Biography Driessens & Verstappen
Erwin Driessens, Wessem 22-02-1963
Address:
tel. +31 06 28405798 Represented by DAM gallery, Berlin
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Education
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| 1988-91 | Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
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| 1982-87 | Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht
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Solo Exhibitions/Presentations
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| 2024 | Fossil Remains, Nieuw Licht #4, Grote Kerk Alkmaar, curated by Eliane Odding, pictures website Grote Kerk
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| 2020 | Pareidolia, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Museumnacht010, Rotterdam, pictures website V2_ and a video impression on Vimeo
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| 2017 | Deep Dive, Young Projects, Los Angeles, California USA, pictures website Young Projects
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| 2014 | GLOW, site specific installation for 360° BRNDWR, Former Firehouse, Maastricht, picture organisation Viewmaster Foundation, Maastricht, website Viewmaster Projects
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| Solid Spaces, DAM gallery, Frankfurt am Main, pictures website DAM gallery
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| 2013 | Points of View, Bergkerk, Deventer, pictures exhibition related to the Art+Technology Award, wikipedia Art+Technology Award (in Dutch)
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| 2010 | Shifting Landscapes, gallery VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam,
pictures
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| 2008 | Tschumi Tulips, Tschumi Pavilion, Groningen,
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| 2005 | Morphogenesis, gallery VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam
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| 2002 | Follicle, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, pictures
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| 2001 | Driessens & Verstappen, gallery VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam,
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| 2000 | Driessens & Verstappen, Consortium, Amsterdam,
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| To infinity and beyond, Exedra, Hilversum
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| 1999 | Un, deux, trois, soleil, Chapelle du Genêteil, Château-Gontier, France
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| Breed, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg
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| 1997 | Driessens & Verstappen, Chapelle du Genêteil, Château-Gontier, France
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| 1996 | Driessens & Verstappen, gallery Le Sous Sol, Paris, France, pictures
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| 1995 | Erwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen, Optica, Montréal, Canada
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| The Factory, gallery O, Brussels, Belgium
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| 1994 | (Un)controlling, SMBA Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam double presentation with Georgina Starr
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| 1990 | Model Spaces, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, pictures
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Group Exhibitions (selection from 2005)
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| 2024 | Horizon and Limits, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, picture with Tacita Dean, Patricia Dauder, Miquel Barceló, Joan Fontcuberta, Bleda & Rosa, Cristina Lucas, Perejaume, Andreas Gursky, Rémy Zaugg, a.o. website CaixaForum
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| Pollinations, Castellum Hoge Woerd, Utrecht, picture organised by Reaktor21 and Utrecht Natuurlijk, curated by Tim Joye with commissioned works of Annemarie Maes, Peter De Cupere, Driessens & Verstappen, Robin Koek website Utrecht Natuurlijk
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| [up]Loaded Bodies, Meta.Morf 2024, K.U.K. Trondheim, Norway, picture organised by Meta.Morf, Biennale for Art and Technology, curated by Zane Cerpina, Boris Debackere, Espen Gangvik, Florian Weigl website Meta.Morf 2024
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| 2023 | Space Farming, Evoluon, Eindhoven, picture organised by Next Nature, curated by Ruben Baart website Space Farming
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| REBOOT, HNI Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, picture organised by LI-MA, curated by Sanneke Huisman and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer website REBOOT
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| 2022 | Retro Future, Evoluon, Eindhoven organised by Next Nature, curated by Mieke Gerritzen website Retro Future
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| Techno/Eco/Systems, University Art Research Lab (MPLab), Liepaja, Latvia
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| Mimesis, a living design, Centre Pompidou Metz, France, picture curated by Marie-Ange Brayer and Olivier Zeitoun website Centre Pompidou Metz
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| Gardening, Oud-Amelisweerd Estate, Bunnik, video clip in Dutch on YouTube exhibition in Museum Oud-Amelisweerd and surroundings, organisation CCU Creative Coding Utrecht with commissioned works of Cream on Chrome, Raumklang, Carolien Teunissen, Driessens & Verstappen, Theun Carelse/Sjef v Gaalen a.o.
