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Michiel van Bakel

video, fotografie, DIY, Digitale technologie, beeldhouwen, Artistiek onderzoek

"When I look around, I see a lot of technology that aims to constrain reality in predictability, by categorizing and automating. I want to use technology to evoke wonder and transcend reality and predictability. I like to visualize things that were previously unseen and in that sense enrich my experience of reality. That is for me the incentive to make use of experimental video and animation techniques. Devices such as cameras, scanners and image processing algorithms I see as an extension of my senses. With these tools I manipulate images that are like anchors in time for me, but also images from my urban backyard: my 'condition urbaine'. In the same manner as a sculptor gives his/her material form through interventions in 3d space, I construct my videos in time. Recurring themes are examining the limits of -human- perception, experiencing time, disorientation and instability. "

Panorama ENCI - A mosasaur view
Panorama ENCI - A mosasaur view - Onze aarde toont haar ingewanden bij een dagbouwmijn. Als we in dit enorme gat in de aarde kijken, kijken we ook terúg in diepe geologische tijden. Deze korte film is een verbeelding van een mosasaurus (uitgestorven zeehagedis) die rustig rondkijkt met een anders-dan-menselijke visie; multispectraal. | Our earth shows its bowels at an open-pit mine. Gazing down the huge hole in the earth we’re also looking back in deep geological times. This short film is an imagining of a mosasaurus quietly peeking around with an other-than-human vision; multispectral. More @ https://www.michielvanbakel.nl/panorama-enci-a-mosasaur-view/
Panorama Tata – a plumed serpent’s view - The blast furnaces of Tata Steel slowly turn in unsettling false colors. Wavelengths that human eyes cannot normally see, invoking an alien viewpoint: the world as seen through the eyes of the plumed serpent. Sound: Roel Meelkop Image: Michiel van Bakel More @ https://www.michielvanbakel.nl/panorama-tata
Glass Camera project 2024
Glass Camera project 2024 - Glazen camera’s die alles zien maar niets registreren, zich zogezegd niets herinneren. Een licht ironisch sculpturaal commentaar dat refereert aan het tijdloze icoon van onze overvloedige beeldcultuur. | Glass cameras that see everything but register nothing, so to speak, remember nothing. A slightly ironic sculptural commentary that refers to the timeless icon of our abundant visual culture. supported by MondriaanFund
BOGWATERS Short experimental film - Two canals in Dutch nature reserve De Peel run parallel to each other for miles. The camera moves across the surface of the water and accelerates to fly from one canal to the other. Imagining a totally different perception such as through the eyes of the dragonfly, which perceives different wavelengths and can ‘see’ many times faster -up to 200 images per second!!- than a human. More info: https://www.michielvanbakel.nl/bogwaters/
What Wide Web? - A forest of power pylons towers over soil and green at the surreal wasteland of Rotterdam Maasvlakte. For some years Wood Wide Web is the magic phrase to describe the web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and plants to one another. We can ask ourselves: are industry and nature evolving more into co-existence? more info: https://www.michielvanbakel.nl/what-wide-web/
Cyanotype Sanatorium Zonnestraal - ‘Ultra slow’ photographic images made with glass cameras, with a focus on modernist Dutch architecture. Exposure times up to 5 hours on paper cyanotype ‘in camera’. The cyanotype emulsion is applied with japanese haké brush on paper. More: www.michielvanbakel.nl/glass-camera-cyanotypes/
P-9830 - Short experimental film. ‘Time is in the eye of the beholder’ A short animated film around Port number 9830 where industry and nature meet -at the Maasvlakte, Rotterdam. Shot through a hand-blown lens filled with water from the harbour. Small contaminants from the water are thus indirectly recorded as pollution particles that float through the water lens, just like the strings that everyone sometimes sees floating in front of his or her eye. The Dutch water landscape is photographed through the water from the landscape in front of us. it had its world premiere at IFFR 2021 more info: https://www.michielvanbakel.nl/p-9830/
Walk-in Camera Obscura - Together with the glassblowers of the National Glass Museum, Van Bakel investigates the optical properties of glass. The result: glass cameras, a life-size walk-in camera obscura and various 'water lenses' that breathe new life into ancient techniques.
Blowing Glass Cameras - An experimental investigation into the optical possibilities of the traditional craft of glassblowing. Together with glassblowers Geir Nustad and Josja Caecilia Schepman and others at the Glaslab Leerdam. Supported by Mondriaan Fund, stichting Stokroos and Nationaal Glasmuseum Leerdam. https://www.nationaalglasmuseum.nl/
Lusthof / Pleasure Garden - Video (2020, loop, 4', UHD, stereo) inspired by the painting David and Batseba (David and Bathseba) by Lucas Gassel (around 1538). Technique: Animation of composited pointclouds from photographs. Read more at https://vimeo.com/405421562/2bff4c7fdc

Nederlands Film Festival

Datum:
Locatie: NFF Utrecht
In samenwerking met: Li-Ma Living Media Art

Presentatie met Q&A tijdens Nederlands Film Festival, programma In gesprek – Filmessays. Panorama Tata: a plumed serpent’s view, resultaat van een samenwerking met Rotterdamse geluidskunstenaar Roel Meelkop.

https://www.filmfestival.nl/film/panorama-tata-a-plumed-serpents-view

trick or tree

Datum:
Locatie: Den Haag
In samenwerking met: West

Once again, LI-MA is teaming up with West, Den Haag, in this collaborative series of exhibitions. Part Three of Many Parts: Trick or Tree! showcases a selection of video works, this time focused on video's ability to change and construct meaning: from image manipulation to worldbuilding. The exhibition features works by Michiel van Bakel, Robert Arnold, Marina Abramović, Manuel Saiz, Seoungho Cho and Ghita Skali.

https://li-ma.nl/article/part-three-of-many-parts-trick-or-tree/

Expositie Museum De Wieger

Datum:
Locatie: Ateliers De Wieger Deurne
In samenwerking met: Mondriaanfonds

In de tentoonstelling 'Objectief Landschap. Van Utopia tot Peel' neemt Michiel van Bakel de toeschouwer mee op een tijdreis door landschappen en media die hem in de afgelopen jaren gefascineerd hebben en dat nog steeds doen. In één van de zalen van het museum komen werk van vader Gerrit van Bakel (1943-1984) en zoon Michiel samen.

https://dewieger.nl/tentoonstelling/objectief-landschap-van-utopia-tot-peel-in-de-ateliers-michiel-van-bakel/

Into The Great Wide Open

Datum:
Locatie: ITGWO Vlieland

Site specific outdoor presentation of video on big screen in forest setting.

https://intothegreatwideopen.nl/programmaonderdeel/michiel-van-bakel

Transgression art + technology Pavilion

Datum:
Locatie: online
In samenwerking met: 5th Edition of the Wrong Biennale

celebrating digital culture since 2o13, the wrong is a collaborative effort harnessing the potential of the internet, shaped as a decentralized global art biennale and tv channel, open to participation, happening both online and offline, awarded with sois cultura 2o19 and ehrenerwähnung at s+t+arts 2o2o

“counting its viewership in the millions, the wrong just might be the world’s largest art biennale — the digital world’s answer to venice” - the new york times

https://www.transgression-art-technology.com.pt/copia-de-michiel-van-bakel2/

Lucas Gassel Revisited

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Locatie: Cacaofabriek

Hedendaagse kunstenaars uit binnen- en buitenland laten zich inspireren door de 16e-eeuwse landschapsschilder Lucas Gassel.

https://www.cacaofabriek.nl/expo
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