because of this delay, the visitor can watch himself on the monitor walking around the room, while he was reading these quotes.

De Meeuwen van Tinbergen - Prologue

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:11:23 +0000

De meeuwen van Tinbergen - prologue

participative performance installation

Een participatieve performance installatie over ‘watching and wondering’, de zelfbenoemde grondhouding op basis waarvan gedragsbioloog Niko Tinbergen (1907-1988) uiteindelijk de Nobelprijs won. Het vrije veld in, goed kijken en jezelf daarbij de juiste vragen stellen, dat was in essentie hetgene waar hij zijn latere roem mee vergaarde.

Waar het uiteindelijke project in 2012 vooral zou gaan over de invloed van Tinbergens gedachtegoed op het moderne leven hier en nu, richtte het vooronderzoek in 2011 zich vooral op ‘waar het allemaal mee begon’; de grondhouding die voorafging aan alles en dankzij welke Niko Tinbergen zijn nieuwe wetenschap (de gedragsbiologie) heeft kunnen ontwikkelen.

Student film screenings at UCK Festival

Tue, 10 May 2011 17:02:13 +0000

A selection of short films made by students of two of my video courses at Utrechts Centrum v.d. Kunsten will be screened at the UCK festival on may 21st 2011.

Exhibition "10 Jaar Vlampijpateliers"

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:40 +0000

From april 6-28 2011, i will present a digital portfolio of my work at the exhibition 10 jaar Vlampijpateliers, Stadhuis Utrecht. Opening hours: Monday - Friday from 9.00 - 17.00. Address: Korte Minrebroederstraat 2, Utrecht.

Teaser for 'De Meeuwen van Tinbergen'

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:05:38 +0000

I created a video teaser for my upcoming project ‘De Meeuwen van Tinbergen’, about the life and work of Nobel Prize laureate Niko Tinbergen (1907-1988).

‘De Meeuwen van Tinbergen’ will be an interdisciplinary project in cooperation with Cowboy bij Nacht, Staatsbosbeheer, Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Institute of Biology (Leiden University) and Oerol Festival Terschelling. More information can be found on the project blog demeeuwenvantinbergen.wordpress.com

[Announcement] Open Vlampijpateliers - 13, 14 november 2010

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:49:14 +0000

I will exhibit a small kiosk with a portfolio of my work in front of my atelier

Address:
Vlampijpstraat 50
3534 AR Utrecht

[Announcement] First public presentation of 'De Meeuwen van Tinbergen' at Uitfeest Utrecht 2010

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:10:10 +0000

On september 12, a first public presentation will be held of my upcoming project ‘De Meeuwen van Tinbergen’ during Uitfeest Utrecht 2010, the start of the cultural season in Utrecht.

Once every hour, on the city hall square, Cowboy by Nacht will present a ‘concert for seagulls’, presented through an 8-channel surround sound installation, placed around the square. In between these short interventions (inspired by Hitchcock’s “The Birds”), we will invite the audience to take part in a little video-interview, while they get a special treatment by a make-up artist.

Video for 'Wij Bouwen de Stad' (Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival 2010)

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:09:16 +0000

I made some videos for the performance ‘Wij Bouwen de Stad’ by Domestica Rotterdam, which will have it’s premiere this weekend on September 5th, during the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival 2010. (In cooperation with Lotte de Vries.)

Selection of Electroacoustic Music

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:42:27 +0000

Selection of Musical Works for Theatre and Performance

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:19:26 +0000

'Gidsenproject' at Oerol 2010

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:21:56 +0000

I was invited to take part in the ‘Gidsenproject’ of this year’s Oerol Festival. More info can be found here (in Dutch).

I also was invited by Dutch television channel AVRO, to review two small projects at the festival. The results can be seen below:

Nomination for BNG WorkSpace Project Prize 2010

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:12:37 +0000

I got nominated for the BNG WorkSpace Project Prize 2010, organized by Filmhuis Den Haag / ZAAL5, with a project proposal for an interactive light installation named ‘A Close Encounter of The First Kind’ (for which i’m still seeking funding).

