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Joris Strijbos
Artist
Joris Strijbos graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and received his Master's degree at the Royal Academy of Music in the Hague.Joris Strijbos is a Rotterdam-based artist whose work focuses on the synesthetic relation and interaction between moving image and sound. His work consists of a series of kinetic audio-visual installations and new media performances inspired by an ongoing research into cybernetics, emergent systems, artificial life and communication networks within groups. In his installations he combines artificial, electronic and digital media with models and algorithms based on biological systems. In many of the pieces, the viewer witnesses a process in which machines, computer programs and the physical world interact with each other, resulting in a generative and multi sensorial composition. Joris Strijbos studied ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague where he earned his Bachelor degree and received his master degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He got Creative Industry Promotion fund in 2018, Mondriaan fund for young talent in 2016, STRP Talent Pit Award in 2010.
Education
2010-2012
Master of Music, Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, Interfaculty ArtScience (Image & Sound)
2006-2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, Interfaculty ArtScience (Image & Sound)
Awards, Nominations & Grants (selected)
2018 Gemeente Rotterdam, Jaarprogramma ondersteuning Klankvorm
2018 Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Jaarprogramma ondersteuning Klankvorm
2016 Kunstschouw Award, Kunstschouw, Zeeland, NL
2016 Mondriaan Fonds, Werkbijdrage Jong Talent
2014 Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Talent Ontwikkeling
2010 STRP Talent Pit Award, Eindhoven, NL
2010 Academy Award, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2010 Department Award ArtScience, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2010 Rene Coelho Prize, Audience Award, NIMk, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Media Art Friesland, Audience Award, Leeuwarden, NL
Solo Exhibitions
2018
MACULAR, Macular collective solo show, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
Macular Collective, Axs Festival, LA, USA
2016
Oscillations exhibition, NOME, Berlin, DE
2015
Displace, verkeerstoren Ypenburg, NL
2014
Cycles, Tetem Kunstruimte, NL
Line_Reflect, Rotterdam Artweek, Drijvend Paviljoen, Rotterdam
2010
Inclement + Vindauga, IMG-SRC, Utrecht, NL
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2018
Kunsthal Light Expositie, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL
Axon, Prospects and Concepts, Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam, NL
Liquid Solid, Another Dimension, NEST, NL
Phyllotaxis, TEC ART, Rotterdam, NL
2017
Liquid Solid, Prima Materia, Fiber, Amsterdam
Phyllotaxis, Lichtkunst Gouda, Gouda, NL
Phyllotaxis, DGTL @ ADE, Amsterdam, NL
Phyllotaxis, Atonal Festival, Berlin, DE
Drifting Patterns, Maker Festial Twenthe, Enschede, NL
Shifting Structures, World Minimal Music Festival, Muziekgebouw aan t'IJ, Amsterdam, NL
Phase=Order, Le Safran Numerique, Amiens, FR
2016
Fading Shadows, KIKK Festival, Namur, BE
PARSEC, Lichtkunst Gouda, NL
PARSEC, Maintenant Festival, Rennes, FR
IsoScope, Museumplein Sonic Acts at Stedelijk Museum, NL
PARSEC + Drifting Patterns, Interstice Festival, Caen, FR
Liquid Solid + Moire Studies + Revolve, Gray Area Festival, San Fransiscio, USA
Liquid Solid, Vasarely Foundation, Aix-en-Provence, FR
U-AV, EYE Filminstitute, Amsterdam, NL
2015
IsoScope, Dark Ecology, Kirlkenes, NO
Drifting Patterns, InScience, Nijmegen, NL
Liquid Solid + Moire Studies, Dutch Design Week, Stimuleringsfonds, Eindhoven, NL
Revolve, NCCA, Moskou, RU
PARSEC, Nuit Blanche, Paris, FR
U-AV #2, Sonic Acts Festival Amsterdam, NL
Phase=Order, Meetfactory, Prague, CZ
2014
Duet, Cinekid, Amsterdam, NL
Drifting Patterns, TodaysArt, The Hague, NL
PARSEC + Cycles, Gogbot, Enschede, NL
PARSEC, Atonal Festival, Berlin, DE
PARSEC, Donou Festival, Krems, AT
2013
Cycles, Winterlicht, Schiedam, NL
Revolve, WRO Media Art Biannual, Wroclaw, PL
Matthijs Munnik
Artist
Mattijs Munnik is graduated from KABK Den Haag, and finished one year residency study in Rijksacademy Amsterdam in 2016. In his work he researches all kinds of colour combinations, patterns, and rhythms to create spectacular visual effects. His work consists of performances and installations which play with the perceptions of spectators. He has shown his work at museums and festivals internationally, among others Sonic Acts (NL), Ars Electronica(AU), NCCA (RU), Mostra de Arte Digital (BR). He got Prins Bernhard Cultuur fonds in 2015, Prix Cube Award (FR) in 2013, Rotterdam Design Award (NL) in 2012 and Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award (NL) in 2010.
