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Day: Panel – Dark Signals

Friday 22 Feb - 14:00–15:30 - De Balie

In the panel Dark Signals the focus shifts towards the arts, and how they explore unknown behaviours of sound and electromagnetic signals. Raviv Ganchrow sheds light on how he researches sound and listening. Honor Harger shows how contemporary arts take inspiration from science, especially physics and astronomy, and how artistic research feeds back into science.

Raviv Ganchrow: ‘Listening Sites’

Raviv Ganchrow’s talk explores contextual approaches to sites of listening in his recent work. It includes musings on the making of Fray (a site-specific installation questioning our sense of situatedness within a relational understanding of place) as well as two works-in-progress concerning critical sites of radio production, namely a Long-Wave transmitter and a Hörspiel studio. [...] Open Raviv Ganchrow’s talk explores contextual approaches to sites of listening in his recent work. It includes musings on the making of Fray (a site-specific installation questioning our sense of situatedness within a relational understanding of place) as well as two works-in-progress concerning critical sites of radio production, namely a Long-Wave transmitter and a Hörspiel studio. Ganchrow elaborates on strategies that explore, tweak and at times intervene in everyday contexts of hearing. Particular attention is placed on habitual practices inducing inadvertent modes of listening with pronounced spatial-material senses of sound. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Raviv Ganchrow

Raviv Ganchrow’s (US/NL) work focuses on interrelations between sound and space, aspects of which are explored through sound installations, writing and the development of acoustic-forming and vibration-sensing technologies. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague.

Dates

Friday 22 February
14:00 - 15:20

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Conference

Venue

De Balie

Honor Harger: ‘The Dark Arts’

Our understanding of the dark universe is not just the result of scientific research and technological innovation. Artists and musicians have been active in producing some of the most powerful and persistent ideas about the possibilities of the invisible universe that surrounds us. Much as cartographers of the past worked hand-in-hand with the artists who [...] Open Our understanding of the dark universe is not just the result of scientific research and technological innovation. Artists and musicians have been active in producing some of the most powerful and persistent ideas about the possibilities of the invisible universe that surrounds us. Much as cartographers of the past worked hand-in-hand with the artists who illustrated and interpreted the new worlds they discovered, the dark universe is being mapped, visualised and sonified by artists. Honor Harger’s talk will touch on how sound artists and musicians are working with asteroseismology, plasma physics, very low frequency radio waves and the outer reaches of physics. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Honor Harger

New Zealand-born Honor Harger (UK) has a particular interest in science and technology. Besides being a curator, she is the director of Lighthouse, a digital culture agency in Brighton, UK. Her artistic practice is produced under the name r a d i o q u a l i a with collaborator, Adam Hyde. One of [...]

Dates

Friday 22 February
14:00 - 15:20

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Conference

Venue

De Balie

Day: Panel – The dark side of the universe

Friday 22 Feb - 16:00–17:30 - De Balie

These are exciting times for particle physics and cosmology. It appears that the elusive Higgs boson was detected in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in July 2012. Theoretical physics and cosmology develop mindboggling models of how our universe functions. And there are many more experiments happening in deep underground laboratories that are seeking evidence
that underpins our theories of our universe and the fundamental laws of nature.

Michael Doser: ‘Does the Universe Have a Dark Side?’

The Universe we see with our eyes is only a small fraction of what is out there, and what we think should be there, doesn’t appear to be. The past two decades have seen many new observations and experimental results that paint a complex picture. Michael Doser will talk about dark matter, antimatter, dark energy, [...] Open The Universe we see with our eyes is only a small fraction of what is out there, and what we think should be there, doesn’t appear to be. The past two decades have seen many new observations and experimental results that paint a complex picture. Michael Doser will talk about dark matter, antimatter, dark energy, about what we know and what we don’t, about how this knowledge has been obtained, and finally what might be discovered in the next years.       Close Read more

Artist(s)

Michael Doser

Michael Doser is a research physicist at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, who has specialized in working with antimatter, using it either as a tool (to study the strong interaction), or as an object of study itself (formation of anti-atoms, study of matter-antimatter asymmetry, measurement of the gravitational interaction between [...]

