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2021.... Another year of PANDEMIA!
But the bullet has been fired, the contracts have been signed,
and as soon as this Pandemia finally allows me to move boxes,
I am moving back to the Netherlands,
and I will exchange this box of ZOOM to for another box of ZOOM.
This Patch
0000 The BLOB of Im/Possible Images
0001 Unfolding AI / Unfolding Models @MIT Center for Art
0010 VOF at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
0011 WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY?
0100 OPEN COIL
| 0000 HEK Commission: The BLOB of Im/Possible Images "Imagine you could obtain an 'impossible' image of any object or phenomenon that you think is important, with no limits on spatial, temporal, energy, signal/noise or cost resolutions. What image would you create? (the answer can be a hypothetical image of course!)" This was the question I asked every scientist I spoke to during my Arts at CERN/Collide Barcelona residency. Come and explore my collection of im/possible images in the BLOB! Or find the portal inside the BLOB to add your own impossible image... The BLOB was created as a commission for HEK. |
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 0010 VERNACULAR OF FILE FORMATS AT STEDELIJK While installing the archive of a Vernacular of File Formats at the Stedelijk Museum Base exhibition, I was commissioned to make a video essay for Stedelijk Studies Issue #10: Imagining the Future of Digital Archives and Collections of stedelijk studies an digital magazine. The result, It Takes More than the Past to Understand and Build the Archive (2020), tells the story of A Vernacular of File Formats (2010). The work is an archive of an almost decade long research project into file formats, which are encoding systems that organize data according to a particular syntax.  0011 WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY? Winter semester 2020 at the KHK, as part of Resolution Studies, an ongoing research. Our (digital) cultures are becoming more and more complex. From deep fakes to the post-uncanny or neo-crapstraction - it is hard to stay on top of the dialogue and keep a grip on the new problems or to even find ‘the contemporary discourse’. Is there still a dialogue? What is really happening now? There is of course not one ‘now’ in a landscape that has as many fractures as it has participants. And there is also not one truth, past, future or digital culture; they vary as wide as the diversity of the perspectives of its users. As an artist, I feel I am responsible to train myself to not only critically engage with the new materialities of the digital, but also - and I believe that this is where the ‘new’ or at least the contemporary comes in - to develop a certain fluid literacy of these constantly developing and mutating material languages that impose constraints and qualities on the technologies we work with. And what is the Contemporary if only a lens - what falls outside of this particular, often institutionalised take of our current times? I share the slides of the curriculum What is Contemporary? here.  0100 OPEN COIL AND 365 PERFECT Finally, it is a bit late since OPEN COIL has officially ended, but I do want to mention the fantastic OPEN COIL roaming scooter exhibition I was part during the final quarter of last year. The exhibition concept was by far one of my most favorite Corona solutions: in Berlin these days, many of the rentable scooters (which are generously spread standing and lying all over the sidewalks and bicycle lanes) come with a build in mobile phone charging spot. The OPEN COIL show used these mobile batteries on wheels and syphoned off a little energy; just enough to power up a local network, each hosting a work a single artists work. The OPEN COIL website map the locations of the modded scooters, making a "chase the gallery through the city" kind of scenario. My work was a gif of 365 Perfect Decalibration! |