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| 2020 | To Mind is to Care, V2_ Rotterdam, pictures with Ana Maria Gómez López, Driessens & Verstappen, Nathalie Gebert, We Make Carpets website V2_
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| 2019 | The Coming World, Ecology as the New Politics 2030−2100, Museum Garage, Moscow, picture with Doug Aitken, Allora & Calzadilla, Critical Art Ensemble, Hans Haacke, Anastasia Potemkina, Susan Schuppli, Allan Sekula, Superflex, Annika Hausswolf a.o. website Garage
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| Illusionary Nature, Museum Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg v/d Höhe, Germany with Vera Monar, Casey Reas, Sommerer & Mignonneau, Eelco Brand, Jennifer Steinkampf a.o. curated i.c.w. Wolf Lieser DAM gallery, website Museum Sinclair Haus
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| Perfection, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, video clip YouTube Adam Peacock, Driessens & Verstappen, Jane Sverdrupsen, Orlan, Patricia Piccinini, Maurizio Toscano, Realbotix, XorXor a.o. website Science Gallery
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| SEA Art Tour, church De Burght, Den Burg, Texel, video in Dutch on YouTube organisation SEA Science Encounters Art, Texel
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| Appear/Disappear, DordtYart, Dordrecht, picture with Barbara Visser, Femke Herregraven, Funda Gül Özcan, Sachi Miyachi a.o. website DordtYart
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| 2018 | Robot Love, Campina Milk Factory, Eindhoven with 60 international artists a.o. Roger Hiorns, Hito Steyerl, Philippe Parreno and LA Raeven curated by Ine Gevers, production Niet Normaal Foundation, website Robot Love review Elephant Art magazine
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| Perfection, Science Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, picture
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| B is for Bird, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen with a.o. Lisa Couwenbergh, Driessens & Verstappen, Daan van Golden, David Jablonowski, Wouter Klein Velderman, Paul Kooiker, Dieuwke Spaans, Emo Verkerk curator Hanne Hagenaars, website Museum Kranenburgh
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| Coding the World, Mutations/Créations #2, Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, pictures with a.o. Manfred Mohr, Frieder Nake, George Nees, Hiroshi Kawano, Ken Knowlton, Gottfried Honegger, Vencejlas Richter, Leonardo Mosso, Vera Molnar, Ianis Xenakis, Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe, Open Ended Group, Mishka Henner, Farah Atassi, Ross Lovegrove, Casey Reas, Andy Lomas, Driessens & Verstappen curated by Frédéric Migayrou and Camille Lenglois, website Centre Pompidou
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| 2017 | Langs de Waal, temporary art route with 10 site specific works, from 2017 to 2022, Nijmegen, pictures
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| Sticky Business, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, picture with Boris van Berkum, Van Brummelen & De Haan, Joseph Marr, Bompas & Parr, Pip & Pop, L.A. Raeven, Lernert & Sander, Helmut Smits, Driessens & Verstappen, Uli Westphal and many others curated by Marije Vogelzang
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| Humans Need Not Apply, Science Gallery, Dublin, picture with Pedro Lopes, Radames Ajna & Thiago Hersan, Driessens & Verstappen, Ross Goodwin, Anna Dumitriu & Alex May, Harold Cohen, Merijn Bolink, and many others curated by William Myers and Amber Case, website Science Gallery
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| 2016 | BAL!, former Royal Palace, Soestdijk curated by Anne van der Zwaag, organised by Artifex
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| Code + Poetry, DAM gallery, Berlin, website DAM
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| 2015 | Herbarium Vivum, Summer Program, Zone2Source, Amstelpark, Amsterdam, pictures
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| New Horizons, The Art Behind Games, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden with Harum Farocki, Studer & Van den Berg, M.C. Escher, Driessens & Verstappen, B.G. Piranesi, Cory Arcangel, Imogen Stidworthy, and many others curated by Kie Ellens, website Fries Museum, blog Mandarin
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| Out There, projections and photographs in the public space of Maastricht (part 1 in October 2014) and Rotterdam (part 2 in February 2015) with David Claerbout, Anouk De Clercq, Driessens & Verstappen, Semiconductor, Jacco Olivier, Geert Mul, Hans Op de Beeck, and many others organisation Viewmaster Foundation Maastricht/NFI Rotterdam, curated by Bart van den Boom, website Out There
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| 2014 | Life-Worlds, Baroque Europe, Residence Gallery, DomQuartier, Salzburg, Austria exhibition of Baroque paintings, rounded off by a video work of D & V
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| Curiorama, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium, pictures
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| Lost in Transition, Metamorf biennial, Babel, Trondheim, Norway with Domnitch & Gelfand, Driessens & Verstappen, Michael Hansmeyer, Stanza, Pelle Cass, Marnix de Nijs, Pe Lang, and many others curated by Espen Gangvik, website Metamorf
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| 2013 | Art duo duo Art, exhibition with works of artists couples, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam with Fischli & Weiss, Gilbert & George, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Ulrich Genth & Heike Mutter, Driessens & Verstappen, Martin & Inge Riebeek, Heringa/Van Kalsbeek and many others curated by Jelle Piersma, review Metropolis M
