Work

I designed this music desk to hide in plain side as a dresser. The desk has space to keep all my synthesizers out of sight when I’m not using them, but allows me to sit down and work when I do need them.

DNA is an ungraspable thing to the human brain. It’s a long sequence of letters that are interpreted in the body to a sequence of amino acids. Even if we see it visualized, we can’t interpret it. What if we turn it into a song?

Entropy is a standalone artwork that can be tailored to an exhibition. During this exhibition, the image displayed on the screen will slowly decay into nothing. The process of destruction is final and the image cannot be retrieved afterwards. Entropy consists of a 32” inch e-paper screen in a wooden frame, and a special server running off-site. The quality of the screen gives the artwork a real print feel, which is all the more surprising when the screen flickers once an hour, losing pixels in the process…

Since the dawn of humanity, our sense of time has been ruled by the sun. With the advent of clocks and time zones, our lives slowly organized themselves around these time machines. The experience of time became a rational exercise rather than one of feeling. Horizons reconnects us to our internal sense of time.

Horizons: as a set of ambient clocks representing the actual position of the Sun in the sky, allowing people to stay connected to a place on earth, even when they’re far away.

In the near future when people will be living on mars, we’ll have to start thinking about more than 24 time zones. A day on mars lasts just a little bit longer than here on earth: 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22 seconds to be precise. That means that mars won’t have an exact ‘time zone’, since the same time on earth will shift by 37 minutes and 22 seconds on mars each day. Modern clocks are not quite ready to take on the challenge of showing us the progression of this difference.

What does the ageing of a digital file look like? This experiment deals with digital ageing of a visual media file. For every minute that passes, this image loses 1 pixel. The source files for this image no longer exist on my computer, and the fog in the photo no longer exists outside. This moment and edit are forever gone once the project completes. The image will only exist for 4 years after March 1 2021. Join me in this experiment and enjoy the beauty while it lasts.

Ceci n’est pas is an experiment in crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are digital files that can be traded on the Ethereum blockchain platform, including a title deed granting the holder ownership. Digital media are because of their very nature, infinitely copyable. To upload it, is to lose control. What does it mean when one person can claim ownership? What does it mean when all source files have been destroyed, and the art can never be remade? What value does a barcode have if it cannot be scanned?

24 Frames a Day is a project that explores the perception of time through the medium of film. Using Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A space odyssey' time is slowed down to a halt.

Did you know that in Winter, the sun rises at the same time in Amsterdam as it does all the way across the Atlantic in Chile? In Summer, people in Amsterdam and Madagascar see the sun coming up at the same time. I find this fascinating.

With the rise of new technologies like Conversational Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence, new and more human ways of communicating with technology are becoming possible, and necessary. Wink is an experiment with giving a computer the ability for reciprocal perception.

Friendliness or Politeness is a human trait. For a machine to be perceived as friendly, it will need to take on some relatable qualities. Friendly Vending is a project that examines how to imbue an otherwise 'rude' machine with these new qualities.