News:
• Together with visual artist and photographer Pet van de Luijtgaarden and Centraal Museum Utrecht, we are compiling Gullivers Collections: an interactive work of art, exhibited in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht. Register your collection before May 27 via www.gulliversverzamelingen.nl
• We have a new information brochure! Click here to view the brochure (Dutch only).
• New brochure about our education program for the year 2012-13: The power of art in an age of new media is the new overarching theme for our three workshops. Click here to view our brochure (Dutch only).
Coming up:
• From July 7 till 22, the exhibition Gullivers Verzamelingen (Gullivers Collections) will take place in the Jaarbeurshallen, Utrecht. Gullivers Verzamelingen is an interactive gesammtkunstwerk, made of gatherings signed in by their collectors troughout the country. The body of Gulliver, main character of the famous book Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift, is constructed of crates and scaffolding, on which his luggage is shown: 1001 collections, with the unique collection collections of artist Pet van de Luijtgaarden and parts of the collection 20th/21st century applied arts of the Centraal Museum as a start. In addition, other collectors can register their gatherings for this unique opportunity to present their belongings to a large audience.
• New episodes of Rietveld TV! Rietveld TV is the innovative Gerrit Rietveld Academie TV programme that is broadcast once a month on Saturday evening at 11.39 PM on AT5 and recently also at the DROPSTUFF.nl network. Rietveld TV focuses on both the work and the lives of the present generation of artists. Students and former students talk about their work, their working methods, their habits and their fascinations. Rietveld TV offers an entertaining but also informative insight into the fascinating world of the academy, the artist’s studio and the artistic life. The veil is swept aside. What lies behind the artist and his work, and how does the work come into being? Rietveld TV is an authentic self-portrait. Rietveld TV is produced by Rogier Roeters.
Been there, done that 2011:
• Nederland van Boven: The next few weeks, DROPSTUFF.nl shows the unique data visualizations of VPRO’s much-discussed television programm ‘Nederland van Boven’ (Netherlands from above). It’s showtime!
• FREEMOTE festival 2011: At the FREE MOTE Festival in Utrecht, from December 7 till December 11, DROPSTUFF.nl will show the results of the DROPSTUFF.nl MASTERCLASS organized in cooperation with the NOS, FREE MOTE and the Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven for the Art and News in public space project.
• STRP festival 2011: From November 18 till November 27, DROPSTUFF.nl was at the STRP Festival Eindhoven. In close collaboration with NOS, Virtueel Platform and the Institute for Network Cultures, DROPSTUFF.nl presented a unique program named Art and News in the public space. The program consists of artistic applications that translate live news feeds from NOS and leading international news agencies as artwork on the DROPSTUFF.nl Urban Screen Network.
• Impakt festival 2011: From October 28 till November 6 DROPSTUFF.nl presented artworks selected by Impakt. The program was called DEUS: Dutch Experiments on Urban Screens. Broadcasted on the mobile screen in Utrecht and on the screens in The Hague and Eindhoven.
• SHOW OFF Paris: During the Paris Art Fair, DROPSTUFF.nl and SHOW OFF presented three new digital artworks on the mobile screen.
• Lowlands 2011: Together with Zesbaans, DROPSTUFF.nl was present at the Lowlands Festival, where the installation LowCulture was shown. By stepping into a photo booth, people were invited to make an ‘oldschool’ animated portrait of themselves. These stop-motion portraits were live displayed on the DROPSTUFF screens at the festival. At the same time they were presented on the screens at The Hague, Eindhoven and Venice. The created animations can be found on www.zesbaans.nl/lowculture/.
• La Biennale di Venezia: Venice Biennale 2011: DROPSTUFF.eu has been selected as official Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. From June 1 till August 22 DROPSTUFF.eu presented six new artistic games in close cooperation with Virtueel Platform and six Cultural institutes from Utrecht (Centraal Museum, Armando Museum, Dutch Game Garden, Impakt, Nederlands Film Festival and the Utrecht 2018 Foundation) For this matter three urban screens have been placed in Venice and three screens in The Netherlands. By a smartphone the public could influence the games and play live with others on the different locations. The games were develloped by Mieke Gerritzen, Zesbaans, Monobanda, Driessens/Verstappen, Victor Nieuwenhuijs en Maartje Seyfert, Iris Douma en Sylvain Vriens, OneSeconds and Sander Veenhof. Open here the total press release.
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