1/6/2009
Dropstuff.org
Riva Ca' di Dio, Venezia
Una piattaforma contemporanea per nuove forme artistiche, per l'arte multimediale e la cultura elettronica. Una nuova scuola di visualizzazione dedicata alla diffusione di opere di artisti e designer in una rete di "dropstuff hotspots" distribuiti all'interno di musei olandesi, biblioteche, stazioni ferroviarie, scuole e accademie d'arte.
During de 53rd International Art Exhibition Venice, DROPSTUFF presents new, digital art forms in the inner city. DROPSTUFF is a spectacular platform for media art which shows Dutch interactive artworks.
Director of the 53rd Venice Biennale, Daniel Birnbaum, has officially invited DROPSTUFF.nl to take part in this prestigious art exhibition. Next to works from established Dutch artists, DROPSTUFF.nl also presents works from young talented artists. By setting out an ‘Open Call’ Dutch artists and designers were called to send in their work. In close collaboration with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal and the Centraal Museum a selection has been made. Next to interactive art works, also a number of classical video works from the museums’ collections is shown in Venice.
SMS art
DROPSTUFF’s main focus in Venice is to show a new generation of artists and designers, who approach the audience in a direct manner. No white museum walls, but interactive art in public space. By using SMS, bluetooth, touch screen and sensors the audience is participating in the art work.
Taking orders
Birdsdays by Wayne Horse is not a cute Tamagotchi but an arrogant, ugly rooster which is giving orders to the audience. Leonard Munster lets the audience do magic with words, which are generated by Google. David Kousemaker en Tim Olden of Blendid present a work which is controlled live from India, by an Indian employee who responds on people who pass by in Venice. Next to the ones mentioned, also works from Guido van der Werve en Klaas Kloosterboer are shown.
Gigantic screen
DROPSTUFF.nl is a platform for media art which shows a mixture of digital and interactive art works by aswell professional artists as creative products from the audience. These art works are broadcasted live on a network of DS_HOTSPOTS, which are situated in museums, art academies, libraries, educational institutions, at festivals and -from this summer- also at big Dutch railway stations. From the 2nd till the 7th of June the gigantic DROPSTUFF screen, measuring 60 square metres, is situated on the pier between San Marco and Giardini, called Riva Ca’ di Dio. Next to the vaporette stop Arsenale.
DROPSTUFF.nl is a concept and initiative of designer René van Engelenburg, developped in cooperation with Edwin Jacobs, director of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The project is realized by Sticting Pleinmuseum, Amsterdam.
Image: DS_HOTSPOT in Dynamo, Eindhoven
for information about the programmed artworks
http://dropstuff.org/wp-content/uploads/ds-program-venice-extended.pdf
For more information or images please contact Ms. Anne van der Zwaag (+31 6-21594575) or Ms. Jeanine Cobussen (+31 6-27077652) or via press@dropstuff.nl
We would like to invite you on Thursday the 4th of June, 10 a.m. at Riva di Ca' di Dio to join us at the opening of
DROPSTUFF.nl whilst enjoying a 'prosecco breakfast'.
Riva Ca' di Dio, Castello Venezia
ore 10-22
Free entrance