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| (Re)Source, 10th edition Beelden op de Berg, Belmonte Arboretum, Wageningen, pictures with Maria Barnas, Driessens & Verstappen, Nick Ervinck, Tue Greenfort, Koen van Mechelen, Barbara Visser, Agentur, Atelier NL, Eric Klarenbeek, Christien Meindertsma, Anne Holtrop, Ernst van der Hoeven curated by Koos Flinterman and Krijn Christiaansen
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| Yes Naturally/Ja Natuurlijk, GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague with Francis Alÿs, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli & Weiss, Damien Hirst, Erik Kessels, Atelier van Lieshout, Superflex, and many others curated by Ine Gevers, website Yes Naturally
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| 2012 | A matter of Feeling, Metamorf biennial, TSSK Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art, Trondheim, Norway with Jessica de Boer, Wim Delvoye, Driessens & Verstappen, Kianoosh Motallebi, Markus Kison, Guto Nobrega, Zimoun curated by Alex Adriaansens and Espen Gangvik, website Metamorf
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| TASIE, 3rd International Art-Science Exhibition, China Science & Technology Museum, Bejing organised by Arts & Design Academy, Tsinghua University, Beijing with Sommerer & Mignonneau, Daan Roosegaarde, Theo Jansen, Keigo Jamamoto, Maat & Lancel, and many others curated by Zhang Ga
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| Exploded View/Ontplofte Blik, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, pictures with William Engelen, Wolfgang Flad, Ab van Hanegem, Joris van de Moortel, Driessens & Verstappen website Centraal Museum
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| Art and Artificial Life, retrospective VIDA Int. Awards 1999-2012, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain with Eduardo Kac, Sommerer and Mignonneau, Ken Rinaldo, Philip Beesley, and many others curated by Karin Ohlenschläger, YouTube video
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| The Power of Things, DEAF2012 Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Post, Rotterdam with Olafur Eliasson, Philip Beesley, Driessens & Verstappen, Symbiotica, Jae Rhim Lee, Christien Meindertsma, Zimoun, and many others curated by Michel van Dartel and Michelle Kasprzak, website DEAF 2012
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| 2011 | Pearls of the North, Palais d'Iéna, Paris represented by gallery VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam, curated by Jérôme Lefèvre and Caroline Smulders
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| Dropstuff, part of the Collateral Events of the 54th Venice Biennial, picture organisation Pleinmuseum Foundation/Centraal Museum Utrecht
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| 2010 | Alter Nature, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, pictures with Hans op de Beeck, Mark Dion, Michael Sailstorfer, Driessens & Verstappen, Natalie Jeremijenko, Azuma Makoto, Merijn Bolink, and many others curated by Karen Verschooren, review Domus review We-Make-Money-Not-Art
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| For Real, projections in the public space of Maastricht and Hasselt with Broersen & Lukàcs, Brody Condon, Chris Cornish, Driessens & Verstappen, Jan van Neunen, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Jacco Olivier, Hans Op de Beeck, Nicolas Provost, and many others organised by Viewmasters Foundation, Maastricht, curated by Bart van den Boom
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| Process as Paradigm, Art in development, flux and change, LABoral, Gijón, Spain, pictures with Ralf Bäcker, Driessens & Verstappen, Peter Flemming, Roman Kirschner, Luna Maurer, Henrik Menné, Julius Popp, Casey Reas, Antoine Schmitt, Warren Sack, and many others curated by Susanne Jaschko and Lucas Evers, website LABoral review We-Make-Money-Not-Art
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| 2009 | The Process/Het Proces, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam with Driessens & Verstappen, Remko Scha, Jochem van der Spek, P. Struycken review Rianne Groen
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| INSIDE, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal with Bill Vorn, Catherine Chalmers, Driessens & Verstappen, Eduardo Kac, Ken Goldberg, Marta de Menezes, Oron Catts, Philip Ross, Roman Kirschner, Stelarc, and many others curated by Leonel Moura
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| CONFINES, Geography of the Border, IVAM Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain, picture with R&Sie(n), Alexander Ross, Los Carpinteros, El Anatsui, Carsten Höller, Teddy Cruz, Driessens & Verstappen, Erwin Wurm, Greg Lynn, Dinisio Gonzales, Antony Gormley, Hussein Chalayan, Julie Mehretu, Julius Popp, Matthew Ritchie, and many others curated by Aaron Betsky, website IVAM Center
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| Pioneers of Change, as part of NY400, Nolan Park, Governors' Island, New York, USA with 2012 Architecten, Atelier NL, Maarten Baas, Marije Vogelzang, Rianne Makkink and Hansje van Halem, Pascale Gatzen, Christien Meindertsma, Driessens & Verstappen, Arthur Elsenaar & Taconis Stolk, Platform21, Richard Hutten, Atelier van Lieshout, Chris Kabel, and many others curated by Renny Ramakers of Droog, website Droog
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| Nature as Artifice, New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art, George Eastman House, Rochester NY/Aperture Gallery, New York, USA curated by Maartje van den Heuvel
