Digital Dish hosts Angelo Vermeulen.
Date: Wednesday 6th of November, at 7pm
Seeker is a worldwide series of co-created spaceship sculptures that evolve over time. At its core, Seeker is a community art project that invites people to fundamentally rethink the future of human habitation and survival. Instead of keeping the various functions connected to life support, work and leisure separated, the Seeker community sets out to create integrated, closed systems that favour hybridization and encourage sustainability. This is achieved by radically interconnecting technology, ecology and people, while at the same time tapping into local traditions.
Angelo Vermeulen is a visual artist, filmmaker, biologist, space researcher, community organizer, and author. His original PhD training in ecology, environmental pollution and teratology plays a crucial role in his art. Vermeulen creates art installations that are often open, experimental setups that incorporate ecological processes and living organisms. His projects include 'Blue Shift', a Darwinian art project in collaboration with evolutionary biologist Prof. Luc De Meester, and 'Corrupted C#n#m#', an experimental cinema project that explores the physicality of digital media through biological interference. 'Biomodd' is Vermeulen's most well-known and longest running project. It is a worldwide series of cross-cultural, symbiotic installations in which ecology, game culture, and social interaction converge. In 2009 he launched 'Space Ecologies Art and Design (SEAD)', a platform for artistic research on the architectures and biopolitics of space colonization. He collaborates with the MELiSSA life support division of the European Space Agency (ESA), and is also a member of ESA's Arts & Science Topical Team. His space-related work led him to start a new PhD at Delft University of Technology in 2011. He co-authored the book 'Baudelaire in Cyberspace: Dialogues on Art, Science and Digital Culture' with art philosopher Antoon Van den Braembussche, and gives talks about his work around the world. He is a Lecturer at Sint-Lucas Visual Arts Ghent in Belgium, a 2010 TED Fellow and a 2013 TED Senior Fellow. He received a2012 Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Fellow at Parsons in New York. In 2013 he was a crew commander of the NASA-funded HI-SEAS Mars simulation in Hawaii. His art works have been exhibited in the US, Europe, Southeast Asia and New Zealand.
Digital Dish is co-organised by Zavod Projekt Atol.
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