Dates

Friday 22 February
16:00 - 17:30

Category

Conference

Venue

De Balie

Raphael Bousso: ‘The World as a Hologram: Black Holes, Information, and the Quest for a Unified Theory of Nature’

Black holes are among the most enigmatic phenomenon in nature. Forged from the gravitational force itself, they absorb all matter that falls into them, allowing nothing to escape. Yet, black holes do emit a faint glow: as Stephen Hawking first realised, they slowly morph into a vast cloud of radiation and ultimately disappear. After 40 [...] Open Black holes are among the most enigmatic phenomenon in nature. Forged from the gravitational force itself, they absorb all matter that falls into them, allowing nothing to escape. Yet, black holes do emit a faint glow: as Stephen Hawking first realised, they slowly morph into a vast cloud of radiation and ultimately disappear. After 40 years, this discovery continues to spark controversies that touch on some of the deepest questions in science: How much information does the universe contain? Can information be lost? Do space and time come to an abrupt end at the edge of a black hole? Raphael Bousso will survey some of the surprising insights that black holes have revealed to physicists. He will also describe profound paradoxes that remain, and which may hold the key to the unification of quantum mechanics and gravity. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Raphael Bousso

Raphael Bousso (US), Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, is recognised for discovering the general relation between the curved geometry of space-time and its information content, known as the ‘covariant entropy bound’. This allowed for a precise and general formulation of the holographic principle, which is believed to underlie the unification of quantum theory and [...]

Dates

Friday 22 February
16:00 - 17:20

Category

Conference

Venue

De Balie

Evening: Spectral bliss

Friday 22 Feb - 20:00–00:00 / doors 19:30 - Paradiso

An exciting programme mixing expanded cinema and performances, all in full colour, that exposes the intricacies and complexities of our perception. The senses are triggered, explored and manipulated with coloured light, precise sounds and vibrations.

Joost Rekveld: ‘#11, Marey <-> Moiré’

In the award-winning #11, Marey <-> Moiré (21’ NL 1999 35mm), Joost Rekveld creates moving patterns from filaments of intersecting lights. The visual effects are inspired by the theories of Etienne-Jules Marey, a scientist who researched how natural movements could be documented through the medium of film. Open In the award-winning #11, Marey <-> Moiré (21’ NL 1999 35mm), Joost Rekveld creates moving patterns from filaments of intersecting lights. The visual effects are inspired by the theories of Etienne-Jules Marey, a scientist who researched how natural movements could be documented through the medium of film. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Joost Rekveld

Joost Rekveld (NL) has been making abstract films and light installations since 1991 with the idea of creating visual music for the eye. He often develops his own optical and mechanical tools and software for making his animated and computer-generated films. His work explores the spatial aspects of light, is closely connected to the early [...]

Dates

Friday 22 February
20:00-20:20

Category

Film

Venue

Paradiso

William Raban: ‘Wave Formations’

Wave Formations (1977) is an expanded cinema performance, performed live by William Raban, using three screens and sound. It articulates a seascape by using primarily colour fields and a soundtrack. Three colour fields pulse in and out – blue, red and green. The hiss of waves is heard as the colours rise and subside. Open Wave Formations (1977) is an expanded cinema performance, performed live by William Raban, using three screens and sound. It articulates a seascape by using primarily colour fields and a soundtrack. Three colour fields pulse in and out – blue, red and green. The hiss of waves is heard as the colours rise and subside. Close Read more

Artist(s)

William Raban

William Raban (born 1948, Fakenham, UK) has made 40 films and 8 film installations since he graduated in painting from Saint Martin’s School of Art in 1971. Observation of both natural and urban landscape is a key feature of his work. The feature length Thames Film (1986) is an essay on the changing face of [...]

Dates

Friday 22 February
20:20 - 20:45

Category

Film

Performance

Venue

Paradiso

Tim Wright & Theo Burt: ‘Bastard Structures II’

In their new collaboration Bastard Structures II (2012) Tim Wright and Theo Burt link digital sound to geometry. Intense strobe effects are projected on two walls in a corner of a room to create an intense and perception-distorting show. These digitally projected sonic and visual structures seemingly rearrange the geometry of the room – a [...] Open In their new collaboration Bastard Structures II (2012) Tim Wright and Theo Burt link digital sound to geometry. Intense strobe effects are projected on two walls in a corner of a room to create an intense and perception-distorting show. These digitally projected sonic and visual structures seemingly rearrange the geometry of the room – a confusing exploration of the materiality of sound and light. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Theo Burt

Theo Burt (UK) works with sound, video and light, drawing on the perceptual relationships between sound and image and the aesthetic application of technology. His output includes installations, live performances and fixed-media pieces.   http://www.theoburt.com/

Tim Wright

Tim Wright (UK) is a musician and composer who also works with video. He is perhaps best known as a producer of idiosyncratic electronic dance music released under his own name and the pseudonym Tube Jerk.

