Myles Sanko
Myles Sanko ©Iris Teunissen 2016

Amsterdam 30 November 2016 We had a quick one on one with Myles Sanko before his show in Amsterdam. Myles Sanko is a charismatic UK based soul artist, and music producer, on tour with his new album “Just Being Me”. “Just Being Me” is available on CD, Vinyl & Digital Download.  How has The Netherlands been treating you? “It’s been great, it has a soft spot in my heart. All the love that I have been receiving on the tour has been absolutely fantastic”.

This is Myles Sanko’s first official tour in The Netherlands. We asked how he keeps up with his tight tour schedule. “Try not to live the rock & roll life”. What do you want to give to your audience? “I want them to enjoy the music, to enjoy my voice. If you dig deeper, there is a message for everyone to be found”. How do you stay motivated? “It’s hard work to navigate through the world, no matter what you are doing. I am stubborn, and that helps me out in the music industry. I don’t give up, whatever I am doing.”

Performance
I have been to concerts where the artists has tried to entice the audience to sing along. Most of the times with little luck. With Myles, this is different. He has no difficulty in convincing this audience. It is as if they were hoping, and (im)patiently waiting to be asked to partake. First the entire audience, then with no extra convincing the guys joined in, trying their best to outperform the women. Myles Sanko is jut being himself. Elegant, intimate, charming. The dynamic, the fluctuations in tempo, the depth. It’s all wrapped in one evening. If we were to describe the evening in terms of colours, then it was warm, smooth, sparkling.

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©Janus van den EijndenAmsterdam Light Festival 2016

Van donderdag 1 december tot en met zondag 22 januari vindt de vijfde editie van Amsterdam Light Festival plaats. Het festival bestaat uit twee onderdelen: de vaarroute Water Colors met 20 indrukwekkende lichtkunstwerken in de historische binnenstad en de wandelroute Illuminade met 18 innovatieve kunstwerken in de Weesper- en Plantagebuurt. Amsterdam Light Festival toont werk van gevestigde en talentvolle nationale en internationale kunstenaars. Het thema van Water Colors is ‘A view on Amsterdam’ en de Illuminade staat in het teken van ‘Biomimicry’.

Water Colors (vaarroute)

1 december 2016 – 22 januari 2017

De vaarroute Water Colors staat in het teken van ‘A view on Amsterdam’ en biedt bezoekers een nieuwe kijk op de stad. De route begint bij het Centraal Station en gaat via het Oosterdok, de Nieuwe Herengracht en de Amstel naar de Herengracht. Het festival presenteert een mix van nationale en internationale kunstenaars, met highlights als het kunstwerk The Lace van het Amerikaanse architectenbureau Choi + Shine Architects en Nexus van animator Viktor Vicsek, woonachtig in Hongarije. The Lace is een eigentijdse interpretatie van een traditionele, Noord-Hollandse kanten muts. Het magisch zwevende driedimensionale werk van 10 meter breed symboliseert de culturele rijkdom van Amsterdam. De abstracte sculptuur Nexus staat voor verbinding, een samensmelten van alle 180 nationaliteiten in onze hoofdstad. Het toont een kleurrijk geheel, een speelse harmonie tussen bestaande en nieuwe inwoners. Met als advies van de kunstenaar: Let the colors flow. Twee hoogtepunten van Nederlandse bodem zijn de kunstwerken Lightwaves en Eye_Beacon. Toparchitectenbureau Benthem Crouwel Architects (bekend van o.a. Het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam en Centraal Station Rotterdam) ontwikkelde in samenwerking met de opkomende Nederlandse designer JĂłlan van der Wiel het kunstwerk Lightwaves. Dit kunstwerk visualiseert de wind. Duizenden leds vangen onzichtbare luchtstromen en maken deze zichtbaar als golven. Eye_Beacon van het gerenommeerde architectenbureau UNStudio (bekend van o.a. de Erasmusbrug) communiceert met omstanders door middel van lichtgevende patronen en veranderende kleuren. Het kunstwerk – dat ook het startpunt van de wandelroute Illuminade is – imiteert het gedrag van organismen die diep in de zee leven en zelf licht creĂ«ren om met andere wezens te communiceren.

Illuminade (wandelroute)

15 december 2016 – 8 januari 2017

De wandelroute Illuminade toont in de Weesper- en Plantagebuurt werken van nationaal en internationaal toptalent. Voor deze lustrumeditie zijn de kunstenaars uitgedaagd om hun werk te inspireren op het thema ‘Biomimicry, think like nature’. Biomimicry is een nieuwe manier van kijken naar en leren van de natuur. Met de natuur als inspiratiebron ontstaan nieuwe duurzame en efficiĂ«nte ontwerpen. De Illuminade start bij De Blauwbrug en loopt via de Amstel naar het Wertheimpark en de Hortus Botanicus en eindigt op de Nieuwe Herengracht. Een highlight van de wandelroute is het interactieve werk Green House van de Nederlandse schrijver en kunstenaar Victor Engbers. Een lichtgevende broeikas gemaakt van uraniumglas, dat licht produceert zodra het in aanraking komt met uv-licht. Het kunstwerk reageert op de stemmen van mensen die de broeikas betreden. Met zijn werk wil Engbers het klimaatdebat stimuleren. Een ander hoogtepunt is Greenpigs van de Franse kunstenaar BIBI. De boom gemaakt van 28 fluorescerende groene varkens trekt onmiddellijk de aandacht. Bioluminescentie – de productie en emissie van licht door een levend organisme – is een actueel onderzoeksgebied. Momenteel worden er experimenten gedaan om de toepasbaarheid van bioluminescente organismen in straatverlichting te testen. Zijn lichtgevende varkens de straatverlichting van de toekomst?

