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Gemeentehuis / Town Hall

2011-10-04T13:34:00.000-07:00

Michiel van der Zanden, Gemeentehuis (Town Hall), 2011
(pigmented inkjet print on Ilford Smooth Fine Art Paper)
14,8 x 21 cm. signed edition: 50 € 150, -
Commissioned by Vincent van Gogh House, Zundert

This work is for sale at € 150,-. The proceeds will benefit the Vincent van Gogh House Foundation. For more info and contact: info@michielvanderzanden.nl or vincent@vangoghhuis.com.

Van Gogh's birthplace

Riding my bike on a spring morning, I noticed this beautiful Neoclassical front of the Town Hall of Zundert. I immediately thought of an old postcard. Zundert is a small town near Breda and known for being Vincent van Gogh's place of birth.

The Town Hall was built between 1830 and 1840 and designed by the architect Pieter Huyser from Breda. It's located directly opposite Vincent van Gogh's birthplace. From his bedroom window, the young Vincent looked directly at the facade.

Building Blocks

When I was asked by the Van Gogh House (www.vangoghhuis.com) to make a multiple artwork, I decided to make an interpretation of this Town Hall by using toy (building) blocks. Blocks which Van Gogh may have played with in his youth: the type of classic toy which by definition has nostalgia in it: Research showed different variations and origins. One pioneer was educationalist Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) and his construction sets ('baukasten') by which children could train their spatial aptitude. Later in the 19th century, with these first constructiuon sets as an example, Richter's Anker Steinbaukasten were produced.

3D

This print 'Town Hall' shows the building stone facade as a construction plan. The image is a 3D Computer Generated Image therefor I used Blender, by which highly realistic lighting and material expression can be achieved.
Later on, the model will also be made out of hard plastic.

Early Computer Graphics

2011-10-03T02:35:00.000-07:00

Some very nice footage I found online, showing vintage animated computer graphics. More on VintageCG's YouTube channel.

sense and simplicity

2011-08-26T02:56:00.000-07:00

made in Blender 2.49B, Yafaray 0.1.1 and Gimp

I made this 3D product visualisation of a Philips Videopac G7200 (1983). I liked the idea of presenting an outdated, once 'futuristic' system in a contemporary way, using present-day software.

Extra information about Philips Videopac G7200 here. And a nice Videopac fanpage over here.

A Small Forest - Kunsthalle New - Chicago

2011-08-04T07:27:00.000-07:00

Past 16th July, Kunsthalle New in Chicago presented the -one night only- exhibition 'A Small Forest', a presentation curated by Bea Fremderman and Nicholas O' Brien. It included the work of artists Michael Manning, Camilla Padgitt-Coles, Kate Steciw, and myself. The exhibition focused on "delicate landscapes developed and appropriated by artists that have been found and manipulated within the space of the screen..."

"The exhibition's premise is wonderfully illustrated by Michiel van der Zanden’s Painting LargeFlatMap100. This brings up issues of relationality, being, and, of course, aesthetics. At once a joke, a provocation and a mediation, van der Zanden’s piece explores spatiality and visual relations within a virtual world. Make sure to watch until the end and you’ll be rewarded with cacophony." Joel Kuennen - ArtSlant

For more information and images, check www.kunsthallenew.com (Exhibitions -> Past-> A Small Forest)

Physical glitch

2011-07-14T13:31:00.000-07:00

Waiting for the drawbridge of the Erasmusbrug in Rotterdam, this situation made me think of computergame glitches... Bringing me back to the work of Robert Overweg.

Robert Overweg, The Facade, 2010 (Half-Life 2, PC)

Michiel van der Zanden @ Art Amsterdam 2011 pt. 2

2011-05-17T12:09:00.000-07:00

Art Amsterdam was one great experience! Thanks to all my friends who helped out, everybody at HEDEN and those who dropped by!

View/read MORE

Michiel van der Zanden @ Art Amsterdam 2011

2011-04-14T06:41:00.001-07:00

Proudly to announce my solo presentation at Art Amsterdam 2011! You can find my work at HEDEN, stand 058.

It will be a painting exhibition presented inside an installation, the rest is still a surprise. Hope to see you there!

Art Amsterdam
11 - 15 May 2011

More info on www.artamsterdam.nl and www.heden.nl

The official Art Amsterdam poster showing a young artist in his studio (by Jasper de Beijer)

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GAME-CITY

2011-04-01T01:00:00.000-07:00

17 September - 6 November 2011: Game-City, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL

Game-City is all about the interface between visual arts and computer games. The event is a co-production between bART, mobile platform for contemporary art and the Centre for Visual Arts (CBK) , 's-Hertogenbosch.