WORKSPACE is the annual project competition through which ZAAL5 seeks out talented filmmakers and artists working with film, new (interactive) media, video installations, performance and visuals. ZAAL5 is the in-house project space for media arts at Filmhuis Den Haag. This multifunctional room is dedicated to programmes and projects using moving images that are not displayed in regular film halls.

Geen Familie (2009)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:45:44 +0000

Geen Familie is the latest theatre play of cowboy bij nacht, for which i composed music and co-designed the stage lighting. In Geen Familie, a young girl asks a number of people to act as her family to celebrate her birthday.

Geen Familie is made by:

Robert van Dijk (Text)
Alexander de Vree (Director)
Annefé de Boer, Anna Hermanns, Albert Klein Kranenburg, Hanneke Scholten, Anne Stam (Actors)
Lotte de Vries (Stage design)
Arnold Hoogerwerf (Music)
Elizabet van der Kooij / Arnold Hoogerwerf (Lightdesign)
Elizabet van der Kooij (Technician)
Paul Wolterink (Graphic Design)

Geen Familie will be performed:

[Announcement] Preview of 'Geen Familie' at Toonkamer Utrecht

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:34:13 +0000

Cowboy bij Nacht will present a preview of their new theatre performance Geen Familie in the beautiful old Pastoefabriek in Utrecht, september 13, 2009.
Geen Familie will have its premiere on nov 12, 2009 at Huis a.d. Werf, Utrecht.

Ik dacht dat ik mijn naam hoorde (2009)

Wed, 27 May 2009 23:23:37 +0000

In samenwerking met Huis en Festival a/d Werf produceert Cowboy bij Nacht Ik dacht dat ik mijn naam hoorde. Deze voorstelling is exclusief voor het Festival a/d Werf 2009 gemaakt.

Ik dacht dat ik mijn naam hoorde gaat over dat wat zij zeker weet, terwijl hij daar toch anders over denkt. Over wat hij weet en zij denkt te weten. Over haar twijfels over iets dat hij evident vindt. Over dat wat zij als zonneklaar ziet, terwijl hij het gewoon had verzonnen. Over zijn echte leven dat zij ervaart als een leugen.

Mozzhukhin

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:22:42 +0000

Mozzhukhin (2008) is a performance installation by cowboy bij nacht, inspired by a classic cinematic experiment by Lev Kuleshov, known today as the “Kuleshov effect".

Around 1918, Lev Kuleshov edited a short film in which shots of actor Ivan Mozzhukhin, looking into the camera, were intercutted with fragments of various objects. The audience praised the acting skills of Mozzhukhin; first an object made him hungry, then sad, etc…   In reality the audience always watched the same shot of the actor, in which he actually looks quite expressionless.

Performance Installation - Body Navigation Festival

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:41:23 +0000

Audiovisual Performance Installation

A multi-hour audiovisual performance installation in the intimate setting of an apartment/gallery during the Body Navigation Festival 2008 in the centre of St. Petersburg (RUS).

Made by Flat Corner & MOVE Project: 7 artists from 6 different countries who found each other during the Cimatics Masterclass Live A/V 2007/2008 in Brussels (BE). We formed a group of artists collaborating on a common interest in exploring interaction of the body with live video-projection and live (generated) sound. The results of our research were presented during this audiovisual performance installation in St. Petersburg.

'Ruis ik slecht verstaan' & 'Bomans hoort u mij' (2008)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:32:45 +0000

Ruis ik slecht verstaan and Bomans hoort u mij are two new theatre shows from Cowboy Bij Nacht and het NUT, a theatrical remake of the 1971 dutch radioshow ‘Alleen op een Eiland’. For both performances (playing simultaneously, and connected through a live radio connection) i composed music and took care of the design of the soundsystem.