Festivalhart

De tuin van de Protestantse Diaconie (achter de Hermitage Amsterdam) is van 15 december 2016  tot en met 8 januari 2017 het hart van het festival. Hier starten vanaf 15 december de wandelingen met gids voor de Illuminade. Ook zijn hier lichtkunstwerken van Amsterdamse basisschoolkinderen te bewonderen. In het festivalhart zijn eveneens plattegronden van de vaar- en wandelroute verkrijgbaar en het Light Book met meer informatie over alle kunstwerken.

Deelnemers
Wolfert’s Dog – Tatiana Titova, Ana Morphù – Isabel Nielen, ARCO – Teresa Mar, Blueprint – Reier Pos, Together – Luigi Console & Valentina Novembre, NEST – Vikas Patil & Santosh Gujar, What’s he building in there – Laurent de Wolf, Rhizome House – DP Architects, Nexus – Viktor Vicsek, Eye_Beacon – UNStudio, Lightwaves – Benthem Crouwel Architects & Jólan van der Wiel, Bunch of Tulips – Peter Koros, Welcome to my home (town) – Lighting Design Academy, A Window in Time – Motion Paintings, Souvenir – Erik Kessels, Bridge of the Rainbow – Gilbert Moity, Flower Strip – Aether & Hemera, The Lace – Choi + Shine Architects, WISP – Pitaya, 15000 and more – Studio Klus, Mens – Edson Bruno Filho, Green House – Victor Engbers, Mini Biomimicry – Stichting Schoolbuurtwerk, Touching a Nerve – Lydia Fraaije, Sonar Light Pulse – Paul Cremers, Rotifers – Nicole Anona Banowetz, Under Influence – Iemke van Dijk, Greenpigs – BIBI, Enthalpy – John Bell, Hourglass – Wilhelmusvlug, You Lookin’ at me? – Tropism Art & Science Collective, Flowering Phantasm – Clay Dorse Odom & StudioMODO, Human Beeing – The Constitute, Dancing with Trees – Reanna Niceforo & Phil Sutherland, Living Pods – Anouk Wipprecht, Tree Hugger – Daan van Hasselt & Asia Jackowski, Trancelucent – Studenten van HvA, Breitner Academy (AHK) & ACIN, From Twente with love – Randy van Lingen & Vanessa Evers.

Hassan Hajjaj

Hassan HajjajA photographer, designer, and filmmaker, Hassan Hajjaj is one of Morocco’s preeminent international artists, sometimes called his native country’s answer to Andy Warhol. Entirely self-taught and influenced by a mix of London’s hip-hop and reggae scenes and his North African heritage, Hajjaj has a diverse practice that includes portraiture, installation, performance, fashion, and furniture design. He is best known for his photography, a medium he turned to in the late 1980s and in which he draws influence from Pop Art, fashion photography, and the studio work of Malick Sidibe. His recent work centers on “rockstars,” capturing a range of international musicians and performers in exquisitely composed, radically ornate portraits (and in a film that debuted at LACMA).

Moroccan, b. 1961, based in London, United Kingdom

Wolfson’s spectacular interactive sculptures are the highlight of his first Dutch solo exhibition.

Part 1: MANIC / LOVE                         Part 2: TRUTH / LOVE
27 Nov 2016 – 29 Jan 2017                 18 Feb 2017 – 23 April 2017

Amsterdam, November 10, 2016 – Art lovers in New York queued in long lines to see his latest installation. Now audiences can experience the work of American artist Jordan Wolfson (New York, 1980) for the first time in Amsterdam. Wolfson’s inaugural show in the Netherlands unfolds in two parts, both of which focus on his spectacular animatronic sculptures. The diptych opens with Wolfson’s most recent computer-controlled sculpture, Colored sculpture (2016) during Amsterdam Art Weekend. The centerpiece of the second part is the interactive Female figure (2014). Both feature animated videos and digital paintings alongside Wolfson’s robotic sculptures.

Jordan WolfsonDirector Beatrix Ruf comments on the exhibition: “Jordan Wolfson is one of the most outspoken minds and impressive artists of his generation. He has contrary attitudes about humanity in the current, fervent visual culture, and he conveys these ideas in striking images. At the Stedelijk, we enjoy working with young artists who reflect on contemporary life, something at which Wolfson excels. You don’t just casually walk past his work; it seeks direct contact with the spectator. The exhibition will be a spectacular experience, one that everyone really must see.”

In May this year, visitors eagerly waited in line to see Colored sculpture at David Zwirner Gallery in New York. In the work a boy in bright cartoon colors dangles from heavy chains attached to a steel gantry; his movements are controlled by a computer program. As they perform a rhythmical dance, the chains force the boy into a sequence of elegant poses. But the balletic choreography is short-lived; before long, it degenerates into a danse macabre. The marionette’s eyes conceal facial recognition technology, which it uses to track the viewer’s gaze and make attempts to establish contact. Yet the boy cannot escape the computer’s manipulations and is subjected to punishments that are felt on an almost visceral level. The pure physicality of the installation, which fills the entire gallery, lends the work a volatile, brutal edge.