Dates

Friday 22 February
20:45 - 21:15

Category

Performance

Venue

Paradiso

Rose Kallal: ‘Apeiron’

A magical expanded cinema performance. Using 16mm film projectors Rose Kallal creates a constantly changing collage of overlapping abstract images, linear geometric patterns, glowing lines, and suggestive shapes. The film will be accompanied with modular synthesis, created with a modular synthesizer. This performance of  ’Apeiron’ will be a world première. Open A magical expanded cinema performance. Using 16mm film projectors Rose Kallal creates a constantly changing collage of overlapping abstract images, linear geometric patterns, glowing lines, and suggestive shapes. The film will be accompanied with modular synthesis, created with a modular synthesizer. This performance of  ’Apeiron’ will be a world première. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Rose Kallal

Rose Kallal (US) is a New York-based artist and musician who creates immersive 16mm film installations using multiple projectors. She is heavily influenced by mid-20th-century experimental filmmakers such as Bruce Conner. The New York Times said of her: ‘She revisits the past to modify the present and chart a new future.’

Dates

Friday 22 February
21:15 - 21:45

Category

Film

Performance

Venue

Paradiso

Yamila Ríos & Joris Strijbos: ‘COVEX’

In the audiovisual performance COVEX (2012), Yamila Ríos and Joris Strijbos explore the relations between electroacoustic sound and diffracted light patterns. An extended cello creates a mass of sound, which morphs from a complex noisy environment of fast, fragmented textures to a serene, harmonic drone. Shooting laser beams through transparent objects results in an effect known as a ‘speckle [...] Open In the audiovisual performance COVEX (2012), Yamila Ríos and Joris Strijbos explore the relations between electroacoustic sound and diffracted light patterns. An extended cello creates a mass of sound, which morphs from a complex noisy environment of fast, fragmented textures to a serene, harmonic drone. Shooting laser beams through transparent objects results in an effect known as a ‘speckle pattern’ and produces intricate visual constellations and abstract landscapes of detailed colour patterns and dynamically evolving shapes.   (Co-produced by Kontraste and Sonic Acts, supported by Mondriaan Fund) Close Read more

Artist(s)

Yamila Ríos

Yamila Ríos (ES) is a composer and performer whose work combines live electronics with sonic explorations on traditional instruments. In one of her main projects, Marcelino, she extends her cello by attaching different sensors to the body of the instrument that send data to a computer, allowing her to manipulate sound in real time.   www.yamilarios.com   [...]

Joris Strijbos

Joris Strijbos (NL) works in the fields of expanded (live) cinema, audio performances and kinetic-light installations. He is a member of Macular, a collective that focuses on the synaesthetic relations and interactions between moving images and sound.   www.jorisstrijbos.nl

Dates

Friday 22 February
21:45 - 22:15

Category

Performance

Venue

Paradiso

Makino Takashi: ‘[2012]3D’

Makino Takashi has created a 3D version of his experimental film 2012 for Sonic Acts. He has given it the simple title [2012]3D. It consists of images he generated and edited during 2012. Projected as a single channel work, he mixes the soundtrack live, sitting close to the screen. Open Makino Takashi has created a 3D version of his experimental film 2012 for Sonic Acts. He has given it the simple title [2012]3D. It consists of images he generated and edited during 2012. Projected as a single channel work, he mixes the soundtrack live, sitting close to the screen. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Makino Takashi

Makino Takashi (JP) is an experimental filmmaker who lives and works in Tokyo. He creates and exhibits films that make full use of all film and video techniques, treating the image and the music as elements of equal importance.

