28-03-2019 EPHEMERAL DATA @ SPRING Performing Arts Festival
My latest work Ephemeral Data will premiere at the SPRING festival, Utrecht, NL, from 15 – 25 may 2019. Ephemeral Data will be a location based performative installation, open to the public each day from 14:00 – 22:00. It will be presented in the middle of Utrecht on the Neude plein.
26-02-2018 MIRAGE FESTIVAL #7 – LYON
I'm very happy to announce that An Internet will be shown during the Mirage Festival in Lyon, FR. The festival will take place from 3-7 april 2019.
Mirage Festival has been investigating the links between artistic creation and technologies for more than seven years. The festival inaugurated in 2018 a collaborative R&D program bringing together companies and artists (in partnership with Erasme, the open innovation laboratory of the Metropole de Lyon and Tubà).
Today, Mirage Festival also produces artworks, installations, exhibitions for companies, communities, institutions and has become an essential meeting in Lyon on all innovative artistic practice.
An Internet is presented with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
https://www.miragefestival.com
https://www.instagram.com/miragefest/
10-03-2018 SOLO SHOW @ AKSIOMA PROJECT SPACE
On 21 march my solo show Cellout.me will open at Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana.
I will give an artist talk during the opening at 7 pm.
Artistic Director: Janez Janša
Producer: Marcela Okretič
Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Alja Žorž
Technician: Valter Udovičić
Documentation: Jure Goršič (photo), Gregor Gobec (video)
Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
Cellout.me is included in the Collection Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium.
01-10-2017 MU – MATERIALISING THE INTERNET
During the new exhibition Materialising the Internet at MU I will be showing An Internet and a new updated version of Life Needs Internet.
Curators: Nadine Roestenburg & Angelique Spaninks.
Participating artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Jip de Beer, Dennis de Bel, Joshua Citarella, Alyssa Davis & Moises Sanabria (ART404), Dries Depoorter, Julien Deswaef, Antonio Esparza, Tom Galle, Mieke Gerritzen, Joey Holder, Matthew Hollings, Michelle Kasprzak, Kuang-Yi Ku, Jan Robert Leegte, Jeroen van Loon, Lauren McCarthy, Kyle McDonald, Brenna Murphy, Roel Roscam Abbing, Matthew Plummer Fernandez, Daniel Rourke, Brad Troemel, Clement Valla, Richard Vijgen, Valerie van Zuijlen.
31-09-2017 TECHNARTE LOS ANGELES 2017
I will be speaking during this year's Technarte conference in LA about my work, together with eleven other speakers.
"The International Conferences on Art and Technology have become an international reference for artists and professionals from the world of technology, who attend annually in order to discover and share the most innovative works and artistic projects that use technology as a primary tool of creation."
01-06-2017 DIGIMAG JOURNAL ISSUE 75
For Digimag Journal | Issue 75 | Digital Identities, Self Narratives, I wrote the article Selling my full genome to the highest bider: using art to expand the discourse surrounding DNA data.
Digimag Journal is available for free download in PDF, ePUB, MOBI and PRINT ON DEMAND on Digicult Editions.
Identity is becoming a fluid concept, encompassing different domains of the self. How are identities affected by technology and digital tools? What is the role of art in shaping this notion? It features contributions from: Miriam La Rosa, Linda Kronman & Andreas Zingerle, Alessio Chierico, Selena Savic, Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico, Nicola Bozzi, Jeroen van Loon, Randall Packer, Claire Burke, Patrick Lichty, Marco Cadioli, Patty Jansen and Samaa Ahmed. Co-published together with Goethe-Institut. Digimag Journal is curated by Silvia Bertolotti and Marco Mancuso.
08-03-2017 DIGICULT INTERVIEW
New interview online by Marco Mancuso for the Digicult platform.
"With a degree in digital media design and a relatively short career which began no later than 2010, Jeroen Van Loon has shortly become one of the most interesting media artist internationally. His research is able to surprisingly and ironically integrate a critical approach to the use of technological tools – in particular the Internet, with a solid theoretical and conceptual framework. Such an approach results in the production of objects and installations that enter the exhibition space with disarming immediacy."
13-02-2017 DI EGY FEST 02
From 5 – 10 March I will be in Cairo, Egypte to take part in DI EGY Fest 02, organised by Out Of The Circle Initiative. I will show Life Needs Internet and give a artist talk.
"The Second edition of the International Digital Art Festival – DI_EGY Fest 0.2 with the theme of "Coding & Identity" will be hold from 7-14 March 2017 at Darb 1718, Contemporary Art & Culture Center in Old Cairo."
This participation has been made possible by the generous support of the Creative Industries Fund NL.
04-01-2017 TRANSMEDIALE 2017
I will take part in Transmediale's "alien matter", exhibition curated by Inke Arns, with An Internet (2015).
"Within the scope of ever elusive – thirty years of transmediale, the special exhibition "alien matter" will be on view at Haus der Kulturen der Welt from 2 February to 5 March 2017. The exhibition is curated by Inke Arns and co-financed by Berlin LOTTO Foundation.
Approximately 20 exhibiting artists from Berlin and around the world will present works about shifts within such power structures, raising questions about the state of our current environment and whether it has already passed the tipping point, becoming "alien matter."
27-10-2016 MONEYLAB #3
I will take part, and talk about Cellout.me, in Session 2: When Art Mirrors Marx during the third Moneylab conference organised by Institute of Network Cultures.
"The aim of MoneyLab is to research, map and probe (alternative) strategies of redistribution and intervention in digital economy. It starts with the conviction that after the great Bank Robbery of 2008, we can no longer only criticize financial capitalism but need to map and probe alternatives."
MoneyLab #3 Failing Better
A two day symposium of talks, workshops, performances and parties that conquer the assumption that anything is too big to fail.
Conference : Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam
27-09-2016 CELLOUT.ME HAS BEEN SOLD!
After one year, the artwork Cellout.me – and with it my entire DNA profile – has been sold.
On 27-09-2016 at 24:00h the Verbeke Foundation had the highest bid and is now the new owner of the artwork and my DNA data.
12-10-2016 SHAPESHIFTERS LECTURE
I was asked to give a lecture for this years Shapeshifters lecture series. More information below.
Lectures in 2016 | To what extent can nature be altered today by new and emerging technologies? How are designers anticipating the possibilities, limitations and consequences which this bold evolution implies?
Six designers/researchers reflect on how this evolution sparks fundamental shifts in their work and thinking.
12 October: Jeroen van Loon and Agi Haines
16 November: David Benqué and Cathrine Kramer
30 November: William Myers and Byron Rich