Colored sculpture is a discomfiting artwork laden with paradox. It is both a computer-controlled machine and animated “human” sculpture: intensely physical yet coolly abstract, endearing yet grisly. In this way Wolfson creates an alien, intuitive space for interaction between viewer and art object.

Video works
Wolfson’s animated videos combine layers of traditionally shot and computer-generated footage that glide over each other. But before any coherent narrative forms, the layers separate, leaving us with a space beyond the reach of familiar interpretations. It appears as if Wolfson is less interested in the depicted themes, and more in the formal dynamic of animation as medium.

In Raspberry Poser (2012) an animated HIV virus bounds merrily through Manhattan’s high-end shopping district. Joined by a condom and a medley of red blood cells, it mutates into well-known icons such as the anarchy symbol and the triangle logo of ACT UP, an AIDS advocacy group. In the background is a soundtrack of slowed-down versions of Beyoncé’s “Sweet Dreams” and ‘Beautiful Nightmare’. Wolfson himself appears in a live-action scene, cast in the role of an archetypal punk. It’s safe to assume that the red-headed cartoon character that continually pops up is the artist’s alter ego: tormented, narcissistic, insecure – neurotic traits that Wolfson associates with the process of artistic creation, also apparent in his video The Crisis.

In The Crisis (2004) a young Wolfson wanders like a tourist through a medieval church. Gesticulating excitedly, he talks about the process of making art in the shadow of the contemporary art greats. Will he ever create work of the same caliber as theirs? Is he destined to go to his studio day after day and wait for something to happen? Or would he be better off raising a family, to find out later if his artistic ambitions have persisted? Shot in a church, the video has the tone of a confessional – the angst and uncertainties of an artist at the beginning of his career.

Also included are Wolfson’s wall-mounted digital objects; pristinely fabricated montages that are an integral element of Wolfson’s artistic process. These artworks represent snap shots into Wolfson’s mind’s eye thinking wherein they directly harness and focus the language, transgressions and intention that occurs within the elaborate video animations and large scale figurative sculptures.

Part 2: TRUTH / LOVE
The second part of the exhibition opens in February 2017 and features a new video installation and Wolfson’s first animatronic: Female figure (2014). This computer-controlled, hyper-sexualized blonde robotic woman flaunts the kind of outfit ordinarily worn by pop stars in music videos – a see-through miniskirt, high-heeled thigh boots, and long gloves. A device loaded with motion tracking software, concealed beneath a green, bird-like mask, enables her to lock eyes with viewers. While the woman speaks to them – accompanied by a soundtrack of pop songs – she performs a sophisticated choreography before the mirror, seductive yet grotesque, in an endless ballet of looking and being looked at.

About the artist
Over the last ten years Jordan Wolfson (New York, 1980) has become known for his work in a variety of media, including video, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. He borrows intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, and the technology industry, producing ambitious, enigmatic narratives. With this, he creates idiosyncratic content often featuring a series of fictitious animated characters. His work has been widely exhibited internationally at venues such as the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Kunsthalle Wien, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo in Italy (2007), and Kunsthalle ZĂŒrich (2004). In 2009 Wolfson was the recipient of the Cartier Award of the Frieze Foundation. He lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.

About Amsterdam Art Weekend
The Amsterdam Art Weekend is an annual, four-day event that spotlights contemporary art throughout this capital city. With over a hundred programs organized on location at some fifty renowned institutes for the arts, the event offers participants a genuine, 360-degree art experience. Featuring exhibitions, performances, film screenings, lectures, and tours, the program is designed to give its audience of culturally interested persons, art lovers, and professionals an opportunity to discover the latest developments in contemporary art.

Apart from the public program, Amsterdam Art Weekend also features events exclusively for professionals. The latter are invitation only and provide international art professionals with a wonderful incentive to visit Amsterdam each year.

Stedelijk Contemporary
The Stedelijk Museum regularly presents solo shows by a promising generation of artists. Many of these presentations feature new productions and recent acquisitions. The Stedelijk seeks to respond to current events and stimulate contemporary talent by, in some cases, also commissioning new work. The Stedelijk champions artists as advocates of new ideas, shaping the future identity of the museum’s collection by cultivating lasting relationships with talented young artists early on.

Jordan Wolfson belongs to the post-Internet generation: artists who reflect upon the increasing digitalization of society and developments in genetics, robotics, and cybernetics. Within the Stedelijk Museum’s program, Wolfson’s show builds on recent exhibitions by artists such as Ed Atkins, Avery Singer, and Jon Rafman, whose work explores new technologies and how they define us.

Jordan Wolfson MANIC / LOVE / TRUTH / LOVE is curated by Beatrix Ruf, director SMA, and Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen, curator SMA.

The exhibition is made possible in part with generous financial support from LUMA Foundation, Fonds 21, FundaciĂłn Almine Y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Para El Arte, Sadie Coles HQ, and David Zwirner.

With special thanks to the members of the Jordan Wolfson Exhibition Circle: ProWinko Nederland B.V., Ringier Collection, and donors who wish to remain unnamed. The catalogue has been made possible by Joe and Marie Donnelly.

