coming up

• Digital Care - the Evening of The Hands curated by Marije Baalman
  Performance | 14 September 2023 | 19:30 - 22:30
  Shaping sound with your hands is the main concept that led pioneering artist Michel Waisvisz to create The Hands. With these two hand-held objects full of sensors shaped exactly for his hands, he was able to control synthesizers and live sampling software in an expressive way. An evening with performances by Franziska Baumannm, Alex Nowitz and Michel Waisvisz, and presentations by Andi Otto and Marije Baalman. Curated by commission of V2_ and LIMA
  read more... The Netherlands - Rotterdam - V2_
  
• Vocal Gestures and Space, Artist Talk by Franziska Baumann
  Presentation | 15 September 2023 | 19:30 - 21:00
  Pioneering extended vocal techniques and live electronic processing with her SensorGlove, Franziska Baumann creates solo works at the intersection of voice, gesture, mediated voice and spatialised vocal spheres. Her compositions and improvisations push the boundaries of perception, vocal creation and sonic expression by exploring the convergence of the embodied and mediated voice through her gestural system.
  read more... The Netherlands - The Hague - iii workspace
  
• Composing an Interaction: a primer on building expressive interactive systems
  Presentation | 26 September 2023 | 17:15 - 18:30
  I will visit the Immersive Art Space, and present the lecture-performance 'Composing an Interaction', along with an extended presentation geared towards immersive arts.
  read more... | project Switzerland - Zurich - Immersive Art Space, Zurich University of the Arts
  
• Artist Survival Guide: Budgeting for a Sustainable Practice
  Workshop | 31 October 2023 | 16:00 - 18:00
  Art school may have taught you how to experiment, make, and critique, but if you recently graduated, you might be finding yourself at a loss when it comes to navigating the larger cultural sector. This is where the Artist Survival Guide comes in. The Artist Survival Guide is a workshop series by iii members covering entrepreneurial survival skills such as grant writing, budgeting, negotiating with curators, and promoting your work. The workshop is aimed at recent, soon-to-be art school graduates and working artists looking to further professionalise their practice. Marije will guide you through how to make a personal budget as a working artist, and how to create a realistic project budget
  read more... The Netherlands - The Hague - iii workspace
  
• Composing Interactions
  Workshop | 4 - 5 November 2023
  Interactive technologies can bring new and fascinating dimensions to artistic practices. Over the past decades, the technologies have become more affordable and accessible for artists. In this workshop we will focus on how to design and create engaging interactions for performers or audience members using these technologies. We will move from discussing concepts to implementation in your software.
  read more... | project The Netherlands - The Hague - iii workspace
  

past events

• Keynote talk at the International Livecoding Conference 2023
  Presentation | 20 April 2023 | 14:00 - 15:00
  I will give a keynote presentation at the International Livecoding Conference 2023 in Utrecht, talking about Human/Machine Entanglement. Livecoding is an act of rebellion against the fixed idea software as immutable, impenetrable, but yet advertised as neutral, systems that are humanity’s future – it inspires democratisation of the human/machine entanglement of our current society, by showing that code is mutable, alive, accessible, and above all an expression of concepts – which are personal and political. Ca. 20 years after the start of the projection era of livecoding, perhaps it is time to make up the balance of how the entanglement between humans and machines within the livecoding community has evolved. Her past livecoding works, Code LiveCode Live, Wezen-Gewording, Etudes pour le Livecoding à une Main, and the machine is learning all address different aspects of human/machine entanglement. In her presentation she will come back to topics she addressed in her paper Embodiment of Code at the first ICLC in 2015, her article “Interplay between Composition, Instrument Design and Performance” (2016) and her book “Composing Interactions – an Artist’s Guide to Building Expressive Interactive Systems” (2022).
  read more... The Netherlands - Utrecht - Vogelfrei
  
• The Turbine Plays - Research Week
  Residency | 10 - 14 April 2023
  This week I am joining a week of research with artists and scientists in Groningen on wind energy. ‘The Turbine Plays’ is organised by Knowledge Centre Arts & Society and Centre of Expertise Energy. The Turbine Plays is designed around questions such as: How can public involvement and acceptance be stimulated in the transition from fossil to renewable energy sources, such as wind energy? What contribution can creative professionals make in a process of knowledge production on wind energy together with various stakeholders? Anyone who is curious about where creative professionals and scientists can take us in the landscape transition and wants to increase their knowledge in this field is welcome to attend the kick-off in the Energy Barn. The projectThe Turbine Plays is an artistic-driven research project initiated by Frouke Wiarda and further developed in collaboration with Judith van der Elst.
  read more... The Netherlands - Groningen - The Energy Barn, Hanze Hogeschool
  
