The world is broken, and demands radical reimagining. NDW Head of Ideas Arne Koefoed talks to exhibition maker/curator, activist and writer Ine Gevers and artist Thijs Biersteker who creates interactive awareness installations about the world’s most urgent issues today. About embracing tech as medium, and anthropomorphism as means to evolve. And how our power to adapt as society to face big challenges has been truly tested and proven to be ready to fix a broken system.
is an exhibition maker, writer and activist. Since 2007 she has been the artistic director of the Niet Normaal INT Foundation with the aim of realizing large-scale experience exhibitions on current topics for a wide audience.
FAKE ME HARD
how to survive the
post-truth society
June 30 – August 15 2021
FAKE ME HARD is a spectacular exhibition at the interface of art and technology by the creators of ROBOT LOVE and TEC ART from June 30 to August 15, 2021 at AVLMundo and GroupA, Rotterdam. The full exhibition and festival FAKE ME HARD kicks off during Art Rotterdam.
Thijs Biersteker creates interactive awareness installations about the worlds most pressing issues today. In his work he seamlessly combines scientific research and new technologies to deliver an empowering experience that is accessible both intellectually and technologically.
His highly awarded immersive art installations-often described as eco- or awareness art, turn the impact of topics like climate change, air pollution, ocean plastic and the anthropocene into a tangible experiences that travel the world to create awareness around these topics.
His collaborations with the top scientists and universities around te world lead to a fluid mixture of data, sensors, living tree’s, kinetic motion, big data visualisations and recycled plastics that make people feel the facts again.
Arne Koefoed, Founder and Head of Ideas at WINK and New Dutch Wave. Creative Director – Event, experience, and environment designer. Hippie, hooligan, tactile storyteller and experience architect on a mission to celebrate life, bring rapture, and make the world all right for a while. Transforming the temporary nature of an event into an unforgettable “now”.