 

TOKYO, Nov. 14, 2016 Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs organizes participation in various overseas media art festivals through projects planned and managed by NHK International, Inc. The aim is to introduce outstanding works in such fields as media art, video, websites, videogames, animation and comics.

Japan Media Arts FestivalThis “Special Exhibition” in Hong Kong will present award-winning works from the past Japan Media Arts Festival. This edition titled “Ubiquitous Humanity” will present works by 14 artists from six countries. By amplifying and mimicking people’s gestures, the works examine the boundaries between the human and the machine, and question the human condition. Through this exhibition, screenings, and performances, “Ubiquitous Humanity” will offer a unique opportunity for the audience to interact with and enjoy powerful media art works.

EXHIBITION (Venue: The Annex)

“Asemic Languages,” KANNO So + yang02
“Movement in Time Part 2,” CHUNG Waiching Bryan
“Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1,” Sougwen CHUNG
“ZOMBIE MUSIC,” YASUNO Taro
“other story of umbrella” (tentative title), TAGUCHI Yukihiro
“wasd human,” LAU Hochi
“Fantasy Captured in Plastic Models: A Desk Diorama,” IKEUCHI Hiroto
“Sign,” LEUNG Chi Wo
“APHASIA,” HUANG Yintzu
“Pendulum Choir,” Cod. Act (Michael DECOSTERD / Andre DECOSTERD)
“Prospectus for a Future Body,” Ka Fai CHOY
“Travis ‘Moving’,” Tom WRIGGLESWORTH / Matt ROBINSON
“Japanese School Girl Chase,” Japanese School Girl Chase project team

ANIMATION SCREENING
Venue: Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Future Cinema Studio (M6094), Screening Theater (M1052)

“WOLF CHILDREN,” HOSODA Mamoru
“Ghost in the Shell: Arise — border:1 Ghost Pain,” KISE Kazuchika
“Approved For Adoption,” JUNG / Laurent BOILEAU
“Ubiquitous Humanity — Animated Short films”

 

Boek presentatie ‘Touched By Time’ van Daan Oude Elferink

Ik ben ontzettend trots op het resultaat! Net als mijn vorige boeken, heb ik hem ook dit keer weer in eigen beheer uitgegeven

Touch By Time heeft een luxe afwerking, en is verkrijgbaar voor €39,95 incl. BTW.

Touched by TimeMet trots wordt ‘Touched By Time’ gepresenteerd tijdens een solo expositie op 13 november in de prachtige galerie van Morren Galleries, direct naast het Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. De opening is om 15:00 en Daan zal desgewenst boeken signeren.

Om 16:00 geeft Daan een korte presentatie met spannende verhalen, foto’s en films die hij gemaakt heeft tijdens zijn avonturen.

Je bent welkom op 13 november om 15:00 uur bij Morren Galleries in Amsterdam!

Morren Galleries
Stadhouderskade 42 (Hoek Jan Luijkenstraat 2)
1071 ZD Amsterdam 

Telefoon: +31 (0) 20 2211870 
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Dutch Design Week (DDW) looks back on a successful 15th edition. Eindhoven manifested itself as the centre of design and the future showcasing work of 2500 designers during the nine days of the festival. Their ideas and solutions give us a new perspective on current topics and issues, as well as make DDW an event with global impact. Due to the comprehensive programme of talk shows, debates and live music, visitors were able to reminisce long after closing of the exhibitions. The event attracted an estimated record number of 295,000 visitors.

DDW2016Under the banner of the theme ‘The making of’, this anniversary edition focused on the making process and the makers. The event showed a lot of work from renowned designers, but also, like every year, allowed young talent and the experiment to thrive. This took place in more than 430 curated exhibitions and presentations spread across 100 locations in the city.

Martijn Paulen, director Dutch Design Foundation: “More than ever, DDW has shown itself to be a manifestation by and for the designers and leaders from the entire (inter)national creative industry.  These days, design is both a cultural and an enterprising phenomenon attracting attention and interest across the board. DDW demonstrates that we have to let go of the ‘old’, limited definition of  design and approach it as a creative mentality with an impact that is growing exponentially.”

Ambassadors
This year, again, the DDW ambassadors made a key contribution to the week. Autonomous designer Maarten Baas explored the possibilities of interdisciplinary working and encouraged visitors and colleagues to look beyond borders with his exhibition Maarten Baas Makes Time. Designer Bas van Abel emphasised the role of design in social issues and the development of sustainable products. With his new exhibition The Making of Your World he focused the attention on new schools of thought that can make the world better and fairer.

Royal visit
On Tuesday 25 October, Queen MĂĄxima surprised the week with a visit. She looked at the exhibitions The Making of Your World and Mind the Step by the three Dutch universities of technology in the Klokgebouw. She also talked to ten designers about the status of Dutch design and the development of a new, hybrid practice in which (inter alia) design, art, architecture, communication and gaming can hardly be distinguished from each other anymore.

Dutch Design Awards
On Saturday 29 October the annual Dutch Design Awards were presented. Designer Christien Meindertsma convinced the international jury on all fronts. Her FLAX Chair won the Product and the Future Award (the prize for the most promising design of the future). Prizes were awarded in six categories. The encouragement prize for young talent (Young Designer Award) was for Tom van Soest. Brabantia received the Best Client Award. Crystal Houses by MVRDV won the Public Award. All award winners are published on the Dutch Design Awards website.