• Guest lecture at Sandberg Institute
  Presentation | 17 March 2023
  I have been invited to give a guest lecture at the Sandberg Institute
  read more... The Netherlands - Amsterdam - Sandberg Institute
  
• Presentation "On constructing experiences: documenting the craft of interactive art" at Transformation Digital Art 2023
  Presentation | 16 March 2023 | 14:00 - 16:00
  Transformation Digital Art 2023 aims to show and discuss existing and new strategies for the documentation, transmission, and preservation of digital art for and by artists, curators and conservators. In my presentation I will talk about the following: How do artists create an interactive, digital artwork? How do they shape an interactive experience? The artistic practices in which interactive, digital technology plays a role range from music, dance, and theater to visual art, media art, film, and beyond. Each of these disciplines brings along a different aesthetic context from which the use of interactive technology is approached, leading to different considerations on what are meaningful choices in shaping the experience elicited by these works. In this presentation, Baalman will discuss her method for documenting interactive artworks, to share knowledge, crafts and best practices across time, programming environments and artistic disciplines.
  read more... | project The Netherlands - Amsterdam - LIMA - Arie Biemondstraat 111
  
• Sails, Sugar, Silicon
  Exhibition | 5 May 2022 - 28 February 2023
  Sails, Sugar & Silicon is an exhibition in which two Dutch and Taiwanese artists reflect, through performative experiences that play with technology and the senses, on the 400 year history of material exchanges between The Netherlands and Taiwan. The exhibition presents works by Dutch artist Marije Baalman and Taiwanese born, naturalized Dutch Wen Chin Fu. Both artists approach the intertwined history of their native countries by making audiovisual creations using invented instruments. Marije Baalman makes music out of the wind playing with kites, electronic sensors and software. She grew up on the coastal province of Friesland where the strong winds make an ideal environment for flying kites. These same winds in the 17th century filled the sails of Dutch ships making their way towards Taiwan. In Frisian the word for kite ‘draakje fleane’ is closely related to the English word drake or dragon. During her stay in Taiwan Marije Baalman will be learning about Taiwanese kiting traditions. Taiwan today is also the world’s larger exporter of silicon chips, the basic building blocks of the mobile digital instruments that Marije Baalman engineers to sonify the wind. Before exporting silicon, during the Dutch colonial period Taiwan was an exporter of sugar, with the Dutch establishing sugar plantations on the island to expand the production of what was then a new colonial good. Soulangh Cultural Park, which hosts the exhibition, was itself in origin a sugar refinery. Wen Chin Fu works with sugar as primary material. She was inspired by a candy whistle from her childhood, a sweet that made sound until it melted in the mouth. Wen Chin Fu uses candy making techniques to create simple percussion instruments, which she calls Tang, the Chinese word for sugar, which also conveys onomatopoeically the sound of the instrument. Tang is an instrument that can be played musically, but who’s chemical cristallisation process becomes a source of fascination for the experimental film made in collaboration with artist Tseng, Li-Chun, also featured in the exhibition. Sails, Sugar & Silicon is the first exhibition starting the 2022-2024 exchange program between iii in The Hague and Soulangh Cultural Park in Tainan, leading up to the 400 anniversary of relations between The Netherlands and Taiwan. The participation of iii in this exchange program is supported by The Creative Industries Fund NL.
  read more... | project Taiwan - Tainan - Siao-Long Cultural Park
  
• Presentation at Kick-Off event The Turbine Plays
  Presentation | 13 December 2022 | 11:00 - 16:00
  The Turbine Plays will showcase its first collaboration plan at the kick-off event on Tuesday 13th December 2022 at EnTranCe in the Energy Barn in Groningen. ‘The Turbine Plays’ is organised by Knowledge Centre Arts & Society and Centre of Expertise Energy. The Turbine Plays is designed around questions such as: How can public involvement and acceptance be stimulated in the transition from fossil to renewable energy sources, such as wind energy? What contribution can creative professionals make in a process of knowledge production on wind energy together with various stakeholders? Anyone who is curious about where creative professionals and scientists can take us in the landscape transition and wants to increase their knowledge in this field is welcome to attend the kick-off in the Energy Barn. The projectThe Turbine Plays is an artistic-driven research project initiated by Frouke Wiarda and further developed in collaboration with Judith van der Elst. Several speakers, artists, musicians and researchers will contribute. The day will be led by Wilbert van de Kamp (moderator of the day).
  read more... The Netherlands - Groningen - The Energy Barn, Hanze Hogeschool
  
