Beam Contrechoc

DIY - textile - artistic research - design

Layers. How themes evolve in different media, reemerges and obtains other meanings. Example: the photo dress. Workspaces. A table full of tools and sketches, a space with experiments, a floor littered with papers, drawings, texts, printing forms, textiles swatches. Crossovers, from publications to textiles to drawings.


Happiness of objects – airborne sensor laboratory

Residencies / exchange

  • 01-03-2019 t/m 01-10-2019
  • In collaboration with: Les Moulins de Paillard
  • Location: Poncé sur le Loir, Poncé sur le Loir,
  • A project in which experiments were done with kites and interactivity. The final result was a kite that "dreams", that is, can show the dates of its movement in the air at night in the dark. But I could also add my own data as data. The kite then dreams that he/she is a human.
  • https://airlaboart.wordpress.com

Dutch Design Week 2023

Exhibition / presentation

  • 17-10-2023 t/m 24-10-2023
  • In collaboration with: Fashion Tech Farm Eindhoven
  • Location: Fashion Tech Farm Eindhoven, Eindhoven
  • Soft Energy Box. A textile research into possibilities to generate energy for interactive clothing yourself. Presented during Dutch Design Week 2023 with wears, 4 jackets with applications of this principle and experiments with which the public could convince themselves of the usefulness of this principle.
  • https://ddw.nl/en/programme/9704/soft-energy-box

Die Geschichte Schneiderei

Performance

  • 25-06-2022 t/m 27-06-2022
  • In collaboration with: Tilman Rothermel, http://www.kulturhof-peterswerder.de
  • Location: Städtische Galerie Bremen, Bremen
  • A performance with my interactive garments, in this case kimonos that were connected to each other via Bluetooth. After an introduction, the audience was asked to put on the garments and visit the exhibition including my work. During this visit the garments came to life.
  • https://www.staedtischegalerie-bremen.de/artikel/news/vortrags-performance-mit-beam-contrechoc/

Der Fremde Blick

Project

Etextile Swatch Exchange

Other

  • 20-06-2013 t/m 01-04-2021
  • In collaboration with: Hannah Plusea, Berlin
  • The publication, nearly every year, of a collection of e-textile swatches. The book consists of around 25 items from 25 e-textile designers. The participants are from all over the world. There are now 7 of these publications, each of about 25 different e-textile samples.
  • http://etextile-summercamp.org/swatch-exchange/

Teaching

Other

  • 01-08-2008
  • In collaboration with: WdKA Academy Rotterdam
  • Location: Rotterdam,
  • Teacher of Design and Technology. I work for different departments, e.g. Fashion, Transformation Design, Spatial Design. I teach Electives, for example Smart Textiles, Primitive Technologies, Folding For Designers, in which students are mainly intensively involved in "making" with or without technology.
  • https://livingstations.wdka.nl/beam/

Acknowledgments

    Scholarship
    Pricing
    Publication
  • Fashion, not design, points the way to resilience and self-reliance at DDW

  • 2023
  • web publication
  • https://www.designdigger.nl/ - Jeroen Jumnte
    Publication
  • The Trade Plow

  • 2021
  • webmagazine
  • Bert Frings - Editorial Woody van Amen, Bert Frings, and others
    Publication
  • Everything is Possible

  • 2021
  • book with images of posters
  • Public Works - Sibe Kokkke and others
    Publication
  • Publication Textiles

  • 2022
  • 3 booklets at Dutch Design 2022
  • own publication - Beam Contrechoc
    Publication
  • Unfolding Fashion Tech:

  • 2020
  • book
  • Onomatope - Marina Toeters
    Publication
  • E-Textile Swatchbook Exchange 2017

  • 2017
  • book
  • Researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331546672_E-Textile_Swatchbook_Exchange_2017 - Hannah perner-wilson
    Publication
  • Topographie des Medächtnisses im alten Havenspeicher Bremen-Vegesack: current art from the Netherlands

  • 2001
  • book
  • Protisk - Gabriele Rübcke
    Publication
  • Humor in history and art

  • 1996
  • book, with my contribution: lecture on Humor in Painting
  • Publisher Verloren - RM (Rudolf) Dekker
    Publication
  • Connections, Pure Science and autonomous Art

  • 1996
  • CD
  • Bram van Waardenberg - Bram van Waardenberg
    Publication
  • Kees Spermon 1941-1922

  • 2022
  • Book, author
  • Willem de Kooning Academy Publications - Bram van Waardenberg