Best of DDW 2016
Extra appreciation for the designers that make DDW a success was expressed, for the second year running, by the Best of Dutch Design Week (the most surprising project or the most impressive presentation). During the week, a panel of 7 designers and visitors compiled a shortlist of 16 projects. On Sunday 30 October ambassadors Baas and Van Abel awarded an encouragement prize to Forest Wool by Tamara Orjola (Design Academy Eindhoven) out of these highlighted projects. She received € 2,500 from a private benefactor and a presentation venue during the next edition of DDW

Kickstarter 
New this year was the cooperation between Kickstarter and Dutch Design Foundation. The two launched the very first crowdfunding page for Dutch design, on which acquisition campaigns for 11 design projects were started. All the concepts were on show during DDW in a special retrospective exhibition in the Kazerne. The first alderman of design in the Netherlands, Mary-Ann Schreurs, secured a font designed specifically for people with dyslexia (developed by Christian Boer) for all the schools and residents of Eindhoven during the final auction.

Network for design
The design world, but also commerce and the media (a.o. from the USA, Canada, Israel, UK, Ireland, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Luxemburg and Germany) found their way to DDW this year. Partly through their attendance, DDW was able to demonstrate, again this year, its function as an international stage and platform for design. In an extensive programme of lectures, seminars, workshops, network meetings and talk shows, good contacts and links were laid for the future.

Highlights 

Visitors, designers and media partners this year were very enthusiastic about A home away from home, VPRO Hololens, Manifestations, Pinar & Viola for IKEA, Trending Terrazzo, design challenge in cooperation with the NS, Envisions and the transformation of the Ketelhuisplein with Bambooh Lala.

Other yearly highlights were: Design Academy Eindhoven, Creative Industries Fund with In No Particular Order, Making School and Intensive Care, MU, Sectie C, Dutch Invertuals, Age of Wonderland, Brabant Living Lab, ABN AMRO with Driving Dutch Design and the Hotspots, Kazerne, Modebelofte, BioArt Laboratories, Transnaturals, New Material Award, Zuiderzeemuseum presents Thomas van Eyck, Piet Hein Eek, Kiki & Joost, Van Abbemuseum, Fontys tours, Yksi, TAC, Social Label, Baars & Bloemhoff, Dutch Digital Design, Textielmuseum, VPRO Now Future Evening, Volvo and Click.nl.

 

On Tuesday 25 October 2016 Queen MĂĄxima visited Dutch Design Week (DDW) in Eindhoven.

With more than 275,000 visitors DDW is the biggest design event in Northern Europe. She spoke with designers about the status of Dutch Design. She also visited the Klokgebouw, one of the DDW main locations. She visited the exhibition The Making of Your World with work by designers who want to improve the world, the exhibition Mind the Step with work by students from the three Dutch universities of technology and she spoke with designers on the Ketelhuisplein. 

©Jeroen van der WielenWhat is Dutch Design?
Dutch Design is an attitude and does not refer exclusively to a nationality. It refers to a design aesthetic that is typical for Dutch designers: minimalist, experimental, innovative, unconventional and with a sense of humour. We see the solution-oriented thinking, the functionality, the humanism, the free thinkers, the brutality, the humour, putting things into perspective, the uniqueness, not thinking in hierarchical barriers, the unconventional. But also the willingness to take stakeholders seriously and involve them in the solution, in the creative process.

A good number of highly creative and young designers, including Maarten Baas (ambassador DDW 2016), Jeroen van Erp, Thomas Widdershoven, Dave Hakkens, Christien Meindertsma and the DDW organisation spoke to Queen MĂĄxima about the area in which design is now to be found: between art, culture, market and society. Dutch Design contributes to a new hybrid practice, in which there is currently almost no separation between disciplines like product design, graphic design, landscape design, urban development, architecture, gaming, etc.

Design does not stop with a beautifully designed product. It has become an attitude to life.

Vrij Nederland, 15 October 2016

Dutch Design Week
22 – 30 October 2016, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
www.ddw.nl
Upon its 15th anniversary, DDW is a 9-day celebration with 275,000 visitors with as honoured guests 2500 national and international thinkers and doers. Designers that make the event bigger and the world just a bit better, smarter, handier and more beautiful.

Public, press and commerce come to Eindhoven to look at their latest work and the best of what design has to offer. They cast a glance behind the scenes and see what the designers have planned for the future.

The Making of Your World
Consumers are increasingly losing their comprehension of the complex world behind the products and services that we use on a daily basis. The exhibition The Making of Your World responds to this alienation through demonstrating how products in our world are invented, developed and made. One of the curators of this exhibition, designer Bas van Abel, DDW 2016 ambassador, decided to develop a sustainable telephone himself. The strength of his Fairphone is not just in the product itself, but most of all in the story that it tells. In this exhibition, too, Van Abel asks the question how in product development we can get the balance right between economic and other values. At the same time he opens the dialogue about the role of the designer. Is design only about the end product or more especially about the underlying processes? Is design only about beauty or is it more about what we all consider to be important? It’s up to you 
 It’s Your World.

Martin GarrixPablo LĂŒcker overhandigt samen met DJ TiĂ«sto de door hem ontworpen award uit aan de nummer Ă©Ă©n DJ van de wereld.