Ruis ik slecht verstaan / Bomans hoort u mij is made by:

(Announcement) '24H Panorama' at the 6th International Environmental Short Film Festival, Istanbul (TR)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:46:57 +0000

My short film 24H Panorama will be screened at the International Environmental Short Film Festival, taking place from june 5-10 2008 in Istanbul (Turkey). My film is scheduled on the 8th of june at 20.30 hrs. Other selected dutch films (from Peter Delpeut, Erik Urlings, Frank van den Engel and Froda Kuipers) will be screened as well on this festival.

[Announcement] 'Muisman Opnemen' at Festival a/d Werf 2008

Sun, 25 May 2008 20:30:16 +0000

From may 25 - 28, Cowboy bij Nacht will present their latest performance Muisman Opnemen at Festival a/d Werf 2008 in Utrecht. Daily at 21.15 hrs, Wednesday May 28th also at 17.00 hrs.

Cimatics Masterclass Live A/V, Brussels (2007/2008)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:23:48 +0000

This week I am attending the fourth and last week of the Cimatics Masterclass Live A/V 2007/2008 in Brussels. Cimatics is a Brussels based international platform for Live A/V. This Masterclass consists of a series of 4 workshops with lectures from different internationally renowned media artists / theorists (amongst others Marc Amerika, Lab[au], Yves de Mey, Jerry Galle, Brendan Byrne & Ana Carvalho, Boris Debackere). The practical part is all about collaboration: 10 selected artists, working in different fields of media-art (and with backgrounds ranging from choreography to architecture) form groups and collaborate with each other, with the aim of creating an audiovisual performance project.

Muisman Opnemen (2008)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:21:32 +0000

Muisman Opnemen is the newest performance of theatre group cowboy bij nacht, for which I again composed the soundtrack. Muisman Opnemen is based on the novel ‘The Overcoat’ by Nikolaj Gogol (1809 - 1852) and is about Muisman, a civil servant with a futile function. He nevertheless loves his job and everyday, he arrives happy at the office. One day, he meets the impulsive ‘girl upstairs’. She pursues him to buy a new overcoat. This overcoat will forever change his life.

(Announcement) Exhibition 'Narratives in Space // Spatial Narrations' at ACEC site, Ghent (BE)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:14:10 +0000

From february 15th - february 19th 2008, i will present a new video from my ‘Time Sketch’ series at exhibition Narratives in Space // Spatial Narrations in Ghent (BE). This installation exhibition is organised by Ghent based foundation Existentie, a platform that brings together artists, arts critics and curators. The past couple of months, i’ve been involved in ‘Labo 5’, a series of meetings, lectures and presentations organised by Existentie, aimed at bridging the gap between art theorists and art practitioners. This ‘Narratives…’ installation exhibition is one of the results of this Labo. Artists Participating: Arnold Hoogerwerf (NL) Guido van der Werve (NL) Judit Hettema (NL) Katja Mater (NL) Keren Cytter (NL/ISR) Lucas Lenglet (NL) Lucie Renneboog (BE) Pieter Vermeersch (BE) Stefan Serneels (BE) Curator: Imke Ruigrok (NL) 15/02/08: 20h OPENING 16/02/08 - 17/02/08: 14h<20h 18/02/08 - 19/02/08: 16h<20h Address: ACEC DOK NOORD 4 HAL 20, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Time Sketch #2 (2007)

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:05:07 +0000

Time Sketch #2 (1.20 min. loop / SD Video / No Sound) is a short experimental video work, based on the same ideas and techniques i used in 24H Panorama and Scenes From My Backyard. Here, i experimented with the idea of showing simultaneously four different ’tempi’ of one take of footage. Time appears in a stretched or compressed manner, creating a sort of ’temporal disorientation'.

Time Sketch #2 is exhibited:

november 30 - december 4 2007: Booth of Existentie on Lineart Art Fair, Flanders Expo, Ghent (BE)
february 15th - february 19th 2008: Exhibition ‘Narratives in Space // Spatial Narrations’ at ACEC site, Ghent (BE)

Documentation

(Announcement) '24H Panorama' at the 16th International Festival Séquence Court Métrage (FR)

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:03:12 +0000

24H Panorama will be screened at the ‘Festival International Séquence Court Métrage’ in Toulouse (France). It will be part of the compilation programme “The World Under Construction”, scheduled on saturday december 1st, at 19h00 in Cinémathéque de Toulouse.

