Republican Primary Propaganda 2012
I’m working on a series of propaganda posters for the different Republican presidential primary candidates. This is a project in progress, so watch this page for updates. There’s some links to different sized versions people have requested under the images.
Prints are available for purchase here.
The Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney designs are available on t-shirt: here
Rick Perry/Sarah Palin
Herman Cain
Negotiations in a “difficult phase”
This is another one about Dutch politics. Dutch parties VVD and CDA form a minority coalition, so they need the right-wing PVV to vote with them on a lot of issues. This gives the PVV a lot of power without any of the responsibilities.
Newt has a Posse
What Newt needs now is a grass-roots campaign of some sort… a Posse if you will.
You can buy it as a print or shirt here.
PVV Propaganda
This is an old propaganda poster used by the Dutch National-Socialist Movement (NSB), that I converted for use by the current Dutch right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV), showing the similarities in style and rhetoric. The text reads “What do you want, Liberty or Serfdom” and “Liberty, only through the PVV”.
Alwas Sunny Propaganda
I made some propaganda posters inspired by season 7 of my favourite TV show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
This is available as a T-shirt!
Lost & Found
Thomas voor ‘t Hekke and I, working under our new name FRONT404, made an interactive video installation based on railway lost and found departments. We wanted to recreate the feeling of mystery and adventure of the famous old train voyages, like the Orient Express. Using a vintage railway lantern visitors illuminate a lost and found cabinet, searching through the objects within. When discovered these forgotten objects tell stories of their past lives.
The video below shows the installation at Rocket Cinema Festival. Because of the locations of the festival, including the railway museum in Utrecht and the First Class Grand-Café in Amsterdam Central Station, our installation fit in very well with the general atmosphere of Rocket Cinema.
Video controls for ‘Israel in Egypt’ by Händel
Wisse Stolk asked me to help him with a project he was doing with Cantiamo Amersfoort. He made visuals to accompany their performance of Händel’s “Israel in Egypt” and he needed a way to control the live playback of the visuals using four projectors at the same time. After talking the project through I made a program in Max/MSP/Jitter so he could control up to 26 movies using keyboard commands to start/stop/fade-out et cetera.
On the 29th of October they had an awesome performance with a choir, an orchestra and live visuals controlled by Wisse.
The Skyline was Beautiful on Fire
The skyline was beatiful on fire, all twisted metal stretching upwards, everything washed in a thin orange haze. I said kiss me, You’re beautiful, these are truly the last days. Based on the Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
You can buy the print here
panoptICONS propaganda
This is the propaganda poster I made to draw more attention to my panoptICONS project. “Veilig onder moeders vleugels” means “safe under mother’s wings”. The version on the left was made specifically to be posted in Utrecht, where the panoptICONS project first began. That version has some generically official sounding text about surveillance being for our own good and that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about. When we started to place camerabirds in other cities, like Amsterdam, the Hague and Brussels, I also made a more general version of the poster, which is the bottom poster.
24 November: Chemistree at Ignite #3 Amsterdam
Thomas and I were invited (as Helden) to give a talk about our Chemistree project and our use of sensors for Ignite #3 Amsterdam at Mediamatic. There were lots of interesting speakers and giving our own talk was a lot of fun!
Conservatorium propaganda
This is a propaganda poster I made for a strike (that got cancelled) at a music school here in the Netherlands.
13 October: PechaKucha Night Amsterdam Volume 15
Wednesday 13 october I will be speaking at the PechaKucha night in Amsterdam, together with Thomas voor ‘t Hekke. We’ll give a short presentation about the projects we’ve done together as Helden. There will be 11 other speakers, drinks and music, so it should be pretty cool!
New site!
I decided to change my old website ekunnn.nl to the somewhat more logical basvanoerle.com, which also gave me the much needed chance to completely redesign the look and backend of the site. Hopefully you agree that it doesn’t look as bad as it did before.
panoptICONS
panoptICONS addresses the fact that we are constantly being watched by surveillance cameras in city centres. The surveillance camera seems to have become a real pest that feeds on our privacy. To represent this, camera birds – city birds with cameras instead of heads – were placed throughout the city centre of Utrecht where they feed on the presence of people. In addition, a camera bird in captivity was displayed to show the feeding process and to make the everyday breach of our privacy more personal and tangible.
Made together with Thomas voor ‘t Hekke as our graduation project at Utrecht school of the arts. Also see the panoptICONS website.
