installation – Maarten van der Glas https://maartenvanderglas.com Mixed Media Artist Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:17:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://maartenvanderglas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-M-32x32.png installation – Maarten van der Glas https://maartenvanderglas.com 32 32 143952912 AR ART – TRANS ECOLOGY https://maartenvanderglas.com/project_list/ar-art-trans-ecology/ Sat, 08 Oct 2022 17:32:08 +0000 https://maartenvanderglas.com/?post_type=project&p=576 ]]>

I have been asked to create an AR artwork for the climate museum addressing climate issues.

With the AR artwork, I aim to express the challenges posed by the climate crisis. Challenges that humanity can ultimately overcome if the right choices are made in time. These challenges can be seen as opportunities – opportunities for a clean environment, a better balance with natural resources, and justice for indigenous populations.

The climate crisis is also a crisis of the exploitation system. A deep layer of our history and system is based on an exploitation system, exploiting both nature and people.

Those who benefit from this system resist change, which is why the necessary energy transition is taking too long. Now that the consequences are being felt firsthand, there is some shift noticeable, but is it timely and sufficient?

My artwork expresses the necessary revolution that is needed – a shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy, from competition to collaboration, from greed to satisfaction, from selfishness to the joy of life on a livable planet.

Why an AR artwork?

With AR, you see a virtual world projected onto the ‘real’ world. AR allows you to create vast worlds that would not be possible otherwise: images can move, be larger than life, and impossible worlds can be created.

AR also enables a visitor to view the artwork in multiple locations: on the street or in the comfort of their own home.

You can load the artwork here:

https://ar.klimaatmuseum.nl/

Credits:

Art and AR development: Maarten van der Glas
Production: Laura van Rutten / Klimaat Museum

TRANS ECOLOGY was part of “Klimaat op staat”

Artist page @ Klimaat Museum

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Little Black Fish https://maartenvanderglas.com/project_list/little-black-fish/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:15:38 +0000 https://maartenvanderglas.com/?post_type=project&p=646 ]]> In collaboration with a group of very young artists this magical installation was made at the Vrolijkheid in the Amsterdam asylum seekers’ center. The installation, which shines over the grounds at night like a lantern, originates from a series of illustration workshops. By drawing together, inspiration was gathered for a moving underwater world.

The project, which will be on display in the upcoming weeks at the Vrolijke Museum in the Amsterdam asylum seekers’ center, is based on the story “The Little Black Fish” by the Iranian writer Samad Behrangi. A little fish breaks away from its resistant mother and environment. It ends up in the big, bad world and encounters all sorts of things.

The technical challenge of this video projection was that 4 projector were needed to project around the greenhouse. The greenhouse was very small, so mirrors were used to extend the projection. Maarten van der Glas also wrote software to run on 4 little computers (raspberry pi’s) that each played a part of the video. All computers were connected via a network to play the image in sync. And because of the projection angles all images had to be corrected by the custom video software. The result worked flawlessly.

Video Mapping and software: Maarten van der Glas

Animation: Mustafa Kandaz

Behind the Scenes

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Reflecting Forward https://maartenvanderglas.com/project_list/reflecting-forward/ Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:44:26 +0000 http://maartenvanderglas.com/?post_type=project&p=191 ]]>

Reflecting Forward is a Digital Immersive Art exhibition that shows endless connections to reveal what the future can look like. 

Reflecting Forward is Irma de Vries first solo show. In MOCO museum, Amsterdam, the exhibition explores how digital technologies can connect us in new ways. she creates an all-accepting place and experience, where space, people, and modern technology blend in harmony. Reflecting Forward includes different installation art rooms.

Maarten van der Glas was involved in brainstorm sessions from the beginning, along the way developing technical concepts and to do development of part of the physical exhibition. Apart from realising the work technically, I also acted as an intermediair between the artistic vision and the translation in the medium of lights and computer software.

The immersive digital art involved a lot of new techniques: 500 individually controllable diamond lights, a light ceiling with 4000 individual LEDS, interactive video screens.

Diamond Matrix

As humans we undergo great pressures, yet socially, failing is not accepted. Diamonds, made of carbon, go through incredible stress, to emerge as shining jewels and one of the strongest materials on earth, so can you.
This installation of hundreds of light-up diamonds expresses that we participate in a bigger picture, sharing more similarities than differences. Life is messy and hard, but it makes us stronger. Celebrate your indestructible shine.

Who are the diamonds in your life?

Links:

http://www.studioirma.com

https://mocomuseum.com

https://www.iamsterdam.com

https://museumtijdschrift.nl/

Behind the Scenes

 

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The Floor is Lava https://maartenvanderglas.com/project_list/the-floor-is-lava/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:39:04 +0000 http://maartenvanderglas.com/?post_type=project&p=202 ]]> THE FLOOR IS LAVA

Light art: Maarten van der Glas

The Floor is Lava was a theatrical exhibition in which artist duo Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen populated Marres with sculptures and molded portraits of people in everyday environments. Made from different materials, clay, cloth, wood, the figures had expressive faces, but are otherwise sketchily composed with stick legs, half torso’s and loosely hanging pieces of cloth. The faces seemed mask-like, unrelated to the bodies that support them. They lean against a wall, sit on makeshift chairs, queue at a ticket office, or wait on a platform for a train to arrive at the station.They were actors in search of a play, as much as they were compositions of identity, that fictional moment of stasis in a world that is constantly on the move. The artists played with the idea that people always play a role, different in every situation, with specific character traits and body language.

