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Field.3 is a spatial light- and sound installation by Dieter Vandoren and Mariska de Groot, consisting of 7 architectonic units. The network of units, evocative of both ancient and futuristic mythical sites, creates a field of shimmer and glow, catalyst of a timeless state of suspension. Video by Erfan Abdi Met dank aan Stroom Den Haag
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https://vimeo.com/1038537773 'Field.3' is een installatie die bestaat uit 7 architectonische audiovisuele units, oorspronkelijk gecreëerd voor het werk LFS2. Hier als zelfstandig werk gepresenteerd vormen de sculpturale objecten een structuur die tegelijk technologisch en organisch aanvoelt. De strakke lijnen doen denken aan een futuristisch landschap terwijl de pulserende licht- en geluidspatronen een onderlinge samenhang suggereren. Alsof het netwerk verbonden is door ondergrondse wortels die de individuele elementen voeden.
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Our eyes are slow, great speeds pass us by without us seeing them. What we then observe is a fusion of form and color over time. Only as soon as we divide the movement into moments do we see clearly what is moving. ‘Hidden Patterns // 2’ uses simple early animation techniques to explore the wonderful creative power of our brain. Movement as an optical illusion. A disc with a cut-out symmetrical pattern rotates and is projected through with a composition of light frequencies. As a result, the pattern wheel is always briefly exposed. By playing with complex light patterns, we observe different moving patterns. The composition of light flickers is made using synthesizer simulators. By placing light sensors in the projection, the moving patterns are made audible. The light and sound are thus naturally perfectly synchronized. First version 2015 redeveloped with help of Conflux festival in 2022, and Stedelijk Museum Schiedam in 2023
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Motorized instruments are hanging from the ceiling, creating a sound sculpture in the space. As a visitor you envelope yourself in slowly changing harmonium sounds. An old spinning choral humming top that De Groot ones found on a flea market was the start for the immersive installation. Fascinated by the colorful children’s toy making a 3 chord melody she researched its patented technique, the history of the top and the free-reed instrument. It resulted in a choir of motorized spinning tops, hanging from the ceiling. Every instrument is tuned differently, when walking along them different interferences and beatings can be heard.
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Motorized instruments are hanging from the ceiling, creating a sound sculpture in the space. As a visitor you envelope yourself in slowly changing harmonium sounds. An old spinning choral humming top that De Groot ones found on a flea market was the start for the immersive installation. Fascinated by the colorful children’s toy making a 3 chord melody she researched its patented technique, the history of the top and the free-reed instrument. It resulted in a choir of motorized spinning tops, hanging from the ceiling. Every instrument is tuned differently, when walking along them different interferences and beatings can be heard.
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Above your head spins a collection of bobbin lace doilies with floral patterns. Like a field in claire obscure, they open and close as if they were hit by the wind. Due to a special way of lighting, the patterns of the rugs seem to be constantly changing. Crochet is a visual music installation with strong cinematographic references, where kinetics and old-fashioned craft meet each other in a surprising way. The work is part of De Groot’s ongoing research into wave movements and the interference between frequencies and patterns. Crochet is a production with WerkTank Leuven (BE)
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Stirred Mandala is a light and sound performance that arises from Mariska’s ongoing research on optical sound, interfering patterns and spiral movements in body and machine. The spinning pattern of a ‘tone wheel’ is projected on the floor, like a rug of light creating the instrument surface for the performer, while light-to-sound transducers become her playful tools. Changing frequencies of the light cause the projection to appear in different patterns going in different directions, sound follows this optical illusion. Stirred Mandala II was developed during an artist in residency in A4, Bratislava.
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With her use of optical sound as main medium and interest to create immersive environments where light and sound are one, Mariska de Groot now explores the possibilities of the single sculptural object and 360˚ light-to-sound scores. Inspired by unintentional light projection or reflection and in the tradition of kinetic light sculptures like the Light-Space Modulator by Moholy-Nagy, ‘Incidence of Light’ is a kinetic light-to-sound sculpture that uses the interior space as an extension of itself. Using a selection of white LED’s, rotating masks and mirrors, different light frequencies peek through the small openings of a slowly rotating cylindrical graphical score, creating a light composition on the walls and possible objects (and visitors) in the room, while primitive cameras on top of the sculpture scan the patterns and make the rhythmic light / dark parts in the room audible. The sounds heard are overall synthesized and abstract, but can be associated with street sounds and noises. The translation from light to sound happens one on one. The light is controlled by voltage or audio frequencies, the reflection of the high frequency flickering light turns back to sound. Shadows become rhythmic silences and gray values determine loudness.