Education
2015-2016 Rijksakademie Residency
2009-2012 KABK, Den Haag, Bachelor degree
2007-2009 Minerva Art Academy, Groningen
Awards, Nominations & Grants
2015 Prins Bernhard Cultuur fonds studiebeurs
2015 Mondriaan fonds, Amsterdam, NL, beurs praktijkverdieping
2014 International Light Art Award (DE)
2014 Stimuleringsfonds, Rotterdam, NL, talentontwikkeling
2013 Mondriaan fonds, Amsterdam, NL, werk budget beeldende kunst
2013 Prix Cube Award (FR)
2012 Rotterdam Design Award (NL)
2010 Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award (NL)
Solo Exhibitions
2018
MACULAR, Macular collective solo show, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
Macular Collective, Axs Festival, LA, USA
2017
Spectra, Tetem, Enschede NL
Permutations of Light, jan 20 - april 2, Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, US
2016
Neolastoscope, Futura Gallery Prague, CZ
Group Exhibition (Selected)
2017
Sense of Sound, Dordyart, Dordrecht NL
Dolce far Niente, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen NL
Minimal Music Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Prism, Tec Art, Worm Rotterdam, NL
2016
Intensive Care, DDW, Eindhoven, NL
Rolling Snowball/7, Djupivogur, IS
All Around Us, Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, US
UAV, Tec-art, Rotterdam Art Week, NL
Close Up, Eye Amsterdam, NL
2015
Inscience festival, Nijmegen
Signal festival, Prague
Lekker Licht, Centraal Museum Utrecht
Lichtjaren, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen
ArtScience 25 years, Paradiso, Amsterdam
Sonic Acts, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam
CTM festival , Berlin
2014
TodaysArt.jp, Tokyo
TodaysArt, Den Haag
Oddstream Festival, Nijmegen
Mapping Festival, Geneva
Lucida Space, NCCA, Moscow
2013
Glow, Eindhoven, NL
Mostra 3m De Arte Digital, Sao Paulo
Saatchi Gallery, London
Ars Electronica (performance), Linz
PRIX CUBE, mar 27-31, Paris
Sonic Acts, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Digital_ia Festival, Szczecin, Poland
2012
Pixxelpoint, Slovenia
Kontraste, Krems, Austria
Design Column: Micro Impact, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Sight & Sound, Montréal, Canada
A Clash of Contexts, Galerie West Den Haag
2011
Rotterdam Design Award, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Designers & Artists 4 Genomics, Naturalis, Leiden
Nicky Assmann
Artist
The immaterial and intangible character of light, colour and movement forms the starting point of Nicky Assmann's spatial installations, in which she tries to heighten the perception. With a background in Film and ArtScience, she combines artistic, scientific and cinematographic knowledge in experiments with physical processes aimed at sensory experiences. Set against the backdrop of our visual culture, where the perception of reality increasingly occurs in the virtual domain, she returns to the physical foundations of seeing in which the embodied experience is central. She was nominated for the 2017 & 2015 Prix de Rome and her work Solace gained an Honorary Mention in the 2011 StartPoint Prize.
