AKI Enschede

SPREAD THE WORD

Zielman is a Dutch absurdist and contemporary artist. The importance of his work is an inquiry into the multi-layered co-existence of objects and realities. His work deals with the duality of life’s many opposited, as he says: I want to say one thing: #SPREAD THE WORD; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, correct, encourage, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. It’s all about sending this message. Help the people further with the word, preach the word; encourage them and educate them. It’s an important mission. It’s a message about life and death: go into all the world and preach the word to all creation.

“Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being”

https://www.bjornzielman.com/

FMI Groningen

Po[e]litics from the Anthropocene

‘Po[e]litics from the Anthropocene’ is a trans-medial storytelling project, as well as an ongoing, process-oriented investigation into the aesthetic-political affect of hyper narrative media. The project combines writings, graphic design, video and 3d animation in order to pose the question of where we currently find ourselves. The work is in a constant flux and it constantly morphs into new forms, the project does hence not have a final output in mind but reconfigures according to what media configuration it gets “packaged” in.

http://www.handersson.net/

WDKA Rotterdam

CODE/COAT

http://jochemvanschip.nl/

Rietveld Academie Amsterdam

Superpower Studio

Superpower Studio dives into the internet world of ‘pointless superpowers’, and aims to grant internet users the ‘pointless superpowers’ that they come up with by creating physical objects. The series of objects are carefully selected and designed from some of the most popular ‘pointless superpowers’.
Provoking the stereotypes about ‘good’ design, Superpower Studio explores the twilight zone between useful and useless objects and takes the ‘unuseless’ to the next level. Unassuming, free- spirited, with tongue in cheek, perhaps for some impertinent, Superpower Studio dares the viewer to reconsider what is ‘good’ design

https://www.superpowerstudio.com/

AKI Enschede

Esoterrorism

Esoterrorism consists of a backpack frame with a battery powered FM-sender and modular synthesizer. This allows its user to illegally broadcast audioperformances on commercial FM-frequencies while remaining mobile in order to avoid getting caught.
Inspired by both a pirate radiostation and the mysterious cold-war era number stations, it fantasises about the future of FM.
With commercial radio being digitalised, the FM-frequencies will become available and may become an analogue equivalent of the internet. Here everyone can be a pirate traversing the information wasteland.

http://www.ole.wtf/

HKU Utrecht

NEW ENTREE

In this project I experimented with another way to tell a story. To get people more involved. To trigger people’s imagination and let them use that actively to piece together the bits of information of the story. To this purpose, I created a world with its own products, people and history.

“This story is about John Deringer and what he did. The former employee of ORPHIC (Overall Research Precaution Hardware International Corp) saved the world in 2079 from the oppression by the alien Karkarryks. Now, 20 years later, ORPHIC dedicated this exhibition to his work. Visit, and discover the story”

http://marcelcoufreur.nl/

HKU Utrecht

Terrestrial Planetarium

This terrestrial planetarium is an interactive installation focussing on the first four planets in our solar system. It consists of a construction holding transparent globes containing the most important elements of their visual appearance.

At the front of the construction there is a projection of our star; the Sun. When a planet is touched, an infographic shows up at the position of the Sun, displaying the basic information and their most fascinating characteristics.

The purpose of this planetarium is educational, where art and science is combined to educate in an effective and playful fashion, ultimately stimulating a fascination for astronomy.

HKU Utrecht

http://peerplay.nl/

https://www.youtube.com/peerplay

FMI Groningen

https://www.salimbayri.com/

WDKA Rotterdam

Epoch – decoding meaning

Epoch – decoding meaning is a project by Arthur Boer and Boris Smeenk that explores the domain of computer vision in relation to the current visual culture. The duo has build a machine, that by using deep learning technology generates images and captions in real time. The system uses Instagram that serves as the database on which it learns. Instagram is a collectively formed database that represents the current visual culture. Therefore the project is a machine interpretation of the current culture, that encompasses the relevant content within the online world – image, language, emojis and hashtags.

https://epochai.github.io/