Visual Art Research

I was just walking. Along the line where the Dutch coast would lie if we didn't engage in coastal defense. The NulNAP line. Seventy percent of that route turned out to run along dikes. Seventy percent. I hadn't planned that. I hadn't expected it to affect me either. Because a dike is just a dike. […]

Dikes — Relocated is a generative animation that moves the entire stock of Dutch dikes — hundreds of kilometers of flood defenses — piece by piece to the NulNAP line: the coastline the Netherlands would have if not a single dike had ever been built. The line that I am presently walking. “Dikes are the […]

Expo at Huis van Eemnes With Polderportret [Polder Portrait], I explore how a landscape can reveal itself. Not by simply taking a photo of it, but by letting the landscape itself shape the image. To do this, I use a camera obscura — the primal form of photography. What began as a small experiment with […]

Last week I opened the second iteration of the Hoogwaterwinkel (High Water Popupstore) in the Waterstraat in Zaltbommel. The opening took the form of a simple performative gesture: river water was poured across the pavement, flowing toward a barrier of sandbags blocking the shop entrance. This small theatrical act made flood risk briefly tangible—bringing an […]

The installation Under the Turf, the Tide connects the landscape of the Eemland polder to two urgent challenges: sustainable food production and the restoration of biodiversity. The work invites a conversation about restoring balance between monoculture and biodiversity without sacrificing the functional capacity of the landscape. In doing so, Under the Turf offers a critical […]

I took this photograph on January 12, 2026, from a bus, traveling on the highway past a wintery Eemland. No walk, no setup, no carefully chosen viewpoint. The landscape slid past, filtered through glass, condensation, and speed. What can be seen is almost nothing. A horizon that barely wants to be a horizon. A thin […]

Lately I’ve been deep inside the Research Catalogue, building an exposition that refuses to sit still. Instead of thinking of it as a repository or archive, I’ve been treating it more like terrain—something to move through, to wander, to get a little lost in. And honestly: I’m having a lot of fun with it. The […]

This is NL_MIX – the app I made to study the future of the Netherlands with. The app combines visual material I took from future-of-the-Netherlands online glossies (pdf’s) produced by many, many interest groups and sorted into eight categories : Wonen (Housing). Werken (Work), Veiligheid (Safety), Recreatie (Recreation), Natuur (Nature), Infra (Infrastructure), Energie (Energy), Water …

The ISEA2025 proceedings are out, and I’m excited to share that our paper “Walking with AI: Speculative walking as artistic practice” is part of it. Written together with Steven Devleminck and Sandy Claes from KU Leuven, this paper represents months of walking, talking, thinking, and writing about what happens when you add an AI companion […]

“The ideal gallery space is a white, cube-shaped room, in which the walls and ceiling are unshadowed, the floor unobtrusive, and the art is isolated from everything that would detract from its self-sufficiency.”— Brian O’Doherty, Inside the White Cube The Hoogwaterwinkel was born in the clarity of a white cube. It began as an empty, […]

A river of words has been flowing through the Hoogwaterwinkel in Rotterdam. Projected on the wall, a vertical current of terms—slip, silt, confluence, mouth, seep, estuary—slowly passes by. Some are hydrological, some vernacular, some half-forgotten. Together they form a lexicon that behaves less like a list and more like water: accumulating, diverging, eroding meaning as […]

Returning from POM Perth 2025, I find myself wrestling with questions that extend beyond the fascinating presentations on synthetic sentience and into the realm of how we build and sustain interdisciplinary communities. The conference offered remarkable insights into the evolving landscape of art-science collaboration, yet it also raised some concerns about how we might broaden […]

Just got back from a whirlwind week in Copenhagen, where I joined 47 other PhD researchers from across Europe for the LERU Doctoral Summer School 2025. Hosted by the University of Copenhagen, the theme this year was “Artificial Intelligence across University Disciplines – Perspectives and Hands-on Experience.” Sounds hefty? It was—and in the best possible […]

I’m opening a shop. But not the kind where you can buy tote bags or art prints. No, this one is wetter. Stranger. And more urgent. Introducing the Hoogwaterwinkel – the High Water Shop – a temporary installation / intervention / flood-aware fantasy located in Rotterdam, at Josephstraat 164, throughout August 2025. We’re open Wednesday […]

ISEA2025, a contra-keynote in verses we are not the next we are the pause we are not the code that wrote the canvas but the smudge on the edge of the page we are the footfall on sodden ground not the aerial map we are the question you edited out for clarity we are the […]

No Bridge, Just Static We began by walking.Not in silence, not alone —but in speculative dialoguewith a machine. Walking with AI, I called it.Bodies, stories, landscapes —entangled through code and care.No neutrality, no God’s-eye view.Only questions.Who owns the path?Whose history lies beneath the sidewalk?Which absences speak loudest when we walk with them? Then Chris Barker […]

It’s Wednesday, 28th of May 10:00. Walking with AI presentation time. I’m at Seoul University – not just as a maker, but as a walker, a spark of movement, a listener in a landscape that speaks. My title is already a first step:Speculative walking as artistic practice. It says: this is not proof, not a […]

On Words, Data, and the Absence of BreathISEA2025 | Panel Reflection If I never attend another panel discussion again, I’ll live. And not because I don’t believe in dialogue—quite the opposite. I came to this session hungry for it. After all, the panel format promises a lot: multiplicity, friction, a range of voices in genuine […]

Ok, I went to the ISEA2025 keynote lecture today, but after 10 minutes of following a presentation in Korean via a live translate app, I decided to skip it and grab lunch. I am feeling pretty tired and am having problems motivating myself to stay at the conference. I wish my presentation (tomorrow at 10) […]

Between Ghosts and Islands: Three Experiments in Memory, Fantasy and Environmental ArtISEA 2025 Session: Transmedia Storytelling Today’s session offered three immersive works attempting to navigate memory, technology, and environment through narrative forms. The methods varied—interactive games, AI avatars, fantasy landscapes—but each tried, in its own way, to make emotional weight out of digital…