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| Foodprint, Food for the city, BINK 36,The Hague, pictures D&V contributed with Tomato Habitus, a site and time specific project designed for Foodprint with Atelier van Lieshout, Agnes Denes, Helmut Dick, Driessens & Verstappen, Winy Maas with The Why Factory, Gordon Matta Clark, Christien Meindertsma, Nils Norman, Giuseppe Penone, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yang Zhichao, and many others curated by Marieke Berkers, initiated & produced by Stroom, The Hague, website Tomato Habitus
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| Super Stories, 2nd edition of the Hasselt Triennial, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, picture with Maarten Baas, Aldo Bakker, Harmen Brethouwer, Krijn de Koning, Driessens & Verstappen, Thomas Grünfeld, Jongeriuslab, Germaine Kruip, Thomas Rentmeister, Studio Job, Studio Makkink & Bey, Sylvie Zijlmans, and many others curated by Koos Flinterman, website Super Stories
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| 2008 | Nature as Artifice, New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art, Neue Pinakothek, München/Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo with Hans Aarsman, Wout Berger, Edwin Zwakman, Cary Markerink and Theo Baart, Marnix Goossens, Driessens & Verstappen, Gàbor Ösz, Gerco de Ruijter, Gertjan Kocken, Frank van der Salm, Arnoud Holleman, and many others curated by Maartje van den Heuvel
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| Borders, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam curated by Frank Bruggeman and Ernst van der Hoeven
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| Deep Screen, Art in Digital Culture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, picture with Mark Bain, Pierre Bastien, Broersen & Lukács, Driessens & Verstappen, JODI, Gabriel Lester, Luna Maurer, Nathaniel Mellors, Geert Mul, Marnix de Nijs, Remko Scha, Roland Schimmel, Jochem van der Spek, and many others curated by Andreas Broeckmann, website Stedelijk Museum
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| Unfinished Business, Dutch Abstracts, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria curated by Jan Robert Leegte and Jan Maarten Voskuil, press release Medienturm
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| P2P, Casino, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg curated by Le Bureau, Paris
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| 2007 | BIOS 4, CAAC Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain curated by Antonio Cervera Pinto
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| Genesis, life at the end of the information age, Centraal Museum, Utrecht with Mark Dion, Driessens & Verstappen, Eduardo Kac, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Marc Quinn, Koen Vanmechelen, and many others curated by Emilie Berg Gomart, website CMU
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| 2006 | Natural Habitat, NIMk Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam curated by Annet Dekker, website NIMk
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| Slow Motion, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
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| UPDATE, the origin, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium with Peter Beyls, Anouk De Clercq, Edmond Couchot & Michel Bret, Chris Cunningham, François Curlet, Koen De Decker, Driessens & Verstappen, Masaki Fujihata, Peter Kogler, Piotr Kowalski, Christian Laroche, William Latham, Sol Lewitt, Lia, Matt Mullican, Sodaplay, Koen Theys, Erki de Vries, and many others produced by Liedts Meesen Foundation, curated by Jean-Marie Dallet
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| 2005 | Pleinmuseum, mobile pavilion, seven cities in the Netherlands and Belgium, pictures with Merlijn Twaalfhoven, Bea de Visser, Driessens & Verstappen, Peter Missotten, Martijn Engelbregt, P. Struycken and Piet Rogie produced by Pleinmuseum Foundation and Centraal Museum, Utrecht, curated by Meta Knol
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| About land, sea and faces, Present-day Dutch Video Art, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen with Jasper v/d Brink, eddie d, Jan Dietvorst & Roy Villevoye, Driessens & Verstappen, Rineke Dijkstra, Rob Johannesma, Jeroen Kooijmans, Jeroen Offerman, Julika Rudelius, Fiona Tan produced by the NMAI Netherlands Media Art Institute, curated by Bart Rutten
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Commissions
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| 2023 | EquilArbre, public artwork ILVO, Merelbeke, Belgium in assignment of ILVO Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, picture
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| 2021 | The Great Flood / De Grote Overstroming, proposal public artwork Rotterdamsebaan, The Hague in assignment of Rotterdamsebaan/Stroom The Hague
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| 2018 | Pareidolia, contribution to the SEA Art Tour, Texel, picture in assignment of SEA Science Encounters Art foundation, Texel
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| 2017 | Flashforward, temporary landart project for art route Langs de Waal, from 2017 to 2022, Nijmegen, pictures in assignment of the municipality of Nijmegen
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| 2014 | GLOW, site specific artwork for 360° BRNDWR, De Brandweer (former firehouse), Maastricht, picture in assignment of Viewmaster Foundation, curated by Bart van den Boom
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| Pretty Vacant, artistic video recording of the installation of RAAAF in the chapel of the Central Museum in assignment of Centraal Museum, Utrecht