Maandag of Dinsdag (2007)

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:43:27 +0000

Maandag of Dinsdag is a new play of theatre group cowboy bij nacht, for which i composed music and (partly) did light- and stagedesign. It is inspired by ‘The Hours’ (2002), the oscar-winning movie directed by Stephen Daldry. Maandag of Dinsdag is a portrait of Gina, Laura and Clarissa, who all ended up in an emotional vacuum. As a result, their luck becomes nothing more than a façade. Maandag of Dinsdag shows the day on which this façade will be demolished.

A Video-based Motion Tracking System

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:02:54 +0000

On october 2nd 2007, a modified version of the motion tracking system i originally developed for my Lightroom project, will be used in an interactive sound-installation of Werner Urban at the Kinderboekenbal 2007 at Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam. For those interested i will share here a little bit of the technical backgrounds of this system.

Hardware The system consists of a firewire camera (from UniBrain), with a wide-angle lens (Marshall Electronics), an omnidirectional infra-red illuminator (homemade, for very dark lighting conditions) connected via an 11 mtr. long firewire cable (also from UniBrain) to a computer. This computer is running a softwarepatch (written in the Max/Jitter programming environment). I usually place the camera directly above the scene being tracked, so that the barrel distortion of the wide angle lens isn’t too annoying. It can track and report up to 8 different positions simultaneously (thanks to the excellent external object for Jitter written by Randy Jones: 2up.jit.centroids). These coordinates can then be used for triggering all sorts of actions in Max. In the case of the original project it triggered a matrix of 64 lights and the spatialization of sound in a quadraphonic speaker setup.

(Announcement) Cowboy Bij Nacht @ Uitfeest Utrecht 2007

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:32:34 +0000

Cowboy Bij Nacht will present short excerpts from two upcoming theatre shows at Uitfeest 2007, marking the beginning of the cultural season. At Huis a.d. Werf, ‘Maandag of Dinsdag’ will be playing at 13.30 and 14.30 (Premiere will be october 25 2007 at Huis aan de Werf). At the Ganzenmarkt (Stadhuisplein), on every whole hour, there will be a short excerpt titled ‘Ondergetekende’. The premiere of this new performance is scheduled somewhere in spring 2008. I will make music for both pieces.

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(Announcement) Reprise: ‘Scenes From My Backyard’

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:51:21 +0000

From april 1-17 2007, Scenes From My Backyard will be exhibited once more at the videowall of the Stadschouwburg in Utrecht. Lucasbolwerk 24, Utrecht From 20.30 hrs. until late.

(Announcement) New Website!

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:50:03 +0000

Welcome to my slowly ever-expanding website (which is still under construction, though). As i add more articles, this site will function as an online portfolio of my work. For now, I’m in the process of adding textual information about my projects. Later on, i will add documentation.

Atkritka (2006)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:47:16 +0000

Atkritka is a theatrical performance by Cowboy Bij Nacht. It is based on the documentary film Checkpoint of Yoav Shamir, concerning the social intercourse between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian citizens at checkpoints around the Palestinian areas. For this play, I composed a multichannel soundtrack.

In Atkritka, the tensed situation around the checkpoints is stripped of almost all visual context in six succesive scenes. As a contrast, I tried to ‘fill in’ this stripped context with a ‘hyperrealistic’ soundscape. Sounds were treated as objects; several small speakers on the stage played back concrete sounds of birds, insects, cars, etc., within a surrounding soundscape of 4 bigger speakers around the stage, each scene resembling a different desolate atmosphere.