Game-City shows work of 10 different artists and game designers. In addition there are weekly activities that take place at various locations in the city.

More info on this in the near future!

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Digitalised collection of handheld electronic games

2011-03-25T08:40:00.000-07:00

Beautiful designed and well-playable Flash site by graphic designers Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielińscy. Here you can play 80's LCD games, on-screen, no download needed.

www.pica-pic.com

Look at my earlier post about LCD games too...
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Angry Video Game Nerd - Episode 92

2011-03-22T17:45:00.000-07:00

Previous post reminded me of this episode by online cult figure ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD. This one's about game glitches (errors); a classic in my opinion.

Also check this post.
Angry Video Game Nerd's homepage

Stop Motion

2011-03-21T13:43:00.000-07:00

New stop-motion video by Rymdreglage: Rymdreglage - Raise your little hand. Kind of a sequel to 8-bit trip.

A lot of the retro/8bit/Lego/pixelation/nostalgia is played out. But it won't get any better than this!

Note the bugged text and low res graphics in some parts.

(c) www.rymdreglage.se

Bamboo Keyboard

2011-03-13T01:31:00.000-08:00

Saw this at the local V&D store. Cool, but ugly at the same time :)
Also see this post.

Interview: Michiel van der Zanden's Videogames on Canvas

2011-02-28T14:01:00.000-08:00

WWW.GAMESCENES.ORG is a blog about art in the age of videogames. This is an interview I had by E-mail earlier this year, with Mathias Jansson, one of the contributors of www.gamescenes.org.

->LINK!

Ten Words and One Shot

2011-01-05T01:12:00.000-08:00

WW.TENWORDSANDONESHOT.COM is an artblog owned by Kevin Krumnikl, designer and art collector / enthusiast. On this blog, artists are invited to send in one photo of their studio and give a response to 10 given words. There's an update every 2-3 days. After each 100 artists, there will be a publication in book form.
Today, www.tenwordsandoneshot.com posted a shot of my studio and my response to the ten words: www.tenwordsandoneshot.com/michiel-van-der-zanden/

Here's an interview with the man behind tenwordsandoneshot.com.

Virtual Rebellion

2010-11-07T05:09:00.000-08:00

From 12 November till 30 January at KOP Foundation, Breda: Virtual Rebellion featuring 0100101110101101.ORG (US), Julian Oliver (NZ), Michiel van der Zanden, Robert Overwe g, Sebastian Blank (DE) and Walter Langelaar.

More info on www.kop.nu
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Challenging the Myth of the Painter

2010-10-18T12:19:00.000-07:00

outLINE Amsterdam presents: 'Challenging the Myth of the Painter'. A group exhibition of 20 painters connected with PRESENTeert, a pamphlet on painting.

From 24 October till 20 November
(Opening Sunday 24 October from 16:00 till 18:00)
A 'special event' Wednesday 17 November 20:00. More on this in the near future...

More info on www.outlineamsterdam.nl and www.presenteert.wordpress.com

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NEW WORKS

2010-10-17T13:27:00.000-07:00

Computer Rock, 2010, 55 x 50 cm. Oil paint on canvas

Recreation # 3, 2010, 145 x 190 cm. Acrylic- and oil paint on canvas

Background, 2010, 130 x 175 cm. Acrylic- and oil paint on canvas

Softijs, 2010, 65 x 35 cm. Oil on canvas

Recreation # 2, 2010, 145 x 190 cm. Acrylic- and oil paint on canvas

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Selected Extra Fine

2010-09-22T15:35:00.000-07:00

Museum Le Secet

Selected Extra Fine (With goodies appealing to the eye) is an exhibition I curated for Museum Le Secet.
Participating artists are: Sander van Deurzen, Thomas Raat, Hjalmar Riemersma, Koosje Schmeddes, Johanna Schweizer, Joncquil and Martijn Schuppers. Outside mural by Super-A.

From 27 september 2010, 's Heer Arendskerke, NL

After two months, the exhibiton will go on a city tour through the Netherlands. For more info check: www.lesecet.nl

Thomas Raat

Selected Extra Fine

URBAN LANDSCAPES II

2010-09-06T00:30:00.003-07:00

From 11 till 26 September, 2010, Electron presents 'Urban Landscapes 2'.