Education
2009-2011
Master of Arts in Music and Art from the Royal Conservatory of Music of the Netherlands and the Royal Academy of Arts of the Hague, The Netherlands.
2007-2009
The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands, image and Sound interdisciplinary major, Art bachelor.
1999-2004
Film Science and Technology, Media and culture, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Bachelor of Arts.
Awards, Nominations & Grants
2017 Prix de Rome [Nomination long list] Mondriaan Fund
2016 Talent Development International [Grant] Creative Industries Fund
2015 Prix de Rome [Nomination long list] Mondriaan Fund
2015 Commissioning Contemporary Art [Commission for Radiant via TENT] Mondriaan Fund
2014 Talent Development [Grant] Creative Industries Fund
2012 Stipendium Emerging Artists [Grant] Mondrian Fund, Visual & Fine Arts
2011 Honorary Mention in the 2011 StartPoint Prize.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 MACULAR, Macular collective solo show, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2018 Macular Collective, Axs Festival, LA, USA
2015 Radiant, TENT, Rotterdam
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2018
Another Dimension, Nest, The Hague
Consciousness, Musée de la main, Lausanne
2017
ITGWO, Vlieland
Prima Materia, Fiber, Amsterdam
2016
Interference, Kikk Festival, Namur
Lichtkunst, Gouda
States of Matter, Spektrum, Berlin
Refraction, Gray Area Art + Technology, San Francisco
2015
November Music festival, Kruithuis, s'Hertogenbosch
Lichtbaden, CBK Amsterdam, Amsterdam
In No particular Order, Creative Industries Fund, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
InScience Festival, Nijmegen
Cross-Pollinated, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Maryland, United States
2014
Exploring the Media Boundaries, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Digiark, Taichung, Taiwan
Prospects & Concepts, Mondriaan Fund, Art Rotterdam Week, Rotterdam
2013
V2_Labshow, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
Saatchi Gallery, London
Discovery Festival, Erasmus Educational Center, Rotterdam
]Interstice[ Festival, Caen, France
WRO film programme on tour, several venues in Europe
WRO International Media Art Biennial, Warschau
2012
Startpoint, DOX Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague
TechnoSensual, Freiraum Quartier 21, Museums Quartier, Vienna
Low Tech, Exit Festival, MAC, Paris
Screenings
2017
IFFR, Rotterdam
Eye Experimental, Film museum, Amsterdam
2016
Ann Arbor 54th Film Festival, Ann Arbor
Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Workshops
2017 Moiré Patterns, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Making Mobiles, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Daan Johan
Artist
Daan Johan is an artist who explores the technology from the past to create new instruments, often with a form of sculptural value and craftsmanship. Starting out in graphic design at St. Lucas in Boxtel, he soon got interested in electronic music. After making electronic music for a while, he soon realized that the technology behind the music was of greater interest to him. Since 1997 he’s been exploring the guts of analogy synthesizers, lab equipment, and Hifi equipment to create unique and often unexplored forms of sound creation. First by means of circuit bending, and later, after some studying and experimenting, by modifying and creating his own mechanical and electronic equipment. Using these techniques together with software, he started creating interactive installations. At the same time he kept on drawing and made his first steps into stop motion animation. He tries to blur the boundaries between engineers and artists. His main focus is still on creating instruments and installations with the interface as a starting point and making unique instruments for other performing artists.
