Installation on Arnold Hoogerwerf

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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’.

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

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.”