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Work Title
Habitat
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Work Title（EN）
Habitat
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Please describe the concept of your artwork in 2000 words.
The environmental crisis and the destruction of habitats force us to imagine a future in which nature can be remembered in digital form. Natural history museums aim to preserve nature physically by fixing it in time and space. How might the archiving of nature evolve in a digital context? Could digitalisation bring us even closer to nature?
In Heleen Blanken’s data-driven projection, Habitat, 3d scans of organic artefacts such as stones, fossils and corals from Leiden’s Naturalis Biodiversity Center are transformed into a game-like, meditative environment. You are invited to reconnect with the wonder of nature as you navigate through a series of ever-evolving digital worlds, each accompanied by its own soundscape.
Human’s impact is not always immediately visible. Interact with the motion-sensor sculpture to see how your presence influences the work and generate your own unique audio-visual experience.
By implementation of proximity and rangefinder sensors habitat is investigating a sociological purpose. Data-driven installations often offer too much control to the spectator. Habitat plays with this control, it does not immediately react to the spectator’s actions, instead, it reacts through delays. The result is that an action from one spectator could create a different visual outcome for the next. Or sometimes the parameters are changed in a way that you could doubt if it is embedded in the work or a result of your action. This interaction within HABITAT is symbolic of how humanity interacts with nature. It emphasises how humanity is not in control of nature and the fact that our impact on nature is not always immediately noticeable.
The work will evolve in the coming years and morph into different versions of its original habitat. Habitat is an ongoing project, the first version of Habitat is currently on display at the Nxt Museum Amsterdam.
Habitat is a work by Heleen Blanken
Software development: NAIVI
Sound: Stijn van beeK
Funded by Creative Industries Fund NL, Stichting Stokroos, Nxt Museum Amsterdam -
Please describe the concept of your artwork in 2000 words. （EN）
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Work Specification
Habitat is a data-driven installation, projection, scalable to preferrable size.
The work includes sensory sculptures, Habitat software, 4D sound setup
The work needs:
4K Projector (preferably BARCO UDX-4k32 ) minimum 20.000, 1 HDMI input
Quadraphonic Audio system, 4 speakers + Subwoofer
Audio Interface (focusrite or Roland octa capture)
Projection-screen
Windows computer with minimum Nvidia Geforce GTX 3060 16gb
Network cables (CAT6) from computer to sensory hub
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Work Specification（EN）
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Media CoverageURL
https://nxtmuseum.com/artist/habitat-heleen-blanken/
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Video URL
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Your OfficialURL (Website, Instagram, Facebook)
www.heleenblanken.com
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Please describe how your work relates to the theme of the special prize.
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Habitat
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The environmental crisis and the destruction of habitats force us to imagine a future in which nature can be remembered in digital form. Natural history museums aim to preserve nature physically by fixing it in time and space. How might the archiving of nature evolve in a digital context? Could digitalisation bring us even closer to nature?
In Heleen Blanken’s data-driven projection, Habitat, 3d scans of organic artefacts such as stones, fossils and corals from Leiden’s Naturalis Biodiversity Center are transformed into a game-like, meditative environment. You are invited to reconnect with the wonder of nature as you navigate through a series of ever-evolving digital worlds, each accompanied by its own soundscape.
Human’s impact is not always immediately visible. Interact with the motion-sensor sculpture to see how your presence influences the work and generate your own unique audio-visual experience.
By implementation of proximity and rangefinder sensors habitat is investigating a sociological purpose. Data-driven installations often offer too much control to the spectator. Habitat plays with this control, it does not immediately react to the spectator’s actions, instead, it reacts through delays. The result is that an action from one spectator could create a different visual outcome for the next. Or sometimes the parameters are changed in a way that you could doubt if it is embedded in the work or a result of your action. This interaction within HABITAT is symbolic of how humanity interacts with nature. It emphasises how humanity is not in control of nature and the fact that our impact on nature is not always immediately noticeable.
The work will evolve in the coming years and morph into different versions of its original habitat. Habitat is an ongoing project, the first version of Habitat is currently on display at the Nxt Museum Amsterdam.
Habitat is a work by Heleen Blanken
Software development: NAIVI
Sound: Stijn van beeK
Funded by Creative Industries Fund NL, Stichting Stokroos, Nxt Museum Amsterdam
In Heleen Blanken’s data-driven projection, Habitat, 3d scans of organic artefacts such as stones, fossils and corals from Leiden’s Naturalis Biodiversity Center are transformed into a game-like, meditative environment. You are invited to reconnect with the wonder of nature as you navigate through a series of ever-evolving digital worlds, each accompanied by its own soundscape.
Human’s impact is not always immediately visible. Interact with the motion-sensor sculpture to see how your presence influences the work and generate your own unique audio-visual experience.
By implementation of proximity and rangefinder sensors habitat is investigating a sociological purpose. Data-driven installations often offer too much control to the spectator. Habitat plays with this control, it does not immediately react to the spectator’s actions, instead, it reacts through delays. The result is that an action from one spectator could create a different visual outcome for the next. Or sometimes the parameters are changed in a way that you could doubt if it is embedded in the work or a result of your action. This interaction within HABITAT is symbolic of how humanity interacts with nature. It emphasises how humanity is not in control of nature and the fact that our impact on nature is not always immediately noticeable.
The work will evolve in the coming years and morph into different versions of its original habitat. Habitat is an ongoing project, the first version of Habitat is currently on display at the Nxt Museum Amsterdam.
Habitat is a work by Heleen Blanken
Software development: NAIVI
Sound: Stijn van beeK
Funded by Creative Industries Fund NL, Stichting Stokroos, Nxt Museum Amsterdam