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a part of iii's 'Häxen' for Sounds of Silence Festival in The Hague. https://vimeo.com/211270556
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Don’t tell the projectionist the projector can make music! The 16mm projector is an electronic instrument not particularly known for its musical history. Within the history of expanded cinema many artists worked with the projector as instrument, but this project uses a whole orchestra of these machines! The filmprojector is a noisy apparatus that projects the image of film and uses a second light to project optical sound. For the Optical Sound Orchestra, Mariska de Groot created a piece where the rattling apparatus functions as a musical instrument and the projectionists serve as musicians. Slowed down and amplified, you experience the procedure of the projector being put into operation. An orchestra of six performers and twelve instruments brings an ode to the rhythm and richness of sounds behind cinema. For this composition De Groot investigated the characteristics of sound the different types of projectors carry, their original rattling, the noises gathered through the years and the hidden sounds like electromagnetic fields. The different sounds and rhythms are printed on film and orchestrated in combination with invented live techniques to play the 16mm projector as an instrument. http://www.mariskadegroot.com/projects/optical-sound-orchestra/
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A project by Lars Kynde and Mariska de Groot for the Elsinore Girls Marching Band, performed in the Danish Museum of Science and Technology. A carefully designed spinning tonewheel projects on the floor and forms the instrument that 30 girls of the marching band play together. Each holding a light-to-sound transducer in the one hand and a speaker in the other creating different sound sculptures depending on the movement they make and the patterns they position.
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Installation, 2015/2018, in collaboration with Dieter Vandoren – LFS1 is an environment in which visitors physically interfere with analogue generative processes, creating audible and visible patterns. The space is filled with fog. A large number of light to sound modules are arranged in coherent configurations in space. A smaller number of directional light sources are arranged in-between, and rotate around their axis. Light beams form structures, sound waves interfere. The space scans the scanning visitor. Visitors navigating in this misty landscape, interrupt with their shadows the natural state of the field and cause interruptions in the audio signals so that new changing rhythmic patterns emerge. Several visitors participating in this multi-sensory space creates a collective interaction, while the individual physical immersion stimulates a synaesthetic experience. http://www.mariskadegroot.com/projects/lfs1-a-lightfield-synthesis/
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If a simple, unstable human handmade apparatus made of scratch materials explains cosmos, then maybe the organisation of space is a result of drunken gods dropping stars and planets as it were confetti? No one ever discovered Nibiru – ‘Planet of crossing’- the ninth planet that passes our solar system ones in a 3000 years. During the performance I intend to track its trace and shape. Nibiru is an analogue and mechanical performative installation wherein simple rythmical body movements activates a squeaky pendulum drawing machine, that on its turn creates complex mathematical images. Noises of resistance are amplified and sound patterns are created by swinging speakers that scan the changing projected geometric line image. The patterns of light and sound refer often to the positions of the planets and provoke a desire for cosmic understanding of the organisation of space. https://vimeo.com/164528364
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In murmur ~ singing Yolanda Uriz and Mariska de Groot perform with feedback between light and sound, using self-made analogue equipment to create liquid projections and low frequency vibrations that engulf the audience. Murmuring sounds become storms, reflected through hypnotic, morphing images of light on vibrating water.
