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BIO
Digital Media Artist, researching the socio-cultural impact of digital technology on cultures today
http://www.jeroenvanloon.com
//Projects
LIFE NEEDS INTERNET:
The project was initiated in 2010 when Jeroen van Loon started his research by traveling to areas representing the extreme opposites of our possibility to access to internet. Varying from a village in West Papua, where nobody had heard of the concept internet to the bustling metropolis of Singapore, where internet controls society. Here and everything in between he interviewed people he met on his travels. He asked each person to hand write a letter describing the influence of access to internet on his or her daily life. By looking at our digital world through the traditional technique of handwritten letters, we discover original and personal stories which portray our global digitalization.
http://vimeo.com/32456109
FROM DIGITAL TO ANALOGUE:
To graduate at an Academy for Digital Art without a computer?
Is that at all possible? How does the computer influence our lives?
With these questions Jeroen van Loon started this project; two months long Jeroen van loon did not touch his computer neither privately or as a Digital Media Artist and documented this in his Analogue Blog.
From the research of this blog, he created this installation which is a interactive journey through different generations and the changing influence of the personal computer on their daily life.
http://vimeo.com/15219434
ANALOGUE BLOG:
Instead of working with bites and bytes, this blog uses the traditional post-system. Everybody could subscribe to the blog by sending the necessary information (name, age, occupation and adress) to his homeadres.
Every week Jeroen van Loon would send a letter, typed and stencilled in an old-fashioned way, to his blog readers. His offline experiences were shared with over 80 readers, ranging in age from 23 and 66 years of age and even from across the border with Belgium. By communicating with letters and the fact that the blog was something haptic that arrived in their home, people felt more relax to write very personal thoughts instead of with use of e.g email.
http://www.jeroenvanloon.com/index.php?/project/analogue-blog/
XRAYS:
Original x-ray pictures when Jeroen van Loon took his personal computer to the hospital during his period as a digital exile. By displaying the personal computer in such a medical format, it’s becomes clear that the personal computer is much more than a functional machine, that it affects the human body, and mind, in a very serious way often forgotten by it’s own users.
http://www.jeroenvanloon.com/index.php?/projects/x-rays/
http://www.jeroenvanloon.com
//Projects
LIFE NEEDS INTERNET:
The project was initiated in 2010 when Jeroen van Loon started his research by traveling to areas representing the extreme opposites of our possibility to access to internet. Varying from a village in West Papua, where nobody had heard of the concept internet to the bustling metropolis of Singapore, where internet controls society. Here and everything in between he interviewed people he met on his travels. He asked each person to hand write a letter describing the influence of access to internet on his or her daily life. By looking at our digital world through the traditional technique of handwritten letters, we discover original and personal stories which portray our global digitalization.
http://vimeo.com/32456109
FROM DIGITAL TO ANALOGUE:
To graduate at an Academy for Digital Art without a computer?
Is that at all possible? How does the computer influence our lives?
With these questions Jeroen van Loon started this project; two months long Jeroen van loon did not touch his computer neither privately or as a Digital Media Artist and documented this in his Analogue Blog.
From the research of this blog, he created this installation which is a interactive journey through different generations and the changing influence of the personal computer on their daily life.
http://vimeo.com/15219434
ANALOGUE BLOG:
Instead of working with bites and bytes, this blog uses the traditional post-system. Everybody could subscribe to the blog by sending the necessary information (name, age, occupation and adress) to his homeadres.
Every week Jeroen van Loon would send a letter, typed and stencilled in an old-fashioned way, to his blog readers. His offline experiences were shared with over 80 readers, ranging in age from 23 and 66 years of age and even from across the border with Belgium. By communicating with letters and the fact that the blog was something haptic that arrived in their home, people felt more relax to write very personal thoughts instead of with use of e.g email.
http://www.jeroenvanloon.com/index.php?/project/analogue-blog/
XRAYS:
Original x-ray pictures when Jeroen van Loon took his personal computer to the hospital during his period as a digital exile. By displaying the personal computer in such a medical format, it’s becomes clear that the personal computer is much more than a functional machine, that it affects the human body, and mind, in a very serious way often forgotten by it’s own users.
http://www.jeroenvanloon.com/index.php?/projects/x-rays/
