BAS VAN KOOLWIJK

Contact information:
bas@umatic.nl





Video and audio artist Bas van Koolwijk analyses the disturbances produced by video, transforming them into numeric code, in order to produce a visual and acoustic sequence in which sounds and images vigorously interact.
His video works can be seen as an aggressive attack on the illusion of video itself. Through a rigorous and formalistic approach, Van Koolwijk exposes the face of the machine which lives behind the often-placating veil of the televised image.


 SYNCHRONATOR preview video


RECENT

recent activities:
dec 15 2007, RF Live, State X New Forms, het Paard, Den Haag NL
dec 6 2007, SYNCHRONATOR Live, de Effenaar, Eindhoven NL
dec 2 2007, SYNCHRONATOR Live, Total Meeting, Petit Faucheux, Tours FR
dec 1 2007, SYNCHRONATOR Live, Pol'N, Nantes FR
nov 29 2007, SYNCHRONATOR Live, Instants Chavirés, Paris FR
nov 28 2007, SYNCHRONATOR Live, MediaRuimte, Brussels BE
nov 27 2007, SYNCHRONATOR video, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon ES
nov 23 2007, FDBCK/AV 3D Live, STRP festival, Eindhoven NL
nov 22 2007, FDBCK/AV - Silver, ColorField Variations, Cimatics Festival, Brussels BE
nov 21 2007, FDBCK/AV - Silver, ColorField Variations, Laptopia #4, Tel Aviv IL
nov 15 2007, SYNCHRONATOR video, Independent Film Show, Napoli IT
nov 13 2007, FDBCK/AV Live, Cine Fantom Club, Moscow RU
nov 8 & 10 2007, FDBCK/AV Live, Videologia, Volgograd RU
oct 19 2007, SYNCHRONATOR video, Optical Sensation, Filmreakter, Luxembourg LU
oct 12 2007, RF Live, Local Stop Concerts, Steim, Amsterdam NL
oct 7 2007, SKIF++, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, USA
oct 5 2007, SKIF++, Pixilerations Festival, Providence RI, USA
oct 4 2007, SKIF++, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn NY, USA
oct 3 2007, SKIF++, ffmup, Princeton University NJ, USA
sep 23 2007, SKIF++, Modulate, Birmingham UK
sep 22 2007, SYNCHRONATOR Live, Today's Art, The Hague NL
sep 18 2007, SKIF++, SuperCollider Symposium, Steim, Amsterdam NL
sep 9 2007, JAZZZIN session, with Cor Fuhler and dj DNA, de Broederij, Utrecht NL
sep 8 2007, FDBCK/AV - Silver, ColorField Variations, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY, USA
sep 1 2007, FDBCK/AV - Red Flag, 'REHEAT - Utopie und Sommer', Nickelsdorf AT


CURRENTLY AVAILABLE PROJECTS

SYNCHRONATOR    Live performance
Since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be directly recorded or projected with current equipment. For SYNCHRONATOR, Bas van Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins have created their own hardware to overcome this problem. www.synchronator.com
SYNCHRONATOR requires dual screen projection.
The project was developed during an 'Impakt Works' residency. www.impakt.nl

Previous performances: Impakt [Utrecht], Avanto [Helsinki], Melkweg [Amsterdam], Club Transmediale [Berlin]


FDBCK/AV    Live performance
Solo live performance in which Van Koolwijk generates a feedback control circuit between the audio and the video signals, making audio and video become two facets of a self-sustaining data stream. External control is established by manipulation of parameters for the interpretation of image>sound and sound>image. The application with which this is done, makes no use of camera or movie input. All sound and image data are generated real-time within the feedback system using digital video basics.

Previous FDBCK/AV performances include Mutek 05 [Montréal], Club Transmediale [Berlin], Garage Festival [Stralsund] and Re:visie/Dutch Film Festival [Utrecht]


SKIF++     Live performance
The electronic audio-visual trio SKIF++ is a collaboration of Jeff Carey, Robert van Heumen and Bas van Koolwijk. The SKIF++ sound ranges from sonic bursts to melodic melancholy and back, using joysticks and selfmade controllers to keep it all in line (most of the time). All compositions and performances are improvised, but based on structures that give each piece its distinct character. www.umatic.nl/SKIF++
Contact: skif++@hardhatarea.com

Available for screenings are the videos TST 02, TST 04, FIVE and FDBCK/AV - Red Flag.
These are abstract video compositions, compiled of digitally remodelled video disturbances. Using the basics of the signals function, an audio translation of the video signal serves as a soundtrack for these works.
Also available is SYNCHRONATOR, the first video release of the SYNCHRONATOR project.
For screenings please contact info@montevideo.nl