A group exhibition featuring Aram Tanis, Aquil Copier, Bonnie Severien, Hans Wilschut, Joep Overtoom, Jason van der Woude, Karin van Bodegom, Mark Robert Peters, Marjolijn de Wit, Michiel van der Zanden and Rozemarijn Westerink.

www.electronbreda.com/straat/straatexpo

PLATINE COLOGNE

2010-08-05T03:52:00.000-07:00

From 16 till 19 August, two of my Machinima-like videos (Pwned Paintings # 1 and # 2), will be shown at PLATINE Festival, (Elektronische Kunst und alternatieve Spielvormen) Cologne, Germany.

Check www.platine-cologne.de

Susy Oliveira

2010-07-15T06:21:00.001-07:00

Have Everything And Die, 2009, c-prints on

archival card and foamcore, 39 x 24 x 16 inches

I came across Susy Oliveira's work at the Paper Cut exhibition at KOP last June (above picture). Just like Damiano Colacito's work (see May's post), Susy makes polygon-like threedimensional objects built from colorprinted paper.

More on www.susyoliveira.ca

Studio Time 2

2010-07-15T03:49:00.001-07:00

COLOUR 01/02

2010-07-15T03:21:00.000-07:00

A group exhibition about (secondary) colours, at Dek 22, Rotterdam.
17 July - 8 August 2010. Opening Saturday July 17th, 18:00 - 23:00.

www.dek22.com
Willem Buytewechstraat 22
3024 BN Rotterdam

Michiel van Zanden, Bush, 2010.
55 x 45 cm. Oil on canvas.

HEDEN at Art Amsterdam 2010

2010-06-08T05:22:00.000-07:00

On the left wall: 'Heroes', 2009

From the 26th till the 30th of may 2010, Heden was present at the RAI Amsterdam for the annual art fair Art Amsterdam.

CASTLE MAGAZINE

2010-05-20T11:05:00.000-07:00

Out now: The new issue of Castle, Illustrative E-Magazine.
Issue 17, featuring Michiel van der Zanden, Simon Schrikker, Bianca Runge and Onno Poiesz.

Check www.castlemagazine.de

Game & Watch

2010-05-18T03:45:00.000-07:00

Game & Watch clone, 'Mini Arcade - Alien'

History was made with these entertaining and addictive, beautifully designed artefacts...Electronic handheld games.

"Game & Watch is a line of handheld electronic games produced by Nintendo from 1980 to 1985. Created by game designer Gunpei Yokoi, each Game & Watch features a single game to be played on an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen in addition to a clock and an alarm (thus, 'Game & Watch').
Gunpei Yokoi, traveling on a bullet train, saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator by pressing the buttons. Yokoi then thought of an idea for a watch that doubled as a miniature game machine for killing time." -Wikipedia

My nostalgia collecting mania was triggered by this book:

Electronic Plastic, 2000. www.handhelden.com

Here you can find some cool G&W emulators (!): www.zophar.net/gw.html,
and this is the most complete handheld database: www.handheldmuseum.com (it's worth its name).
And finally, the blog of a fanatical collector: www.balduin.wordpress.com/category/game-collection.

Damiano Colacito

2010-05-12T05:49:00.000-07:00

Cold Meal (power-up), 2006, wood, Scotchprint3M, 35 x 45 x h15 cm.

Health-bag, 2005, iron, wood, polystyrene, Scotchprint3M, 31 x 16 x h70 cm.

Found online. The recreation of game objects, put in real-life environments. By Damiano Colacito (IT).
More info here.

Still Life

2010-04-19T04:10:00.000-07:00

The original: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 - 1610)
Basket of Fruit (c. 1596) Oil on canvas 46 x 64 cm.

Found this one online. Etérea Studios is a Spanish graphic and animation studio working with 'CGI' (Computer Generated Images).

"In this work, I tried to take a classic artwork and interpret it using nothing but digital artistry. Here I present the result, 400 years after the great Carravagio made his original oil-painting."

Digital model (detail)

Wireframe, model (detail)

Wireframe total

Final render

Website Eterea Studios: www.etereaestudios.com
Just like LEGO, Etéria is inprired by Frank Loyd Wright, check their Fallingwater project here.

Painting LargeFlatMap100 (The Sims 3) BETA

2010-03-17T13:52:00.000-07:00

After days of struggling with The Sims 3™, Sims Create-A-World-Tool, S3PE Package Editor and various editing software, I managed to finish my first version of this video, 'Painting FlatMap100 (The Sims 3)'.

