MANIFESTATIONS
Art, Tech & Fun!
Media Art Festival with Expo during Dutch Design Week 2024 from October 19-27 and longer @Veem Eindhoven. Curious about Virtual Worlds? Visit one here.
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Well-filled with young talent & exciting projects, again the exhibition promises to be the most talked-about part of Dutch Design Week. Physically and online. With projects that act at the intersection of art and technology Manifestations asks you how far technology determines your world, thinking and acting.
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Theme 2024: Invisible Enemies
All artists, designers and projects specially selected for Manifestations: Click on the images and names for more information.
Post-apocalyptic world where destroyed buildings, bridges and roads show the destructive power of man, made with precision techniques such as laser machines and model building. Symbol of hope and rebirth, the cyclical nature of life and destruction.
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Nominated for the Young Talent Award: HKU Utrecht.
shows how products with a short lifespan not only deplete the earth, but can also be harmful to users. Verhoeff presents practical and socially responsible solutions. Through conscious choices and design innovations, we can restore the balance between people, industry and the environment.
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Nominated for the Young Talent Award - TU/e.
New presentations of sprouts, which serve as an elixir of life through their ability to rejuvenate and keep healthy. Innovative growing methods and participatory sessions.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: TU/e.
a unique experience that emphasizes the soul of everyday objects.
Inspired by the Japanese tradition of honoring the soul of things, he encourages us to treat our possessions with more respect and care.
This concept stands in stark contrast to our throwaway culture, where we thoughtlessly throw away mattresses, bicycles and other everyday objects as soon as they seem to have outlived their usefulness.
Van der Wal’s work calls for a revaluation of objects by recognizing their intrinsic value and the stories they carry. He proposes that by changing our relationship with things, we can take a step towards a more sustainable society. This idea is further reinforced by his use of new technologies such as VR and interactive installations, which immerse us in a reality where objects have feelings and communicate. This can contribute to the awareness that is needed to reduce mass production and waste. Through his artwork, Van der Wal makes us think in a humorous and reflective way about the way we deal with our possessions. He asks questions such as: Why do we throw away old tools and objects that have fulfilled an important function? Could repair or reuse be a better option? His work fits perfectly within 'Man as Creator and Destroyer' by not only highlighting the problems of the disposable economy, but also by inspiring us to pay more attention and be more connected to our things. In this way, he contributes to a sustainable future in which we deal more consciously with the things around us.
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Genomineerd voor de Young Talent Award: WDKA Rotterdam[:][:en]interactive installation shedding light on the topics of drinkable water usage in the data centres of Microsoft and on humanising AI. It criticises the drinkable water consumption of data centres of big tech companies. The installation aims to impact AI users by letting them experience their footprint on the environment. It shows in real time the usage of water of every generated response by AI, which comes to 3 litres per answer.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: WDKA Rotterdam.
Innovative piece of furniture that promotes spontaneous encounters and encourages people to connect with each other.
The design is simple but effective: when two or more people sit on this sofa, they automatically move towards each other, forcing them to interact.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: Fontys Tilburg.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: Zuyd Maastricht[.
How do we as a society deal with violence: do we look the other way, or do we become violent ourselves? And why is violence often only accepted in action movies and games, but not in real life? Blu confronts us with the harsh reality that many victims experience on a daily basis and calls for a dialogue on the subject of 'victim blaming'.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: Minerva Groningen.
By questioning the glorification of weapons, Nauta contributes to a broader understanding of the moral implications of our approaches to security and violence, and raises questions about guilt, punishment and compassion. His work highlights the need to rethink responsibility in media.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: HKU Utrecht.
Spider are my misunderstood helpful friends, but they also show that even the tiniest of creatures can make us feel vulnerable and fearful. It’s useless to kill the spider, as fighting fear or fleeing from it only makes it grow bigger and stronger. I no longer flee from my spiders, to embrace them helps me to grow and to accept myself and others as they are.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: ArtEZ Arnhem.
Abel Kamps plays on human values and social norms, with themes such as overconsumption, trust and dealing with death as central. By placing everyday objects in a new light, he questions these subjects and makes them discussable.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: Minerva Groningen
jae Park’s work “Ears Become Ear” offers a provocative look at the Dutch colonial past through the lens of material interaction and historical layering. Park, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, explores the slipperiness of complex histories such as colonialism through tactile art and subtle metaphors.
At the center of the work are three objects that each tell a unique story about visibility, concealment, and the resonance of materials.
The first installation uses the structure of moth wings as a metaphor. These wings, powdery and scaly like fish scales, reflect ultrasonic sounds and serve as camouflage against predators. Park compares this natural tactic to telling difficult stories—revealing by concealing, a passive defensive strategy.
The second and third objects—two marble and granite stones—emphasize colonial relations between East and West through their different architectural styles and use of materials. Park’s choice of materials highlights how they differ not only physically but also culturally and historically, suggesting the intricate entanglement of colonial histories.
