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With Zesbaans I created an interactive laser / music installation. De Metronoom plays the rhythm of the night. Six connected installations point six laser beams into the room. Visitors play the lasers like instruments and compose a soundtrack, arranging samples from classical instruments, street artists, beats and the machine room of a printing press. (video by Bonafide Binky )

I love photography, mostly live concert shots. Here are some of my photos. For more pics, go to my Flickr profile.

With Zesbaans, we created De Megaphone for the Dropstuff platform. Zesbaans hands the youth of Amersfoort (NL) a stage whereby their SMS text message gets interpreted into a larger-than-life display of imagery on a 60 m² LED screen. This is done by connecting the text message with a database of images and compositions, thus transforming a private message into a composed public statement.

With this interactive work Zesbaans aims to illustrate how communication can be manipulated, how the meaning of words changes in different contexts, emphasizing everyone’s right and responsibility when it comes to freedom of speech.

De Megaphone was designed for the Dropstuff platform for media art and e-culture. With Dropstuff, our work was selected for the 53th Biennale of Venice (2009).

Working together with Martijn Hogenkamp (The QBF) and Carlos Gallupa, we created the new Fatboy website. It contains lots of fun and savvy elements, provides nice user interaction and it just looks good! Don’t forget to check out the products page, which features some nice visual trickery.

With my friends of media Collective Zesbaans, we’ve created Sam, a virtual individual. This character will develop during the next few years through user input. Sams first appearance took place in the form of an interactive installation at gallery Kunstliefde in Utrecht during January 2008. A video of our installation is available on YouTube.

Currently, me and my VJ Crew Résistance Électronique are working on an installation using gaming dance-mats to trigger visuals and eventually audio. So far, we’ve used this setup twice at the Melkweg venue in Amsterdam and once in Tivoli, Utrecht ( Video and more photos of this event). This picture was taken at Melkweg’s New years’ eve party.

While working for the 10 FEET fashion label, we filmed and edited a video of their 2007 catwalk show at the Dutch fashion event ‘modefabriek’. A DVD of this video was sent to stores and sales people.

As a Graduation project for Master of Arts i developed a tool in which people travelling by train can add their stories to a video version of the window view. I used a slitscan technique to allow for fluid interaction with the videos and folksonomy style tagging to attach stories to specific scenes within the train trip. My graduation thesis dealt with the subject of making video materials more accessible through the use of a folksonomy principle.
   

For the 2006 edition of digital media arts festival TodaysArt in The Hague my VJ Crew Résistance Électronique was asked to make an extremely panoramic video, to be projected on the windows of a tram. Visitors could watch this bizarre widescreen experience sitting inside the tram. The video that was shown is available from the Résistance Électronique website.  

Me and my VJ crew Résistance Électronique contributed visuals to an audiovisual DVD that’s released on the Audio Illustrated label. More info and previews available at the Audio Illustrated website. 

 

For narrowcasting channel ON, my VJ crew Résistance Électronique made a series of twelve 2,5 minute episodes around the Eastern European DJ Vladi we created. As soon as we finish rendering the last episodes, you can watch DJ Vladi episodes from our YouTube page.

For about a year I worked as a digital media designer at the Dutch fashion label 10 FEET. We designed and developed their 2006 (Flash) website, which featured the whole 10 FEET collection in video.

For narrowcasting channel ON, my VJ crew Résistance Électronique made a series of twelve 2,5 minute episodes of the Spaceman character we created. A number of those clips are now available from our YouTube page.

On the digital media art side of things, I’m a member of the Zesbaans collective. We are six people sharing a recently opened studio and collaborating on a number of projects. In Januari ‘08 our first exhibition will take place at Kunstliefde in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

For my graduation project I worked as a lead programmer on Ondergrond.org, a folksonomy for Dutch street art, such as graffiti, stickers and stencils.