Education
2006-2010 BFA Image & Sound / ArtScience program at the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatory
2010-2012 MFA at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague
Solo Exhibitions
2018 MACULAR, Macular collective solo show, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2018 Macular Collective, Axs Festival, LA, USA
Group Exhibition (Selected)
2017
Gouda Light Festival, Gouda, The Netherlands
DGTL@ADE, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Atonal Art Festival, Berlin, Germany
Fiber*The Rest is Noise, Concert Hall Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016
PARSEC Maintenant Art Festival, Rennes, France
PARSEC Interstice Festival, Caen, France
2015
Revolve NCCA, Moscow, Russia
PARSEC Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
2014
Drift Art Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Atonal Art Festival, Berlin, Germany
Donau Festival, Krems, Austria
2013
TodaysArt, The Hague, Netherlands
WRO Biennale, Warsaw, Poland
2012
Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
EMAF, Osnabruck, Germany
2011
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Rewire Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
Img-src, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sonicca, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010
Line TodaysArt, The Hague, Netherlands
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eric Parren
Artist
Eric Parren (NL/US) is an interdisciplinary artist operating out of Los Angeles. His practice is situated at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Using a combination of digital and analogy media, he investigates our understanding of the ideas and technologies that shape the future. Eric's works are often visceral, sensory experiences exploring modes of perception and the physics of light and sound. Informed by a deep knowledge of the histories of media arts, electronic music composition, and expanded cinema, his work makes links between the past, the present, and what is to come. Eric hosts the experimental music show La Force Sauvage on KCHUNG Radio. He is an instructor at ArtCenter College of Design where he teaches courses on programming for artists and designers, virtual reality, and app development.
Education
2010 - 2012
Master of Fine Arts, Design Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2005 - 2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interfaculty ArtScience, Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatory, The Hague, The Netherlands
Awards, Norminations, Grants
2016 Teaching Advancement Award Fall 2016 ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, USA
2017 Prix Russolo 2017 (nomination) International Competition
2017 Most Discussed Film Award Short Movie Club, Minsk, BY
2016 International Explorations Creative Industries Fund, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Teaching Advancement Award Summer 2015 ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, USA
2015 U CIRA Special Director's Award University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Santa Barbara , USA
2010 Cultuurfondsbeurs Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam, NL
2010 File Prix Lux (nomination) FILE Festival, Sao Paolo, BR
2009 Rene Coelho Prize (nomination) Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Young Talent (nomination) Media Art Friesland, Leeuwarden, NL
Solo Exhibitions
2018 MACULAR, Macular collective solo show, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2018 Macular Collective, Axs Festival, LA, USA
Group exhibitions (Selected)
2017
Schloss Solitude Academy, Stuttgart, DE
Houghton Festival, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK
TEDxUC LA, Royce Hall, Los Angeles, USA
Life Art Science Technology Festival, San Jose State University, San Jose, USA
Prix Russolo, Fabric , Annecy, FR
2016
Constantine the Philosopher University – Music Pavilion , Nitra, SK
Théâtre de l’Échange, Annecy, FR
Perpetual Dawn: Living in the Real World, Los Angeles, USA
NC AD, Dublin, IE
Antimatter [media art], Victoria, CA
Moscow State Conservatory – Center for Electroacoustic Music, Moscow, RU
Cinesonika, Ball State University, Muncie, USA
La Plaque Tournante, Berlin, DE
CNMAS, Mexico City, MX
Harvestworks, NYC, USA
2015
EDA - Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, USA
Audiovisual Explorations, City Art, Rotterdam , NL
2014
AxS Festival, Pasadena, USA
Urban Solar Audio Plant, Multiple Location s, Berlin, DE
2013
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT
Overkill Festiva l, De Fabrieksschool, Enschede, NL
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2012, Hong Kong, CN
UNSTABLE, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
EDA - Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, USA
2010
Cumulus 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Tongji University, Shanghai, CN
Salone Del Mobile 2010, Milan, IT
Wired Festival, Bink36, The Hague, NL
Discovery09, Science Center NEMO, Amsterdam, NL
