Media designer
Writing my first line of code was amazing. Here I was, talking to my computer and actually getting a response. From this point onwards I’ve been consumed with the workings of media: I wanted to know how it all worked ‘under the hood’. How could I create web-pages and edit videos? How do I go about designing an app? It was clear to me: I wanted to study Communication & Multimedia Design (CMD) at MAMDT.
Storyteller
During the course of my studies I developed an increased interest to research, talk and write about the enormous disruption that technology induces in society but also how it changes our collective psyche. I noticed that changes to our technological environment kept happening in an increasing pace but people often tend to see technology as a simple fact of life that doesn't involve or touch them in any other way if they don't directly work in this sector. We need to start talking about technology as a force that can be either good or bad. And in order to unlock the new possibilities we so desperately need, we need to start talking and thinking about this new and digitised world that we have created. After the optimistic 90's, technological development has become a double-etched sword that can make us into digital slaves if we are not careful.
Dance culture aficionado
Art and technology have the ability to place the broader developments into perspective and put our minds at ease with them. Contemporary electronic music, as well as modern art, stimulates us to think about our changing environment. And it is changing dramatically. The natural world is now in crisis. I believe that we have the capacity to solve this crisis, and technology can be part of the solution, but the time of waiting is definitely over. We are now at a point in time where we have make a conscious decision about the type of world that we want to create. If we don’t grab the wheel, advanced artificial intelligence might make that decision for us, if the climate emergency hasn't wiped us away already beforehand. It's change or die, to put it in more bleak terms. Electronic music has been the kickstarter of this re-invention process for me.
Connecting borders
Electronic music has the ability to transcend the cultural and social borders that divide us and in that process, form new connections. This inspires everything that I do. Electronic music will effectively help us build the new world, and it needs to be an active effort. I see the electronic music community as the embodiment of Marshall McLuhan’s global village. As a media designer I want to contribute to this 'village', I believe it to be a game-changer and I believe that there’s a lot more collectivity to be found and crafted.
Into a sustainable and compassionate future
I'm actively looking for a thesis project that puts me in the position to introduce new solutions that bring us closer towards a new, sustainable world that can carry our beautiful civilisation into the future. I would like to focus on problems in food production, food-waste and/or sustainable alternatives to the use of fossil fuels. Are you the person/organisation who's going to do that with me? Then please do contact me under koen@transitory.nl.
Portfolio
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Electrifying China
24 Jan , 2020At the end of 2015 the Dutch Media Fund gave us, five music enthusiasts, the possibility to produce an (interactive) documentary about the emerging electronic music scene in China. In the course of four weeks we’ve travelled from Beijing to Shanghai to Chengdu to Chongqing and we’ve spoken to most of the key figures in
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MAMDT, content production
24 Jan , 2020During a sabbatical year I decided to start working as a content producer for MAMDT (the university I go to). I ended up doing this for about two years and I’ve learned tons of things while I was at it. We (a graphic design student and me) started out when the department of Visual Communication
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Proof of Skill
24 Jan , 2020School project done in the ‘talent programme’ track, meaning we got to organise and manage our own project for a full semester with periodic presentations in front of our professors. Unfortunately, the original live version is not online anymore since it was running on the Ethereum test-net, us so I’ve put a bare-bones version online
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The Digital Democracy Pt.1: The History Of Trade
24 Jan , 2020‘Supercut’ documentary out of existing footage with my own voice as voiceover, introducing the rise of the digital currency bitcoin and explaining the history behind how humans have attributed value to money during the years.
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Klimat-O-Funk
24 Jan , 2020Art project done for the course ‘Intervention Design’. I wrote a program in Max4Live (MaxMSP) that uses emissions data and the rise of the average global temperature to create a soundscape with climate change data as its only ‘input’. The data set starts in 1850 (pre-industrial time), which is when measurements started. In the course
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