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13/7/2011

With One Eye on the Horizon

Tent, Rotterdam

Chris Baronavski (US), Femke de Bruijn (NL), Tanja Deman (HR), Marleen Leuverink (NL), Vincenzo Onnembo (IT), Tiddo Roozendaal (NL), Zafer Topaloglu (TR), Yuko Uesu (JP), Roeland Veraart (NL)

With One Eye on the Horizon is the Graduation Show of the first graduating students from the Master Media Design & Communication: Lens-Based Programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, a postgraduate programme of the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University. The Lens-Based Programme explores the possibilities of new forms and delivery platforms – streaming media; gallery installation; mobile-phone movies; cross- media narratives; database film technologies; site-specific projection projects; and other hybrid forms. The programme emphasizes the new possibilities created by the convergence of both still and moving images into a shared digital workflow. The work in the show variously responds to the erosion of the clear distinction between cinema and photography, and works across the dividing line between moving and still.

The graduating students:

Chris Baronavski (US), is a multimedia artist, with an academic background in Psychology and Computer Science at the College of William & Mary. His artistic and research work concerns perceptual psychology, online group dynamics, and the visualisation of complex systems. Against the backdrop of the recent attention of the American media focusing on so-called “bullycide,” the three-screen moving image installation in the show explores the prevalence of online hate speech and the conditions within the online subculture of bodybuilding which precipitated the live webcam broadcast of the suicide of an African-American teenager to a baiting online crowd in November of 2008.

Femke de Bruijn (NL) has a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag. She works in film and photography, creating vignettes and studies of the minutia of daily life. She focuses on our numbness to the aesthetic of the mundane. In her latest work she did research on still photography versus moving images: real time highly slow-motioned images emphasize small common environmental events we are exposed to in all aspects of our daily life.

Marleen Leuverink (NL) makes large scale photographs depicting the landscape of her own body. "Intimacy normally requires dialogue, transparency, vulnerability and reciprocity when you add anonymity to that list some of the most important feelings that will give you an intimate feeling will disappear. You create a distance and you will be thrown in the position as a voyeur. You see something that was not to be intended for your eyes. The position for you as a viewer has changed."

Vincenzo Onnembo (IT) is a filmmaker and cinematographer from Napoli. After studies in graphic design and multimedia he decided to see the world through lens-based tools. A strong interest in anthropology led him to explore his own roots, producing film and photography works, which survey the devout yet superstitious sphere of Neapolitan people. His recent pieces investigate faith, devotion and life in rural communities, addressing their detachment from the modern world. Through handed down stories of locals, he attempts to picture the holy and sublime atmospheres of spiritual ecstasy in catholic ceremonies, as well as their relationship to pagan rituals, shamanism and black magic.

Tanja Deman (HR) is a visual artist. She graduated sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in Croatia. Through different mediums she explores uncanny readings of both natural landscape and the modernist city, devoid of human activity. By shifting still image toward cinematography and cinematography toward still image, she intends to explore borderlines between flatness and deep focus, time and stillness, static tableaux and movement. The main question of this work is: How to obtain balance and unity with nature? And how to give back our reality its original sacred significance?

Tiddo Roozendaal (NL) discovered during his Bachelor’s study Audiovisual Design, at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, he’s most committed to motion graphics design and decided to fully concentrate on this part of visual design. During his Master’s, he has worked part-time at one of Holland’s largest post-production companies, giving him the chance to design for national and international television broadcasts. He is working as a visual effects artist on several graduation projects. His research explores the application of commercial and industrial special effects technology to small-scale artist created projects.

Zafer Topaloglu (TR) was born in 1978 in Sakarya, holds a bachelor in Film-TV from Istanbul Bilgi University. His video installation interrogates archival television and film footage to look at his past and explore the formation of his identity within several specific fields of powers such as the Turkish State, the religion of Islam, the ethnic root of Hemshin, and Western Popular Culture from his birth to the ends of his teenage years.

Yuko Uesu (JP) is a Harpist with a movie camera. She has played the harp as an improviser/experimental musician in Tokyo, Beijing, and Rotterdam since 2005. Her research strategy is to dig in time's grave, and preserve the assets in the present, as a way to find the truth of the world. Her new project, ‘DNA HARP’ sets out to research and reconstruct the archetypal figure of the harp as musical instrument with an intimate relation to the human body. Different types of cameras are set up to excavate this cultural tomb and to record the realities discovered.

Roeland Veraart (NL) gained his bachelor's degree in animation at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in 2009. His work consists of computer generated animations: ranging from autonomous artworks to music videos and commercials. The two-screen animation installation he shows at TENT is a landscape of the body inspired by the 'Sludge' music genre, exploring the possibility that that music is trying to convince the body to participate into a self-destructive dance.

Publication
A catalogue, designed by Daphne Heemskerk accompanies the exhibition, and will be available from the reception desk at TENT.

For more information please contact Carolien van Hooijdonk, communication and marketing TENT at com.tent@cbk.rotterdam.nl or +31 (0)10 413 54 98

Opening: Thursday 14.07.2011, 20.00 hrs

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Witte de Withstraat 50 - Rotterdam
Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 11-18hrs
Regular evening opening on Thursday evenings, see TENT Events. TENT is closed during exhibition preparations.
Admission prices E 4,- TENT, E 2,- (<18, student, CJP, 65+, groups of 10 people or more)
E 7,- combi-ticket Witte de With & TENT
Free: <12, Rotterdampas, Museumkaart

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