Exhibition

From 16th till 19th of August two of my games ( CollecTic & Thumbs Down) will be presented at the PLATINE festival in Cologne.

On February 26th the Reaction Machine is presented at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam as part of the friday night program:

The two installations Eight+ & Ludic Sound Play will be shown at the Amaze Interact Festival at Club Transmediale 10 from January 29th till Februari 6th 2010. Eight+ is an user-generated-content-post-new-rave-multiplayer-shooter, we developed at the play09 game lab in Potsdam last december.

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.

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. ...

In September CollecTic was played at the Come Out & Play Festival 2007 in Amsterdam. The Festival was part of PICNIC'07 and was a great platform to present my game and meet people who love to play. Mission of Come Out & Play: The Come Out & Play Festival seeks to provide a forum for new types of public games and play. We want to bring together a public eager to rediscover the world around them through play with designers interested in producing innovative new games and experiences. Oh yeah, and we want to have city-size fun. ...

Thursday October the 26th was the Dat-A installation by stichting z25.org presented at Paradiso in Amsterdam during the ParaPlay evening. The evening was about profiling, tagging and security. The installation was first shown last year in Utrecht at Huis a/d Werf. This time the self made technology was improved and worked for almost 200 people, that where tracked. Here are some nice pictures of the evening, more at cpu-theatre: Transmitters, that handed out at the entrance. ...

On saterday the 21st October ‘06 the 20th edition of the Cinekid festival started. Cinekid is an annual Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children that is held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This year the installation Reaction Machine is also part of the New Media programme. This time we encourage the children to create a ongoing story by listening carefully to the previous recording and try to continue the story. The recorded films can be viewed back online. ...

In the week from the 1st to the 5th of August 2006 I had been to Rovereto (Italy) to exposit the installation reaction machine in MART Museum of Modern Art together with Klaas Jan. The exposition was part of the ParticipART art track during the Participatory Design Conference. Other exhibiting artists were: Natacha Roussel, Mauro Annunziato, Nell Breyer, The Sine Wave Orchestra, Daria Loi, Pekka Ala-Siuru, Victoria Vesna, Martin Mairinger, Peter Edmunds, Gruppo Làbun, Stijn Ossevoort, Susanne Schuricht. for a overview of the works have a look at http://www.participart.org/ ...

In the weekeend of 09-05-2006 I had been in Dublin at the pergames workshop and presented a poster about the GPS game Wanderer, that I developed together with Jiri last year. The workshop was full with a lot of different project presentations about using the physical space and environment in games. An overview of the program can be found here.