zaterdag 21 juni 2014

Unstable by Design: Automaton 'living' mini installation series


Exhibition from June 15th at Galerie Majke Husstege, Gallery of the Year, Den Bosch Netherlands.

 A co-creation with HOT100 artist Tim van Cromvoirt.

The recent collaboration with HOT100 artist Tim van Cromvoirt has led to a new exciting project. Inspired by our interactive art installation at the Boscotondo Hall of Modern Art we now show the first piece in a new series of 'living' mini installations.
It is the perfect merge of Tim's breathing Lungplants, my concept of transforming motion into other forms of motion and my balancing constructions. We combined our two concepts to find a way to create a self regulating cycle. 

The result is a delicate dynamic cycle composed of seven elements like leverage, weight shift, pressure, tension, rotation and balance. 
We started with a fully computer operated prototype from which we reverse engineered the complete cycle untill we had replaced all electronic elements with mechanical parts, except for one tiny low voltage source of continuous airflow.

Check out the video:

Automaton from Tim van Cromvoirt on Vimeo.











































































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zondag 11 mei 2014

Celluminatis Giganticus and Aquamaton installations for Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay UK

Two major sculpture proposals by Stefan de Beer and Tim van Cromvoirt for the Tidal Lagoon Project at Swansea Bay in the United Kingdom, the first tidal power plant to be built in the UK.
The shortlist has been announced at the Hay Festival of the Arts, May 29th.

Single cell organisms are responsible for the health of the earth's ecosystem and our food chain. They struggle in today's extreme pollution of the sea.
Celluminatis Giganticus is a field of floating giant artificial single cell organisms, feeding off the waves and the elements and emitting light with the wave patterns of the sea.

   

In our series of Automatons Tim and I research the system of the self regulating cycle.
The Aquamaton stands in the tidal bay reminding of the spiky creatures that live in the sea. As the potential energy builds up during high tide, the Aquamaton unleashes its full force at low tide with a violent sweep of its tail, like a trebuchet. This cycle goes on forever.







































Aquamaton, Celluminatis and the Giant Diver in the shortlist catalogue

vrijdag 28 maart 2014

Basswind 2.0 at STRP

Construction of our new Basswind_2.0 Installation at STRP 'Share' exhibition. An exhibition with a focus on Art & technology at the former Philips Klokgebouw, Strijp-S, Eindhoven.
Basswind is best described as a musical instrument on an industrial scale.






  
Final stages of Basswind 2.0 upgrade.




















                                                                           


Basswind 2.0 ready for massive soundscape!
                                         
Video interview for the 'Meet the Makers' documentary and promotional photo and video shoot, stay tuned!

donderdag 6 maart 2014

New artwork 2014

New gallery and museum exhibitions.

For an overview of the artworks 2011 - 2014 and artist statement please check:
http://steve-hyperform.blogspot.nl/ 


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Organum installation - SulptureCenter NYC
Proposal for a scaled up version of our existing installation for exhibition in 2015. Co-creation with visual artist Tim van Cromvoirt.

Recent research shows the structure of a big city has a lot in common with the functioning of a complex lifeform. Both have vains and bloodcells, both have organs and both have mood.

Organum reflects/mirrors the emotional expression of New York City. It is the representation of a functioning heart modelled on the city's layout.

We extract and process this 'emotion' from the New York’s social media with a software script. The artwork is directly linked to this collective ‘Digital Twitter Emotion’ and will respond by change in heartbeat and color. When the average mood is relaxed the heartbeat will be steady and color of the pulse will be green or yellow, if there is more discomfort in the city the heartbeat will get bumpy and color will change realtime into orange or even red.

In our model three major subjects will be filtered:
- Social/emotional - Tweets about feeling happy or sad
- Economic - Tweets about jobs, shopping, leasure time 
- Enviromental - Tweets about the weather or pollution

More specific parameters within these subjects will be processed to get the best and most detailed results.





First sketch of the 10 meter high Organum installation



























A video of the Organum model will follow soon.



Selected artist for DargerHQ Gallery (USA).

'Darger HQ is excited to announce the addition of six immensely interesting and exceptionally talented artists.'
'Ben Clarkson (Canada), Fran Coca (Spain), Stefan F. De Beer (Netherlands), Kristina Estell (United States), Julia Ibbini (United Arab Emirates), Kerry Kolenut (United States).'


Selected artist for Articurate (NYC & London).

Selected sculptor for Artsicle (NYC).





















Preview of Unstable by Design: Weight of Waste
























































































Unstable by Design - Weight of waste no.11



























































Nautilus for Satellite Collective New York, see further below






















Delectus 2 for Darger HQ Gallery at loveArt Toronto, Canada































                                                               


Spacemaker 2 for Rochester Contemporary Art Center New York


In car design I had to 'free form' a lot of stuff virtually with Nurbs-software and I wondered what it would be like if I could do this without a computer. This is the analog way of Nurbs modeling with bounding box, controle and edit points.























vrijdag 28 februari 2014

Artwork 2013 -2014

Artist statement: 

My body of conceptual work originates from a fascination with technology and machines and their impact on society. In my practice I incorporate the leftovers and waste of the mass produced materials and products that make our modern lives possible. It is a comment on the impact of production and consumption in the modern day of living and the fragile stability of a system.

