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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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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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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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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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Klokhuis
Vandaag werd de sketch die ik schreef voor Het Klokhuis bij het thema zandsculpturen uitgezonden. Bekijk hem hier!
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My interview with Chad Davidson on AGNI’s blog
For literary magazine AGNI, located in Boston, I interviewed author and poet Chad Davidson about his contribution for AGNI magazine 86, “Mutatis Mutandis” (read it here)
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Code Poetry
I started a new project, codename Code Poetry, 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 more about it here and read my first code poem, entitled Infinite Loop!
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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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Dancing dishes in Schloss Hollenegg
The past week I accompanied artist and designer Omer Polak to Schloss Hollenegg in Austria to work on his piece LaZuz for the design/art exhibition ADMENSM that opens next week. The piece consists of a number of dishes and cups that ‘dance’ on a dining table. To make this magic happen we used eight Thymio robots that I programmed to perform the choreography.…
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Not Just Hemingway
Met Dieuwke van Turenhout sprak ik voor de podcast Not Just Hemingway over mijn favoriete korte verhaal. Dieuwke probeert met haar podcast meer aandacht te krijgen voor het korte verhaal in Nederland door fantastische korte verhalen te delen van over de hele wereld. Een bewonderenswaardig (en noodzakelijk) initiatief! Luister hier naar mijn gesprek met Dieuwke…
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Charlottesville in de Groene Amsterdammer
Voor de Groene Amsterdammer schreef ik een korte In De Wereld bijdrage over de tragische gebeurtenissen in Charlottesville. Lees het hier! Of lees hier mijn uitgebreide blog-post over mijn ervaringen in Charlottesville.
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Yes, I started blogging
What’s moving to another country without keeping a blog? Yes, it is a cliché, but I promise, I’ll try to filter out the obvious observations as much as I can – big coffee cups, big portions, big cars (the keyword’s big here) – to hopefully get to something more insightful quicker. I’ve been meaning to…
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My American dream
I’m admitted to the Creative Writing MFA of Boston University! Yes, I secretly applied, and no, I didn’t tell many people, because I didn’t think I stood much of a chance. I still can hardly believe it, but I’ll start in the Fall of 2017 and will be in Boston for two semesters and a…
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Zuid-Korea in De Groene Amsterdammer
In Zuid-Korea schreef ik een bescheiden bijdrage voor De Groene Amsterdammer over de demonstraties tegen de president in Seoul. Lees het artikel hier.
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Groots en meeslepend winterboek
Voor het Hard/Hoofd winterboek, met als thema en titel, ‘Groots en meeslepend,’ schreef ik een ouderwets invulverhaal over een relatie die op een groots en meeslepende manier eindigt. Download het winterboek tegen een vrijwillige bijdrage: hier! En vindt naast mijn verhaal onder andere een recept voor ezelstoof à la Arnon Grunberg, een essay over Patricia…
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Christmas in Seoul
I’ll be spending Christmas and New Year’s in Korea! Coming month I’m invited to be a writer in residency at the Seoul Art Space Yeonhui, a small artists colony in the center of the capital. A great chance to continue working on my novel and meet a lot of Korean writers. I can’t wait!
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Julia op Hard//Hoofd
Voor Hard//Hoofd schreef ik ‘Julia’, een lekker puberaal verhaal over een verliefdheid zonder toekomst. Tsjisse Talsma maakte er een prachtige illustratie bij. Volgens Hard//Hoofd: Het leven van een verliefde puber gaat niet over rozen. Hoe trek je de aandacht van Julia, die op softbal zit en een tatoeage van een honkbalknuppel op haar arm wil laten…
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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…
Bart Kuipers is a hybrid writer and multimedia storyteller from The Netherlands living in Berlin. His latest work is a mixed media poetry installation showcased by Ars Electronica in Austria. His fiction has appeared in magazines in The Netherlands and The United States and his screenplays have been produced for Dutch and German public television.