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http://mariskadegroot.com/projects/shadow-puppet/ Shadow Puppet? presents an interplay of embodied performance and analog machinery that gives rise to an engulfing play of light, shadow and raw optical sound. Two performers – one behind the machines and one in the spotlights – play this light-to-sound instrument in a dynamic tension of attraction and repulsion. It never gets quite clear who is conducting who…
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2012-2016 Tucked deep in the cinematic apparatus light projections of rapidly rushing graphic patterns are transformed into sound vibrations. In ‘CineChine’ you experience in physical proportions the phenomenon optical sound – an invention of the 1920’s applied in celluloid and synthesizers – where light and sound are a similar. Objects that remind of a disassembled movie machine are positioned in the room. Beams of light shoot through rotating disks, projecting a composition of dynamic black and white, hard edged forms that find a direct antecedent in the experiments with sound on film carried out by the Russian avant-garde in the late 1920s. The changing light frequenties are picked up by light sensitive speakers and transformed into sound. Soon it is clear that the tones you hear are one and the same with the light that you see. All light is potential sound. The transdisciplinary composition of ‘CineChine’ treats elements of cinematography from the viewpoint of the projector. The perspective of time&rhythm and light&sound are based on projection, shutter speed and rhythm of the machine. For every exhibition a new side-specific composition is made. https://vimeo.com/149665162
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http://vimeo.com/43737405 Rediscovering optical sound - an invention of the 1920s originating in film and employed in early synthesizers, Mariska de Groot provides the technology with a life of it’s own creating instruments that openly reveal their functioning. 'Quadtone - lumisonic rotera' is a mesmerizing light-is-sound projection performance in space. Graphical patterned wheels are coding a beam of light, which portable light-sensitive speakers convert into audible frequencies. All leftover light is visual sound.
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Websites
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instrumentinventors.org/artist/mariska-de-groot/Social media
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Curriculum vitae
Opleidingen
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2011 - 2011'THE EDGE OF FILM: Capturing Images for Visual & Sound Rhythm' - Optical Sound workshop met Tomonari Nishikawa [WORM] Filmwerkplaats R'dam
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2010 - 2012ArtScience master Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
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2009 - 2009'Riddle of the Beast a Live Cinema' - Optical Sound workshop met Bruce McClure [WORM] Filmwerkplaats R'dam
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2008 - 2008'THE WABI-SABI IN SUPER8' - een XL Super8 workshop met Dagie Brundert [WORM] Filmwerkplaats R'dam
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2006 - 2006125% Design, professionele coaching K&CO A'dam
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2000 - 2005Grafische ontwerp Arnhem, ARTEZ, Academie Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving Diploma behaald
tentoonstellingen
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2024LFS2 Conflux Rotterdam, Nederland LFS2 is tentoongesteld in Katoenhuis Rotterdam als onderdeel van Conflux Festival 2024 www.confluxfestival.nl/program-2024/ Groep
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2024Intrigate Interplays Korzo Theater Den Haag Den Haag, Nederland Intricate Interplays is als een mozaïek: een avond met verschillende werken die allemaal met elkaar in contact staan en de grenzen tussen individueel en collectief werk doen vervagen. Kunstenaarscommunity iii selecteerde vijf makers die in hun werk het weer onderzoeken op een performatieve en audiovisuele manier: Mihalis Shammas, Marije Baalman, Dieter Vandoren, Mariska de Groot en Ludmila Rodrigues. Zo ontstaat er voor het publiek een nieuwe ervaring, met werk dat overlapt en versmelt in een nieuwe dramaturgie. korzo.nl/nl/programma/voorstellingen/intricate-interplays/2024-11-30-2015/ Groep
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2024WeAreHowWeAre|SoundThings Fylkingen Stockholm In the second WeAreHowWeAre-event we turn towards the sounding object. How can we approach the materiality of sound? What relationships do we have with the instruments we use? What can a SoundThing be? During the evening Fylkingen invites artists Jacek Smolicki, Viola Yip and Mariska de Groot, who through their performances and installations draw sound from chance, light, movement and touch, in different ways exploring the boundaries and relationships between materiality and phenomena, between body, object and machinery. We also dig into the past in a talk with the artist, researcher and electronic instrument designer Derek Holzer about earlier visual and audiovisual technologies that helped shape their time, what they offered artists then and now and how they ripple and fold into the future. We Are How We Are is curated by Hiroko Tsuchimoto and Rebecka Holmström, and supported by The Swedish Arts Council & Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse. www.fylkingen.se/en/events/we-are-how-we-are-sound-things