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| 2012 | Waterspiegel/Mirroring Water, WMCN, Netherlands Water Management Center, Lelystad, pictures in assignment of the RGD Rijksgebouwendienst, Dutch Government Buildings Agency
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| 2011 | Hotter Colder, contribution for Dropstuff at the 54th Venice biennial, picture in assignment of Pleinmuseum Foundation/Centraal Museum, Utrecht
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| 2009 | Tomato Habitus, site & time specific installation for Foodprint, pictures in assignment of Stroom, The Hague part of the project consists of a website: website Tomato Habitus
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| 2006 | E-volver, LUMC Research Labs, Leiden University Mediacal Center, Leiden, picture in assignment of LUMC and SKOR, Amsterdam, website Virtueel Platform
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| 2004 | Birth coin Princess Catharina-Amalia, concept/design of the ten-euro coin, coin video
and coin pictures produced by the Royal Dutch Mint, in assignment of the Dutch Ministry of Finance, geboortemunt Wikipedia
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| 2003 | Time Warp, W.G. Witteveenplein, Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam in collaboration with Arnoud Holleman, in assignment of CBK Center for Fine Arts, Rotterdam part of this public artwork consists of a website: www.witteveenplein.com
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Competitions/Awards
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| 2019 | Innovation Application Award, GAAC Global AI Art Competition, Tsinghua University, Shanghai, China
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| 2013 | Art+Technology Award, Witteveen+Bos Consulting and Engineering, Deventer Oeuvre Award, wikipedia Art+Technology Award (in Dutch)
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| 2002 | VIDA 5.0, Foundation Telefónica, Madrid, Spain 1st prize International competition on Art & Artificial Life
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| 1999 | VIDA 2.0, Foundation Telefónica, Madrid, Spain 1st prize International competition on Art & Artificial Life
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Screenings/Festivals/Performances/AiR
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| 2022 | Machine Wilderness, art-science fair, Groote Museum, ARTIS Zoo, Amsterdam, website Machine Wilderness artist-in-residence and public program, organisation FoAM/Zone2Source/ARTIS
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| 2020 | Onward & Upward, Art in Times of Insecurity, Droog Design, Amsterdam, picture or video on Vimeo
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| 2018 | Berlin Atonal, Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany, picture
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| 3x3, the three of Driessens & Verstappen, V2_ Rotterdam, pictures website V2_ 3x3
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| Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin
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| 2011 | Make a Forest, artist-in-residence on deforestation and desertification Soleil d'Afrique, Bamako, Mali and Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2012) in assignment of Throwing Snowballs
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| 2009 | Evolution Haute Couture, art and science in the post-biological age, Laboratories Art & Science Space, Moscow, RU screenings of the NCCA Art-Science Archives at the 3rd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art curated by Dmitry Bulatov
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| Science as Suspense, Winzavod, Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow/Manez, Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, RU screenings of the NCCA Art-Science Archives curated by Dmitry Bulatov
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| 2008 | Evolution Haute Couture, art and science in the post-biological age NCCA National Center for Contemporary Arts/Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia curated by Dmitry Bulatov
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| IX Media Forum 2008, Era Foundation, Moscow, Russia screenings of the NCCA Art-Science archives at the XXX Moscow International Film Festival
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| Pleinmuseum at the 52nd Venice Biennial, Riva dei sette Martiri, Venice, Italy
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Conferences/Symposia/Interviews (selection from 2005)
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| 2021 | Transformation Digital Art 2021, symposium on ducumenting digital art, LI-MA, Amsterdam
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| 2020 | Focus on Driessens & Verstappen, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, conference, auditorium Louvre Museum, Paris , France
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| 2018 | Coding-Decoding the World, Forum Vertigo, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Symposium in relation to the exhibition Coding the World organised by IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, website IRCAM
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| 2017 | Immortal Monkey, symposium on AI, University of the Underground, Sandberg, Amsterdam
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| 2014 | Living Tissues and Living Issues, #2: (Per)Formativity of BioArt, Open Wetlab., De Waag, Amsterdam Lecture series by Joanne Jesman, interview D&V by Laura Mudde, moderator Lucas Evers, website De Waag
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| 2012 | A matter of feeling, Metamorf2012 biennial, Trondheim, Norway Conference curated and moderated by Rachel Armstrong, website Metamorf Conference