• Future forms of alternative housing
  Presentations | 26 November 2022 | 15:00 - 16:30
  Welcome to the city of the future: There is sufficient living space for creatives and artists and alternative forms of living can easily find financing. What is happening now and where are the opportunities to make the city of the future a reality? It's 2022: The Amsterdam housing market is pretty much locked up. Buying is already out of the question for many and rents continue to rise. The municipality is doing its best by building new homes, but this has little or no effect on affordability. Meanwhile, there are artists who have to leave the city. Not because they don't have a studio, but because they can't find an affordable place to live. The scarcity is now high for both. Yet there are possibilities. For example, Bajesdorp has built homes itself, there are homes in temporary incubators and corporations contribute to living spaces for artists. But that is not enough. Together we want to find out how we can get more done despite the difficult market. We invite you to an Inspiring session about alternative ways to make living possible for creatives. Based on the case of the enormously inspiring club behind Bajesdorp, we explore the process and invite you to the following quest:: What challenges did the team encounter along the way? What challenges can be expected for the future? What are the opportunities for other parties?  What financial alternatives are there to made alternative forms of housing possible?   Which parties are needed to make this possible?
  read more... The Netherlands - Amsterdam - De School
  
• AA Talk #14 - Van broedplaats naar vrijplaats
  Panel | 25 November 2022 | 14:00 - 16:00
  Over het opzetten en verkrijgen van collectieve woon- en werkplekken a.k.a. vrijplaatsen. Op 25 november van 14:00 tot 16:00 organiseren Amsterdam Alternative, Platform Beeldende Kunst en de Kunstenbond in de OT301 een publieke discussie over de status en de toekomst van vrijplaatsen in Amsterdam. Een programma waarin cultuurwerkers, vrijbuiters en andere stadsgenoten vertellen over hun gezamenlijke acties, zoektochten, hindernissen en successen in de strijd om betaalbare en duurzame woon- en werkruimte voor kunst, cultuur en buurtinitiatieven, in een steeds duurdere en ontoegankelijkere stad. Het pleidooi voor meer gezamenlijke woon- en werkplekken in collectief beheer of bezit, steekt af tegen het huidige broedplaatsenbeleid in Amsterdam, Hierin zijn tijdelijke contracten de norm, wordt kunst en cultuur ingezet voor gentrificatie, hebben buurtbewoners weinig toegang tot de vrijgekomen panden in hun buurt voor sociale initiatieven en verdwijnt uiteindelijk veel sociaal vastgoed op de markt. Na 20 jaar broedplaats-beleid is het tijd voor nieuw beleid, waarin de gebruikers centraal staan in plaats van de portemonnee van de vastgoedontwikkelaar. Deze Talk is onderdeel van de samenwerking tussen het Vrije Ruimte Festival en de Envisioning Free Space conferentie die wordt georganiseerd door Amsterdam Alternative en Space of Urgency. Een meerdaags programma met veel muziek, kunst, docu’s en discussies over nachtcultuur, inclusieve stedelijke ontwikkeling en vrije ruimte.
  read more... The Netherlands - Amsterdam - OT301
  
• Keynote at Symposium "Serendipity - the unsought discovery"
  Presentations | 16 November 2022 | 10:15 - 11:00
  I will give a keynote talk on serendipity in the making of electronic interactive art
  read more... Belgium - Ghent - Orpheus Institute
  
• Lecture-performance at Flipchart #5
  Performance | 22 October 2022 | 18:30 - 21:00
  I will perform the lecture-performance 'Composing an Interaction' created for the book launch at V2_ on this event
  read more... | project The Netherlands - The Hague - iii workspace
  
• Book launch event 'Composing Interactions'
  Presentation | 14 September 2022 | 19:30 - 22:30
  This event we will celebrate the launch of my book into the world. There will be presentations by SuperPosition, STUKK and myself, and a performance by Andi Otto
  read more... | project The Netherlands - Rotterdam - V2_
  
• Wind Instrument at Lytteevent #5
  Performance | 9 July 2022 | 14:00 - 16:00
  Performance of Wind Instrument at Regelbau411, during the iii retreat to the Sound Art Lab in Struer, Denmark. Supported by Regelbau411, SPOR Festival and Sound Art Lab.
  read more... | project Denmark - Struer / Tyholm - Regelbau411