Dates

Friday 22 February
22:15 - 23:00

Category

Film

Performance

Venue

Paradiso

The Synchronator Orchestra

The Synchronator Orchestra is a live performance project in which several artists produce sound as well as visuals, using a Synchronator device. The device translates three channels of audio input into the primary colour channels of an analogue video signal. Featuring Justin Bennett, Tina Frank, Billy Roisz, Jérôme Noetinger, and the developers of the Synchronator, [...] Open The Synchronator Orchestra is a live performance project in which several artists produce sound as well as visuals, using a Synchronator device. The device translates three channels of audio input into the primary colour channels of an analogue video signal. Featuring Justin Bennett, Tina Frank, Billy Roisz, Jérôme Noetinger, and the developers of the Synchronator, Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk, the Synchronator Orchestra creates a spectacle of synchronised audio and video noise.   (Co-produced by Kontraste and Sonic Acts, supported by Mondriaan Fund)   www.synchronator.com           Close Read more

Artist(s)

Tina Frank

Tina Frank (AT) is a graphic designer and media artist as well as professor for visual communication at theUniversity ofArt and Design inLinz,Austria. Her roots are in web design. She started working with video and multimedia in the mid-1990s.

Gert-Jan Prins

Gert-Jan Prins (NL) focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and investigates its relationship with the visual. He developed the Synchronator device with Bas van Koolwijk.   http://www.gjp.info/  

Jérôme Noetinger

Jérôme Noetinger (FR) is a musician and sound artist who works with electroacoustic devices. He is also director of record label Metamkine.    

Billy Roisz

Billy Roisz (AT) specialises in feedback video and video-sound interactions, using various devices and instruments such as video mixing desks and a self-built videosynth.  www.billyroisz.klingt.org

Bas van Koolwijk

Bas van Koolwijk (NL) works with video errors and digital code to create sound and image interactions. He uses self-made software and hardware applications in live performances, installations and video compositions.   http://www.basvankoolwijk.com/

Justin Bennett

Justin Bennett (UK/NL) works with sound and visual media. His work painstakingly examines the sounds of our everyday urban environments in the minutest detail.   www.justinbennett.nl

Dates

Friday 22 February
23:00 - 23:45

Category

Performance

Venue

Paradiso

Nenad Popov & Klara Ravat: ‘Eucariotic Punk’

Nenad Popov and Klara Ravat took the idea of live cinema literally and developed methods to grow specific kinds of organisms directly on 16mm film loops, mostly friendly species of fungi like moulds or yeast. The biological processes transform the film while it runs through the projector. This results in a variety of evolving landscapes [...] Open Nenad Popov and Klara Ravat took the idea of live cinema literally and developed methods to grow specific kinds of organisms directly on 16mm film loops, mostly friendly species of fungi like moulds or yeast. The biological processes transform the film while it runs through the projector. This results in a variety of evolving landscapes of unexpected textures, patterns and colours. An environment is created where the audience is not only seduced by the moving image but also by the mechanical sound and movement of the projectors. Eucariotic Punk is presented as an installation in Paradiso on Friday and Saturday evening.   Close Read more

Artist(s)

Nenad Popov

Nenad Popov (SRB) creates live cinema pieces, sound installations, film installations, weird sound-making contraptions and impossible collaborations.   http://www.morphogenesis.eu/

Klara Ravat

Klara Ravat (ES/NL) works with video, film, photography and performance. She uses analogue and digital film, not wanting to choose for one or the other. She is currently looking for ways to combine video and film with smell.   http://klararavat.wordpress.com/ http://klararavat.tumblr.com/

Dates

Friday 22 February
Saturday 23 February
20:00 - 23:00
20:00 - 23:00

Category

Film

Performance

Venue

Paradiso

Night: Indigo Aera meets Tape The Bright Universe

Friday 22 Feb - 00:00–05:00 - Paradiso

Indigo Aera and Tape join forces for a full night’s party at Sonic Acts. In the main hall Indigo Aera presents James Ruskin, Ø [Phase] (for the first time in the Netherlands), Maarten Mittendorf & Jasper Wolff, and Makam. And at the same time Tape launches its new concept ‘live series’ – a series of live sets by artist who bring their own hardware and gear, with Juju & Jordash (IL), John Heckle
(UK), Gifted & Blessed (US), and Tape residents Berend, Jeroen & Olff. Indigo Aera is the Detroit-techno label of Maarten Mittendorf & Jasper Wolff. Tape organises techno events and has just started a record label.