In a self-created empty world (using Create-A-World-Tool), I made a senior Sim paint the landscape. This landscape painting is a screenshot I captured within the same world. I replaced the original Sims 3 painting with my screenshot, using the S3PE modding editor.

Painting LargeFlatMap100 (The Sims 3), 2010, Digital Video, 4:41 min from Michiel van der Zanden on Vimeo.

Physical texture mapping

2010-02-24T13:17:00.001-08:00

Maarten Baas, Plastic Chair in Wood, 2008, varnished camphorwood

Supercool 'Plastic chair in wood' by Dutch designer Maarten Baas. Spotted at the exhibition 'Maarten Baas - Making Things Personal', Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch (SM's).
This is what I would call 'physical texture mapping' (Texture mapping: "A two-dimensional image of a surface that is used to cover 3D objects." See pictures below). A chair wich you would normally link to hard white plastic, now in a traditionally handmade, woodcarved way.

wood texture (view 'seamless tiling' here)

Texture mapping

till 24 may 2010: Making Things Personal - Maarten Baas
at Stedelijk Museum s-Hertogenbosch, NL
www.sm-s.nl

Texture Maps @ NEST

2010-02-06T13:17:00.000-08:00

12 February - 14 March:

'Texture Maps' at NEST, The Hague.
A group exhibition about the visual influence of the computergame on contemporary art.

Featuring: Eelco Brand, Robbie Cornelissen, Robert Overweg, Rafaël Rozendaal, Oscar Stegehuis and Michiel van der Zanden.

NEST
De Constant Rebequeplein 20b
2518 RA The Hague
NL

www.nestruimte.nl/texturemaps

www.michielvanderzanden.nl

'Frietmolen' - 'Potatomill' - 'Kartoffel Mühle' - 'La cabana a frite'

2010-01-17T11:12:00.002-08:00

Michiel van der Zanden, Frietmolen 2010, 15 numbered copies
Pigmented inkjet on Ilford Fine Art Paper
(paper size 21 x 29,7 cm, print size 10 x 14 cm.)

Inspired by Faller's HO 'Kartoffel Mühle' model, I modeled this thing digitally in Blender 3D. Soon available - numbered and signed by the artist - price on request :)

Magritte using DupliVerts

2010-01-17T11:12:00.001-08:00

Golconde, 1953, 81 x 100 cm.

In line with the vision of Magritte's surrealism, this cool Blender 3D tutorial about DupliVerts (duplication of objects) by wiki.blender.org. You can find it here.

"In every vertex of the circle a man is placed."

"Changing the size of the circle in Edit mode."

"Positive Z axis is aligned to normal (weird, huh?)."

HO 1:87

2009-12-19T16:06:00.000-08:00

Found online: The Thunderbolt 5119 Carnival Ride scale model by IHC....Crazy!!

Check the site of this guy, who built a complete amusement park with these models: www.rileyv.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

LEGO Architecture

2009-11-22T05:46:00.000-08:00

Found this online..Great! Lego your kid can't touch!

This two sets are from the Lego Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright Collection:

Frank Loyd Wright - Guggenheim

Frank Loyd Wright - Fallingwater

-Lego website
-Wiki Frank Lloyd Wright

Hudson Museum, Rotterdam. The Importancy of Unimportant

2009-10-30T15:31:00.000-07:00

Michiel van der Zanden, Crook, Simon Schrikker, Machine

'The Importancy of Unimportant' (borders, transparancy and decay in contemporary art,design and graffiti), is a group exhibition at the Hudson Museum in Rotterdam (Hudsonstraat 61). It's a miniature museum, scale 1:16, wich is owned by Art Rock Foundation. The show is guest-curated by Simon Schrikker. I'm participating with my video Pwned Paintings #2 (Also see February's post.)
A catalogue, with text by Sandra Smets, will be released on November 20th at SingerSweatShop in Rotterdam, including a big screen slide presentation of the exhibition and music by dj's JK and DJ Raging Bull. The catalogue is generously sponsored by CBK Rotterdam and designed by UNDOG.

The exhibition is open 24/7, till December 10th, at Hudsonstraat 61, Rotterdam, NL.

More info and pictures on Trendbeheer.com

Front view

Since Day One

2009-10-30T15:15:00.000-07:00

1981...

Display, 2009

2009-09-22T12:39:00.000-07:00

Display, 2009, digital video, looped. 1:00 min., no sound

My new video, based on traditional landscape paintings. It also shows my painted-over farmhouse model.

Some while ago, I was caught by a romantic landscape painting, which represented a watermill in a picturesque scenery...Because I had just started to work with the digital 3D creation program Blender 3D, I thought it would be a nice idea to re-create a traditional landscape painting: In a digital form, but with using painted parts.
I decided to realize a part of this idea by making a model, typical for the landscape were I'm from: Noord-Brabant. So for a starting point, I took an old “kortgevelboerderij” (farmhouse with a short front: characteristic for this part of The Netherlands). In Blender 3D, I made a simple digital model of it, inspired by traditional landscape paintings. On this model, I put textures, all cut out from pictures of different paintings. This process of 3D-modelling resulted in several ‘rendered’ images.
These images of the digital model were used as sketches, and translated into a real-life model in wood (Thx MU project-team!). The dimensions of it, are about 110 x 120 x 100 (h x l x w) in cm's.
The next step was to paint the model, first with universal primer, and then with acrylic paint plus a 'thickening' medium. Because I also wanted to scale up the brushstrokes, I spent at least 15 liters of this thick paint, applied with big brushes.
(See picture, and June 18th post: Hier & Daar exhibition, MU, Eindhoven and Kop Foundation, Breda).

Boerderij, 2009, 110 x 120 x 100 cm. Acrylic paint on wood/ MDF

@ MU, Eindhoven

The photos I made, of my finished, painted farmhouse, I put back on the original digital farmhouse model, in Blender 3D. The rest of the Romantic scenery was also built in Blender, by using different images of paintings I found online. By doing so, I completed my ‘painting’.
Blender 3D is also ideal for making animations and interactive applications. So I showed the different elements in the painting, as single objects. These objects are displayed in a rotating manner, as in a showroom, or on a (market-) stand: The objects slowly rotate 360 degrees, and turn the other way around, into their old position. The video is looped with the intention of being an film equivalent of a painting, which is always a still representation: There’s only one camera position, no start or end.
Also, there’s no sound in the video, the choice to do that, is a conscious one, I didn’t want to add too much ‘effect’ to it. The total silence is strong and present in its own way.

Michiel van der Zanden, 2009

Van Gogh Huis, Zundert

2009-09-20T05:40:00.000-07:00

Van Gogh

De markt, Zundert

"Is die friettent van jou? Nee van de Rabobank. En hedde da gezien, di zen gin aardappeleters mar frieteters..."

Van Vught

Van Vught en Van Gogh, Van 5 september tot en met 24 januari.

Vincent van Gogh Huis,
Markt 27, Zundert

Pac Mondrian

2009-09-17T15:32:00.001-07:00

Found online: PAC MONDRIAN

"Pac-Mondrian closes the perceptual distance between fine art and video games by combining Piet Mondrian's Modernist masterpiece 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' with Toru Iwatani's classic video game Pac-Man. The two new Ms. Pac-Mondrian levels return the painting to the dance clubs that inspired it with music by contemporary techno musicians mapping the birth of electronic music in their home towns."

http://pbfb.ca/pac-mondrian/

Ingame

^^

2009-09-14T14:42:00.000-07:00

Found in Prague a couple of years ago:

"UP TO 60 % OFF OIL PAINTINGS"

Dutch Golden Age

2009-08-20T12:10:00.000-07:00

I noticed that a lot of sceneries in Empire Total War (PC-game, 2009), show similarities with 17th century seascape paintings.

Dutch Masters

Abraham Storck (Amsterdam, 1644 - 1708). "Het fregat Pieter en Paul op het IJ." 1698-1700

Empire Total War (PC-game, 2009)

Empire Total War gameplay. Dutch Provinces vs France

CCTV (Closed-circuit television)

2009-08-06T14:44:00.000-07:00

Painting update. Camera security at the Military Museum. (Also check February's post).

CCTV, 2009, 40 x 50 cm. Oil, acrylic on canvas

Heroes (Military Museum), 2009, 165 x 120 cm. Oil, acrylic on canvas

Fantastic Damage

2009-07-29T11:29:00.000-07:00

I visited the Venice Biennial a couple of weeks ago. This piece by Michelangelo Pistoletto (great name!) was one of the first I saw there, and I was instantly impressed by the simplicity and effectiveness of it. Pistoletto uses the mirror, which is a traditional object and recurring theme in the history of art. The mirrors are brutally vandalised, with large holes and cracks in them, and splinters lying all around. Although presented in a quiet way, you could still feel the action.

