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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Daily updates on my latest work and projects.
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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:

http://steve-hyperform.blogspot.nl/2014/03/basswind-2.html 

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.