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| 2011 | In Contact, interview with Edwin Jacobs, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
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| 2010 | bkkc/De Pont Artists Dialogues, dialogue with Alex de Vries, Museum De Pont, Tilburg
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| 2007 | Batteries not included, Mind as Machine, symposium on AI, Music Hall, Shrewsbury, UK
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| Sentient Creatures 2.0, lecture series on robotics, Waag Society, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam
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Teaching/Lectures/Workshops (selection from 2005)
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| 2022 | Update, New Media Art Festival, University Art Research Lab, Liepaja, Latvia (masterclasses), website Update
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| MADtech, Minerva Academy, Groningen (guest teacher)
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| 2021 | Digital Art, with Sanneke Huisman, ArtEZ Arnhem (lecture)
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| 2020 | Recoding Driessens & Verstappen, CCU Creative Coding Utrecht (workshop), review Joost Dofferhoff
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| DesignLAB, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (lecture & coaching)
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| 2018 | Tickle Salon, an AI bodily experience in the making, Dutch Technology Week, Fontys, Eindhoven (lecture), review Petra Merkx
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| 2017 | Hacking Interactions, Lab Design Academy, Eindhoven (lecture)
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| 2015 | Bottom-up, TechnologyLab_, Breitner Academy, Amsterdam (lecture)
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| 2013 | DATA 52.0, Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (lecture)
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| 2011 | Coin Workshop 2011, Ministry of Finance/Royal Dutch Mint/Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (coaching)
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| Ambacht/Craft, AKV St. Joost Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Den Bosch (lecture)
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| 2010 | White Lady Lecture Series, De Witte Dame, Design Academy, Eindhoven (lecture)
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| 2009 | Driessens & Verstappen, HKU School of Fine Arts, Utrecht (lecture & coaching)
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| 2008 | Art that breeds Art, research-group, ArtScience Faculty, KABK Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague (teaching)
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| Monte Verità, Studium Generale, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (lecture)
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| Metacreation, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen (since 2002 annual guest teaching)
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| 2006 | TU/e, Dept. of Industrial Design, University of Technology, Eindhoven (coaching)
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Public Collections/Archives
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| 2021 | Art & D, Océ Art Foundation, Canon, Venlo
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| 2019 | Web collection XS4ALL, archive of early homepages 1993-2001, Royal Library, The Hague,
more info in dutch
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| 2018 | Digital Canon 1960-2000, canon of digital art of the Netherlands, compiled by LIMA Amsterdam,
Digital Canon
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| 2018 | Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art, collection Arts Plastiques, Paris, France,
collection Centre Pompidou
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| 2014 | Centraal Museum, Utrecht, commissioned work, collection CMU
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| 2012 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, gift of 3 works from the Sanders collection
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| Centraal Museum, Utrecht, collection CMU
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| 2011 | Achmea Art Collection, Zeist
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| Centraal Museum, Utrecht, collection CMU
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| 2010 | Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, collection Museum Boijmans
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| MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
collection MMK
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| 2009 | Erasmus MC Art Collection, Rotterdam
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| 2008 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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| NCCA Art-Science Archives, National Center for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad, Russia
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| 2007 | LIMA Distribution Collection, Media Art Institute, Amsterdam,
collection LIMA
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| 2006 | Achmea Art Collection, Tilburg
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| Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Arnhem
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| FDAC Essonne, Fonds Départemental d'Art Contemporain, Chamarande, France
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| 2005 | Achmea Art Collection, Tilburg
