ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de kunsten Arnhem '11 - Graphic Design (ba)
www.occupymythougts.nl (2012)
Talking and thinking about "the crisis" leads to a lot of doubts and questions about the subject and ourselves relating to the subject. "Do I worry enough?" "Do I care?" "What can I do?" This leads to answers, which leads to new questions. Also, when I myself need to formulate an idea about something, I always ask myself questions.
I made a website where you can follow someones (my) trail of thoughts about the current crisis. By clicking one of the answers, new thoughts will appear.
With this I try to visualize everyones doubts, but also to motivate formulating your own opinion and to show that more things can be true at the same time.
Visis the website and occupy your thoughts with questions about the crisis!
Click here to see some more screenshots.
Click here to visit the website.
Together with Ruiter Janssen, I made the identity for the Curating Reality conference, organized by the Mediafonds and the Sandberg Institute. It was the starting point for the masterclass about invesitgative journalism that followed after. Also the occupy my thoughts website I made was presented, when some projects that students from the Sandberg Institute made were shown.
A visual first step in my research about "fake" reality. I (visually) experiment with
images from perfume tv ads: the dreamy world they show us and and the emptiness behind it. The desire for something that is and isn't there at the same time.
This is no end result, just an experiment.
Black Gold, Green Paradise. (2011)
Is green energy the future? I downloaded all the images from the websites of Shell, BP and Gazprom. Notable was the fact that most of the images are photos of beautiful utopian green landscapes with blue skies, snowy mountains and happy seagulls above a clean sea. This has, of course, nothing to do with reality..
I made a selection of images and together with texts and slogans, which can also be found on the websites, and placed them on a timeline. The book leads you through a green world, starting from 1975. Meanwhile I also show the biggest oil spills from the last century. The "green world" that the companies want us to believe in also says something about the future (in the future is everything green and clean!), therefore the timeline slowely disappears. On the last pages you see images that are edited and combined into new landscapes. Doing this I show that this is all about an utopian world, presented by energy companies for us to believe in.
The book and the posters were exhibited at the Dutch Design Graduates 2011 exhibition, which was at the "huis voor beeldcultuur" in Breda from the 1st of december 2011 until january 21 in 2012. The exhibition was organized by the Graphic Design Festival Breda.
19 x 24 cm book and A1 posters.
Click here to see the book.
Click here for the poster series.
Kunst en het waarnemen van de mens. (2011) Art and observing the human being.
This publication contains the thesis I have written for my graduation. It's about
several artists who work with observing the human behavior, in each their own
way. Like: Jacques Tati, who suffered from the thought that modernity took over individuality; Sophie Calle who observes strangers; and Nigel Shafran, who makes series of photographs he took of his personal environment. Some of the work is showing us that we are no more than one big grey mass, (we are all the same!). Other artists are telling us the opposite thing (we are all individuals, and very special!). If you try to observe the human being both opinions can be true, it all depends on the distance that you take..
In collaboration with Menno Harder.
We made a publication for the ArtEZ Drama School containing the CV's of the 8 students that graduated in the year 2011. The publication shows photos of the students that we took.
19 x 24 cm, 64 pages.
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Archived Network / Networked Archive. (2010)
The network of a collection of weblinks and tags on shareware, public domain and open source projects found on the internet, archived in a book. Each symbol stands for the amound of tags the link got (a triangle has 3, a square has 4 etc). The book is an alphabetically ordered archive of all the tags that all the links received. On top of the page you have the tag, then the symbol and title, and underneath it you'll see the other tags added to the link. Example: if a link got 3 tags, it will appear 3 times in the book.
How to map a place you have never been to? From utopia to dystopia is a publication about Corviale. A gigantic, more than 1 km long, building in Rome (with 1202 flats and 10 floors). It is built in the early 70s with the idea that it would be a residential community with appartments, shops, a school, a pharmacy, a library, etc. The dream was that it would be a "town" within a building. But nowadays you can call this project a failure because of the lack of maintenance, never completed facilities and a high crime and unemployment rate. What went wrong and turned this utopian dream into a dystopian? In this publication I compared Corviale with 5 other similar projects, some failed and some succeeded. The use of internet made this mapping and comparing possible.
This book is about my friend Tim and his look-a-like that always passed me by at the corridors at the ArtEZ academy. I decided to ask them the same general questions, comparing two completely different people with the same looks (one I know very well and one I have never spoken to before). I called the other guy Tim2, because I only know him because of Tim.