The interactive video installations complete the narrative by focusing on intangible yet tangible aspects of social injustice. They invite visitors to physically interact, suggesting that understanding complex historical and social dynamics requires an active, almost physical effort.
This multi-layered approach places Park’s work perfectly within the subtheme of Manifestations, ‘Social Injustice’. His art invites reflection on economic inequality, discrimination and marginalization—all of which stem from a past that continues to resonate in the present. Park’s subtle suggestion that we acknowledge the instability of our historical interpretations encourages visitors to consider their own role in these ongoing dynamics, which is essential for a deeper understanding of social justice and inequality.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award – KABK
Traditional iconography reimagined through digital distortions. Reflecting on the evolving nature of faith, honesty and truth in the digital age. Haakman has long viewed the internet and technology as a beacon of hope, but recent events have given him a darker perspective. His work challenges the viewer to consider how traditional beliefs are changing under the influence of digital advancement.
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Runner up Young Talent Award 2021.
What was the real reason for Icarus’ fall?
Martin Imler’s artwork ‘Icarus Downfall’ refers to the myth of Icarus and connects it to contemporary issues surrounding space debris and satellites. Imler uses a 5-channel video to track Icarus and the stars in real time. What was the real reason for Icarus’ fall? Martin Imler’s artwork ‘Icarus Downfall’ refers to the myth of Icarus and connects it to the contemporary problems we face around space debris and satellites. Imler uses a five-channel video to track Icarus and the stars in real time. He shows how an aerial perspective affects our view of the world and how our daily use of those technologies create a distance between us and our environment.
The work ties in with current news reports about Starlink, Elon Musk’s internet project, where every eight minutes a satellite falls towards Earth and hits a building, nature or human or animal, which many of his clients resolutely dismiss as fake news.
Imler’s use of advanced technologies such as GoogleMaps and GoogleEarth to illustrate the myths of Daedalus and Icarus highlights the absurdity and danger of these distorted perceptions.
His work shows the duality of technological progress: while technology enriches our lives, it also contributes to the fragmentation of information and the polarisation of opinions. By integrating satellite tracking software, Imler reinserts individuals in relation to the technologies they use, making them face the hidden consequences of these technological developments. This work encourages visitors to think critically about the role of technology in our society, fitting seamlessly into the theme of Manifestations.
Martin Imler’s ‘Icarus Downfall’ is a powerful artwork that not only explores our relationship with technology, but also exposes the mythical and contemporary dangers of alienation and misinformation.
Nominated for the Manifestations Young Talent Award: Rietveld Amsterdam
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Icks explores how our behavior and lifestyles in a capitalist world alienate us from nature and ourselves. His work reflects on the absurd reality in which humans are both perpetrators and victims. Icks criticizes consumer behavior and the fear-driven society dominated by media and social networks. He emphasizes that we have created a world that stimulates fear and overconsumption, leading to a loss of value and the destruction of our natural environment.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: WDKA Rotterdam
Before we see the world through AI, we need to know how AI sees the world. Generated.Earth is an expedition to the abstract world model inside generative AI. It consist of large prompt maps of continents that offer an unique set of insights in how these world models misrepresent the world.
Map of Europe and Africa. Here, the areas are represented by AI. This leads to remarkable effects. For example, Normandy looks like D-Day, because when an AI searches for photos of Normandy online, it mainly finds images of D-Day.
Another example: if you look at certain regions, you mainly see images of the products, football stars, election campaigns or dog breeds that come from that region.
Or take the region of the Red Sea: because that is one of the top 10 diving locations in the world, the map shows mainly underwater photos at that location.
North-West England: in this area you see the photo of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s daughter, because it has the name North-West and comes up more often than actual photos from that region.
This makes us think: before we see the world through AI, it is important that we understand how AI sees the world.
As funny as these examples may be, each provides an interesting insight into how generative AI works and looks at the world.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: WDKA Rotterdam
– The River of Blood Never Runs Dry
about Gaza and how the cycle of hate and war never seems to stop
– 1998
clitoris in its full glory, why was this only discovered 26 years ago?
– Daphne
the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo, where the nymph Daphne turns into a tree to save herself from the god’s attempt to rape her, using blood coral as tree branches, based on an existing Daphne statue, but where nowadays the coral is bleached..
– I Will Learn To Love My Wrinkles
Nautilus Cup, about plastic surgery and our society’s desire to stay young, but isn’t there beauty in old age?
– Love is a Greedy Bitch
Aphrodite was born when the severed penis of her father, Uranus, was thrown in the ocean. Aphrodite is the goddess of lust and of love, and these two confuse and hurt each other all the time: so many choices nowadays: we keep swiping on dating apps, opening shells and hoping to find more pearls as we go along..
Nonna Hoogland (1999) is an illustrator and artist, working in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In her work, she masterfully interweaves profoundly human themes found in history, mythology and in our modern-day society. Winner of the Manifestations Young Talent Award (2023) and the HKU Award (2023).
