My name is Timaeus, or Tim van Hooft. In my work I am interested in speculative storylines and narratives that can build an alternative world. I navigate this through game engine software and work within the domain of virtual movies/images and CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). In this I am interested in experiencing how creative technologies can help us to question the present and the future, around the themes of ecology, technology and the non-human. I approach such complex societal questions by introducing them to fantastical elements, such as the mythological and mystical, striving for a form of storytelling that challenges our anthropocentric premise. I connect the bridges between our physical reality and the technological possibilities to change and reshape this 'reality' through digital means.
‘A neptunian orchestra of coral, longing for fragments of ethereal light.’
Yopo & Timaeus explore… ‘Ruins Beyond the Veil’ - Ruins beyond the veil is an audiovisual live show that explores a final haven, a resting ground for the once declared deceased. After an unexpectedly long time we traverse once more into the realms of disorienting woods, colorful coral, gloomy valleys and tech noir cities. So much has changed; depths have gone deeper and trees have grown larger. Yet one thing unifies it all: Amplified by abandonment, all have grown stranger.
Yopo & Timaeus find themselves in an otherworldliness that can not be expressed more through words.
Anthropocene Monsters - Video-installatie op Fiber Festival, waarin ik een trilogie van roterende monsters presenteerde. Ieder met hun eigen specifieke thema. Voor het festival, dat gebaseerd was op het thema mutatie, kreeg ik de opdracht om twee extra monsters te maken die dit onderwerp verkennen. In totaal werden 5 monsters gepresenteerd.
Tekst door FIBER:
Now that human industrial activity has reached into the capillaries of the planet – and a new era has dawned with the proposed name Anthropocene – humans are faced with monstrous changes of environment and unexpected and weird mutations of life and matter.
For FIBER 2021 the artist Timaeus created a new version of his video installation Anthropocene Monsters. Inspired by the work of science fiction writer Jeff Vandermeer, the artist often explores the ‘Anthropocene monster of the 21st century’, referring to the horrors humans have created by grossly interfering with earth’s ecosystems. Monsters ask us why we have created them. The figure of the monster may thus be used to question, disturb, and alter the conventions it helps us to analyse. With this video installation the artist presents us a series of monsters from leftovers of 21st century crises.
By 3D scanning and putting together leftovers of these issues that surround us daily, Timaeus speculates what the monsters of our time could look like. Through the usage of body movement and linking this with motion capture data, the objects start to live.