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| Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, collection Museum Boijmans
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| 2002 | ABN Amro Collection, Netherlands
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| Centraal Museum, Utrecht, collection CMU
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| 1997 | CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France, collection CNAP
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| 1996 | FRAC Lorraine, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Metz, France,
collection FRAC Lorraine
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Publications/Catalogues/Books (selection from 2005)
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| 2024 | Calculations and Coincidences, catalogue, publisher Pera Museum Istanbul authors Kinga Rózsa Hamvai's and Kerem Ozan Bayraktar a.o. website Pera Museum
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| 2023 | A Field Guide to Machine Wilderness, publisher FoAM authors Theun Karelse, ALice Smit, Ian Ingram, Clemens Driessens, a.o., website FoAM
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| 2021 | Art in the Age of Machine Learning, MIT Press, Cambridge USA author Sofian Audry, ISBN 978 0 26204 618 3, website MIT press
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| 2020 | Disziplinierung der Pflanzen, Deutscher Kunstverlag author Judith Elisabeth Weiss, ISBN 978 34 22982 93 2, more info
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| 2019 | A Critical Theory of Media Art in the Netherlands, Jap Sam Books editors Sanneke Huisman and Marga van Mechelen, Mind Design, ISBN 978 94 92852 14 4, website Jap Sam Books
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| To Mind is to Care, Publ. V2_ Rotterdam visual essay, editors Joke Brouwer and Sjoerd van Tuinen, ISBN 978 90 828935 1 9, website V2_
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| 2017 | Humans Need Not Apply, catalogue, Science Gallery Dublin, Ireland
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| 2016 | The Interview Issue #1, Antennae #38 winter 2016, independent publisher, UK interview with Ken Rinaldo, website Antennae
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| 2015 | BioArt, Altered Realities, publisher Thames & Hudson, London author William Myers, website BioArt
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| Accretor: Generative Materiality in the work of Driessens & Verstappen, Artificial Life volume 21/3, MIT Press, USA author Mitchell Whitelaw, editor Alan Dorin, E ISSN 1530 9185 website MIT Press
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| 2014 | Printing Things, Gestalten, Berlin, Germany editors C. Warnier, D. Verbruggen, S. Ehmann, R. Klanten, ISBN 978 3 89955 516 5, website Gestalten
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| 2013 | Driessens & Verstappen, Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award, Witteveen+Bos, Deventer essay Arjen Mulder, graphic design Houdbaar, download pdf book
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| Interactive Art and Embodiment, the implicit body as performance, Arts Future Books, Gylphi Ltd. United Kingdom author Nathaniel Stern, ISBN 978 178 024 009 1, website Amazon
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| 2012 | Art & Science, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China catalogue of TASIE, 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition, ISBN 978 7 112 14756 4
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| Born-Digital Kunstwerken, Virtueel Platform Amsterdam author Annet Dekker, website Virtueel Platform
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| VIDA 1999-2012, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid edited by Karin Ohlenschläger, design Erretres, ISBN 978 84 15282 04 4
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| 2011 | Valéry Proust Museum/White Cube Fever, AKV/St.Joost, Breda editor Camiel van Winkel, design Simon Davies
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| 2010 | The Politics of the Impure, V2 Publishing, Rotterdam edited by Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder and Lars Spuybroek, contributions by a.o. Arjun Appadurai, Wim Delvoye, Lynn Margulis, Raj Patel, Casey Reas, Isabelle Stengers, Bruce Sterling, ISBN 978 90 5662 748 5, website V2
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| Form + Code, in Art, Design and Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, USA authors Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams, design LUST, ISBN 978 1 56898 937 2, website Form+Code
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| Enfoldment and Infinity, An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art, MIT Press, USA author Laura U. Marks, ISBN 0 262 01421 1, website MIT Press
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| 2009 | Evolution Haute Couture, NCCA National Center for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia edited by Dmirty Bulatov, essays Dmitry Bulatov and Roy Ascott, ISBN 978 5 94620 054 7
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| Science as Suspense, Dynasty Foundation, Moscow, Russia essays Konstantin Bokhorov, Dmitry Bulatov, Stephen Wilson
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| INSIDE, Art and Science, Editora LxXL, Lisbon, Portugal essays Marcos Cuzziol, Carlos M. Fernandes, Leonel Moura, Henrique Garcia Pereira, Daniel Dennett
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| CONFINES, IVAM Institute of Contemporary Art, Valencia, Spain essays Vincenzo Trione, Jeam-Luc Nancy, Robert Storr, Francesco Casetti, Aaron Betsky, Harald Falckenberg, a.o.