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2023Ekstasis Stedelijk Museum Schiedam Schiedam, Nederland Licht en geluid installatie 'Hidden Patterns' werd vertoont op Ekstasis. stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/tentoonstelling/ekstasis/ Groep
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2022Crochet (Un)Holy Light Leuven Groep
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2021Belgium Art & Design Fair Gent, België Crochet, namens Werktank Duo
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2021Kunstpodium OYFO Kunst & Techniek Hengelo, Nederland BROM, werk in opdracht www.oyfo.nl/33495/kunstpodium/actueel/brom-mariska-de-groot Solo
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2020Uit het Donker Cultuurhuis Warande De Hoge Rielen, België Cinechine, installatie www.warande.be/pQ5J7iw/uit-het-donker-iii Groep
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2019Tweetakt Festival Fort Ruigenhoek Groenekan, Nederland Tijdens de expositie van Tweetakt Festival in Fort Ruigenhoek presenteerde ik Cinechine in één van de bunkers van Fort Ruigenhoek tweetakt.nl/programma/2019/kunst/cinechine/ Groep
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2019Color Sound Frames Serralves Porto, Portugal Incidence of Light travels to Porto for the experimental a/v performance festival Color Sound Frames in Serralves. The expanding relationship between moving image and sound/music is one of the most striking features of art and culture of the last two centuries. Crossings between the different sensorial dimensions run through the history of both cinema and music. However, it was within the experimental practices at the intersection of these fields that these relations evolved more freely and extensively. While the majority of such interdisciplinary endeavours remained relatively marginal to the art world’s recognition, they are nowadays perceived as highly influential. Keeping true to an eminently exploratory character, Color Sound Frames is dedicated to national and international projects that today follow this line of artistic creation, with a special focus on meetings between analog and digital, between the predisposed and the unforeseen, and the live realization of both sound and image. made possible by Overtoon Brussels and Stroom Den Haag. www.mariskadegroot.com/agenda/serralves/
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2019The Mirror of Daisy Bell Le Bon Accueil Rennes, Frankrijk een grote versie van mijn werk Hidden Patterns bon-accueil.org/mariska-de-groot/ Solo
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2019Openingsfestival 100 jaar Bauhaus Akademie der Kunste Berlijn, Duitsland door iii. ism Dieter Vandoren. performance Shadow Puppet? www.bauhausfestival.de/ Groep
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2018LFS1 Grasnapolsky festival Radio Kootwijk, Nederland LFS1 (ism Dieter Vandoren) Groep
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2018De Poëzie van het Mechanisme Zaal Zuid Hengelo, Nederland een nieuwe versie van CineChine werd vertoont www.zaalzuid.nl/1165/archief/de-poezie-van-het-mechanische Groep
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2018Flatpack Festival Centrala Birmingham, Verenigd Koninkrijk performance Lumisonic Rotera Groep
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2018Lichtrouten Ludenscheid, Duitsland installatie LFS1. ism Dieter Vandoren Groep
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2018No Patent Pending iii workspace Den Haag, Nederland Optical Sound Orchestra Groep
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2017November Music Kruithuis Den Bosch, Nederland performance & expositie Nibiru. Samengesteld door Matteo Marangoni/iii novembermusic.net/programma/installatie-expeditie-kruithuis-2017 Groep
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20172017 ShinyToys Festival Müllheim an der Ruhr, Duitsland LFS1 (ism Dieter Vandoren) Groep
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2017Vandmand Museum voor Wetenschap en Techniek Helsingør, Denemarken Vandmand. ism Lars Kynde en de Elsinore Girls Marching Band Duo
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2016Close-Up EYE Film Instituut Amsterdam CineChine Groep
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2015Lichtjaren Fort Vijfhuizen Vijfhuizen, Nederland CineChine, samengesteld door Polderlicht Groep
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2015CineChine KunstenLab Deventer Cinechine Solo
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2015TETEM Enschede, Nederland Beacons (ism Matteo Marangoni & Dieter Vandoren Solo
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2015Artefact Festival STUK Leuven, België Cinechine tijdens Artefact Festival (ism iii) Groep
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2014Lucida Space NCCA Moskau, Rusland Cinechine, [ism met TodaysArt] Groep
projecten
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2017
Opening De Lely STEIM Amsterdam, Nederland www.mariskadegroot.com/air-steim-steim-opening/ presentatie Artist in Residence
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Namens Galerie O68 Rotterdam Contemporary Rotterdam, Nederland artfair
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2016
Resonate Resonate Belgrado, Servië en Montenegro conferentie: expositie& performance Nibiru, talk
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2014
NIME NIME Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk optreden Shadow Puppet? tijdens conferentie. ism iii.
