| "My future scenarios look fascinating and alarming at the same
time" "The advance of digital technology has changed photography. The analogue photography continues, but digital technologies are used to enhance or change images. My work is a hybrid kind of mixture. Central theme is the telematic society, a society driven and controlled by information and computer technology. Based on current scientific and technological developments, but also with fiction and fantasy, I simulate scenarios that look fascinating and alarming at the same time, but possibly within the boundaries of reality". "My work is very conceptual, so I get much inspiration from literature, media philosophy by authors like Vilém Flusser, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virillo, Francois Lyotard. Very important are also the ideas of Ray Kurzweil, inventor, businessman and futurist who is much concerned with the future of science and technology. He is convinced that in the near future, around 2050, the intelligence of computers has become superhuman. For the netropolis series I was also inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), a dark visual production at a future urban setting, where the darkness together with the bright neon light is characteristic for the mystical atmosphere of Los Angeles in 2019”. "Normally my art is exhibited in museums and galleries. Yet it fits on GLOW as light is the main source for producing photography and video art. ‘The invisible city’ fits the theme Being Public because of the concept, it shows the constant transformation of a public space that is built on pure data information. For the first time "the invisible city" will be projected on a building outdoor. Exciting! I hope the festival audience will like it ..." |