FREEMOTE - Exhibitions, screenings & installations

On Saturday and Sunday het Utrechts Archief was the platform for digital art in mutliple forms. Experience and participate in different types of interactive installations, video mapping, screenings, exhibitions in and outside het Utrechts Archief in the hart of Utrecht city. The exhibition was free to visit on saturday 30 october from 13.00 till 19.00 and sunday 31 october from 13.00 till 17.30. On saturdayevening you could also visit the exhibition during the Museum Club Night.

Onur Senturk (TR)

Onur Senturk studied traditional painting and figure drawing followed by a traditional animation degree as his BFA. He took part in several international and national collaborative exhibitions with works in both print and time-based media. He designed and animated “Nokta . ” which won Honorary Mention award from Prix Ars Electronica in Computer Animation/ Film /VFX category. He has freelanced for agencies like FerroConcrete,Dixonbaxi and Prologue films. Currently works as a freelance designer and director in Istanbul. At Freemote, Onur will show his best work, and give a presentation about his way of work.

http://onursenturk.tv/

Tobias Rosenberger (DE)


The works of Tobias Rosenberger are multilayered and multidimensional, they impress with consequent composition and the cross-linking of complex media systems. His installations mirror the world into spaces, they are stage and action space at the same time. Thereby he is not so much concerned with social criticism, the narration of stories or the expression of concrete ideas. Instead, it is about the creation of spaces, where visitors become invited to think on their own.

http://www.tobiasrosenberger.de

RE: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

RE: is a responsive environment seeking to enhance atmosphere in a physical event space by using spatially-aligned interactive (video-mapped) projections and generative sound. Activity of viewers and passers-by is translated in abstract visuals by mirroring and distorting captured motion in time and space. This affects the mood of the environment over time, which will be always in motion and never the same. A mixture of prerendered and generative visuals is used to reach this goal. Indirect interaction is the key here: instead of concentrating on a feeling of direct control known from interactive screens and multitouch installation, this work reserves a much more casual role for its ‘participants’ - who’s in charge? Over time though, hidden patterns might emerge...

The installation is developed by Lewis & Davis + Projektzilla.

www.lewisdavis.us

Jan Willem Deiman

Jan Willem Deiman focuses on processes that explore the relationship between coincidence and design in modern architecture and technology. In his video installations and performances (based on self-written systems), geometric patterns arise that constantly renew themselves and thus disturb the previously made designs. Deiman aims to observe objectively what happens while relinquishing the control of such a system. In drawings of modern decay, he analyses the distortion of architectural constructions as well as the design on which they were initially based. Through constantly developing patterns, Jan Willem Deiman's drawings and videos question the control we have over the mechanical and technological production and expose the amount of external influence involved.

www.janwillemdeiman.nl

Lichtinstallationen.com - VJ R:A:U:L: (DE)

VJ R:A:U:L: now accounts for over eight years of visuals in clubs, at concerts and festivals in the world. For some time he has disengaged from the "classical" 4:3 projection and is looking for new challenges with a few projectors and many strikingly designed primarily to fill space with light and form. Swen works with Lichtinstallationen.com ‘Licht- und Videokunst-Kollektiv’ and creates a site-specific videomapping together with AliK in het Utrechts Archief, the days ahead of Freemote.
 
http://www.lichtinstallationen.com/


Sander Veenhof

Sander Veenhof’s works reflect on our usage of digital technology. In a time of increasing virtualisation of our social life, ultra fast networks, unlimited amounts of instant data and information but an unfortunate lack of time and concentration to absorb it all, Veenhof seeks a solution not by speeding up or digitizing, but by adding the impracticality and slowness of a physical interface to the digital systems we love to use these days.

His work is shown on the square in front of the venue, but only if you take your smartphone with you for the augmented reality flashmob in the shape of characters from the Utrechts Archief. Something that is always there, but not allways to be seen.

http://sndrv.nl/

Artist & Workshop Program

On thursday and friday october 28-29, prior to the Freemote public events artists were invited to join a collaboration at Het Utrechts Archief.
For more info check the artist & workshop program here

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Romvaesn (NO)

Romvaesn (spacebeing) early on developed a passion for travelling. He fell deeply in love with the freedom and his loyal travel partner, his digital video camera. Many other exotic destinations followed over the years to come. From the furthest outskirts of South East Asia to the urban metropolitan super cities of Tokyo and Beijing, he travelled around and filmed whatever he encountered. This enriched his love and understanding for global clubbing culture and the international electronic music scene. In the screening we will see a combination of beautiful images from his travelling, smoothly designed with colour layers.

http://www.myspace.com/romvaesn

Georgios Cherouvim (GR)

Georgios Cherouvim was born in Athens in 1981. From a young age, he was very keen on destroying but also making things. He finished school and did an extra year in computer science to gain the basic understanding of the tool he uses today. He studied computer animations, and now his work can be seen in X-Men3, Harry Potter 5, and also commercial spots for Greenpeace, Sony, Nokia, Sky, Renault and many more. The short movie 'Theros' has been screened in dozens of festivals worldwide, including SIGGRAPH, OneDotZero and ArtFutura, and now as well on the Freemote festival.

http://ch3.gr/

Tactile Echo

Tactile Echo is an interactive art installation which is developed in collaboration between Vincent Ruijtesr, Wijnand Veneberg, and Roals Joosen. The installation consists of four reflecting, half globes or bowls, installed in the exhibition area. Ordered from small to big, the bowls creates a three-dimensional echo. The installation shows how music consist of ‘touchable’ vibrations which flow through the area. The viewers of the installation can touch first globe and with that action they can actually feel and chance the echo. Tactile Echo is about touch and sound, a real experience, and that experience can not be simulated in sentences. This is really something to experience yourself.

www.wijnand.net
www.vincentruijters.com
www.roaldjoosen.nl

Robert Overweg

Robert Overweg is a photographer in the virtual world, he sees the worlds of (first and third person shooter) games as the new public spaces of contemporary society and as a direct extension of the physical world. Overweg dwells by foot or by air through the outskirts of the virtual world which he dissects through his photography. He documents the similarities and the differences between the virtual and the physical world while making use of the new possibilities the virtual world give him as a photographer. He recently finished a Artist in residence at TAG @ Todays Art in The Hague. He received a lot of media coverage with his latest series of photographs from the BBC to Gizmodo.

www.robertoverweg.com

VJ Fader 'Tears' (US)

James Cui AKA VJ Fader is an Asian American visual designer who expresses music through interactive video performance art (VJ). Fader's work can be seen at both commercial and underground concerts, parties and special events. He's serving as a co-organizer for the Los Angeles Video Artists group (LA-VA). His artistic venture extends into visual installations and experimental audio visual performances. This last one is to be seen in our screening area.

Ian Clemmer 'Superflow System'

Superflow System is a unique and custom developed particle software that Ian developed. It took 3 months of intensive developing and programming to create the Box#3 operators. Programmed by the official ParticleFlow developer of 3ds Max, Oleg Bayborodin at Orbaz.com, and further modified and extended by himself. Superflow System allows one of a kind particle animation and never before seen flexibility and control. You can find out more about the special particle software in the thesis or by watching the viusic pieces.