In a predigital area An Mertens would have been the type of author struggling with small cards in large drawers, trying to keep everything categorized alphabetically and with a 100 different colors. Lucky to have been born in the seventies, she can now use digital flexible systems, add and delete as it pleases her.
Adashboard (for fiction) hosts a.o. following items:
* (radio)sessions on women’s and non occidental science fiction, parallel futures and technologies in music, and any interesting work that question the ideas of identity, language, domination, classification, gender and sampling.
* reflections on and experiments with ‘new media literacy’ and comments on new formats of digital narrative.
PS: language: language is not neutral. The English text your read on this page.blog is not neutral, it is written by a Dutch speaking person. Who decides upon the standards? How can we consciously politicize language as non-native English, as women, as… ? How can we open up texts and stories through different languages? Consider this an absolute free space: congratulate and despise formulations, references, invent and create, punish and demolish!
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2010-11-13 09:35:02
Dorothé Depeauw and Simon Yuill presented Kaleidoscope & Object Score Notation at Make Art, an international festival dedicated to free/libre arts and technologies, distributed digital artworks and net art in Poitiers, France. The sixth edition of Make Art focused on “works halfway between (...)
2010-04-28 16:52:14
Objscrs is the motion tracking software that was used for Kaleidoscope. The program allows you to interpret the movement of objects and bodies in a live video image using different types of sensor zones. The latest version of this software was developed by Simon Yuill as the negociation (...)
2010-04-28 16:49:51
A video of the Kaleidoscope-performance can be found here: - Version française - Dutch version Filming: Christina Clar Editing: Robin Vandenbergh
2010-02-26 15:06:57
La « Cellule Interdisciplinaire de Technology Assessment » (CITA) est un centre de recherche au sein de la Faculté d’Informatique de l’Université de Notre Dame à Namur, spécialisé dans l’évaluation des nouvelles technologies, et plus particulièrement des technologies de l’information et de la (...)
2009-11-27 17:04:32
If you want to play Kaleidoscope again or you are interested in consulting, copying, modifying and/or redistributing the games & their rules, we invite you to download the program that was handed over to the audience of Kaleidoscope. Design by Laia Sadurní. They were asked to: - end a game (...)
2009-11-25 12:57:18
Announcement of VJ12 with focus on Kaleidoscope:
2009-11-02 23:18:30
Fancy way to attach the camera at the 10m heigh ceiling: Installing the dance floor – with special pvc-treat for Lot & Dorothé thanks to Zinneke: Reward will be: chocomousse op bomma’s wijze We are very lucky: working with brand new stuff (screen/floor/beamer/spots) – just arrived at La Bellone (...)
2009-11-01 11:53:41
Ce texte peut être utilisé pour le jeu de Kaleidoscope. Copyright: 2009, An Mertens. Copyleft : cette oeuvre est libre, vous pouvez la redistribuer et/ou la modifier selon les termes de la Licence Art Libre. Vous trouverez un exemplaire de cette Licence sur le site Copyleft Attitude (...)
2009-10-20 23:28:59
Or how a place can change a look:
2013-03-07 12:05:42
In the framework of Bessst, a silence program organised by Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, artists Heath Bunting (irational), Rasa Alksnyte (FoAM) and An Mertens (Constant) welcome fifteen people to participate in a 2-days workshop to meet some particular trees and discuss their identities in (...)
2012-12-14 18:58:29
Le XXIe siècle nous met à disposition de grandes collections par un simple click de souris. Tout texte qui n’est pas disponible digitalement, peut l’être en utilisant un scanner et des logiciels d’OCR dont des modèles domestiques se développent. La culture de la copie crée de nouveaux défis pour (...)
2012-12-11 16:26:58
Tijdens VJ13 presenteerde Michael Korntheuer zijn geautomatiseerde DIY-bookscanner. Pierre Marchand en John Haltiwanger experimenteerden met OCR-software die een fac-simile kan maken van een gescand boek. Dit project riep een aantal vragen op, waarvoor ik enkele mensen interviewde. Tijdens (...)
2012-10-20 20:51:39
We are very proud with the beautiful book Mots de la Cage aux Ours/Woorden uit de Berenkuil. It was a great experience to look into ways to represent oral data in a printed publication. Questions, answers, obstacles on the way were all mentioned in this radio-interview, led by Pierre De Jaeger (...)
2012-10-14 20:28:35
On 12 & 13 October 2012 Heath Bunting and I joined forces in this workshop initiated by Z33 and hosted by fo.am. Our starting point: we are dependent on trees for our survival, even as the ongoing global process of rapid extinction continues apace. What does it mean to integrate trees as (...)
2012-10-12 18:42:17
From 8th till 10th October I invited five artists for a workshop around i-literature in Constant Variable: Catherine Lenoble, Olivier Heinry, Stéphanie Vilayphiou and Nicolas Malevé. All of us are hybrid artists with a special interest in literature. We knew bits and pieces of each others’ work, (...)
2012-05-03 13:58:49
Did it ever occur to you to wave at a surveillance camera? Or rather, at the person who is watching you at that moment in the control room? And how would it feel if that person would wave back and you would somehow be able to see or hear that? By using surveillance cameras and (...)
2011-11-27 20:19:52
De grootschalige digitalisering van Google Books en de illusoire toegankelijkheid van hun archief hebben me al vaker rillingen bezorgd. De uniformiteit van de boeken die op no-time uit de Espresso Book Machine schuiven, vond ik eerder ontgoochelend ondanks de lichte opwinding die ik voelde voor (...)
2011-11-26 22:11:24
Het privé-gebruik van een digitale boekscanner als Funzie Fonzie Leesmasjien stelt de vraag naar wat het boek als object in wezen is. Die vraag groeide vanuit de vaststelling dat het voor de makers van de machine en de software vanzelfsprekend was, dat het boek niet ongeschonden uit het proces (...)
2011-11-26 20:33:26
De tweede vraag die zich aanbood tijdens de voorbereidingen van Funzie Fonzie Leesmasjien, gaat over het gebruik. Als we ook met het digitale materiaal aan de slag kunnen, m.a.w. als onze gescande boeken niet alleen beelden zijn, maar ook tekstbestanden, waarvan niet alleen de tekstuele inhoud, (...)
Did it ever occur to you to wave at a surveillance camera? Or rather, at the person who is watching you at that moment in the control room? And how would it feel if that person would wave back (...)
Artist Kirsty Stansfield and storyteller An Mertens will round up their 3 weeks residency at CCA with a workshop for artists and performers, in which they share the results of their research. In (...)
!CoLAPseKoDe continues its research in De Pianofabriek KWP. Simon Yuill, Lot Jansen and An Mertens will be working with the surveillance imagesof one of the cameras of the residency. On a daily (...)
In 2008 An presented the beta-version of the distributed novel ’CIAO/Tot Later’ in the exhibition Place@Space/NowHere in Z33 Hasselt. Years passed by and now she’s ready to present CIAO/Tot Later - (...)
The project !Co LAPse KoDe was selected out of 97 submissions from 27 countries to participate in the international residency program of Marginalia+Lab, a space for creation and research in art (...)
Constant member An Mertens is hosting a workshop about i-literature at the yearly ’Writer’s day’, an event for amateur writers organised by Creatief Schrijven.