SELECTED LIVE PERFORMANCES

2007	State X New Forms, het Paard, Den Haag NL de Effenaar, with Gert-Jan Prins, Eindhoven NL Total Meeting, with Gert-Jan Prins, Petit Faucheux, Tours FR Cable #14, with Gert-Jan Prins, Pol'N, Nantes FR Instants Chavirés, with Gert-Jan Prins, Paris FR MediaRuimte, with Gert-Jan Prins, Brussels BE STRP festival, Eindhoven NL Cine Fantom Club, Moscow RU Videologia, Volgograd RU Local Stop Concerts, Steim, Amsterdam NL Dartmouth College, with SKIF++, Hanover NH, USA Pixilerations Festival, with SKIF++, Providence RI, USA ISSUE Project Room, with SKIF++, Brooklyn NY, USA ffmup, with SKIF++, Princeton University NJ, USA Modulate, with SKIF++, Birmingham UK Today's Art, with Gert-Jan Prins, Filmhuis, The Hague NL SuperCollider Symposium, Steim, with SKIF++, Amsterdam NL JAZZZIN session, with Cor Fuhler and dj DNA, de Broederij, Utrecht NL JAZZZIN session with Ernst Reijseger and dj's Sjam & DNA, Utrecht NL (in)visible sounds, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam NL Camera Lucida DVD release party, Melkweg, Amsterdam NL Fragment, with Gert-Jan Prins, Les Trinitaires, Metz FR Donau Festival, with gert-Jan Prins, Krems AT umatic.nl evening, with Christian Toonk, OT 301, Amsterdam NL DNK Afregelsalon III, OT 301, Amsterdam NL Club Transmediale, with Gert-Jan Prins, MAO, Berlin DE
2006	Upgrade!, with Gert-Jan Prins, Melkweg, Amsterdam NL Cinematiek #14, with Robert van Heumen, 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL Sound & Image, Filmhuis, Den Haag NL Paradox, with SKIF++, Tilburg NL AVANTO, with Gert-Jan Prins, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki FI Sensoralia/Romaeuropa festival, with Staalplaat Soundsystem, Rome IT LUISTEREN!, with SKIF++, Theater Kikker, Utrecht NL N-Collective tour, St. John's Church, Baltimore MD, USA N-Collective tour, The Redroom, Baltimore MD, USA N-Collective tour, Diapason Gallery, New York City, USA N-Collective tour, The Tank, New York City, USA N-Collective tour, Flywheel, East Hampton MA, USA N-Collective tour, Sonic Circuits, Washington DC, USA Re:visie/Dutch Film Festival, with Staalplaat Soundsystem, Utrecht NL YOKOMONO with Staalplaat Soundsystem, Steim, Amsterdam NL GOGBOT festival, Enschede NL State of the Image, Arnhem NL WAVES, RIXC Media Space, Riga LV Impakt SYNCHRONATOR event, with GJ Prins, Zaal Moira, Utrecht NL )toon) festival, with SKIF++, Toneelschuur, Haarlem NL Theater Frascati, with SKIF++, Amsterdam NL N-Collective cd release (visuals), Mediamatic, Amsterdam NL Sonic Acts, with SKIF++, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL Baroch, with R. Nijhof and C. Toonk, Vishal, Haarlem NL Live Cinema, Extrapool, Nijmegen NL Live Cinema, <>tag, Den Haag NL Live Cinema, Klub Koe, Den Bosch NL Live Cinema, WORM, Rotterdam NL Live Cinema, OT 301, Amsterdam NL Kraakgeluiden, with Christian Toonk, OT301, Amsterdam NL
2005	TAC, with SKIF++, Eindhoven NL Local Stop Concerts, with SKIF++, Steim, Amsterdam NL Theater Kikker, with SKIF++, Utrecht NL Kraakgeluiden, with SKIF++, OT 301, Amsterdam NL Break 2.3, with Christian Toonk, Ljubljana SI Unsound, with Wojciech Kosma, Krakow PL Garage Festival, with C. Toonk and R. Nijhof, Stralsund DE Garage Festival, with FM3, Stralsund DE Le Placard/Garage, Stralsund DE Mutek 05, X-Centris, Montréal CAN Le Placard/Mutek, with FM3, Montréal CAN Le Placard/Mutek, with Staalplaat Soundsystem, Montréal CAN Dissonanze Festival, with Christian Toonk, Rome IT Xfilm Festival, Black Box, Sofia BG Artis Gallery, with C. Toonk and R. Nijhof, 's-Hertogenbosch NL Utrecht Uploaded, Expodium Gallery, Utrecht NL Club Transmediale, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin DE Netmage Festival, Theatro Manzoni, Bologna IT
2004	'Stop Dancing, Start Looking', 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL Re:visie, Dutch Film Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL Garage Festival, Stralsund DE BAK, with Derek Holzer and Christian Toonk, Utrecht NL Umatic event at Club Moira, with 87 Central, Yannick Dauby a.o., Utrecht NL 50% Beeld, with Derek Holzer, Montevideo, Amsterdam NL
2003	Tivoli-de Helling, Utrecht NL PPC Graz, with Kim Cascone, Kid 606 a.o., Graz AT ORF Kunstradio, live radio broadcast and web stream from Graz AT Cinematiek #1, theater 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL COURTisane Festival, Ghent BE Earational Festival, with Derek Holzer, Den Bosch NL Netmage Festival, Bologna IT
2002	PEK Festival, Filmhuis, Den Haag NL IMPAKT Festival, with Greg Davis and Hrvatski, Utrecht NL Planetart at 'Madrettor Festival', Off-Corso, Rotterdam NL WRONG Festival, with Derek Holzer, Barcelona ES MUTEK Festival, with Radboud Mens, X-Centris, Montréal CAN DOT.NU, with Radboud Mens, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL DOT.NU, with Radboud Mens, V2_, Rotterdam NL E.R.S. Label Presentation Night, Mixer Cinema Concerts #12, OT:301, Amsterdam
2001	Circus Maximus, Stichting Lazy Marie, Begane Grond, Utrecht PIMP ARENA, Dutch vj's for EMAF 2002', with Radboud Mens, W139, Amsterdam (broadcasted by NDR television Germany, march 4, 2002) WORM in Las Palmas, with Radboud Mens, Las Palmas Building, Rotterdam
2000	Planetart Festival, with Radboud Mens, Muziekcentrum, Enschede World Wide Video Festival, with Radboud Mens, Melkweg, Amsterdam Worm Salon #5, Goethe Instituut, Rotterdam Vierde Kunstvlaai, with Radboud Mens, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam