Virtual Rebellion





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

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



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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18 October, 2010 , , , ,

NEW WORKS

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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17 October, 2010 ,

Selected Extra Fine

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

22 September, 2010 , , ,

URBAN LANDSCAPES II


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

06 September, 2010 , ,

PLATINE COLOGNE


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

05 August, 2010 , , , , , , , ,

Susy Oliveira

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

15 July, 2010 , , , , , , ,

Studio Time 2

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COLOUR 01/02


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.

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HEDEN at Art Amsterdam 2010


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.

08 June, 2010 , , , ,

CASTLE MAGAZINE


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

20 May, 2010 , , , ,

Game & Watch

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.

18 May, 2010 , , , , ,

Damiano Colacito

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.

12 May, 2010 , , , , ,

Still Life

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.

19 April, 2010 , , , ,

Painting LargeFlatMap100 (The Sims 3) BETA

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.

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