Category: transhistoricity
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New Media in Deep History
Originally published on my initial research blog, The Appeal of the Unreal, in april 2019, this (recently re-edited) post is part of a lineage of thoughts and research on how contemporary (media) art practice may relate to the widest possible scope of art history.
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Is there an ‘indigenous’ Europe?
What does “indigenous” mean in Western European countries like the Netherlands and Belgium? What stories and knowledge of the land have been lost over the course of centuries? Have we lost ourselves, perhaps, too? Is there a way to reconnect to our own ‘indigenousness’?
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Digital dioramas at the Moesgaard Museum (DK)
A report on a research visit to the Moesgaard Museum, and its digital stereoscopic prehistory dioramas. Augustus 2021. Aarhus, Denmark.
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The hand stencil and stone tool emoji proposals
It can be difficult to find agency in an internet dominated by large corporations. By way of an artistic contribution, I submitted two proposals for emoji, new additions to the expanding digital pictogram vocabulary.
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Hark! The clock of Notre Dame strikes!
A review, published in 1844, of the Diorama theatre show in London by reporter J. Saunders: a lively account of this pre-cinematic, immersive experience. Diorama theatres showed enormous, semi-translucent paintings that were animated using light- and sound-effects.
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The Artist in His Museum
In different ways, Peale’s 1822 self-portrait ‘The Artist in his Museum’ finds itself on a threshold. I like to use the painting as an analogy for artistic research, lifting the curtain to reveal the knowledge of other disciplines to feed the art.
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Dark Rides
A meandering reflection on the many problems with Dutch theme park Efteling’s ‘dark ride’ “Droomvlucht” – a favorite ride of Dutch extreme right wing politician Geert Wilders. Do note: the Efteling’s fairy tale theme and use of special effects occupy a special place in my artistic trajectory. It is a love/hate relationship.
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The Fiction Fix: Cognitive Fluidity & Fake News
Steven Mithen explains cognitive fluidity in his book The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science. Our brain mixes up different realities, leading to surprising combinations. I propose an idea that follows up on this: perhaps some people’s desperation for a fiction fix helps them fall into conspiracy traps.
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