Eight new works at 'Mechanics & Mapping' @DargerHQ Gallery, USA

Stay tuned for an update on my latest exhibition starting March 6th at DargerHQ Gallery, Lincoln USA, together with Vienna artist Sophie Dvorak.

More info on the exhibition: Mechanics & Mapping 

Curated by director Launa Bacon.

All works are linked: from right, Consumanoid no.5 (culture of consumption), Delectus no.2 (choices) and Spaceframe XS (bearing the weight)

The Urban Constant by Stefan de Beer (urban transitions, the city as critical component in the process towards global sustainability) 

Urban Transmission no.1, dim. 120 x 70, ink on paper + lim.ed. print

Refinery_me no.2 (hunger for energy)

Consumanoid no.5 (the mechanism of consumption)

Spaceframe_XS

Delectus no.2 (choices)

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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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

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!

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.

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:

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.

                                                                       

Artwork 2012 - 2013

A cross section of my artwork in 2012 and 2013 for collectors, galleries, exhibitions and several modern art museums. This blog still contains just part of the works I produced in this period, I'm updating the blog.

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."


Regular updates of current and past projects!
For my latest project see http://steve-hyperform.blogspot.nl/


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 


Follow me now on Twitter!
Daily updates on my latest work and projects.
https://twitter.com/steve917db 


Happy Refinery
A critical portret, digitally constructed from close-ups of the Refinery_me sculpture. Giclee print, dim 120 x 82.

12 sep 2014: A limited series of 100 pcs, dim 100 x 68 cm, will be available at Darger HQ Gallery, Pasadena/Lincoln USA. Order at http://dargerhq.com/products/faceframe 

Refinery_me
originally for A Portrait Apart, NYC, now in private collection.
Mixed media, 100 x 70 x 40 cm.

Refinery_me: identity taken over by technology and our ever stronger need for consumption.  

the Refinery; our ever growing need for energy and consumption.

Unstable by design: Space frame no.6 - Display
Exhibition at Rietveld & Ruys at Gerrit Rietveld's former De Ploeg Factory.

A free standing frame on the old factory's last workbench.

De poten van het displayframe steunen op de open deurtjes en laden rondom en houden het frame los van het werkblad als kader voor de objecten die op het werkblad geplaatst worden.

Standing on the opened doors and drawers keeping the frame in balance and just clear of the top of the workbench. Framed air.

Basswind_120 installation
Interactive art installation for 'Canal Works' at Boscotondo Hall of modern art, Gemeentemuseum Helmond. 

Just minutes after final testing at the museum.

 
A Co-creation between Noortje van den Eijnde (soundscape & art direction), Tim van Cromvoirt (light bellows) and me (overall design).


Basswind opening from Noortje van den Eijnde on Vimeo.

The Basswind installation is interactive, the museum's visitors can activate the five objects by pulling the levers. The objects will come to live, they breath and move and each object produces its own sound. Together the objects create an ever changing soundscape. A reference to the industrial past of this city.

Tim, http://www.timvancromvoirt.com/project/basswind-120/
Noortje, http://noralie.nl/?p=183  


Unstable by design: Reactor no.2
A balancing act, private collection 

'Unstable by design' series: Reactor no.2

Reactor no.2: the fine balance between push and pull.

Unstable by design: Space frames
Studies

Unstable by design: Consumanoid no.2
New York, private collection

                                                                              
Unstable by design: Reactor no.3
Exhibition with Ploegwerk at Gerrit Rietveld's former De Ploeg Factory.
Private collection

The workbench is a design from the mid-50's, by famous dutch designer Martin Visser and an essential part of the artwork.

     



Reactor no.4
                                                                        
Delectus
Exhibition at SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York. Private collection. 

Delectus: the 3d schematics of the choices 
and factors that lead to success.

Delectus at the SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery exhibition 2013 in New York                       

Succesful women are different from men, they go beyond the traditional classifications of political and economic might. They use their senses, brain, heart and intuition in a unique way to actually shift our idea of clout and authority and transform the world in exhilarating and novel ways, a process of possibilities, recources, momentum and impact. I used this concept to create a 'successful head'. The connected elements of the successful woman.


Brand new me
For the 2012 Portrait Exhibition at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

For a year I collected styrofoam packing materials from several city blocks and arranged them by timeline and location. This created a new model of the urban environment around me and ultimately of me.

a new City landscape created by comsumption dynamics

I found myself embedded in consumption dynamics

Our complex relationship with the city and the current shifting system of consumption.