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| SuperStories, Artbook Foundation/Triennial Hasselt, Belgium essays Koos Flinterman, Louise Schouwenberg and Ann van Sevenant, design Geoffry Brusatto
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| 2008 | Deep Screen, Art in Digital Culture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam essays Andreas Broeckmann and Sophie Tates, design Kummer & Herrman, ISBN 978 9 05006 175 9
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| Design by Evolution, Advances in Evolutionary Design, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany edited by P. Hingston, L. Barone, Z. Michalewicz, ISBN 978 3 540 74109 1, website Springer
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| Nature as Artifice, New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam edited by Maartje van den Heuvel and Tracy Metz, design Reynoud Homan, website NAi
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| Art Embodies A-Life, The VIDA Competition, essay Nell Tenhaaf, Leonardo, vol.41 #1, USA,
website MIT Press
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| 2007 | Genesis, Life at the End of the Information Age, Centraal Museum, Utrecht edited by Emilie Gomart, design Lesley Moore
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| Contour - Continuïteit, Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft edited by Jaap van den Ende and Jan Hein Sassen, design Wigger Bierma and Ingo Offermans
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| 2006 | Onderwijs, Wetenschap en Kunst, SKOR Kunstprojecten Deel 3, SKOR, Amsterdam edited by Liesbeth Melis and Martine van Kampen, essay Mariska van de Berg, design Coppens & Alberts
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| Update 1, The Origin, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium edited by Jean-Marie Dallet, design Félix Müller & Chantal Grossen
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| Sonic Acts XI, The Anthology of Computer Art, publication with DVD, Sonic Acts, Amsterdam edited by Gideon Kiers and Lucas van de Velde, design Coup
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| Mediamatic Screen 1-12, Mediamatic Off-Line vol.11#1, Amsterdam essay Jorinde Seijdel, design Marcel de Laat/Willem Velthoven, DVD Yariv Alter Fin
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| 2005 | Morphogenesis, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam edited by Hans Gieles and Francis Boeske, interview by Arie Altena, design Dorp&Dal
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Press (selection from 2005)
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| 2022 | Natuur naar de voorgrond in Oud-Amelisweerd, LUCY, online review in dutch
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| Tussen ecologie en tech-tuin, Kunstmatig #17, podcast in dutch
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| Met een robot tussen de stokstaartjes, Stefan Raatgever, Het Parool, newspaper
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| 2019 | Slotakkoord in Fabriekshal, Frank van der Ploeg, Museumtijdschrift
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| Piepschuimen ruimtesonde en sissende symfonie maken boeiend slot voor Dordtyart, Thomas van Huut, NRC, newspaper
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| 2018 | Do Androids Dream of Contemporary Art, Alice Bucknell, Elephant Art Magazine, online article
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| De Affectie tussen Mens & Machine, Edo Dijksterhuis, Museumtijdschrift #6 2018
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| 2015 | Ik liet me kietelen door een kietelrobot, interview with Mandy Fit, The Creators Project, online article in dutch
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| 2014 | Videokunst op 25 meter, Ruud Maas, De Limburger
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| Wildgroei en Vreemde Ogen, essay by Boukje Cnossen, De Internet Gids 2014/5, online essay in dutch
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| 2013 | 4 Art, interview with Valentijn Byvanck, AVRO Kunstuur, YouTube video
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| De Avonden, interview with Botte Jellema, VPRO Radio
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| 2012 | Het gen van de lelijkheid, Heske ten Cate, Mister Motley #30,
online article in dutch
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| Featured Artists Art Rotterdam, Kunstbeeld
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| Morphotèque, interview with Silvia Bertolotti, Digicult,
online article
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| 2011 | Boekenweek: The Politics of the Impure, Domeniek Ruyters, Metropolis M, online article in dutch
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| 2010 | Alles Stroomt, Anne Berk, Financieel Dagblad, text article in dutch
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| 2009 | Kunst laten ontstaan, Rianne Groen, Tubelight #65, online article in dutch
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| Sprookjesachtige wiskundige details, Sandra Smets, NRC Handelsblad
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| 2007 | Genesis, het leven aan het eind van het informatietijdperk, Daniëlle Hofmans, De Witte Raaf #127, online review in dutch
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| 2006 | Bodies by Design, Lisa Delgado, illustrations Jean Servaas, RES magazine, vol.9 #3, USA
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