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Geschützt: Death of a Mountain, Death of a Border?

April 21, 2019 / 0 comments

Es gibt keine Kurzfassung, da dies ein geschützter Beitrag ist.

GlobeRotter

Februar 20, 2019 / 0 comments

GlobeRotter is stimulated by, and combining, the continuous image upload on Instagram and the music genres grindcore and Japanoise. It reflects and reacts in a spontaneous manner on news, locations, books I am reading, and more. Important is a fast pace of production using a mobile phone. The very short clips are immediately uploaded and implemented in…

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Death & Digital

Februar 14, 2018 / 0 comments

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METALheADS

Januar 30, 2018 / 0 comments

Black Metal Logos meet Google Ads on Youtube 2018 Acrylic paint on black linen, each 150 x 200 cm METALheADS is a manifestation of screenshots taken of Black Metal videos on Youtube. The uploaded videos show band logos that got interrupted by Google Ads. This combination leads to contradictions in visuality: the high-contrast black and…

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Your Touch, So Foreign

Januar 7, 2018 / 0 comments

In collaboration with Jasmijn Visser. This film (beta version, 55 min) is the result of our research expedition to Kalmykia in July 2017, commissioned by Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, exhibited during Krasnoyarsk Biennale in October 2017. Supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Russia, Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industry and Mondriaan Fonds. ***

AWAAN? Are We All Addicts Now? Digital Dependence

Dezember 6, 2017 / 0 comments

Book design for artist Katriona Beales, edited by Vanessa Bartlett and Henrietta Bowden-Jones. „Are We All Addicts Now? Digital Dependence is an artist-led enquiry by Katriona Beales into digital hyper-connectivity and the normalization of addictive behaviours through our everyday interactions with digital devices.“ Full description here Liverpool University Press ***

Burial Scaffolds—On Body and Ritual in the Digital Age

August 13, 2017 / 0 comments

Photos by Jeroen Jongeneelen Commissioned by Stedelijk Museum Breda for the exhibition „Wonderlijk Weefsel“ June – December 2017. ***

Research Expedition to Kalmykia for Your Touch, So Foreign

August 13, 2017 / 0 comments

Research expedition to Kalmykia in the context of our project ‚Your Touch, So Foreign‘ commissioned by Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, July 2017. The result will be exhibited during Krasnoyarsk Biennale in October 2017. In collaboration with Jasmijn Visser. Supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Russia. We are on our way to…

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Iedereen is Live

Juli 31, 2017 / 0 comments

I.c.w. Jasper Koning Developed during the masterclass „Sandberg @ Mediapark – Radical Imagination“. Iedereen is live maakt het vluchtige medium van livestreams beschikbaar voor een breed publiek. Een professioneel panel van beroepskijkers loodst het publiek door een selectie van interessante livestreams onder begeleiding van een presentator. Zo ontdekken we rappende meisjes met hoofddoekjes uit Ede,…

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DeADVERTISEMENT

Dezember 22, 2016 / 0 comments

Together with Dr. Emily West, I founded the collective and platform Digital Necropolis. We investigate the digital continuation linked to a physical death: Lives that are increasingly lived online call for a new structure of dying and death. Digital and physical deaths need to be concurrent, and our physical bodies and digital lives can end discretely based…

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