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For the Unshaping exhibition, Daams has developed a new work in the Origin Series named Haywire. This expedition is loosely inspired by the former hive-mind of the Pieter Baan centrum; a mental short-circuit safari.
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For the Unshaping exhibition, Daams has developed a new work in the Origin Series named Haywire. This expedition is loosely inspired by the former hive-mind of the Pieter Baan centrum; a mental short-circuit safari.
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“I am currently working on something that started very simple. I was queuing for the cash desk in the supermarket and there was an olive oil bottle on the conveyor belt. The belt started to move and when the belt stopped, the bottle started to rock back and forth. A random customer next in line and I were captivated by this -seemingly timeless- moment. This moment of tension, the rocking of the bottle and whether it falls or not, that is something that fascinates me quite a lot.”
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“I am currently working on something that started very simple. I was queuing for the cash desk in the supermarket and there was an olive oil bottle on the conveyor belt. The belt started to move and when the belt stopped, the bottle started to rock back and forth. A random customer next in line and I were captivated by this -seemingly timeless- moment. This moment of tension, the rocking of the bottle and whether it falls or not, that is something that fascinates me quite a lot.”
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Slue is a collaboration between Mischa Daams and Philip Vermeulen and is a spatial audiovisual composition and live performance. Four high powered strings come to life and create abstract organic 'whooshing' rotations that create overwhelming patterns of interfering sound and light in motion. In the work, Vermeulen and Daams study chaotic patterns that arise in the interaction between a 'whooshing' elastic, frequencies of light and its effect on the perception of the viewer in combination to the architectural / landscape surroundings. Doing so, visitors experience a place where tension, excitement and danger are mixed, and pushes the visitors' perception towards altered, hallucinatory states.
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Slue is a collaboration between Mischa Daams and Philip Vermeulen and is a spatial audiovisual composition and live performance. Four high powered strings come to life and create abstract organic 'whooshing' rotations that create overwhelming patterns of interfering sound and light in motion. In the work, Vermeulen and Daams study chaotic patterns that arise in the interaction between a 'whooshing' elastic, frequencies of light and its effect on the perception of the viewer in combination to the architectural / landscape surroundings. Doing so, visitors experience a place where tension, excitement and danger are mixed, and pushes the visitors' perception towards altered, hallucinatory states.
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Slue is a collaboration between Mischa Daams and Philip Vermeulen and is a spatial audiovisual composition and live performance. Four high powered strings come to life and create abstract organic 'whooshing' rotations that create overwhelming patterns of interfering sound and light in motion. In the work, Vermeulen and Daams study chaotic patterns that arise in the interaction between a 'whooshing' elastic, frequencies of light and its effect on the perception of the viewer in combination to the architectural / landscape surroundings. Doing so, visitors experience a place where tension, excitement and danger are mixed, and pushes the visitors' perception towards altered, hallucinatory states.
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With his project 'Origin', Daams sets out audiovisual expeditions into the abstract, organic universe that results from a feedback loop between an lcd screen and a video camera. In this continuous process of copying and ‘translating’ some of the information is lost; this results in the mutation and transformation of the image. In real time a visual environment of abstract patterns unfolds before the eyes of the beholder, taking the viewer on a hypnotizing voyage through the invisible architecture of the devices themselves. The patterns resemble the shapes and behaviours from a world one does not immediately associate with computer chips: biological life. Daams has come to regard this mathematical process as a living stream giving rise to an organic universe. To explore this virtual space, he designs technical tools in order to set out expeditions. Daams makes use of cybernetic methods to plan, control, and respond to the unpredictable outcomes of the growth process. In this new work Origin: Sustained (2017), Daams applies algorithmic perception as a means to give agency to the machine. The machine as steersman becomes responsible for the unfolding and survival of the life cycle, and thereby attempting an endless film. Origin: Sustained is commissioned by FIBER with the support of the Mondriaan Fund NL and Stroom Den Haag. The first part of the Origin project ‘Origin:Cycle #1’ was realized as part of the Summer Sessions network in a co-production of Art Center Nabi and V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, with support of the Creative Industries Fund NL.
