Art

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Expanded City is a collaborative work, developed together with students from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne for the Amaze Interact exhibition at the Club Transmediale 2010 in Berlin. For the installation we went on a sound walk through Cologne, capturing sounds and taking photos of the city. The images were projected on pyramids made of acrylic glass. A projection mapping technique was used, to display the images on all sides of the pyramids. ...

04 - 07 September 2009, Migrating Art Academies at Ars Electronica, Linz. Sequence, the third episode of the two-year pan-European project Migrating Art Academies, begins at the end of August 2009. Students from art academies in three countries, Germany, France, and Lithuania, will continue a process of nomadic living and creating “on the road.” This time they will migrate to Linz, Austria, the home of Ars Electronica, one of the premiere global festivals for contemporary media art and science.

Migrating Art Academies with its laboratory II during May 5th – 22nd, 2009 seeks further for the ways to step beyond habitual artistic routines of the students in order to inspire their successful creative development. Started with regime in november 2008 in Berlin, Migrating Art Academies continues with ‘Transgression’, working in open spaces in Berlin, Vilnius, Nida and on the road including seminars and workshops. www.migaa.eu Public Presentation: May 16th 2009, 18:00, Contempory Art Gallery, Vilnius railway station ...

Space-Time-Net-Scans: 1000 Pixel, 37 Seconds, 27.027 Hz, from Cologne to Vilnius and back. In the project an image is composed with a slit scan technique (based on Golan Levis SlitScan Program, 2006) and the results of a scan for wireless network points in the area. The slit scanner uses only the center vertical line of a webcam and adds the line to the image from rigth to left. So that in 37 seconds an image is composed of the captured space/movement. Additionally the names of the wireless network points are added to the image. ...

From the 21 January - 01 February 2009 V2_ in Rotterdam will turn into a media war-zone with the installation arena ‘WARUM2.0’. WARUM2.0 is a public experiment where the visitors can explore documentary images and media shaped by YouTube, Second Life and surveillance cameras. Passively watching is no longer sufficient - instead we need to select, evaluate and choose. The installation features unique videos from Darfur, Afghanistan, Haiti, Gaza, Iraq and Kosovo by acclaimed cameraman Daniel Demoustier, as well as interviews with cultural theorist Paul Virilio. The installation can be seen as an ongoing investigation of media and the influence of mediated images that more and more determine our relation with the world around us. Warum 2.0 is a production by CARGO and Stefaan Decostere, with Christian Decker, Edwin Uytenbroek, Jonas Hansen, Chris Devriese, Johan Blaeke, and with students architecture TU Delft/Media Studies.

The Documentation of the WARUM 2.0 Installation at the ARTEFACT festival is finished. A preview of the Documentation can be viewed here . WARUM 2.0 in 4 dvd’s with interviews with Paul Virilio and cameraman Daniel Demoustier; a visual and sound tour through the installation arena & ‘the unbearable lightness of doom’ sequence as bonus. Info at cargoweb

Kinetic Life / MyBot will be exhibit at ARTEFACT festival 2008 –> 12 - 17 February 2008 –> STUK kunstencentrum Leuven, Belgium The installation will be part of Warom2.0 from Stefaan Decostere (CARGO) at the ARTEFACT festival in Belgium. In my installation, a robotic hand plays the computer game Second Life. By pressing keys of a computer keyboard, the hand moves a virtual Avatar on the screen. The movement of the hand’s fingers is an automated ongoing routine. The routine will be interrupted, when a person stands close to the hand. But after a short while the hand, and with it the virtual avatar, will go back to their monotonous routine. The installation can be seen as a physical and virtual kinetic performance. In Second Life the avatar walks through a collage of photographs and interview fragments by Daniel Demoustier about war victims. ...

WARUM2.0 is a public experiment where the visitors can explore documentary images and media shaped by YouTube, Second Life and surveillance cameras. Passively watching is no longer sufficient - instead we need to select, evaluate and choose. The installation features unique videos from Darfur, Afghanistan, Haiti, Gaza, Iraq and Kosovo by acclaimed cameraman Daniel Demoustier, as well as interviews with cultural theorist Paul Virilio. The installation can be seen as an ongoing investigation of media and the influence of mediated images that more and more determine our relation with the world around us. ...

MyBot 2.1 is project I am currently working on. The basic idea is to have a robotic hand, that will play Second Life and creates an automated virtual and physical performance. The piece will be part of a bigger installation Warum 2.0 by CARGO. It will be exhibit in Februari 08 in Belgium (more info later on). For the Robotic hand I used an existing toy (The Pianist) and put my own servos in. the Servos will be controlled by an Arduino board or the Parallax USB Controller. The Parallax Controller is very easy to use, programming simple routines over time for the servos is quiet easy. But using sensors to influence the routines, is not possible. In order to also use a PIR sensor to sense movement, I will probably go for the Arduino board. ...