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Jan van Nuenen →Jan van NuenenAfter his education at the Art Academy St. Joost in Breda, audio-visual design, (1997-2002) he's been especially working on short, experimental animation films and video-installations (2002-2007). Those films are mainly collages of found-footage video and photographical material or samples, cut up, combined and edited with the computer and different types of animation software. The films are characterized by a complex combined action of loops, repetitions and rhythm, by which sound plays an important role. He lives and works in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Evolizer
Jan van Nuenen
10:37, Color, Stereo, NL, 2007
In a space that looks like a town or a factory, but could just as well be the inside of a computer, a robot-like figure is moving along. The camera zooms in on a kind of small cabinet that seems to suck the viewer in. Some elements are being added to this technological, geometric environment, which bring about rearrangements and transformations here and there. Spontaneous modulations create a proliferation of colourful, organic forms. With their tentacles grasping around them, these organisms gradually and increasingly take possession of the space. An aquarium-like underworld, in which an aggressive struggle for life is taking place, then replaces the orderly universe where the viewer’s trip began. Warning Petroleum Pipeline
Jan van Nuenen
04:45, Color, Stereo, NL, 2004
The movement of information across the worldwide web is invisible. Bits and bytes slip soundlessly through slender cables, to arrive, in no more than a split second, at the computer for which they are meant, where they can be used again at the click of a mouse. In contrast, the movement of oil is a messy and ponderous affair, which makes huge claims on the landscape and built-up areas. Bulky, rusty pipes traverse the fields, while trucks and tankers toil slowly over roads and oceans, accompanied by the threat of pollution and explosion. Both processes have drastically changed the world, and continue to keep economic and political relations on the alert. With its black-and-white collage-like images, 'Warning Petroleum Pipeline' is reminiscent of art that, in the early twentieth century, was intended to depict the destructive power of the emerging heavy industry. |