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With his project 'Origin', Daams sets out audiovisual expeditions into the abstract, organic universe that results from a feedback loop between an lcd screen and a video camera. In this continuous process of copying and ‘translating’ some of the information is lost; this results in the mutation and transformation of the image. In real time a visual environment of abstract patterns unfolds before the eyes of the beholder, taking the viewer on a hypnotizing voyage through the invisible architecture of the devices themselves. The patterns resemble the shapes and behaviours from a world one does not immediately associate with computer chips: biological life. Daams has come to regard this mathematical process as a living stream giving rise to an organic universe. To explore this virtual space, he designs technical tools in order to set out expeditions. Daams makes use of cybernetic methods to plan, control, and respond to the unpredictable outcomes of the growth process. In this new work Origin: Sustained (2017), Daams applies algorithmic perception as a means to give agency to the machine. The machine as steersman becomes responsible for the unfolding and survival of the life cycle, and thereby attempting an endless film. Origin: Sustained is commissioned by FIBER with the support of the Mondriaan Fund NL and Stroom Den Haag. The first part of the Origin project ‘Origin:Cycle #1’ was realized as part of the Summer Sessions network in a co-production of Art Center Nabi and V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, with support of the Creative Industries Fund NL.
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With his project 'Origin', Daams sets out audiovisual expeditions into the abstract, organic universe that results from a simple feedback loop between an lcd screen and a video camera. These expeditions exploit imperfections in communication between display technologies and demand a cybernetic dialog with this astonishing emergent realm. They are experienced as black and white films that immerse the viewer in a sensory trip of hypnotic growth patterns. Daams is currently building kinetic machines to perform these mathematical expeditions, striving to bring obscure phenomena to light that are more organic than geometric. His future plans with this project is to investigating the potential of algorithmic perception (computer vision) in order to conceive an automated expedition that is self-conscious, self-steering and therefore forever self-unfolding.
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With his project 'Origin', Daams sets out audiovisual expeditions into the abstract, organic universe that results from a simple feedback loop between an lcd screen and a video camera. These expeditions exploit imperfections in communication between display technologies and demand a cybernetic dialog with this astonishing emergent realm. They are experienced as black and white films that immerse the viewer in a sensory trip of hypnotic growth patterns. Daams is currently building kinetic machines to perform these mathematical expeditions, striving to bring obscure phenomena to light that are more organic than geometric. His future plans with this project is to investigating the potential of algorithmic perception (computer vision) in order to conceive an automated expedition that is self-conscious, self-steering and therefore forever self-unfolding.
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With his project 'Origin', Daams sets out audiovisual expeditions into the abstract, organic universe that results from a simple feedback loop between an lcd screen and a video camera. These expeditions exploit imperfections in communication between display technologies and demand a cybernetic dialog with this astonishing emergent realm. They are experienced as black and white films that immerse the viewer in a sensory trip of hypnotic growth patterns. Daams is currently building kinetic machines to perform these mathematical expeditions, striving to bring obscure phenomena to light that are more organic than geometric. His future plans with this project is to investigating the potential of algorithmic perception (computer vision) in order to conceive an automated expedition that is self-conscious, self-steering and therefore forever self-unfolding.
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Auto Observatory [2015] explores the complex and often invisible systems that constitute both our physical and virtual habitats. An algorithmic choreography of in- and decreasing airflows conveys complex patterns that are captured and represented by a phenomenological cinema screen, serving as a sensor for the surrounding space. The images that emerge resemble cloud patterns and wind maps observed from the sky, examples of ubiquitous complex feedback systems like the weather system. Both are in essence chaotic, so small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole. The feedback loop thus serves both as a direct means and reference for this work.
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Respire is a process based experiential art installation on the border of space, sculpture and cinema. It embodies a transforming architectural space as a breathing entity: transient as fluid it evolves from one state to the next.
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Respire is a process based experiential art installation on the border of space, sculpture and cinema. It embodies a transforming architectural space as a breathing entity: transient as fluid it evolves from one state to the next.
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Respire is a process based experiential art installation on the border of space, sculpture and cinema. It embodies a transforming architectural space as a breathing entity: transient as fluid it evolves from one state to the next.