Speculative video installation that explores the future of human life examining air pollution, where humans a‘Femicide; the most predictable murder’ is a crime scene that tells the story of femicide in the Netherlands. In it, femicide is introduced as an official term and one is confronted with the consequences of femicide. Around that, the term is charged by shocking figures, information and audio fragments.
A second chance for human and object. A collaboration of Emmaus Perspectief, Wageningen, Gouda, Fenix, Haarzuilens, Langeweg.
At Emmaus there are practical idealists. We stand in solidarity with the most vulnerable in society. We are self-reliant and unattached. We make our own money, especially with our recycling activities. This year we are hosting the exposhop of Manifestations More info:
Cellulite consists of unique creations from biowaste and residual materials, making a powerful statement against the cultural development of humans as a manufacturable object, excessive clothing consumption and the waste of our planet.
Nominations: Cultuurprijs Eindhoven 2019 en Green Concept Award 2023.
Opsin explores the wonders of octopus skin, revealing how these creatures perceive light with their entire body.
By recreating their camouflage ability with ink-filled spheres and light-sensitive circuits, this work contrasts human and octopus experiences, questioning why we see ourselves as superior amidst such natural beauty and intelligence.
I am honored to have received the Sieger White Encouragement Award for this work.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: ArtEZ Arnhem
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The Zenith Robotics Inc. Regulus® 1 was designed with passion for a single purpose: to provide a one-stop solution in sustainable livestock management.
An unprecedented amalgamation of state-of-the-art proprietary technologies enables the Regulus to autonomously perform a variety of tasks, from the management of migration routes to the responsible harvesting and transportation of meat.
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Slide into the video installation ‘Sliding Genders’. What would happen if people, like snails, let go of gender roles?
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: St Joost Breda
We Are Social Rebels and the Municipality of Eindhoven present The Body Shop: a futuristic store where you can explore and discuss the possibilities of body modification. As changing your physical appearance becomes more normalized, questions arise about its impact on self-image and societal perceptions. Although body modification is increasingly common, it remains a taboo topic, making open dialogue crucial for fostering understanding and self-reflection, especially among young people.
When I was eleven, I met photographer Y*, a family friend who groomed and sexually abused me. This project tells this story in both words and images. It shows the sexualization of young girls and the mysterious dynamic between groomer and victim. My project confronts the audience with the tension between not wanting to know about it and being curious about it at the same time. It encourages you to recognize the ways in which we unconsciously avoid or seek out certain realities.
Nominated for the Young Talent Award: KABK Den Haag
Bridge between two worlds
The ‘Eye Opener’ exhibition shares the stories of people who have been less fortunate in life. People who grew up in an environment without good resources. The world of the street is not the world of the citizen.
We see the expo as a bridge to bring these worlds closer together.
The stories are meant to make you understand how lives run. That what happens in the young years makes things go wrong later in life.
Why people make wrong choices and find comfort in drugs and other addictions. They are also stories of incredible courage and strength.
Stories that show who and what it takes to make the turn and reconnect with yourself and others.
Like every human being, these people long to be seen, heard and understood. This is an important reason for them to participate in this exhibition. They give an insight into their lives because they themselves have
experienced being stigmatised or not being listened to and they want to help tilt perceptions. They also want to warn others with their story: don’t do what I did.
They share this call in schools, businesses and during street tours, because everywhere there are people who get hurt in life.
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Erwin van de Zande – Bright
“Manifestations slaagt er elk jaar weer in om te laten zien wat er gebeurt als kunst en technologie elkaar raken met sterke curatie en verrassende werken. Het event doet dat op een voor Nederland unieke manier en toont wat wij met technologie doen en andersom wat technologie met ons doet.”
Eric van Eerdenburg – Lowlands
“Bij Manifestations zie je dingen aan de rand van ontwikkelingen, die je niet snel ergens anders tegenkomt, het is edgy en heeft weinig woorden nodig om te spreken.”
Nicole Spit - Studio Dáárheen
“Waardevolle pers-artikelen, uitnodigingen vervolgexposities.
Manifestations heeft mijn positie in de kunst en ontwerperswereld verstevigd.”
DAAN DE KORT - Tweede Kamerlid
“Ik bezoek al jaren de DDW, maar de mooiste tour kreeg ik bij Manifestations.”
Peter Kentie - directeur Citymarketing Eindhoven365
“Ik ben onder de indruk van de kwaliteiten van Manifestations. Technologie groeit in een razend tempo, laten wij als Eindhoven toonaangevend in de wereld zijn hoe we daarmee om gaan, die power en die mensen hebben wij. Eindhoven365 gelooft in het concept Manifestations en het potentieel ervan.”
RONALD RAMAKERS - GLOW
“Ik vond Manifestions voor mij een van de hoogtepunten van de Dutch Design Week!
Dat heeft o.a te maken met de diversiteit die jullie in een verhaal bijeen weet te brengen!
Balans in de ruimste zin des woords.”