Unstable by design: Cantilever no.4
Wood, urethane, dimensions approx. 200 x 200 cm


























Some of my spatial constructions like the one above originate from the dualism of my former career as a racecar designer and my years of education at the Academy of Fine Art.


Unstable by design: Cantilever no.2
Wood, dimensions approx. 310 x 200 cm (h x w)
Light object, private collection NY

There is one small 20cm pullrod in this spaceframe construction that keeps everything from collapsing and perfectly in balance.
  
Unstable by design: Cantilever no.1
Wood, dimensions approx. 50 x 30 cm (h x w)

                 

More to Less 
The award winning More to Less Chair at Daring Design with the Netherlands' Institute of Architecture and manufacturer Gispen International.

Daring Design Exhibition - NAi Rotterdam
The Store Exhibition - The Hague
Gispen Factory Showroom - Culemborg
BKKC Art Center - Tilburg
Ploegwerk Exhibition - Bergeijk
Kunstroof Gallery - Breda
Majke Husstege Gallery (gallery of the year) - Den Bosch

                                                                          
                                                  

The More to Less Chair was developed as a statement symbolising the excessive consumption of society and the need to find a more sustainable way of life. 
To create a sustainable society we will have to find a way to go from more to less. Under the fat and comfortable layer, there is a constructive slim metal frame that partly shows itself. The fat layer is as a cover for the frame and can be removed by releasing the ropes which keep it attached to the frame.
Can we escape the current system of consumption?

Among the other eight exhibitors are Rem Koolhaas - OMA, Ai Weiwei, Hella Jongerius and Urbanus Architects.

Studio pictures by Paul Vermeulen & Photo40.

Deze stoel is in de kritische gedachte van de NAi-tentoonstelling Dwars Design (Daring Design) ontworpen. Het ontwerp staat symbool voor de overmatige consumptie van de maatschappij. Onder invloed van de crisis zullen we naar een duurzamere samenleving moeten, dus van More to Less. Deze stoel met twee gezichten is daar een uitdrukking van.

Onder de uitpuilende welvaart gaat een afgeslankte vorm schuil, juist dat deel dat belangrijk is en alles draagt. Ook zonder de opsmuk fungeert de Less-versie perfect, andersom is dat zeker niet het geval.

De vetlaag zit als een losse hoes over het frame en kan verwijderd worden als de touwen die alles bij elkaar houden worden losgemaakt. Het touw staat symbool van onze gebondenheid aan het huidige systeem van consumptie. Het zit letterlijk op ons gebonden.

Aan de achterzijde is een deel van de vetlaag weggelaten om een permanente blik op de Less-versie van de stoel te geven, zo ben je je dus altijd van beide zijden bewust.Aan de achterzijde van de stoel zie je dat de vetlaag gebonden zit op een ragfijne opengewerkte versie van de More or Less Chair van Gispen.

Het gelaste metalen frame is opgebouwd uit een combinatie van holle en massieve ronde buis van gerecycled staal. De kussens zijn gemaakt van zogenaamd Bio urethane foam, dat sinds kort ook wordt gebruikt in een aantal automodelen van bekende fabrikanten en dat geheel biologisch afbreekbaar is. De bio-urethaanlatex-huid van de kussens is gekleurd met natuurlijke pigmenten. Alles bij elkaar gebonden met henneptouw dat we met thee hebben gekleurd. Hierdoor zal bijna de gehele stoel recyclebaar zijn.

Op de NAi tentoonstelling Dwars Design is werk te zien van o.a. Rem Koolhaas - OMA, Ai Weiwei, Hella Jongerius en Urbanus Architects.

Foto's door Paul Vermeulen van Photo40.

The More to Less Chair is a co-creation with designer Willem Kuipers.

Levels of uniformity
From mass product to the unique.
Mixed media, 180 x 70 cm, private collection.

Levels of uniformity: today a door is basically the same as its packing material.

Stratus One installation
July 2012 International Art Exhibition, France.

It is all about layers. With every step up the stairs a new view and new perspective reveals itself.

Stratus zero
Co-creation with designer/photographer Paul Vermeulen.

                                          




Plexus: Conversation no.2
Studies about interconnection and network complexity.

Stay tuned and see more of the works from 2010 - 2014 shortly!