NEWS 2009

TELE_TRUST Shows:

Balie Amsterdam (NL) Electrosmog

Eyebeam New York (USA) Electrosmog

Media Lab Prado, Madrid Spain Electrosmog

BANFF Canada Electrosmog

TschumiPaviljoen Groningen

De Waag Society Amsterdam

Public Commissions:

City hall Amsterdam-OostWatergraafsmeer - Balie Stroom

City of Zeist (NL) - Urban Transformation of Kerckebosch

Province Utrecht / Rotondelab (NL) - De lifters

Amersfoort(NL) Lumineus Amersfoort - NightStalkers

Theoretical Research:

Research V2-Lab for Unstable Media Rotterdam(NL) TELE_TRUST

Research Sandberg Institute Amsterdam TELE_TRUST

Curatorship APT Antwerpen

Art & Research group AHK Amsterdam / preparing practice based PHD on:

TELE_TRUST - networking bodies

TELE_TRUST Performance & lecture:

11 juni 2009 in Theatrum Anatomicum, De Waag Society Amsterdam.

Speakers: Eric Kluitenberg (De Balie) en Karen Lancel & Hermen Maat.

In collaboration with: V2_Institute for unstable media Rotterdam,

De Balie Amsterdam en fashion artist AZIZ.

TELE_TRUST

How do we trust each other?

Do we need to look each other in the eyes?

Or do we need to touch each other?

And how do we trust each other as digitally networking bodies?

In TELE_TRUST Lancel and Maat explore how in our changing social eco-system we increasingly demand transparency; while at the same time we increasingly cover our vulnerable bodies with personal communication-technology. For TELE_TRUST Lancel and Maat designed a hybrid play zone for a vulnerable process, of balancing between fear AND desire for the other. In a visual, poetic way they explore the emotional and social tension between visibility and invisibility; privacy and trust.

TELE_TRUST is a meeting place:

TELE_TRUST takes place in dynamic public spaces. Here Lancel and Maat invite the audience in six interactive, full body data-veils. The data-veils combine visual elements of full body covering wearables in eastern and western traditions. They are inspired by a monks’ habit and a burqa; as well as by a ‘trustworthy’ chalk stripe business suit.

The data-veil is for everybody.

When wearing a data-veil your body becomes an interface: flexible sensors are woven in the smart textile of each data-veil. When touching your own body, the six data-veils form a digital network.

Can I touch you now?

By touching your body in the data-veil you can meet others in the network. You meet in an intimate virtual experience, to exchange stories on horror and beauty: Am I here with you? Who is watching who? Who is controlling who? And in whose body?

Shows 2009 - 2010:

ElectroSmog / De Balie, Amsterdam; met Eyebeam - New York;

Media Lab Prado – Madrid; BANFF – Canada; RIXC – Riga.

Tschumipaviljoen- Groningen,

V2_Instituut voor instabiele media Rotterdam.

With generous support of:

Mondriaan Stichting Interregeling, AFK, De Balie – Amsterdam,

AHK ARTI, V2_Institute for unstable media Rotterdam.