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Visitors enter a darkened space with little illumination coming from a small highlighted photograph of a leaf on a dark background. As their eyes adjust to the darkness, they take little steps into the space following the wall as their guide. Scarce and at random, bright flashes from different corners of the space disturb the darkness. Depending on your position in the space and the right timing, you can briefly see an image – the black contours of someone wearing a ski mask or an axe used to cut telephone wires - being lit up for an instant. But considering the flash of light is so short, bright and blinding, you do not actually see the real image. What you see is the remaining afterimage of what was there, slowly morphing into decay on your own retinae. Jan Rosseel's work Belgian Autumn is a visual investigation into the violent and ambiguous robberies and killings by the gang of Nivelles in 1980’s Belgium. Rosseel -who’s father was one of the lethal victims- started his own investigation: Based on police files and reports, witness accounts and newspaper clippings, Rosseel reconstructed the events from the past, something he calls a confabulated history. Read more
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Klanksporen (sound trails) explores the acoustics of resonating objects and spaces through site-specific performances. Instrument Using self-made instrumentation Mischa Daams performs sonic landscapes by making various materials -like wooden plates and steel boxes- vibrate. Drawing gestural paths over its physical surfaces, specific acoustic characteristics are highlighted. Because two oscillators are used rich and rhythmic patterns emerge. Spaces Spatial characteristics are emphasized according to their reverberant acoustics. Specific architectural spaces are selected for their sound quality, as they become a carrier for sound. The way in which the acoustics of a space amplifies, morphs and sustains the source sound plays an important role in the performance. Ultimately the taken trajectories leave trails, both physically on the surface as spatially in terms of its sonic tail in the form of an echo. The interferences and patterns between all resonating matter becomes equally important. Additionally, Mischa Daams performs Klanksporen alongside multi-instrumentalist Martijn Barendregt who plays Didgeridoo.
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Curriculum vitae
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2011 - 2013MA ArtScience Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
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2020Origin: HAYWIRE Uncloud Utrecht, NL, Nederland For the Unshaping exhibition, Daams has developed a new work in the Origin Series named Haywire. This expedition is loosely inspired by the former hive-mind of the Pieter Baan centrum; a mental short-circuit safari. Groep
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2018Auto Observatory Duet/l NEST Den Haag Den Haag Auto Observatory Duet/l in tentoonstelling Another Dimension, Zoro Feigl nestruimte.nl/en/exhibition/another-dimension/ Groep
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2018Auto Observatory Duet/l Le Tetris Le Havre, FR, Frankrijk Auto Observatory Duet/l in expositie letetris.fr/exhibit/ Groep
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2018Respire (72hr) The Overkill Enschede, NL, Nederland Expo Groep
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2018SLUE Into The Great Wide Open Vlieland, NL expositie van kunstwerk Slue in publieke ruimte (duinlandschap), in samenwerking met Philip Vermeulen intothegreatwideopen.nl/programmaonderdeel/mischa-daams-en-philip-vermeulen-slue/ Groep
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2017Origin:Sustained The Grey Space in the Middle / TodaysArt Den Haag Origin: Sustained tentoonstelling Locating ArtScience todaysart.nl/ Groep
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2017Origin:Sustained ARS Electronica Linz Oostenrijk, Oostenrijk Origin: Sustained tentoonstelling V2 Summersessions Groep
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2017Origin: At Length Berlin Atonal Berlin, Duitsland Origin: At Length, exhibition berlin-atonal.com/ Groep
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2017Origin: Sustained Looiersgracht 60 / FIBER Festival Amsterdam Origin: Sustained, premiere & commissie www.fiber-space.nl/project/fiber-festival-2017/ Groep
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2017Origin: Cycle #1 Stroom Den Haag Den Haag Origin: Cycle #1 @ Ondertussen Stroom Den Haag www.stroom.nl/activiteiten/kleine_presentatie.php?kt_id=8345703 Solo
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2016Respire Modern Body Festival Den Haag Respire @ Modern body festival modernbodyfestival.org/2016/ Groep
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2016Origin: Cycle #1 Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Zuid Korea Seoul, Zuid-Korea Origin: Cycle #1 exhibited @ Art Center Nabi Duo
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2015Auto Observatory Lab30 Augsburg, DE, Duitsland exhibition Groep
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2019
Residency iii : Lopendebandwerk iii / Instruments inventors initiative Den Haag, Nederland instrumentinventors.org/event/no-patent-pending-38/ 3 weekse Artist in Residence bij iii in den haag, gevolgd door een performance van het nieuwe werk.