Scenes From My Backyard (2006)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:44:23 +0000

Scenes From my Backyard is a 4-channel video installation in cooperation with Alexander de Vree and Mariska Hogendoorn. It is a ‘panoramic tableau vivant’ in which moving panoramic images are extended over 4 adjacent projection-screens. In a 15 minutes long time lapse sequence, the spectator is taken along different ’everyday scenes’ of a family in their backyard.

In this project, an estranged atmosphere is created out of everyday situations, by creating artificial camera-movements and playing the material back and forth at differents speeds during editing. The extremely wideangle images for this projects are shot at regular intervals of 1-2 seconds through a special 360-degrees panoramic lens. (This same technique is being used before in 24H Panorama)

24H Panorama (2006)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:37:17 +0000

24H Panorama (4 min. / SD Video / Sound) is a short animated film of panoramic still images. In this film, time and space seem to exist independently in a sequence of tranquil landscapes. It is the first project in what will become a series of short films that deal with manipulated perception of time and space.

The extremely wideangle images for this projects are shot at regular intervals of 1-2 seconds through a special 360-degrees panoramic lens. All camera-movement is artificial, and digitally added during editing, independent of speed and direction of the material itself, creating an ‘illusionary flow of time and movement’. In the case of this project, the result is a somewhat rough collection of experiments. This project functions more or less as a pilot for further research.

Brel 2 (2005)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:36:09 +0000

Brel 2 is a musical theatre play of Toneelgroep Oostpool, directed by Rob Ligthert. It is a follow-up of the very successful Brel, both about the life and music of the Belgian chansonier Jacques Brel (played by Jeroen Willems). I did video-editing for the 30 minutes opening scene (in cooperation with / directed by stagedesigner Matt Vermeulen)

Lightroom

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:34:07 +0000

Lightroom

Lightroom is an interactive light/sound installation. 64 Lights are placed in a square grid on a floor filled with white shingle. The room is totally darkened when the visitor enters. By walking in between the lights, the visitor triggers the lights and influences the behaviour of the installation; the room becomes ‘filled’ with fluid-like waves of light and sound.

Inspiration for this project comes from the different concepts of ‘seeing’ that are developed throughout history. In antiquity, seeing is a humane activity, a movement of the eye towards the world. The eye was a candle that transmitted a ‘soft radiating light’, that lighted the world. In the 17th century, Descartes and others made the eye an inhuman, physical ‘instrument’, a sensor for light, independent of what it perceived. This idea is still very influential in modern science. In recent philosophy these separate views are being criticized however, and more comprehensive and nuanced ideas are developed that try to form a symbiosis of the observer and what is being observed.

Een Samenzwering Der Idioten (2003)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:33:23 +0000

Een Samenzwering Der Idioten is a play by De Theatercompagnie, directed by Theu Boermans. It is about the life of Ignatius Riley, the protagonist of A Confederacy of Dunces, a posthumously published novel by John Kennedy Toole (Kennedy Toole himself committed suicide. He never found a publisher for his manuscripts). I edited several videos for this play and gave some advice about video-projection.

Film/Space

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:32:55 +0000

Film/Space

Film/Space is a monumental multi-channel video installation without sound. It consists of 24 projection-screens, placed in a precise spatial arrangement. The visitor walks around in a filmic landscape of continuously changing projected forms in perfect linear perspective. One’s ability to perceive space is constantly put to the test; the visitor is encouraged to view the installation from different perspectives and to see the projected images in relation to the physical space surrounding the installation.

Sonic Light (2003)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:32:07 +0000

Sonic Light was the name of the 2003 edition of the annual Sonic Acts festival. As a member of the editorial staff, i was involved in the design of the Light Box, a gigantic light-/videoprojection sculpture in the main hall of Paradiso, which served as the only light source during the festival. For different live musical performances i made RGB-lightcompositions (among others Olivia Block)

Sonic Light took place:

february 13 - february 23 2003, Sonic Acts Festival Paradiso / De Balie, Amsterdam (NL)

Sonic Light 2003 is a co-production between Paradiso and the Interfaculty Image and Sound at the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

(Un)Aimed

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:29:18 +0000

(un)aimed

(Un)Aimed is a multichannel, interactive sound installation. It consists of several rotating parabolic speakers. These speakers produce extremely narrow beams of sound that appear very near to the visitor, when standing in such a beam (and almost silent when standing outside of it). Because the speakers turn around and the walls of the room function like ‘acoustic mirrors’, it appears as if there are an innumerable amount of soundsources, thereby creating a strange ‘acoustic image’ of the room.

