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Lost & Found

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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.

The Skyline was Beautiful on Fire

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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

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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”. A first version in Dutch 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. The poster shown below is the English version, which is also for sale though my buy stuff! page.