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2015
SPHAERAE / iii Residency iii / EAPLab Den Haag instrumentinventors.org/production/sphaerae-at-eaplab/ Sphaerae residency: nieuw werk Strings in samenwerking met Philip Vermeulen
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2014
Masterclass: Anthony mcCall Sonic Acts / Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam Masterclass by Anthony McCall at Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam
Internationale uitwisselingen / Artist-in-residencies
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2016Art Center Nabi Seoul, Zuid-Korea 8 weekse Artist in Residence bij Art Center Nabi in Seoul. Gevolgd door een tentoonstelling. In samenwerking met V2_ Rotterdam Summersesions. www.nabi.or.kr/page/board_view.php?brd_idx=514&brd_id=project
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2018Licht installatie Philip Vermeulen NL / Berlijn DE, Duitsland Ontwerp en uitvoeringen lichtinstallatie bij kunstwerk BOEMBOEM Physical Rhythm Machine philipvermeulen.com Uitgevoerd
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2017Origin Sustained FIBER Amsterdam, NL Ontwikkeling en presentatie van nieuw kunstwerk Origin: Sustained in opdracht van FIBER Amsterdam. Met steun van Mondriaanfonds en STROOM Den Haag. www.fiber-space.nl/ Uitgevoerd
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2014Belgian Autumn. A confabulated history FOAM Amsterdam Amsterdam, NL Ik ontwierp een ruimtelijke installatie (choreografie van licht&geluid) als tentoonstelling voor en samen met Jan Rosseel. foam.org/museum/programme/jan-rosseel Uitgevoerd
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2014Wavescape Luminous Festival Ioannina, GR, Griekenland Commissie van nieuw werk in publieke ruimte, in opdracht van Luminous Festival Uitgevoerd
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2015Een tunnel van lucht en licht opent zich op FIBER Festival the Creators Project, Vice Media NL Amsterdam artikel op website
Recensies
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2019Maak kennis met iii-resident Mischa Daams Website Mirjam Verloop / J & T Den Haag, Nederland jegensentevens.nl/2019/10/meet-iii-resident-mischa-daams/ Interview over mijn werk ten tijde van de residentie bij iii in october 2019.
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2018Bright - Techkunst in een donker bos op Vlieland Website Ingeborg van Lieshout Vlieland, Nederland www.bright.nl/nieuws/artikel/4408331/lichtkunst-slue-philip-vermeulen-mischa-daams-elastieken-bos-itgwo Op het festival ITGWO afgelopen weekend op Vlieland was de lichtkunst-installatie SLue de favoriet. De effecten waren angstaanjagend en fascinerend tegelijk.
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2018Kunstuur TV uitzending met interview over Slue TV Lucas de Man Hilversum, Nederland www.avrotros.nl/kunstuur/gemist/detail/item/opdrachtgeverschap-kunst-die-je-overal-kunt-tegenkomen-21-10-2018/ Het festival Into The Great Wide Open gaf een aantal kunstenaars de opdracht om op Vlieland een werk te maken ‘over de vrije ruimte’. Want is deze er nog wel? Zo creëren de Next Space Rebels met heuse satellieten een onafhankelijk internet en transformeren kunstenaars Mischa Daams en Philip Vermeulen gewone elastiekjes tot een indrukwekkend lichtkunstwerk.
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2017VICE Deze hypnotiserende film regisseert zichzelf Anne Myrthe Korvinus Amsterdam www.vice.com/nl/article/mgm3m3/deze-hypnotiserende-film-regisseert-zichzelf/ Artikel met interview op website
Prijzen en stipendia
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2018SLUE op Into the great wide open Mondriaanfonds Amsterdam Vlieland Ondersteuning bij opdrachtgeversschap door Festival Into the Great Wide Open voor ontwikkeling en presentatie van nieuw werk SLUE in samenwerking met Philip Vermeulen.
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2017Opdrachtsgeverschap i.s.m. FIBER, €2500 Mondriaanfonds Amsterdam, Nederland
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2017PRO Kunstproject €7000 Stroom Den Haag Den Haag Voor realisatie van kunstwerk Origin Sustained. Behelste productie en presentatie.
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2016Summersessions V2_ V2_ Lab, Rotterdam Rotterdam Selectie voor kunstproject/residency SummerSessions.net, €2500
artistieke nevenactiviteiten
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2016 - 2019Docent Art & Technology + Experience Design, CMD Breda Loopt nog
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2016 - 2019Bestuurslid Stichting Helicopter Loopt nog
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2014 - 2015Deelname van stichting eaplab, kunstenaarscollectief