Throughout my carreer I worked on many projects and in different roles. This page highlights a few projects that I still like to show even if they are very small or very old :)
Graduation project as part of my EMMA (European Media Masters of Arts) program at Utrecht School of the Arts.
Hello, stranger! is an installation that connects two worlds—Dream and Reality—like a Möbius strip. In Hello, stranger!, you enter these realities through a surreal construct. By interacting with both worlds, a subtle connection forms between two strangers. The touch from one world extends into the other, blurring the lines between where one begins and the other ends.
The installation consists of two parts. The first is a large circular setup where people move on carts beneath many light bulbs that form recognizable patterns. The second part is an intimate space with a large touchscreen showing fascinating images. Silhouettes of people awkwardly move across the screen (the same people on the carts in the other part). Touching the screen changes the light patterns.
As part of the Hello, stranger! project, I wrote the thesis A True Dream is Real. I examined the similarities and differences between dreams, postmodern reality construction, and interactive narratives. The analysis of Freud's dream theory and Jean Baudrillard's concept of reality led to a model for interactive narratives resembling a Möbius strip.
Thesis conclusion
All analyses in this thesis lead us to conclude that dreams, reality and interactive narratives are made of the same stuff. All of them are constructions of linguistic processes in which we try to assign meaning. They are essentially, pure poetry.
All analyses in this thesis lead us to conclude that dreams, reality and interactive narratives are made of the same stuff. All of them are constructions of linguistic processes in which we try to assign meaning. They are essentially, pure poetry.
Some quotes:
“The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is equivalent reproduction...
The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyperreal... which is entirely in simulation.”
– Jean Baudrillard
The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyperreal... which is entirely in simulation.”
– Jean Baudrillard
“Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream—a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows—is essentially poetry.”
– Michel Leiris
– Michel Leiris
A concept of interactive endless little books that inspired the book of Goedgemutst in Mijn naam is Haas.