Amsterdam, 19 oktober 2016 – Nederlandse kunstenaar Pablo LĂŒcker had de eer om niet alleen de technisch hoogstaande award uit te reiken, maar was ook verantwoordelijk voor het kenmerkende en artistieke design. Het vergulde Amsterdammertje straalde vanavond tijdens de bekendmaking van de DJ MAG top 100 in de Heineken Music Hall. Martin Garrix, verkozen door het publiek tot #1 DJ van de wereld, nam de prijs in ontvangst bij het jaarlijkse event tijdens het Amsterdam Dance Event georganiseerd door DJ MAG en Alda Events.

Het karakteristieke Amsterdammertje was het basis ontwerp voor deze award van wereldniveau. Dankzij toekomst bepalende technologie zoals nano-coating van edelmetaal door Innocoating Europe en 3D printing door 3dbyflow, was Pablo in staat om als het ware in 3D te tekenen met metaal. “Als kunstenaar geloof ik sterk in het positief in het leven staan door het delen van je passie met de wereld. Martin Garrix is als #1 DJ het perfecte voorbeeld. Als eerbetoon heb ik daarom de bijzondere aspecten van zijn leven zoals zijn muziek, het studiowerk, de fans en het leven on-tour, vereeuwigd in goud in dit werk, met als signatuur het hart van de passie, met een knipoog naar de soms te serieuze wereld.” Aldus Pablo.

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LONDON, Oct. 20, 2016 The MR PORTER Style Council, our newly-relaunched ambassador-driven digital Rolodex, features recommendations, tips, facts and tools to discover and navigate the world’s best bars, restaurants, hotels and brands. The Style Council is comprised of MR PORTER’s elite-group of select Style Council members – from Mr Pharrell Williams through to Mr Hugh Jackman – and is searchable, filterable and sortable by venue type, city, and profession – all from the ease of MR PORTER.COM and our downloadable Style App.

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The MR PORTER Style Council. Photograph by Bjorn Ioos (PRNewsFoto/MRPORTER.COM)

With the relaunch, MR PORTER has added new tech and social media enhancements by integrating Google Maps, along with adding service partner support from OpenTable and Uber, so users can book rides and reservations directly from the Style Council page on MR PORTER.COM and in the MR PORTER App. MR PORTER Style Council is your one-stop concierge 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, and is accessible for reference and bookings all from the palm of your hand.

To celebrate the launch, MR PORTER will debut a dedicated issue of The Journal highlighting existing and new Style Council members who are leaders in their respective fields: art director Alex de Betak, paddle8 founder Alexander Gilkes, men’s wear stylist Eugene Tong, adventurer and ecologist David de Rothschild, media publisher Wei Koh, and more.

Additionally MR PORTER has appointed an in-house liaison, Style Council Director Ms Ashlyn Chesney, to oversee relationships with Style Council members so recommendations and profiles are as up-to-date and evolving as our members expanding palates and favourite things.

Ms Chesney and MR PORTER Brand & Content Director Mr Jeremy Langmead will kick-off the re-launch with intimate dinners around the world, hosted at some of MR PORTER’S favourite restaurants, all to be featured in Mr Porter’s own profile. They are: Bennelong in Sydney; Rhoda in Hong Kong; Mark’s Club in London, and the Waverly Inn in New York City.

“We’re thrilled to be relaunching MR PORTER’s Style Council, making it all the more accessible and functional for the modern man or woman on-the-go. It’s a one-stop, mobile city guide populated by the most stylish and brightest minds around the world.”

Mr Jeremy Langmead, MR PORTER Brand and Content Director

“MR PORTER’s Style Council boasts some of the world’s most inspiring tastemakers.  From professional athletes to designers, musicians and journalists, these global citizens offer up their favourite places and dream items, providing advice, information and inspiration to men on a global scale.”

Ms Ashlyn Chesney, MR PORTER Style Council Director 

MR PORTER Style Council will re-launch exclusively on MR PORTER.COM 20th October and is also accessible through MR PORTER’s Style App for mobile. To view the MR PORTER Style Council online, please click here: https://www.mrporter.com/style-council

To view the MR PORTER Style Council editorial in The Journal, please click here:
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To view the MR PORTER Style Council video on YouTube, please click here:
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Aarhus2017Aarhus 2017

The full programme for the European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 was unveiled today at a launch event in the Danish city.

“Aarhus 2017 is going to be a creative tour de force,” said Aarhus 2017 CEO Rebecca Matthews, “with new works, special commissions, premieres, major events and festivals. And it will encompass plenty of free as well as ticketed events – experiences that are huge and humanscale all at once.”

Highlights with a definitively Danish flavour include a spectacular re-telling of Frans G. Bengtsons’s classic Viking legend “Red Serpent”, a stunning Watermusic show around the harbour featuring singer and composer Oh Land and Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier’s celebrated film trilogy re-imagined as opera, dance and theatre performances.

The programme also features a dazzling array of international talent from wider Scandinavia, Europe and beyond, bringing global culture to the Central Denmark Region for the entire year. Under the banner of ‘Let’s Rethink’, Aarhus 2017 challenges the world to use arts and culture as a means of exploring the choices we must make for our future.

Whatever those choices are, they will bring changes to the way we live and work, the places we live in, and the very structure of our society.

“We hope that the different perspectives and creative energy expressed by the outstanding artists assembling in Aarhus next year will be a catalyst and resource for managing those changes,” said Matthews.