Internationale uitwisselingen / Artist-in-residencies
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2019A4 Bratislava, Slowakije Een 2 weken residence vooraf aan het NEXT festival. Ik herontwikkelde mijn licht-naar-geluid performance Stirred Mandala 2019.nextfestival.sk/
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2017Illutron Kopenhagen, Denemarken 1 maand residency voor project Vandmand ism Lars Kynde www.mariskadegroot.com/project-vandmand/
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2015MoKS (Mooste, Estonia) Mooste, Estland123 1 maand AIR met iii
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2014bb15, Linz, Austria linz, Oostenrijk 1 week residency met iii
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2014Stuk, Leuven Leuven, België 2 weken AIR voor Artefact Festival
opdrachten
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2025Light Applause WUR Wageningen Commissie voor een werk in de promotiezaal van Omnia, Universiteit Wageningen. in 2023 te realiseren
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2021BROM OYFO Hengelo, Nederland OYFO Kunst & Techniek gaf de opdracht een werk te maken dat een brug slaat tussen het industrieel erfgoed van STORK en het kunstencentrum. Ik maak hiervoor geluidsinstallatie 'Brom', een muzikale machinale ervaring. Uitgevoerd
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2020Crochet werktank Leuven, België Productie installatie 'Crochet' http://www.mariskadegroot.com/projects/crochet/ www.werktank.org/projects/60/mariska-crochet Uitgevoerd
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2019Incidence of Light Overtoon Brussel, België Productie van nieuwe installatie Uitgevoerd
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2018LFS2 // Lampyridea KIKK Namen, België productie en presentatie van LFS2 // Lampyridea. ism Dieter Vandoren en Matteo Marangoni. mmgd FIBER Uitgevoerd
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2017Optical Sound Orchestra filmwerkplaats rotterdam Den Haag/Rotterdam, Nederland compositie voor Optical Sound Orchestra www.mariskadegroot.com/projects/optical-sound-orchestra/ Uitgevoerd
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2012murmur Oddstream Festival Nijmegen, Nederland Productie 'murmur', ism Yolanda Uriz. Uitgevoerd
Aankopen/werken in collecties
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2017Nibiru Velp, Nederland Nibiru tekening op glas aan wand. Via Galerie O68
publicaties
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2021Mariska de Groot compose sa musique grâce à la lumière ARTE www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109671-000-A/mariska-de-groot-compose-sa-musique-grace-a-la-lumiere/ interview door Arte
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2021Time to listen, space to experiment Boek Nederland 2 spreads over Stirred Mandala
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2019A critical history of media art in the Netherlands Boek div Nederland een foto spread van Shadow Puppet
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2016AUDIO DH Cd/Dvd iii/Francisco Lopez den haag, Nederland publicatie geluidsstuk
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2014'Lucida Space' NCCA Moscow Catalogus NCCA & TodaysArt moskau, Rusland catalogus groepstentoonstelling
Recensies
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2018The optical sound orchestra, composing with projectors Magazine Neural Magazine review Optical Sound Orchestra
Prijzen en stipendia
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2020Ultra Artisan werktank Leuven, België ik won de open call voor Ultra Artisan, en maakte Crochet
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2016Talentontwikkeings subsidie Stimuleringsfonds Nederland
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2014O68 prijs Velp, Nederland prijs uitgegeven door Galerie O68 in Velp
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2012Workspace12 BNG / Filmhuis Den Haag Den Haag, Nederland winnend project, projectbudget van €9000,- voor de realisering van CineChine
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2009Startstipendium vormgeving Fonds BKVB Amsterdam Nederland
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artistieke nevenactiviteiten
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2022 - --Artist in Residence coordinator bij iii Loopt nog
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2016 - 2016Gastdocentschap - ArtScience KABK
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2014 - 2014gastdocentschap - Minerva / Frank Mohr Instituut
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2014 - 2017secretaris iii
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2013 - 2014review inzendingen NIME
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2005 - 2011vormgevingsactiviteiten