Exhibition The Dark Universe

12 Jan–24 Feb - 12:00–22:00 - NASA

The Dark Universe is the unknown universe, the universe that remains mysterious. The Dark Universe is also the weird universe that draws us in and enfolds us in its shroud, blacker than burned black. Seekers of the unknown and the undiscovered must be able to imagine the impossible. Where science uses technology to reveal what lies beyond the scope of our perceptions, The Dark Universe exhibition displays works that use light and sound to seduce and confuse the senses, works thatexplore the boundaries of our perception. The Dark Universe exhibition features Supernova (Cassiopeia A) by Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves; Revolver by HC Gilje; Ivana Franke’s Seeing With Eyes Closed; Event Horizon by Matthew Biederman; Matthijs Munnik’s Citadels: Lightscape V; Black Rain by Semiconductor; Materia Obscura by Jürgen Reble; ~~kulunka~~ by Yolanda Uriz Elizalde; and the soundwalk Spectral Analysis WG by Justin Bennett.
Kicking off the festival, The Dark Universe exhibition opens on 12 January with a programme of live performances in collaboration with Viral Radio, NASA and OT301. The event starts at 21:00 hrs with performances by Cut Hands, Peter Swanson, Raime, Lee Gamble, and Juha vs. H-SIK.

Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves: ‘Supernova (Cassiopeia A)’

Produced by Maison des Arts de Créteil / Arcadi. Music by Laurent Dailleau   Supernova (Cassiopeia A) (2012) is an installation made out of smoke, light and sound. It portrays a supernova: the explosion of a star and the birth of matter, creating a burst of radiation that often outshines an entire galaxy. Supernova (Cassiopeia A) [...] Open Produced by Maison des Arts de Créteil / Arcadi. Music by Laurent Dailleau   Supernova (Cassiopeia A) (2012) is an installation made out of smoke, light and sound. It portrays a supernova: the explosion of a star and the birth of matter, creating a burst of radiation that often outshines an entire galaxy. Supernova (Cassiopeia A) recreates this astrophysical phenomenon on human scale. Developed in collaboration with Fabio Acero, Ph.D. in Astrophysics.   The exhibition runs from 13 January to 24 February and is open daily between 12:00 and 22:00. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves

Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves (FR) works with new technologies, light and sculpture to create a contemporary form of kinetic art. Through her audiovisual installations Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves has been researching for many years on the process of vision and its conditioning.    

Laurent Dailleau

Laurent Dailleau (FR) is a composer, theremin player, curator and lecturer. Has composed many scores for theater and dance companies. He curated the exhibition “33rpm” at the SFMOMA in 2003 and founded the sensors trio S.S.S with Atau Tanaka and Cecile Babiole.  

Dates

Saturday 12 january -
Sunday 24 february

Category

Exhibition

Venue

NASA

HC Gilje: ‘Revolver’

Revolver (2013) is a new work by HC Gilje, commissioned by Sonic Acts and developed for The Dark Universe exhibition. It evolved from Gilje’s earlier light installation 7 Cirkler (2012). In Revolver animated coloured LEDs move in circles at different speeds to create a blend of colours. Meticulously adapted to the exhibition space, Revolver uses not [...] Open Revolver (2013) is a new work by HC Gilje, commissioned by Sonic Acts and developed for The Dark Universe exhibition. It evolved from Gilje’s earlier light installation 7 Cirkler (2012). In Revolver animated coloured LEDs move in circles at different speeds to create a blend of colours. Meticulously adapted to the exhibition space, Revolver uses not only the shadows cast by the circles of LEDs but also those of the visitors in the space. The ephemeral quality of the projected light transforms the physical space through a complex play of light and shadow.   The exhibition runs from 13 January to 24 February and is open daily between 12:00 and 22:00. Close Read more

Artist(s)

HC Gilje

HC Gilje (NO) works with real-time environments, installations, live performance, set design and single channel video. For the past five years he has focused on animated light and shadows, projected light objects and projected light spaces.  

