Struggle through the Rubble
2021


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In the video Struggle Through the Rubble the image 000.jpg narrates a story about how she is stuck in an echo chamber. She questions the things that are reflected back to her and speculates on the responsibility of her archivist.

By giving the image agency Elki Boerdam researches images and the digital infrastructures and architectures they operate in.

Reflection often occurs in mirrors,
2021


Research on the agency of images.
Presentated at the abandonded Slotervaart Hospital in Amsterdam as part of the End of the Year Presentation of the MA F for Fact of the Sandberg Institute.

Every word is a question, every result a optional path and every outcome a foreseeable ending to the story. Systems of search direct our quests and simulate adventure. Is it even possible to get lost?

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Teken aan de wand,
2021


Since years I have been collecting screenshots of detective walls. Recently this collection was published in Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant. In collaboration with Mark Moorman the article decribes the value of the detective board trope in contemporary tv culture.

Image compositions

Combining images has been a valuable research tool. These image combinations offer different reading options of the images and propose new narratives. They are printed on a4 paper. These compositions are used to frieze new contexts before the images are stored back again in the archive. I have made hundreds.

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Reflection often occurs in mirrors,
2021


Research on the agency of images.
Presentated at the abandonded Slotervaart Hospital in Amsterdam as part of the End of the Year Presentation of the MA F for Fact of the Sandberg Institute.

The Input Party
2015-now


The Input Party is a (recurring) gathering where various participants share their image archives and together discuss this found imagery. These conversations often result in an insight of how the individual participants approach and treat existing images.

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Input Party is an initiative of visual artist Rachel Sellem and myself.

Input Party XL at the Posthoornkerk
2020


During this Input Party we printed out and explored the complete image archives of seven artists.
Together we discovered which archiving structures the artists are using, which narratives can be discovered within the archives and what happens when these different archives intertwine.
In this two-day workshop the participating artists were invited to collaborate with each other, the images and our Xerox machine. Diving deeper in the image archive as a tool for artistic process and research.

Participating artists: Aafke Bouman, Nastia Cistakova, Anne-Laure Ruffin, Clarinde Wesselink, Ton Zwerver, Rachel Sellem and Elki Boerdam.

This project is kindly made possible by the Amsterdams Fund for the Arts and Stadsherstel.

www.inputparty.nl

Currently I am writing a science fiction story on the loss of randomness and its impact on society. Join the Alliance and fight the recommendations!

This story is part of my reflection on chaos and randomness and their relation to the way we collect and process images.

Extraterrestrial: the picture as evidence of the unseen

Reading at The Hmm at De Ruimte, Amsterdam

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image composition

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image composition

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Part of the investigation on the documentation of the unseen and supernatural.

video database What Images Have You Seen So Far?

Input Party at Lowie Kopie
2020


The Input Party spent a day in a private copyshop and brought the Input Party archive. By processing these images we navigated in a playful way through the archive which resulted in material for an upcoming publication.

Made possible with the kind support of Lowie Kopie and the AFK.

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As
2016


Image collection.

published in de Volkskrant (Uitgelicht)

Poedels en Badkamers

Series of a6 booklets.

Sad Men Magazine
2020


Zine i.c.w. Io Cooman

Input Party x the Institute of Social History (IISG)
2020


The IISG has a collection that focuses on social history and has a collection of 250.000 photographs. For this Input Party the IISG is opening up a part of their collection for us to work with. In combination with images from participants own image archives, the images from IISG will serve as input to start a conversation about how archives are formed and how this selection process works.

Image Curator for the Hmm
2018


https://thehmm.nl/mustsee-october-2018/

The Hmm, an inclusive platform for internet cultures, asked me to be their one-month image curator.

What Images Have You Seen So Far?

Still from the video installation

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Input Party - A Visual Conversation (2017)

Workperiod where seven artists applied the Input Party method on their artistic process while developing new work. Results were shown in an exhibition in NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam.

What images have you seen so far? (2017)

Two-screen videoinstallation, as part of the research for the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, What images have you seen so far? juxtaposes the historical material from the archive with contemporary web images. Pointing out our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see through context and association.

This work was developed during the residency Open Media Art, commissioned by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the Stimuleringsfonds creatieve industrie.

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Wet cats that look like aliens

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Share This. Art on social networks. (2015)

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SHARE THIS: Art on Social Networks was a threefold symposium and research program with Het Nieuwe Instituut, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid and Upload Cinema.

This research explored the possibitities of the social platform within the context of contemporary art. When does the platform becomes an autonomous artistic medium and which projects are, from a museological perspective, worth collecting and presenting?

image composition

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Documental Environments

video installation.

Part of the research on the still as a new type of image.

image composition

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The image as an archive

In an effort to explore my own intuitive methodology I investigated how intuition works. Working based on intuition for me means working with (un)definable aspects of memory and association. Taking one image as a case study I worked back on how association can establish an image archive within one image. And how from dealing with these archives new narratives can arise.

This exploration was presented in a lecture at the Retrouvailles symposium at Fanfare Amsterdam.

Youtube books

series of zines