Category: Geen categorie
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Shared Futures
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 colonial building in Sub-Saharan Africa…
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Shared Futures
The past two months Paul Akrofie and I have been working together on our project Shared Futures in which we seek to decolonize spaces in both Ghana and The Netherlands through community-led digital interventions in order to empower local communities in Elmina and Amsterdam. Last week we organized the Shared Futures Lab workshop in Elmina…
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Founding Lab part 2
Very excited to be a part of the Founding Lab Fall Term of the Institute of Digital Sciences Austria (IDSA) and Ars Electronica. Together with 24 peers, 21 fellows, facilitators, members of the Ars Electronica Future Lab, and other inspiring people I will be exploring and creating new work on the social, political, and technical…
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Augmented Poetry: “The Machine Who”
I’ve created the first prototype of an augmented poem: poetry with a layer of augmented reality(AR) that alters the meaning of the text. A poem, projected on a wall, or printed in a book, or displayed on a monitor, can be viewed through a smartphone where blanks left in the original text are filled in,…
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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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The Apple Core (Het Klokhuis)
For the Dutch educational children’s show “Het Klokhuis” (The Apple Core) I wrote the sketch The Sandman to accompany the episode about Sand-sculpturing. It was aired by Dutch public television (NTR). The Apple Core is a monument of Dutch public television and has been running for over 25 years. It aims to educate children between the ages of six and twelve about…
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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…
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Not Just Hemingway
I talked about my favorite short story for the podcast Not Just Hemingway! The podcast of Dieuwke van Turenhout aims to popularize the short story format in The Netherlands, by showing how many great short stories there are from all around the world. I discussed the great short story “The chosen one” by Puerto Rican writer…
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Nanotube
For the Nano Technology platform Nanotube of the University of Twente I developed a Youtube series about nano technology and its many futuristic possibilities. Watch the videos here!
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Charlottesville article
For Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer I wrote a short article about the tragic events in Charlottesville. Read it here. Or read my extended blog post about my visit to Charlottesville one week after here.
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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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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!