Dates

Saturday 12 january -
Sunday 24 february

Category

Exhibition

Venue

NASA

Ivana Franke – ‘Seeing with Eyes Closed’

Visitors are invited to sit on the floor in front of LED lights and close their eyes. They are exposed to flashing lights, which produces a quasi-hallucinatory visual experience of flowing images behind closed eyes. Each person’s experience of it is different. Some see black and white or coloured geometric patterns that swirl, jump or [...] Open Visitors are invited to sit on the floor in front of LED lights and close their eyes. They are exposed to flashing lights, which produces a quasi-hallucinatory visual experience of flowing images behind closed eyes. Each person’s experience of it is different. Some see black and white or coloured geometric patterns that swirl, jump or flow; others see aerial images of the earth, cities, eyes, human figures, or horses. In Seeing with Eyes Closed (2011), the images created by the flickering lights emphasise the unstable essence of the image. Franke underscores that our experiences are singular, unverifiable, and not representable.   The exhibition runs from 13 January to 24 February and is open daily between 12:00 and 22:00. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Ivana Franke

Ivana Franke (HR) is a visual artist from Croatia who often works with transparent materials and light. Her installations probe the relationship between appearance and materiality, and question our sense of spatial dimensions.

Dates

Saturday 12 january -
Sunday 24 february

Category

Exhibition

Venue

NASA

Matthew Biederman: ‘Event Horizon’

Event Horizon (2012) is a multichannel generative HD audio/video installation that metaphorically explores the phenomenon of the ‘event horizon’, a boundary in spacetime, such as around black hole, from where light cannot escape and thus cannot be observed. In Event Horizon software iterates through a basic generative system that uses pure fields of Red, Blue, [...] Open Event Horizon (2012) is a multichannel generative HD audio/video installation that metaphorically explores the phenomenon of the ‘event horizon’, a boundary in spacetime, such as around black hole, from where light cannot escape and thus cannot be observed. In Event Horizon software iterates through a basic generative system that uses pure fields of Red, Blue, and Green, modulated, layered and interspersed with black. This creates the ‘event horizon’ state where the viewers’ perception, coupled with the technological horizon and the physical space of the installation creates a third image that only exists in the viewer’s mind, calling into question the idea of the horizon, and where perception actually occurs.   Event Horizon is supported by    The exhibition runs from 13 January to 24 February and is open daily between 12:00 and 22:00. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Matthew Biederman

Matthew Biederman (US) is an interdisciplinary artist working across media and milieus, continents and communities. His pieces explore perception, aesthetics, data systems, media saturation and its politics.

Dates

Saturday 12 january -
Sunday 24 february

Category

Exhibition

Venue

NASA

Matthijs Munnik: ‘Citadels: Lightscape V’

As a window to a virtual world, Lightscape visualises an abstract universe composed only of light and sound, exploring the borders of our sensory hardware. While the eye tries to make sense of the sensory overload, a dazzling display of highly detailed patterns and colour combinations is formed in the retina and fed to the brain: the curious phenomena you see are created by the eye [...] Open As a window to a virtual world, Lightscape visualises an abstract universe composed only of light and sound, exploring the borders of our sensory hardware. While the eye tries to make sense of the sensory overload, a dazzling display of highly detailed patterns and colour combinations is formed in the retina and fed to the brain: the curious phenomena you see are created by the eye itself, induced by the flickering lights. The effect is impossible to capture on video or in text; it can only be experienced in real life. Lightscape is the latest work from Munnik.   Citadels: Lightscape V (2012) is co-produced by Sonic Acts & Kontraste.   The exhibition runs from 13 January to 24 February and is open daily between 12:00 and 22:00. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Matthijs Munnik

Matthijs Munnik’s (NL) performances and installations play with visitors’ perceptions. He researches all kinds of colour combinations, patterns, and rhythms to create spectacular visual effects.   http://www.matthijsmunnik.nl/

Dates

Saturday 12 january -
Sunday 24 february

Category

Exhibition

Venue

NASA

Semiconductor: ‘Black Rain’

Black Rain (2009) is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, the Heliospheric Imager (HI), on the NASA STEREO-Ahead spacecraft. Working with STEREO scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the sun. [...] Open Black Rain (2009) is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, the Heliospheric Imager (HI), on the NASA STEREO-Ahead spacecraft. Working with STEREO scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Solar wind, coronal mass ejections, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen against a evolving backdrop of stars and the Milky Way. As in Semiconductor’s previous work Brilliant Noise, which looked into the sun, they work with raw scientific satellite data that has not yet been sanitised and processed for public consumption.   The exhibition runs from 13 January to 24 February and is open daily between 12:00 and 22:00. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Semiconductor

Semiconductor consists of Ruth Jarman (UK) and Joe Gerhardt (UK). Their innovative moving-image works explore the material nature of our world and how we experience it, questioning our place in the physical universe.