The Aarhus region and its visitors will have the chance to get up close and personal with some of the most exciting cultural talents on the international stage today. They include Aarhus 2017’s Artist-in-Residence Anohni, who promises a vibrant interweaving of human identities in sound and vision; a performance of “Distant Figure”, a collaboration between one of the legends of contemporary theatre, US director Robert Wilson, and the iconic artists, choreographer Lucinda Childs and composer Philip Glass; Australian actor Cate Blanchett imbues dramatic life into the text collages of the ground breaking project “Manifesto” by German artist Julian Rosefeldt; choreographer Wayne McGregor and the Paris Opera Ballet will transform US novelist Jonathan Aarhus Safran Foer’s “Tree of Codes” with music composed by Jamie xx and scenography by Olafur Eliasson; and there will be a concert featuring pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim with the legendary West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a project aimed at celebrating freedom, equality and coexistence through music.

Launching the European Capital of Culture programme, Aarhus 2017 CEO Rebecca Matthews paid tribute to the many volunteers supporting the Year – our “everyday heroes,” in her words, as well as thanking partners and sponsors who helped make the eight-year dream a reality, and whose “spirit of Rethinking has been the foundation for the programme,” she said.

“We are extremely excited about the year ahead. The quality and diversity of the programme we have assembled mean there is truly something for everyone, whether you’re from Aarhus, Denmark, or visiting from elsewhere. We have created a huge, game-changing year by combining the knowledge of global experts on culture with the views of local people, to determine what quality means in and for arts and culture, here and now.”

Full details of the hundreds of artistic and cultural events taking place in 2017 are featured in the Aarhus 2017 programme guide, which runs to a staggering 500 pages. Whether it’s the iconic, stage-based events featuring worldwide stars, or smaller and more intimate exhibitions, debates and community activities, the programme has something to appeal to fans, families, fun-seekers – and even sceptics – encouraging all to rethink. Or as the Patron of Aarhus 2017, HM Queen Margrethe II, states in her foreword to the programme: “Rethink: Think the new, think anew, think again!”

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Antonio Stefano
Antonio Stefano Ties (PRNewsFoto/Antonio Stefano)

Antonio Stefano

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12, 2016 Devoting a full 49% of its profits towards abused dogs, the high-end clothing brand Antonio Stefano makes its world debut in Los Angeles on Monday, October 17th, with an afterparty the same night. What is probably the world’s most cause-related company was launched with the goal of helping abused and abandoned dogs by building a hospital for them.

Stefano Riznyk, the Chief Creative Director, is hardly the person you would expect to launch a clothing line. A business lawyer and high-level negotiator, he is often forced to wear ties. With a lack of distinctive wear in the market, he launched the company with very bold and striking ties made by hand in Lake Como, the silk capital of Italy. “Since the tragic departure of Gianni (Versace), I had nowhere left to really satisfy my taste for a tie that is both expressive and artistic,” he states.

There are only 3 ways a man can distinguish himself: his tie, watch, and belt; anything else other and he risks losing the respect of the mainstream in the high-stakes business world.  A tie, however, can separate someone from the pack. It is so much more than an accessory, it is a statement.

As a negotiator, he states, a tie reveals a personality more than one would think.  Antonio Stefano productions are each a work of art and individually designed. The silk ties retail from $69 to $225 and are currently available in stores in Milan and Las Vegas. They are both printed and manufactured in the same companies as you will find the world’s top ten designers making theirs.

The first of ten models at the show will offer a sneak peak into the next item in production, a silk or satin (your choice) bathrobe in a dazzling jaguar design to replace the ‘grandmotherly’ bathrobes that women now have to use when courting their new man.

Antonio Stefano will be having an afterparty at 9PM that Monday at the W Hotel in Hollywood (in the Station) to celebrate the World Release.

ANTONIO STEFANO (AntonioStefano.com)
Contact: Amanda Berkshire
San Diego: 858-964-0625
Milan: 0291281644
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Tijn Verkerk

Tijn VerkerkAmsterdam / London, this summer Tijn Verkerk and Sharon D. Clarke teamed up to record a new House track: Take Me Away. An unique combination of a seasoned music industry veteran from the UK and a very young and ambitious producer from The Netherlands. They found common ground in their music and delivered a track in which house and soul blend together to a perfect mix.

Sharon D Clarke started her career in the early nineties with FPI Project (Remake of Going back to my roots) and Nomad’s (I wanna give you devotion and Just a groove) the latter of which sold more than two million singles worldwide. After that she appeared on TV and in the Theatre starring in musicals like Chicago, Fame, The Lion King, The Wiz, Hairspray, Ghost the Musical and in February 2016, she received critical acclaim for her role in a revival of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Now Tijn Verkerk’s track ‘Take me away’, takes Sharon back to her first love.

‘Take me Away’ is the first track of the young Dutch DJ / Producer with an original vocal. Tijn Verkerk admired the voice of Sharon in the original recordings of Nomad and was introduced to Sharon by a mutual friend. After some on line session, they finally met at the Kensal Town Studios in London to record the track. Just before ADE 2016 Tijn finished the track which will be available as of 10-10-2016Sharon D

Sharon D Clarke: Music is my first love. It’s nice being back in this field, doing what I remember as being a great joy for me in my younger days and its lovely to pass on that baton. It take me back to the day I was clubbing and this combination of House and Soul is funky
 it makes you bob!