The title derived from a children’s game in which on command the players immediately have to get their feet off the floor and freeze in a certain position, as if they have been turned into statues.The liquid floor in the game suggests the added meaning of a world that is beyond our control, of shared values that are dissipating, and a future that has become uncertain. The figures inhabit the stage that is left when all that is solid has melted into air. In the cahier all the works on display in the exhibition are further explained.

In a Training the Senses session that took place during the exhibition, the artist duo introduced the audience to the performance How can we know the dancer from the dance? they made earlier. The presentation provided a short training for participants to go outside and make their own detailed observations of theatrical events in everyday life.

SANDER BREURE & WITTE VAN HULZEN

Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen both live and work in Amsterdam. Breure graduated from the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, and Van Hulzen graduated from ArtEZ in Arnhem. Their multidisciplinary work is based on research about body language and its interpretation. They are represented by tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam.

PUBLICATION ON GESTURES OF DOING NOTHING

Next to the exhibition, the joined publication named On Gestures of Doing Nothing made by Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen came out on 4 August 2019. On Gestures of Doing Nothing documents a performance staged by Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen. The performance took place on April 15 and 16, 2019, in their exhibition The Floor is Lava in Marres. It consisted of eleven performers presenting a series of gestures. The performance – along with the exhibition itself – was photographed by Petra Stavast. This publication was conceived and developed in collaboration with art historian and curator Arnisa Zeqo. The book is published in English.

PRIX DE ROME

In international jury selected Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen together with 3 other artists for the shortlist of Prix de Rome 2019. They received a working budget an were given the opportunity to create new work. The work was exhibited at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in the fall of 2019.

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Patchwork Body https://maartenvanderglas.com/project_list/patchwork-body/ Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:26:24 +0000 http://maartenvanderglas.com/?post_type=project&p=88 ]]> Patchwork Bodies
contemporary dance, video & software

Choreography: Martina Marini in collaboration with the performers
Direction/ camera/ editing/ software: Maarten van der Glas
Dancers: Anastasia Kostner, Evelyn Petruzzino, Santija Bieza
Music: Manuela Kerer
Drawings: Sabine Auer
Costumes: Tanzschmiede/fucinadanza

‘Patchwork bodies’ unites fine arts, dance, music and film. Five short dance movies and a contemporary dance choreography developed from a process of the exchange between artists.
https://youtu.be/XazTetpKC70

The paintings of Sabine Auer were the starting point of the creative journey. Bodies in pieces, cut open. The sewed and scarred bodies give space to associations and let the bodies speak about enclosed emotions. The tormented and cricked joints show the disturbed relationship between the self-image and the loss of identity. There are no faces. The human is defined by the body.

https://youtu.be/u-BYyUxBZS0

These paintings were developed into a choreogrphy by choreographer Martina Marini and dancers.

https://youtu.be/cXtyt-8XRdU

Five video works were developed by Maarten van der Glas. He envisioned video work that stays surprising for the audience after watching it multiple times. Maarten van der Glas developed a computer program to introduce variation every time a movie is played back. The computer has an alogoritm to choose scenes and secondly, the playback speed is varied by the computer. By varying the speed the meaning of the movement is altered and emphasized differently. All video works are envisioned as a loop with variations each time it is played.

With special thanks to: Irmtraud Filippi und Arabesque, Mertz Ideas, Theater in der Altstadt, Erwin Seppi, Peter Gobbi, Karl Illmer vom Verdinser Hof, Matthias Egger, Stadtgemeinde Meran
With support by Autonome Provinz Bozen – Amt für Deutsche Kultur, Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse, Autonome Region Trentino-Südtirol

https://youtu.be/0WpIig4RZLE

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Into another body https://maartenvanderglas.com/project_list/into-another-body/ Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:02:03 +0000 http://maartenvanderglas.com/?post_type=project&p=348 ]]>
“Embarking on a journey through corporeal realms, ‘Into another body’ emerges as an enthralling dance opus intertwined with the ethereal tapestry of electronic music and video projection. Within this immersive experience, the dance, music, and visuals engage in a mesmerizing live dialogue, giving rise to a kaleidoscope of choreographic expressions.This avant-garde project delves deep into the intersection of dance and technology, weaving a narrative that transcends conventional boundaries. Harnessing the kinetic energy of the Kinect motion-tracking device, we delve into the intricacies of enlivening the human form upon a projected canvas. The result is a captivating interactive dance installation and a spellbinding performance, an exquisite interplay among personas that beckons the audience to traverse the threshold of artistic innovation.”

Chosen for the platform for young choreographers ‘Anticorpi XL 2014’ in Italy, where it toured further during the year 2015, amongst others at ‘Bolzano Danza’ and Aterteater Festival (IT).

Concept, Dramaturgy, Video Art and Software development: Maarten van der Glas
Dance and Choreography: Anastasia Kostner
Music by Jerke van den Braak, Bas Gebbing and Rutger Muller

Performed at:

‘Radion’ in Amsterdam
Alps Move 2013 in Italy
‘The Garage’ in San Francisco

PERFORMANCES:

2013 – Alps Move, Italy
2014 – ‘Anticorpi XL’ Festival, Rovereto, Italy
2014 – ‘The Garage’, San Fransisco, USA
2015 – Bergamo, Italy
2015 – ‘Bolzano Danza’, Italy
2015 – Aterteater Festival, Alta Badia, Italy

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TAGS:
contemporary dance
3D visualisation
enbodyment
live video art

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