Michelangelo Pistoletto, 'Twenty-two Less Two', 2009. Mirrors, wood, 22 pieces.

Preview 2

2009-06-18T06:49:00.000-07:00

1. Boerderij model @ MU

More new stuff, for the Hier & Daar expo in Mu Eindhoven and KOP Breda.

I modeled a digital 3D model of a farmhouse in Blender (picture 2), based on different landscape paintings (especially the ones from Noord-Brabant). The textures I used in this model, are from my own MDF model (picture 1, 120 x 100 x 80 cm.). I think I used about 15 litres of paint for it.
Special thx to Jacki.

2. Farmhouse digital model, unfinished

3. Newspaper (Eindhovens Dagblad) article about the exhibition

'Hier & Daar' 20 artists and designers from Breda and Eindhoven show new work at Kop Foundation and MU.

MU Eindhoven, Stichting KOP Breda.

www.mu.nl
www.stichtingkop.nl

25 June – 23 August 2009 (1st opening: Friday 26 June, 2nd opening Saturday 25 July)

Preview 1

2009-06-15T12:05:00.000-07:00

New stuff i'm working on. Finishing my Evoluon painting (see post March):

colortest

work in progress

Bugs & Glitches

2009-05-24T00:23:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, when playing a game, you come across bizarre situations. Programming errors, that weren't intended to happen, messing up the game's graphics, physics, or A.I. These errors are called bugs, or glitches. A bug is more like a typical error, like random freezing, or crashes. A glitch is an aspect in-game, that creates unintended gameplay and strange behaviour. This allows you to experience a game in a way, the developers didn't want you to, which can result in very funny situations. Some good examples I found online:

Mercenaries 2, 2008. "...Heeyy..."

Far Cry 2, 2008

Pro Evolution Soccer, 2009

Paint by Nintendo DS

2009-04-21T12:32:00.000-07:00

Paint by DS trailer

Short Japanese trailer

I came across this game last week: Paint by DS. In this Nintendo DS game you can re-create paintings by Van Gogh, Hokusai or Cezanne. You use the stylus as an brush or pencil, and then you fill-in your masterpiece. Not really artistic, but more like Painting by Numbers (Iedereen kan schilderen)...Great!

Also check this link. It's a very funny videoreview (by SDZer0) about 1991's Sega Megadrive game Art Alive, which is even crappier.

NEXUS TV

2009-03-21T10:42:00.000-07:00

Nexus TV about the Unintended Uses show (12 February - 6 March 2009) at Nexus/ Foundation for today's art, Philadelphia. I participated with my video Pwned Paintings # 2 .

The Evoluon

2009-03-20T16:05:00.000-07:00

1969 Evoluon promofilm

I grew up near the city of Eindhoven, in the south of The Netherlands. It’s one of the bigger Dutch cities, and much of the it’s growth is due to electronics company Philips and Daf trucks.
Philips used to have their own science museum called Evoluon. Back in the 80’s, this was the ultimate school trip. The building was like an UFO /flying saucer which had landed in the city.
The Evoluon as a museum closed down in ’89. But I like this idea of outdated futuristic technology (I love retro stuff). And the Evoluon brings back memories. Also the Evoluon being a museum gives it something extra. So, right now I’m modeling some new stuff based on the Evoluon, in Blender 3D.

I found this pics and video’s online, also check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoluon and http://www.dse.nl/~evoluon

Unintended Uses Show

2009-02-10T15:03:00.000-08:00

Pwned Paintings #2, 2008

This video participates in the Unintended Uses show at NEXUS Foundation, Philadelphia. Targeted paintings in a museum shoot-out. By doing so, I’m breaking the videogame’s original intention. From the PC game "Mafia" (also see January's post).

Studio Time

2009-02-05T16:08:00.000-08:00

The study (image 2) is based on the Military Museum in Caïro. I modeled it in Blender 3D software, using pictures I took visiting the museum in 2007.

Virtual Tourism

2009-01-27T14:32:00.000-08:00

2. Screenshot taken from the 2002 PC game "Mafia"

1. Newspaper photo, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

What I've discovered:

While reading the newspaper I recognized the scenery in this photo. But what I rembered was not visiting the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria (image 1). What I remembered was playing the 2002 PC game "Mafia" (image 2)!

3D modeling in Blender 2.48

2008-12-17T15:30:00.000-08:00

Renders of my first homemade models made in Blender (work still in progress). The museum setting is based on the Military Museum in Caïro, Egypt.
In the near future, the renders will be used as sketches for my paintings.