Category: News
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Shared Futures
Visual & Digital Arts – Shared Futures is a multimedia poetry experience that addresses the colonial past between Ghana and The Netherlands. It consists of a mixed media art installation and an AR experience in which poetry, co-created with the local community in Elmina (Ghana), is layered on the walls of Elmina Castle, the oldest…
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WHAT_IS_LOST
My poem WHAT_IS_LOST was published by Volume Poetry! “What is Lost” is an executable code poem: a poem written in code, readable for non programmers, but executable on the command line of any Linux or Mac OSX computer. The poem reflects on how human minds have been transformed into sources of data collection and have…
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Interview for Ars Electronica
During the Ars Electronica Festival I had the chance to interview Taiwanese artist Chiaochi Chou about her work “Synplant” that she presented in the Becoming Different exhibition, a part of the Gardens Exhibition, curated by the Yasuaki Kakehi Lab and The University of Tokyo (JP). Photo: vog.photo Read the interview here
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Founding Lab
I’m proud to be a part of the summer school of the FOUNDING LAB this year in Linz, Austria: “a collaborative effort between the Institute of Digital Sciences Austria (IDSA) and Ars Electronica. Its aim is to identify, develop, and present new areas, approaches, and formats that address the challenges of digital transformation. “ As a…
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Rabbit Academy
Screenwriting – Since 2023 I’m writing episodes for the animation series “Rabbit Academy”. This new children’s series is produced by Akkord Film for KiKa (the children’s television portal of ARD and ZDF.) SWR, NDR, and HR. I’m excited, since it will be my first production in Germany. Inspirationals by Heiko Hentschel / Character Design by…
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infinite_loop
My code poem infinite_loop was published by Volume Poetry Read it here, and check out the latest edition of Volume, volume 3 issue 1!
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Robots Reloaded
Together with visual artist and designer Omer Polak, I worked on the Robots Feast, a show of 50 robots, dancing a choreography, interacting, and serving food to a hungry audience at the Martini Festival. The work was a continuation of Omer’s early Dancing Dishes installation presented at the LaZuz design exhibition in 2019 and again…
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Teaching in India
This year, like last year, I will teach the course “Creative Writing” at the UPES School for Design. We will focus on storytelling for designers of the master Graphic Design. The course is a collaboration between The University of Europe and UPES India.
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Hybrid Poetry
Creative Writing – Since two years, I’ve been writing and publishing hybrid poems in various shapes and forms in which I explore the parallels between writing code and writing poetry, in form and content as well as in the thought process that precedes the writing. Read my first code poem “Infinite Loop” published in 2022…
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On The Air
Last week I was a guest on Fetewei Tarekegn’s radio show The Minority Report. We discussed the sense and nonsense of dating in Berlin in the Tinder era. The Minority Report is a monthly show on Reboot FM hosted by Fetewei Tarekegn, recorded at Acud Macht Neu in Berlin.
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Resident Bart
I’m invited to the Martha’s Vineyard Writers Residency in October! The Noepe Center for Literary Arts awarded me the Carol Wagner Smith Scholarship to do a two week residency in Edgartown, Massachusetts. I’m thrilled to be given the chance to work on my English stories. Finally I have the perfect excuse to be back in…
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A Dutch short story with a girls’ name
Yesterday I published my short story Jantine on the Dutch blog Hard//Hoofd. The illustration was made by Dutch artist Lune van der Meulen, and I think it captures the awkwardness of the story perfectly! The introduction reads: ‘The first high school love affair, the first kiss, de first break-up: everybody has vivid memories of these…
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Newborn in print
A few months ago my short story Mister Hobson’s Mustache got selected by Writer’s Digest for publication in their 16th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection and today I got the book. My very first publication in English! Isn’t it beautiful? And, coincidentally, also my very first publication in print. Two milestones all…