Marnix
de Nijs is a Rotterdam based artist who explores the dynamic clash
between bodies, machines andother media. His works include mainly
interactively experienced machines that play with the perception and
control of image and sound, but also, radical and humorous pieces
such as his bullet proof tent and bullet proof. Marnix has presented
his works at several national and international media-festivals and
worked with Time's Up_org, Edwin van der Heide, Montevideo_lab, V2_lab,
ZKM and the Krisztina de Châtel Dance Company. He won prices
with his installations in Madrid, Linz, Berlin and Taipei.
He recently won the Witteveen & Bos Art and Technology Price 2005
for his complete ouvre.
Education
1988-1992
1982-1988
Arnhem Institute for the Arts, Arnhem, NL
Athenaeum, Marnix College, Ede, NL
Grants \ Awards
2005
2005
2002
2001
2001
2000
Witteveen & Bos Art and Technology Price 2005,
NL
Honourly Mentioned Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
Honourly Mentioned Vida 5.0 Art and A-life awards, Telefonica Foundation,
Madrid, SP
Honourly Mentioned Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
Honourly Mentioned Transmediale Award, Berlin, DE
First price Art Future 2000 Award, Acer Digital Art Centre, Taipei,
TW
Installation 'Run Motherfucker Run', ENTER ACTION,
ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, DK
Installation 'Physiognomic Gate', Touch Me festival 2008, Feel Better!,
Zagreb, HR
Installation 'Beijing Accelerator', Sonarmatica 08, Centre de Cultura
Contemporània de Barcelona, SP
Installation 'Beijing Accelerator', Synthetic Times, National Art
Museum China, Beijing, CN
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, NL
Installation 'Exploded Views', Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina,
Firenze, IT
Installation 'Beijing Accelerator', STRP_festival , Eindhoven, NL
Installation 'Beijing Accelerator', Moca, Museum of contemporary Arts
Taipei, TW
Installation 'Exercise in Immersion 4', DEAF07 Festival, V2_organisation,
Rotterdam, NL
Installations 'Push/Pull' & 'Spatial Sounds', DAF festival, Tokyo,
JP
Installation 'Beijing Accelerator', Emergence festival, Paris, FR
Installation 'Run Motherfucker Run', 6th Shanghai Bienale, Shanghai,
CN
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Alta Tecnología
Andina, Lima, PER
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), CODE BLUE, China
Millennium Museum, Beijing, CN
Installation 'Beijing Accelerator', Electromagnetic Bodies,Tent &
V2 organisation, Rotterdam, NL
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Elektra Festival,
Montreal, CA
Installation 'Run Motherfucker Run', Urban Explorer Festival. Dordrecht,
NL
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h) & 'Run Motherfucker
Run', STRP, Eindhoven, NL
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Audioframes, Lille,
FR
Installation 'Run Motherfucker Run', Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
Installation 'Run Motherfucker Run', In The Line of Flight, China
Millennium Museum, Beijing, CN
Installation 'Run Motherfucker Run', Kapelica Gallery. Ljubljana,
Sl
Installation 'Run Motherfucker Run' & 'Spatial Sounds', Transmediale
Festival 05, Berlin, DE
Installation 'Run Motherfucker Run', DEAF04 Festival, V2_organisation,
Rotterdam, NL
Installation 'Run Motherfucker Run', Internationale keuze, Rotterdamse
Schouwburg, NL
Installation 'Autonomous Oil Reserve', Tracer, Tent & Witte de
With Rotterdam, NL
Installation 'Push / Pull', Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Kontejner. Zagreb,
HR
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Kapelica Gallery.
Ljubljana, Sl
Installation 'Panoramic Acceleration', 8ème festival Bandits-Mages,
Bourges, FR
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Mois Multi. Quebec-city,
CA
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Nuit Blanche, Paris,
FR
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Itau Cultural,
Sao Paulo, BR
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Sonar, Barcelona,
SP
Installation 'Cross-Connected' Hotel Mosaic, Tent, Rotterdam, NL
Installation 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Prix Ars Electronica,
Linz, AU
Installation 'Cross-Control', Cell, Rotterdam Cultural Capital Europe,
Rotterdam, NL
Installation 'Spatial Sounds', Artfuture 2000, Acer Digital Art Centre,Taipei,
TW
Installation 'Panoramic Acceleration', DEAF 00, V2_Organisation, Rotterdam,
NL
‘Intervention mit drei Hunden', Gothaer, Koln, DE
Installation 'Panoramic Acceleration', New Forms Festival, The Hague,
NL
Installation 'Panoramic Acceleration', 17th World-Wide Video Festival
Amsterdam, NL
'Closing the Loop' pseudo-scientific experiments, Time's Up_org Linz,
AU
Installation 'Open Head', Montevideo_TBA, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Preformances
2005
2002
2001
2001
2001
2001
2001
1999
1997
1996
Performance 'Vibrating Zagreb_the Trillmachine', Kontejner.
Zagreb, HR
Performance 'Machine Winks', Low-Lands festival, Biddinghuizen, NL
Performance 'Machine Winks', Korzo, The Haque, NL
Performance 'Machine Winks', Dutch Dancing Days, Maastricht, NL
Performance 'Super Eva', Frascati, Amsterdam, NL. Rotterdamse Schouwburg,
Rotterdam. NL.
Ludwig Forum, Achen, DE
Performance 'Intervention With Four Pneumatic Cylinders', Begane Grond,
Utrecht, NL
Performance 'Inflatable', Re-constructions, CELL, Het Paard, The Hague,
NL
Performance 'Trill', Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
Performance 'Trill', Update Festival, Copenhagen, DM
Publication, Enter Action, digital art now, ARoS, Aarhus
Kunstmuseum, DK
Publication, Touch Me, Feel Better, Kontejner, Zagreb, HR
Publication, Deep Screen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
Publication, Synthetic Times, National Art Museum China, Beijing,
CN
Publication, Unstable Media, Act Interact, Moca, Taipei, TW
Publication, Interact or Die, DEAF 07,V2_Organisation, Rotterdam,
NL
Publication, DAF, Digital Arts Festival Tokyo 2006, JP
Publication, Hyper Design, 6th Shanghai Bienalle, CN
Publication, Code Blue, Confluence of Currents, 3rd Beijing International
New Media Arts festival, CN
Publication, Marnix de Nijs, Witteveen & Bos Art and Technology
Price 2005, NL
Publication, Cyber Art 2005, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
Publication, In The line of Flight, 2rd Beijing International New
Media Arts festival, CN
Publication, Feelings are always local, V2_organisation, Rotterdam,
NL
Publication, Ars 2004, Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
Publication, Tracer 1 & 2, Tent & Witte de With, Rotterdam,
NL
Publication, Future cinema_the cinematic imaginary after film, ZKM,
Karlsruhe, DE
Publication, Emoção Art.ficial, Itaú Cultural,
Sao Paulo, BR
Publication, Sonar 2002, 9th Barcelona International Festival Of Advanced
Music And
Multi-Media Arts, SP
Publication, Cyber Art 2001, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
Review, Frieze, GB
Publication, Machine Times, DEAF 00,V2_Organisation, Rotterdam, NL
Publication, 13th festival Rencontre Video Art Plastic, Herouville,
FR
Publication, 17th World-Wide VideoFestival Amsterdamdam, NL
Publication, Closing the Loop '98, Time's Up_org, Linz, AU
Review, Zingmagazine, New York, USA
Review, BLVD magazine, NL
Review, BLVD magazine, NL