474746 The work of Martijn van Boven
Field Notes From A Mine premiers at IFFR 2012
I’m proud to announce that my new film Field Notes From A Mine will première at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, 2012. The film is also selected for the Tiger Award competition ( short films). Field Notes From A Mine is a data-driven documentary. A journey through the African continent based on a map of traditional pilgrimage routes. This [...]
(h)Ear Festival
On the 10th of December at the (h)Ear Festival.I’ll be giving a short lecture together with Gé Huismans of Gonzo Circus Magazine on the art of listening. Some of my good friends and colleague’s are performing as well: DJ Sniff, Keir Neuringer and Xavier van Wersch.
Shadow optics
Starting from today I’ll be working on a new live set: Shadow Optics. This 25 minutes live cinema piece will premiere at the MFRU festival in Maribor, November 19th. I’ll be posting some work in progress audio visual excerpts these upcoming days till the 19th.
Visit to arte.mov Brazil
From the 4th to the 7th of November I’ll be attending the Arte.mov festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil. I received an invitation to curate a film programme on Expanded Cinema on behalf of the Sonic Acts festival. Works will be shown , among others, by Golan Levin, Daniel Burkhardt, Steina Vasulka and Semiconductors. As well [...]
Point Line Cube Cloud Performance @ Vision Sonic
Here’s a short term notice… Tomorrow I’ll be performing a live cinema performance of Point Line Cube Cloud at the Vision Sonic Festival in Paris. The evening starts at 19:30. Location is at the Mains ‘dOeuvres For more info please visit their website for location and timetables.
Sonic Acts ‘The Poetics of Space’
As being part of the programming team I’m proudly to announce the opening upcoming Thursday the 23rd, of Sonic Acts ‘The Poetics of Space’. Which will be held in Amsterdam at various locations such as Paradiso, NIMk, de Balie and the Artis Planetarium. This year’s edition will be an exploration in art, science, music and [...]
A Thousand Scapes @ Plaza Plus
These days at the Media Festival ‘Plaza Plus’ in Eindhoven ‘A Thousand Scapes’ will be screened during the Optofonica program. You might check out as well the talk my friend Hans Beekmans gives on Live Cinema were he will screen also some footage from my performance Point Line Cube Cloud.
Optofonica DVD release
Finally it’s there, the long awaited dvd Optofonica. It contains besides my short film ‘A Thousand Scapes’ a long list of various artists who all work in the field immersive media art. The Optofonica dvd is produced and compiled by TeZ and brings together a wide variety of short films were possibilities of multi sensorial awareness [...]
upcoming events for December
This month Interfield will be shown at Fresh Festival, Bangkok, Thailand 18–20th Dec. 2009. Please navigate to there web-site for further details and screening dates. I’ll be performing two live sets at the Wired festival in the Hague, Holland on the 19th of December. A new live set’ Shadow Shift’ and Point Line Cube Cloud. [...]
Evening at Dutch Film Festival
revisie The annual Dutch Film Festival invited me for their RE:VISIE program to host an evening on Live Cinema and computer film art . During this evening I’ll exemplify and create some context not only on my own films and installations, as well I made a selection of short films by Dutch film makers. Together [...]