Simone van Groenestijn

Media artist Cym is researching the relation between virtual reality and real life. Cym (Simone van Groenestijn, 1973), studied 'Interaction Design & Unstable Media' at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Currently she is doing a Master 'Education in Arts' at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. She works together with international artist groups, such as '42', 'Aether9' and 'Acryl'. She has started an art center in an old farm in Austria. In her work, Cym focuses on images and situations from everyday life. She manages to present everyday life situations in such a way that they start telling us something new. She makes us aware of things that we see every day around us, but we don’t often really notice them. In her work she challenges the viewer to look at everyday situations from another perspective. Via minimal interventions in situations from everyday life, she creates a fascinating language of images, which she presents in a variety of projects ranging from photography and media art project to workshops and presentations. In her workshops she teaches people basic computer skills. She has the talent to teach anyone HTML. In a world where the surface of computers, tablets and mobile phones becomes more and more abstract, she introduces people to 'what is behind that surface', what is behind the 'WYSISYG' interface. 

PLAY CONNECTED: An educational media art project by Cym
The media art project 'Play Connected' is a project by Cym in which she creates a computer game together with the input of local children. In several workshop sessions she explores the local surroundings together with children. The children take photos in different areas of the city, which are then used to create a computer game. In this project, Cym focuses especially on local children; children who live in the area. She will bring photo cameras to take photos. By taking photos of their environment the children are challenged to look in a different way at their own surroundings. Via exploring the city together with children, Cym herself is also seeing the city in a different way. In her final work, a computer art game, she will use the input from the children. The game will show how the children see their environment, combined with her own impressions during her stay in the city. An important element in this project is the workshops with different children in different areas of the city. The input of these different workshop sessions is connected and combined into one final product, a computer art game. By playing the game, the children can also discover other parts and neighborhoods of the city. These days more and more children spend hours and hours indoors and behind the computer. Less and less children are actively taking part in their surroundings outside. In this project, children are motivated, via their interest for computers, to discover and explore the world outside. An important aspect is to also share these surroundings with other children. In this project, sharing will be done via the game that will be made from the material that the children collect outside in their surroundings.

Yoshiyuki Abe

Before I started as a computer artist, I had been working as an assistant director of feature films, a short reel film director and a still photographer for about 10 years. It took about five years for developing my own graphic computer system with own developed hardware and software system for full color graphics. My artistic taste changed sometimes in my computer artist career, from math based photo realistic images to abstract with stochastic process, and color oriented imagings.

CONVERGENCE series, a suite of computer-generated imagery, provides varied spaces of color oriented. This becomes one of the recent projects, which was intended to provide an interactive space with spectators. Everybody has his/her own memory and experience linked to the color. I want to provide the space he/she can look-back and think about their past time and future through their unique colors, not by objects. I will develop a program for this work after the excursion program and execute it for 12-20 image files.

Anne Katrine Senstad

Anne Katrine Senstad is a multidisciplinary Norwegian artist who lives and works in New York. She works in the intersection of installation art, photography, video, site and time specific work, and land/agricultural art, bordering the definition of architecture, sculpture and spatial relations.  She was educated at Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research in New York. In 2013 she exhibited at the 55th Venice biennale part of the exhibition Metamorphoses of the Virtual, and in 2011 she completed a major public art commission in collaboration with Snohetta Artchitects and Ohio State Arts councils.  She has exhibited widely internationally including Zenai Moma in Shanghai, Haus der Kultur der Welt in Berlin, Beirut Art Center and Centre Pompidou with her video work.

Interlacing Worlds - The infinitesimal is a site specific sound and video projection installation that will take place in the Al Fahidi historic district of Dubai. The projections will be transform exteriors of historic buildings and interior spaces, recreating and re interpreting the experiential architecture and local aesthetics. With projected color combinations in constant transformation accompanied by 5:1 surround sound of legendary electronic sound composer Catherine.Christer.Hennix, the interlacing sensorial colors, meditative sound and phenomena of history merge in an immersive perception and multi sensory installation. As I have developed a practice engaged in site specific large site responsive and site conditional installations, working with light installations and multiple video projections in the context of history, culture, art, technology and architecture, I am proposing the site specific light, color and sound installation within the context of historic architecture that references the local cultural historic space.

As an ISEA artist in residency at the Abu Dhabi Art hub, I will merge the ideas of interlacing worlds with local Bedouin culture by creating an immersive sensorial video projection and sound installation referencing a traditional Bedouin tent. The transformational light, sound and color tent will be experienced from the exterior as well as interior space. By including traditional customs such as incense and pillows to sit on, the public will experience as well as be participatory in the piece. As a private space of contemplation, sharing of ideas and in conversation, the tent represents universality, the interlacing of worlds as well as becoming part of the art work.

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