"When I look around, I see a lot of technology that aims to constrain reality in predictability, by categorizing and automating. I want to use technology to evoke wonder and transcend reality and predictability. I like to visualize things that were previously unseen and in that sense enrich my experience of reality. That is for me the incentive to make use of experimental video and animation techniques. Devices such as cameras, scanners and image processing algorithms I see as an extension of my senses that are like anchors in time for me, but also images from my urban backyard: my 'condition urbaine'. In the same manner as a sculptor gives his/her material form through interventions in 3d space, I construct my videos in time are examining the limits of -human- perception, experiencing time, disorientation and instability ".
Rommellaadjes van de geest
“back to the source of making. How do I intuitively make my choice from the multitude of materials and stories that I have at my disposal?... In this project I completely let go of the image technology and algorithms that I normally work with. My rule of thumb is that I can use a sharp needle and knife, paper tape, light-sensitive paper and anything I find on the streets of Rotterdam. I use the waste as a pinhole camera with the field of view from the perspective of street litter."
Nederlands Film Festival
Presentation with Q&A during the Netherlands Film Festival, program In conversation – Film essays. Panorama Tata: a plumed serpent's view, result of a collaboration with Rotterdam sound artist Roel Meelkop.
trick or tree
Once again, LI-MA is teaming up with West, The Hague, in this collaborative series of exhibitions. Part Three of Many Parts: Trick or Tree! showcases a selection of video works, this time focused on video's ability to change and construct meaning: from image manipulation to worldbuilding. The exhibition features works by Michiel van Bakel, Robert Arnold, Marina Abramović, Manuel Saiz, Seoungho Cho and Ghita Skali.
Expositie Museum De Wieger
In the exhibition 'Objective Landscape. From Utopia to Peel' Michiel van Bakel takes the viewer on a journey through time through landscapes and media that have fascinated him in recent years and still do. In one of the rooms of the museum, work by father Gerrit van Bakel (1943-1984) and son Michiel come together.
Into The Great Wide Open
Site specific outdoor presentation of video on big screen in forest setting.
Transgression art + technology Pavilion
celebrating digital culture since 2o13, the wrong is a collaborative effort harnessing the potential of the internet, shaped as a decentralized global art biennale and tv channel, open to participation, happening both online and offline, awarded with sois cultura 2o19 and ehrenerwähnung at s+ t+arts 2o2o
“counting its viewership in the millions, the wrong just might be the world's largest art biennale — the digital world's answer to venice” - the new york times
Lucas Gassel Revisited
Contemporary artists from home and abroad are inspired by the 16th-century landscape painter Lucas Gassel.