Light Modulator (2002)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:28:42 +0000

Light Modulator is a 16mm film-installation. A film-loop is projected on a precisely cut-out projection screen, creating a ’trompe-l’oeil-like’ effect. The material for this project consists of chemically and digitally treated found footage. This project functioned as a sketch for the Film/Space project. In cooperation with Seema Ouweneel.

This installation is exhibited:

march 15 / 16 2002, Filmprogramme/exhibition Starting From Scratch, De Balie, Amsterdam (NL)

Documentation

Bouwnummer 1077

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:27:37 +0000

Bouwnummer 1077

Performance / Sound installation

Bouwnummer 1077 is a ‘heavy physical sound performance’ by Bart Visser, Remco de Jong and Arnold Hoogerwerf. This project is both a performance and a sound installation. The installation scans the surrounding space of the installation with microphones and speakers, which are built into hanging cubes. It can be played like an instrument, by grasping, swinging and rotating the cubes. By playing sounds into the room and subsequently recording and replaying the same sound, an acoustic resonance scan is being made of the space and the room will reveal, bit by bit, its ’true acoustical identity’.

Wie Doet De Afwas! (2000)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:27:04 +0000

Bouwnummer 1076 (2000)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:26:07 +0000

'14'46''' (2000)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:25:00 +0000

An electroacoustic composition in three parts, made in 2000. Performed during a concert with fellow composers from Rotterdam (among others Philemon Mukarno, Oskar van Dillen) at Bolnes Dockyards, Rotterdam.

De Weergave (2000)

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:23:58 +0000

Ontleding Van Het Filmische

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:52:37 +0000

Ontleding van het filmische

Ontleding Van Het Filmische is a performance / light installation. In this performance, a mechanical light construction is built and carefully tested, with the ultimate goal of creating one ‘cinematic’ moment. This project is an ode to the pioneers of cinema: all the artists, priests, alchemists and scientists that passionately worked on the invention of the cinematic apparatus, an apparatus that laid the base for our contemporary visual culture.

Afterimage (1999)

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:51:57 +0000

Afterimage is a 3 channel video installation in cooperation with Mariska Hogendoorn, and is about the thin line between perception and interpretation. Flashes of faces with different expressions randomly appear on three monitors, that immediately begin to degenerate into “smears” of color. Because images appear unexpected, the visitor is almost always ’too late’, forcing him to ‘mentally reconstruct’ these blurry images into facial expressions.

This project is exhibited:

may 13-16 1999, May Festival, Royal Conservatory, The Hague (NL)

Documentation

2(D) Steps (1998)

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:51:16 +0000

Documentation

Abstract Light Sonata (1997)

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:50:44 +0000

Documentation

Secret Places

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:50:13 +0000

Secret Places

Performance installation

Secret Places was a performance installation by Forced Entertainment with 13 performers of the Rotterdam and The Hague Art Academies. In this 4 hours lasting performance, the performers were sitting next to each other with their eyes closed, telling each other stories from memory.

“Surrounded by 1000 snapshots of the city 13 performers embark upon a marathon of memory. Hundreds of stories are told, forgotten places are re-discovered and fragments of reminiscence are whispered in the half-light. You are invited to eavesdrop.”

Studie Naar Vorm En Kleur (1997)

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:47:30 +0000

LDL 10, Berlin - Angelica Oei (1997)

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:46:47 +0000

Mobile (1997)

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:45:01 +0000

Documentation

Scheuer Im Haag (1995)

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:40:04 +0000

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