"All my works are interconnected by recycling parts of earlier works into my new works. It’s like going back by time machine, altering and adjusting things, going forward to the present and see what the new outcome is and if it fits the situation of that moment better."


New artwork:
http://steve-hyperform.blogspot.nl/ 




























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Inaugural Exhibition with DargerHQ Gallery at Parrish Studios, Lincoln USA
From June 7th untill July 3rd 2014.




Unstable by design: Automaton 'living' mini installation series
A Co-creation with HOT100 artist Tim van Cromvoirt.
Exhibition at Galerie Majke Husstege, Gallery of the Year, from June 15th.

http://steve-hyperform.blogspot.nl/2014/06/unstable-by-design-automaton-living.html



Selected artist for Art:I:Curate (UK/USA)

Represented in London and New York by Art:I:Curate. More info very soon!

Link:
http://www.articurate.net/contemporary-art-artist-rotterdam-stefandebeer



Celluminatis Giganticus and Aquamaton installations for Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay UK

Two major sculpture proposals by Stefan de Beer and Tim van Cromvoirt for the Tidal Lagoon Project at Swansea Bay in the United Kingdom, the first tidal power plant to be built in the UK.

The shortlist has been announced at the Hay Festival of the Arts, May 29th.

Link to the project:
http://steve-hyperform.blogspot.nl/2014/05/celluminatis-giganticus-and-aquamaton.html 



Basswind 2.0 at STRP Share Exhibition

Construction of our new Basswind_120_2.0 Installation at STRP 'Share' exhibition. An exhibition with a focus on Art & technology at the former Philips Klokgebouw, Strijp-S, Eindhoven.
Basswind is best described as a musical instrument on an industrial scale. 

Link to the project:


Selected artist for DargerHQ Gallery (USA)

"Darger HQ is excited to announce the addition of six immensely interesting and exceptionally talented artists.

Ben Clarkson (Canada), Fran Coca (Spain), Stefan F. De Beer (Netherlands), Kristina Estell (United States), Julia Ibbini (United Arab Emirates), Kerry Kolenut (United States)."

Link:
http://dargerhq.com/collections/stephan-de-beer 


Delectus_2 at LoveArt Toronto, Canada
My Delectus_2 sculpture will be represented by Darger HQ Gallery from Los Angeles.













Delectus_2: How do we make choices? Which combinations between senses, heart and brain lead to succes?

Two works for the Rochester Contemporary Art Center NY
From the Unstable by Design Series: the Spacemakers. 

Mixed media: wood, metal, paper and urethane.
Two-in-one sculptures, free standing as well as wall mounted.














From flat to space in an instant.

Basswind_120 installation at STRP Art & Technology
After three and a half months at the museum the next stop is STRP Art & Technology in Eindhoven from the 27th of March.

New sculptures coming!
Also new in 2014: After a succesful series of gallery and museum exhibitions of smaller sculptures, start of my new project of limited series of exciting sculpture for under a 1000 USD.
For questions contact me at steve917@ziggo.nl.  


Satellite Collective 
A new project with Satellite Collective from New York City. 
American composer Jaina (New York Satellite Ballet) wrote the short musical piece I had to translate into sculpture.

The sculpture started with my obsession for capturing elusive processes. I used a broad spectrum of digital processes and techniques. It is based on a waveform analysis of the music, the timeline and the patterns corresponding to voice, rhythm, bass and instruments, external triggers and multimedia input and the way I experienced this music. 90% digitally created and analog finetuning by hand assembly.

First picture of Nautilus.
Nautilus, the metaphor for loneliness and obsession of a person.











From left to right, it starts with the head without a face, the senses travel from the head to the heart where they build up and than explode to the face in the distance. The musical structure floats on thin and fragile legs. Two people once close, now disconnected and both isolated.



















































Unstable by design: Automaton 'living' mini installation series
A Co-creation with HOT100 artist Tim van Cromvoirt.

De recente samenwerking met kunstenaar Tim van Cromvoirt heeft een vervolg gekregen in een nieuw project. Geïnspireerd op onze installatie voor Gemeentemuseum Helmond's Boscotondo Kunsthal zal in maart de eerste van een serie 'levende' mini-installaties verschijnen.

The recent collaboration with HOT100 artist Tim van Cromvoirt has led to a new exciting project. Inspired by our interactive art installation for the Boscotondo Hall of Modern Art we will show the first piece in a new series of 'living' mini installations in March.
It will be the perfect merge of Tim's breathing Lungplants and my concept of transforming motion into other forms of motion. We brought our two concepts together to find a way to create a self regulating cycle. 



Sneak peek of the Automaton prototype























Update:
At last, this week we succeeded in creating the self regulating cycle!
A delicate dynamic cycle composed of seven elements like leverage, weight shift, pressure, tension, rotation and balance. We started with a fully computer operated prototype system from which we reverse engineered the complete cycle untill we had replaced all computer elements with non-electronic parts, except for one tiny low voltage source of continuous airflow.