Anne Vera Veen

archives - artistic research - audiovisual - conceptual - digital technology - experimental - film - media - social - video

Anne Vera Veen is a visual artist and researcher with a background in visual anthropology.
She applies this background in her artistic research into audiovisual archives and as a co-founder of the artist-led collective Galerie de Jaloezie, platform for film and audio visual art.
Anne Vera mainly works with audiovisual media such as experimental moving image, film and photography. In her work she often engages found footage and archival material. She is interested in the epistemology of truth in the post-truth era, and in deconstructing Enlightenment-born myths about knowledge.


Film screening AFFR: Fancy Fantasy Futures of the Architect's Mind (2022, 2'04'') by Anne Vera Veen

Exhibition / presentation

  • 06-10-2022 t/m 06-10-2022
  • In collaboration with: Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
  • Location: Lantern Window, Rotterdam
  • My short film 'Fancy Fantasy Futures of the Architect's Mind (2022, 2'04'', Anne Vera Veen) was screened as part of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2022. The film was made in the framework of the Film&Architecture studio, as organized by the Independent School for the City, and was financially supported by Arcam.
  • https://www.affr.nl/specials/film-architecture-studio/

Exhibition Wasteland: Fungus Socialis, presentation Digital Debris in group exhibition

Exhibition / presentation

  • 06-07-2022 t/m 17-07-2022
  • Location: The Gray Space in the Middle, The Hague
  • Digital Debris is a one channel 20-screen video installation comprised of new montages of 'waste' footage. By showing how new edits can place the material in a different context and create new meanings, it forms a re-appreciation of this visual waste material. The 20 screens that simultaneously play the same video input, symbolize the excessive overload of visual content that continues to multiply exponentially and ultimately sediments into archaeological layers of digital debris.
  • https://collectivewasteland.nl/

Film screening 'Defragmentation' at Galerie de Jaloezie

Exhibition / presentation

  • 26-06-2022 t/m 26-06-2022
  • Location: IJzerblok Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • Defragmentation revisits the philosophical reveries of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, as he wrote them down in 1943 in Le Petit Prince. Coming from a different planet, Le Petit Prince travels the galaxy and ultimately visits planet earth. His extraterrestrial perspective makes him question earthly matters. In a melancholic mood and homesick for his own planet of origin, Le Petit Price suggests a more poetic view on our galaxy.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gM8mGMi5x0&ab_channel=GaleriedeJaloezie

Exhibition Private_Eye_Butler_Spy

Exhibition / presentation

  • 11-03-2022 t/m 30-06-2022
  • In collaboration with: Arcam
  • Location: Architecture Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam
  • Smart devices assist us in the home and office, cameras register movements and algorithms determine information flows. The influence of technology on everyday life is ever increasing. The exhibition Private_Eye_Butler_Spy at Arcam examines the changing relationship between technology and humans, and the impact of technology in and on the built environment.
  • https://arcam.nl/en/events/private_eye_butler_spy/

Film screening 'The Dawn Chorus'

Exhibition / presentation

  • 19-04-2020 t/m 19-01-2020
  • Location: Online (Covid), Rotterdam
  • The Dawn Chorus shows a particular and bizarre interpretation of lockdown life, through the eyes of two creatures who's only input from the outside world is through a television channel. The two figures live in a basement and have developed their own rituals and preferences, based hugely on the input they get through the television that they watch. Using found footage, re-enactment, glitch aesthetics, costumes and montage techniques, this film shows the consequences of lockdown life.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37VvLsCJyoM

Acknowledgments

    Publication
  • On Camera - Pocket guide to surveillance to the city

  • 2022
  • In the human habitat, a new species can be observed: surveillance cameras. This pocket guide classifies and provides background information on the types of cameras in public space. It allows users to quickly look up which camera they are dealing with. Similar to a field guide to birds, this guide uses pictograms to provide information about camera behavior (such as what kind of data is gathered, or if the camera can move) and the habitats of the different species (where they most often occur)
  • ARCAM - Anne Vera Veen and Indira van 't Klooster
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