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3D MAPPING & DANCE BEATS
On Friday the 29 we had a a sea of interactive light installations by Noorderlicht, wild yet danceble music by the Lowriders ft dj Slugabed and a massive 3D mapping at the Unie by Out of Order.
Marco Broeders and Erik Ruttgers of Noorderlicht presented their analogue projections using large rotating slides from their own lab. Joris Strijbos, one of the driving forces behind ‘Macular’, is a Rotterdam based artist who works in the field of expanded or live cinema. De Oplichters use old or self-made and adapted video equipment for their performances. They make compositions in real-time in which they use cameras, video mixers, screens, overhead projectors, lasers, lamps, paper, insects, musical instruments and more. www.co2ro.nl
David Louf is part of the multidisciplinary artistic duo Out of Order and works as a graphic designer and video artist. He will create for three days in a row a splendid fusing of image and sound at De Unie, creating a live soundscape by video mapping.have composed especially for the Image Festival. www.outoforder.nl
Slugabed is a British producer and deejay whose work balances between dubstep and hip-hop. His mix of G-funk, sexy sci-fi electro, boombap and hip-hop creates a new kind of explosive energy. It will be a great party, full of energy and smiles from ear to ear. Those familiar with the Lowriders’ parties know they can expect a thrilling mix of all contemporary music styles, with energy and celebration being key. Expect styles like UK funky, garage, boogie, skweee, hip-hop, beats, dubstep and grime all fused into an explosive whole. The Lowriders dj team will consist of Ruwedata, SIMcommander, Coco Bryce, Off Hand and Halp, who made his debut there. www.lowriderscollective.com
THE FENNO WERKMAN SHOW
THE FENNO WERKMAN SHOW – 100 YEARS OF MUSIC VIDEO CLIPS
Fenno Werkman is a researcher for clients in entertainment industry such as Beatles, Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Bill Wyman, Paul Mccartney, Yoko Ono, Warner Brothers, Universal, EMI, Sony, VH-1, BBC, Granada, VRT, NPS, WDR, ZDF etc. Holding one of the largest private owned filmarchives in the world with film material from 1894 up to present covering almost every subject you can think of. Doing danceparties 35+ Dance Your Midlife Away for the eldery youth and from every song played we show you the original videoclip. Fenno did a keynote about 100 years of music videoclips at the Cinerama at 28 october and hosted a after at the Unie later in the evening.
KEYNOTE CHRISTOPHE SZPAJDEL
One of the highlights according to to audience was the appearance at the keynote sessions of Christophe Szpajdel, ‘The Lord of the Logos’, a legend in heavy-metal logo design. Christophe Szpajdel, born 1970 in Gembloux, Belgium started drawing since the age of three. Already in his early years, fascinated by both nature and the dark side of this world, he forged his vocation in art, despite the orientation of his studies, which were initially Biology and Forestry. Szpajdel began designing logos for metal bands in the ’90s, and thousands of logos later, the artwork of Christophe Szpajdel stands out among the usual lightning strokes, skulls and flames.
Januari 2010 Gestalten Publishers relased his book and they did a wonderful job juxtaposing Szpajdel’s photos and logos. From the Gestalten website: “This book is a collection of work by Christophe Szpajdel, an artist whose fans in the underground black metal community worship him as the Lord of the Logos. It includes hundreds of powerful logos, each of which captures the force of this musical genre anew. Through his surprising use of aesthetic influences such as art deco and nature, Szpajdel has brought a new dynamic into the gothic visuality of heavy metal. This publication, which is done in the style of a black prayerbook, shows not only how he has succeeded in leaving his own visual mark on this music, but how he has also expanded the canon of forms it uses.” Check out the book here.
BLAAK 10 EXPO
Melle de Boer, Ernest Utermark and Hans Kievit graduated from the illustration department of the Rotterdam Willem de Kooning Academie in the mid-nineties. They had their exhibition together at Blaak10 Gallery during the Image Festival in Rotterdam.
Melle de Boer (1972) exhibited a part of his collection of ‘Commodore 64 drawings’. These drawings are inspired by the old-fashioned home computer games of the eighties, which as a child he played for hours on end. For Melle de Boer these games are the ultimate representation of a one-dimensional world: you win if you manage to escape from the monster, you can reach higher levels and improve the highscore – it’s an exhilarating world. The Commodore 64 drawings were included in Melle de Boer’s latest publication ‘Melleville’, together with a CD by his band ‘John Dear Mowing Club’. In March 2010, Melle de Boer exhibited a part of this series at the New York Pulse Art Fair.
‘No prattle but pictures’ Ernest Utermark (1967) is a collector and illustrator who has devised and compiled several theme exhibitions in the ‘Gemeentemuseum Den Haag’. His illustrations are created by hand-cutting, trimming and pasting all kinds of images. By shifting and combining elements, he creates evocative collages in a very personal and recognizable style. His materials come from his extensive and systematically filed archive of images which contains any conceivable subject. Computers, so awkwardly modern, have no place in collagist Utermark’s world. During the Image Festival we had the book launch of his Ernest Utermark’s ABC’. The original 3-D collages for the 26 letters from the book ‘Ernest Utermark’s ABC’, were showed on the ground floor.
‘Man of Clay’ Hans Kievit (1966) is undoubtedly the Dutch artist most specialised in making clay figures, hence the nickname ‘Man of Clay’. He has made hundreds of minutely detailled clay figurines for use in advertising leaflets or magazines. The clay characters are built around wire frames and painted with acrylic paint before being photographed. Hans Kievit’s clay figure illustrations have been used by BASF, Malmberg, ABN-AMRO, Nutricia, Playboy, Dixons, the NS, Volkskrant Magazine, V&D and the Ministry of Agriculture. The Image Festival at Blaak 10 Gallery brought two specially commisioned large-scale figures by Hans Kievit, representing the festivals theme: ‘Image & Music’.