Tijn Verkerk: It was a great honor and real pleasure to work with Sharon. I learned a lot from her, her voice is amazing and she really added soul to the track. I hope people will like it!

 

Once again this year Hivos, Baltan Laboratories and Dutch Design Foundation are organising the incubator programme Age of Wonderland for Dutch Design Week (DDW). This third edition embraces the theme big and open data. The fellows – designers and other creative thinkers and makers from Chilli, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran and Tanzania – share their insights regarding this theme. What are the possibilities, limitations and pitfalls of the digital data available today? The fellows started a residency in Eindhoven in Eindhoven at the end of September, seeking collaboration with Dutch creatives, scientists and commerce, including the Design Academy Eindhoven, designers Joris de Groot and Isis Boot. During DDW, these residencies will manifest in an elaborate programme of exhibitions, work in progress, workshops and a seminar. 

DDWAge of Wonderland
Age of Wonderland is a multi-year programme by Hivos, Baltan Laboratories and Dutch Design Foundation that wishes to stimulate global social innovation through the exchange of knowledge and co-creation between European designers, researchers and artists and those from Africa, South America and Asia. Each year six international fellows visit the Netherlands for two intensive residencies with as a highpoint a public presentation of their projects and experience and exchange of ideas and knowledge during Dutch Design Week. www.ageofwonderland.nl

Martijn Paulen, director Dutch Design Foundation, about the collaboration: “With the ‘Age of Wonderland’ project we want to stimulate transnational knowledge-sharing to develop new perspectives for global social and ecological challenges. Through the meeting of the various cultures, surprising and innovative solutions occur each year. It is worthwhile for our design community to see how scarcity and creativity go hand in hand in some countries.”

2016: empathy, natural (disasters), infrastructure and social cohesion 
In this edition of Age of Wonderland, cooperation and the exchange of knowledge will take place between social geographers, artists, courses, academies, scientists, writers, engineers and programmers. They ponder over issues like: How can virtual reality help to create empathy? Can a mobile radio station function as a databank for anticipating natural disasters? Is big data an effective tool for improving the infrastructure and social cohesion in a city? How can ancient Maya knowledge be unlocked digitally? Students from the master’s Information Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven are involved in these challenges. They reflect on the projects and integrate them where possible in their own research projects. Read more about the cooperation in the appendix.

Age of Wonderland & Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee radio
This year, Age of Wonderland will launch an online and live radio station in cooperation with Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee radio. Arif Kornweitz and Michiel van Iersel will produce various live shows with interviews, presentations and reviews during Dutch Design Week, dedicated to the fellows’ projects. www.ageofwonderland.nl and www.jajajaneeneenee.com.

Dutch Design Foundation 
Dutch Design Foundation (DDF) is optimistic and believes in the problem-solving abilities of designers for advancing the world. Which is DDF offers designers opportunities, support, publicity and a platform. DDF organises Dutch Design Week and Dutch Design Awards, but is active far beyond the Netherlands. Throughout the year they organise debates, lectures, exhibitions and meet-ups. Putting the best and most promising designers in the spotlights, and introducing their ideas and designs to the world. www.dutchdesignfoundation.com.

Simon Bosch Featured at [prototipo]

Simon BoschSimon Bosch is a Dutch photographer, who recently moved from Amsterdam to BogotĂĄ. His specialty is shooting Interior and architecture, though he has experience in shooting fashion as well. In previous years Simon has been a freelance photographer for Elle.nl.

In his compositions he captures the world in a single shot. Without the use of PhotoShop or double exposures, he creates a world that does not exist to the eye that does not search for this fall of light.

The use of black and white in most of his photographs gives them tranquility, a place to rest your eyes who would otherwise be guided by the abundance of color that city scenes poses.

Some images are architecturally composed creating new and impossible spaces where skies combine with ceilings. While others show you the hectic life in the city and blend people with surroundings the are not part of.

Some of his worked will be exhibited for the first time in Bogota at Prototipo exhibition, which opened on Thursday, October 6 and which be run until Sunday October 9th.

About [prototipo]

[prototipo] [Prototype] invites you to the first edition of EL MURO [The Wall] that will take place between Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 October 2016.
EL MURO is an idea that comes from the need to create a commercial model which slightly differs from the exhibitions which currently occupy the cultural landscape of BogotĂĄ.

Inspired by the “Salon des Refuses” in 1863, we propose an exhibition model that breaks down the monotony of exhibition stands.
The design is an aesthetic production that seeks to question selection processes, and prioritization of artists within the art world.

We opened on Thursday, October 6 at 6:00 pm. The fair will remain open until Sunday 9th between 11am and 8pm. We hope you will come and discover this new model.

Participating artists are:
Alejandra Tashko / Carlos Orozco / Carol Pinzón / El Corruptor / Felipe Bonilla  / Harrison Tobón / Jose Luis Cote / Leo Carreño / Oriana Marín / Pablo Arrazola / Paola Ferreira / Paula Orozco / Sebastiån Arriaga /  Sebastiån Fonnegra / Simon Bosch / Siu Vasquez / Valeria Montaña

[Prototipo]
Calle68 # 11-13
BogotĂĄ, Columbia

Simon Bosch Photography
http://www.simonbosch.nl
simonbosch@me.com

+57 (310) 232 4770