Dates

Saturday 12 january -
Sunday 24 february

Category

Exhibition

Venue

NASA

Jürgen Reble: ‘Materia Obscura’

Jürgen Reble’s Materia Obscura (2009) opens a door to an unknown world. By manipulating film footage with chemicals, Reble creates so called ‘chemographs’. He then digitises these chemographs. This way a film arises about the transformation of the film material itself. The result is a visual expedition into the crystallised salts and dyes of these [...] Open Jürgen Reble’s Materia Obscura (2009) opens a door to an unknown world. By manipulating film footage with chemicals, Reble creates so called ‘chemographs’. He then digitises these chemographs. This way a film arises about the transformation of the film material itself. The result is a visual expedition into the crystallised salts and dyes of these films, revealing alchemical landscapes and bizarre and strange worlds.   Materia Obscura is screened daily from 12:00–19:00. The exhibition runs from 13 January to 24 February and is open daily between 12:00 and 22:00. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Jürgen Reble

The works of film alchemist Jürgen Reble (DE) are often rooted in the manual processing of film footage using mechanical and chemical agents, and in the modification of cinematographic apparatus.

Dates

Saturday 12 january -
Sunday 24 february

Category

Exhibition

Film

Venue

Yolande Uriz Elizalde: ‘~~Kulunka~~’

~~Kulunka~~ (2012) is an immersive installation that evokes visual and tactile ways of perceiving vibrations. Low frequencies beyond our range of hearing are transmitted to water in a glass container, creating patterns of waves. The morphing geometries are illuminated by strobing, high-powered LEDs and projected on the surrounding space. Tactile transducers beneath the platform provided [...] Open ~~Kulunka~~ (2012) is an immersive installation that evokes visual and tactile ways of perceiving vibrations. Low frequencies beyond our range of hearing are transmitted to water in a glass container, creating patterns of waves. The morphing geometries are illuminated by strobing, high-powered LEDs and projected on the surrounding space. Tactile transducers beneath the platform provided for visitors wishing to lie down allow them to ‘hear’ with their bodies, evoking a peculiar sensation of gravity and – at times – the loss of it. Visitors are submerged in a tactile sonic experience and enter a universe of sound and light in which the boundaries between imagination and reality blur in an amalgamation of the senses.   ~~Kulunka~~ is co-produced by Sonic Acts & Kontraste.   The exhibition runs from 13 January to 24 February and is open daily between 12:00 and 22:00. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Yolanda Uriz Elizalde

Yolanda Uriz Elizalde (ES/NL) studied music and recently completed her Master’s at ArtScience, The Hague. Her work, both solo and in collaboration, ranges from experimental music to installations.

Dates

Saturday 12 january -
Sunday 24 february

Category

Exhibition

Venue

NASA

Justin Bennett: ‘Spectral Analysis WG’

In 1635 a plague-house was built on what is now the WG Terrain in Amsterdam. There was a hospital on this site until 1983. Dr Ernst Hartmann (1915–92) observed that some areas in a hospital were more conducive to healing than others. He determined that a grid of radiation covers the earth’s surface. At some [...] Open In 1635 a plague-house was built on what is now the WG Terrain in Amsterdam. There was a hospital on this site until 1983. Dr Ernst Hartmann (1915–92) observed that some areas in a hospital were more conducive to healing than others. He determined that a grid of radiation covers the earth’s surface. At some points, these lines form a ‘Hartmann Knot’ of negative energy. Hartmann’s work has been related to the study of ley lines and feng shui, as well as to Wilhelm Reich’s orgone energy. Justin Bennett’s soundwalk Spectral Analysis WG (2013) attempts to reveal this and other energy phenomena in and around the WG Terrain while investigating the healing properties of sound and electricity. We listen back through time – perhaps back to the days of the plague-house, the curing sessions of Anton Mesmer, or the Second World War – to the electromagnetic traces in the spaces around us.   Headphones and a map of the walk are distributed at the NASA reception desk upon presentation of a photo ID.   The exhibition runs from 13 January to 24 February and is open daily between 12:00 and 22:00. Close Read more

Artist(s)

Justin Bennett

Justin Bennett (UK/NL) works with sound and visual media. His work painstakingly examines the sounds of our everyday urban environments in the minutest detail.   www.justinbennett.nl

Dates

Saturday 12 january -
Sunday 24 february

Category

Exhibition

Sound walk

Venue

NASA