19.02.2013 Lecture STRP College
At March 8 I will talk about my work at the STRP Bienalle in Eindhoven during a program called STRP College. Come watch and listen if you're interested!
Human Birdwings
14.12.2012 16th Japan Media Arts Festival
Just received the great news that my project Human Birdwings is chosen as s Jury Selection at the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo. It was picked out of 3503 entries.
29.11.2012 Translimits Storytelling
Nice article on website www.translimitsstorytelling.org. Translimits storytelling is a team of digital creators exploring the edges of storytelling. We think about content, form and across platforms.
20.09.2012 Graphic Design Festival Breda
The Human Birdwings project will be presented in the MOTI museum during the Graphic Design Festival Breda 2012.
06.09.2012 Exhibition 21 Rozendaal
From August 16th until September 16th 2012 the Human Birdwings project will be exhibited at exhibition space 21 Rozendaal, Enschede (NL). It will be a complete overview of the project, including the wings, all the 14 video's, facebook wall, a selection of media channels and tweets. The Exhibition is also part of the GOGBOT art, music & technology festival.
03.09.2012 Interview Vice
My spanish friend Mike Ibanez wrote a nice article and interview about my work and published it on the spanish vice.com. Enjoy it if you can read Spanish! Read it here
12.08.2012 Interview Items
Result of my participation in the Graphic Design Festival Breda, dutch magazine Items did in interview about the Human Birdwings project on their blog. Read it here (in Dutch)
21.04.2012 Lecture at Bright Night
On April 20th I spoke about the Human Birdwings project during Bright magazine's event Bright Night. Bright is a lifestyle mediabrand about techology and design, they publish a magazine every 2 months.
22.03.2012 De Wereld Draait Door
Today, I revealed my latest project on Dutch prime-time TV show 'De wereld draait door'. In the past months I have been working on an exciting fictional online storytelling project called Human Birdwings .
Human Birdwings
Produced in 2012. In the past months I have been working on an exciting fictional online storytelling project called Human Birdwings . To be precise, Human Birdwings was an online adventure and invention story in which fictional character Jarno Smeets developed wings in a do-it-yourself manner. The intention of this project was to share a personal, yet universal dream about flying like a bird. Technological developments of the last decade, gave this fantasy more relevance then ever before. By taking advantage of this technological revolution, I designed a haptic flapping wing-system which in theory would make it possible to fly like a bird.
The story of Jarno Smeets' ambition and dream-come-true was distributed on online platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and a blog. With this, I aimed to make the audience part of an exciting experimental online storytelling format and had them participate by sharing their own ideas, dreams and solutions for building the wings.
The Human Birdwings project was a non-commercial media project supported by a professional team. The story was carefully crafted and build over a period of around eight months, creating the fictional character of Jarno, his backstory and the storylines leading to the final flight. We have been truly overwhelmed by the amount of positive reactions we got from all over the world, both on the original ideas of building the wings, the dream of flying as well as on the fact that in the end it is a fictional project.
Human Birdwings was produced by Revolver Media and intitiated by the Dutch public service broadcaster NTR .