2023

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

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 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

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

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_

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