For the 18th editing of the Playtime festival in Mongolia Sara Orfali aka ALPHAWHALE and Maarten van der Glas participated in 3 days of VJing at the TechnoStage. Part of the programming was under auspices of TodaysArt in collaboration with Art Counsel Mongolia.

Sara had made a design of a constellation of triangular screens. We video-mapped those screens and mixed our visuals onto them.

Sara was very interested in Voronoi structures for projections and Maarten was experimenting with feedback loop and so called data moshing techniques.

We were very pleased with the result, the DJ’s and the crowd. It was a very special experience at an amazing festival at an awesome location.

Links

http://playtime.mn/

https://montsame.mn/

TodaysArt

TodaysArt interview

Behind the scenes

GREETING FROM THE GOETHE-INSTITUT

Links

Catalog

Behind the scenes

Performance, 30 minutes, 2019

Maarten van der Glas: light art, software development

For this piece Maarten van der Glas developed 4 fake TV screens that were emitting light for all of the cast and stage. The screens were lighting up according to film segments selected by Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen, giving the characters a distinct TV glow and a hidden layer for the piece.

In a Flickering Light, the performance by artist duo Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen, has five characters: four actors, and the light of a screen. The light of the screen–of which the audience sees only the reflection–makes the muscles of the four actors react, contract and contort. Their faces smile, get scared, cry and admire. The facial expressions of the faces lit by the screen change from mask to mask. Are these masks a reaction to what they see on the screen? Or are they a ritualised expression of their feelings? They could also be read as an exposé of a canon of facial expressions, reminiscent of the series of frozen grimaces that Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sculpted between 1770 and 1783. At the end of his life, he obsessively studied himself in the mirror–like a kind of Narcissus–creating self portraits possessed by a spirit that visited him at night. All faces, if we do an exercise in abstraction and see them on a close-up, become masks. Masks evoke the Jungian archetypes, such as those Grotowski worked with in his “Poor Theater,” searching for the expression of a sharpened consciousness.

Concept and directed by:
Sander Breure
Witte van Hulzen

Performed by:
Anneke Sluiters
Chandana Sarma
Karina Holla
Phi Nguyen

Light Art: Maarten van der Glas

Curated by Marta Ramos

Performed at:
MACBA, Barcelona
Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam

Links

Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen

https://loop-barcelona.com/

For the band DIEDE  “Made in China” tour Maarten van der Glas was commissioned to make a system that allowed 4 video screens to move on stage. During the set the screen were moved on stage to provide a suiting atmosphere.

The screens were in sync with the live audio set, mobile on stage and could be controlled with a controller on stage during the performance. My rol was to make a link between the Ableton Live audio set and the synced videos on screen, and program a controller for on the stage.

Official tour video

Visuals created by Glitterende Eenhoorn.

Commissioned and produced by Paradiso Melkweg Productions.

Links

http://www.diedemusic.com

https://paradiso.melkweg.nl

https://cargocollective.com/kloppenburg

Credits:
Concept, software development and direction: Maarten van der Glas
Choreography and dance: Anastasia Kostner

Performances:
2016 – Opening ‘De Bovenkamer’, Radion,  Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 – Gallery Bart, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Concept and video artist: Maarten van der Glas

Dancers, dance improvisation and performance: Anastasia Kostner, Risa Takita

OT301 – Amsterdam – 2015

TAGS:
contemporary dance
improvisation
virtual cinema
3D tracking
3D point cloud
OT301
Amsterdam