Dirk Vekemans
Since 2005
Works in Kessel-Lo Belgium

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BIO
born in 1962 in Lier, Belgium.
studied filology at Louvain, Belgium.

worked a lot in bars and restaurants before i became obsessivly addicted to producing stuff on computers.

i once won a design contest of cgi-magazine and they let me go to New York for four days, that was nice.

i think in terms of writing mostly (or programming, but those are very similar processes for me)

painting is a very different process and i'm very bad at it but i do it anyway because i like the differences it produces and i like the freshness of amateurism, i guess.

what i produce new media-wise is also very much influenced by my daily practice of webdesign and programming with its concerns of usability and the pragmatic approach it implies.

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DISCUSSION

Re: This Year in Jerusalem


Michael,
Although i have my doubts as to its function (somehow i think the Wall can
only function where it is), this is apparantly a wonderful work and i wish
could get to Prague. Will the installation be travelling across Europe,
perhaps?

http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/aexhibition.htm is what i found, guess you
forgot that.

do you have another URL on the project? Are there any photographs available
from the ground level of the museum, i would like to see it from the
visitor's point of view.

Congratulations.

Best,
dv

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> Namens michael bielicky
> Verzonden: donderdag 1 december 2005 10:45
> Aan: list@rhizome.org
> Onderwerp: RHIZOME_RAW: This Year in Jerusalem
>
> This Year in Jerusalem is an interactive, telematic
> installation placed at the Robert Gutmann Galery at the
> Jewish Museum Prague. For that purpose it is equipped with a
> special device to track movements (a motion capture tracking
> system). The system works on the basis of four lamps that
> emit infrared rays whose reflections off the bodies of
> visitors to the gallery are recorded by four ir-cameras. This
> data is transferred to the system's center, which then
> generates an image according to set parameters. The image is
> a double, or avatar, of each visitor, a three-dimensional
> model composed of voxels (3D pixels). When someone moves in
> the designated area his figure and movement are captured and
> immediately transmitted into the image projected on the
> screen in front of him. This image is provided by a web
> camera located at the Western Wall (the Wailing Wall; Hebrew:
> ha-Kotel ha-Ma'aravi) in Jerusalem and streamed in real time
> via a high-speed Internet connection into the Ro!
> bert Guttmann Gallery for the entire length of the
> installation, thereby offering visitors to the gallery in
> Prague a unique opportunity to find themselves in Jerusalem
> without having to overcome any geographical distance between
> the two cities, or cross any boundaries whatsoever. The web
> camera located in the gallery enables you to view this in
> real time with an aditional webcam installed in the
> gallery.Thoe show runs from 16th of November 2005 till 16th
> of January 2006.
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DISCUSSION

fix my pftix


Call 4 snD
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/call4snd.jsp

grtigns,
dfv @ Neue Kaffeedrale des Neurotischen lLends

DISCUSSION

Eternity is in love with the production of time


restoring Blake's Printing House

(Plan for a 12,569$ interactive stereoscopic projection of
The Proverbs of Hell in Kessel-lo, Flash 8 video, 3,33 mb)

http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/blake.jsp

greetings,
dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends

http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

DISCUSSION

sponge


DANA in the POND, another failure
with some dramatic sucking on a sponge

(Requires Flash Player 8)

<http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/flash/dana_8_2.jsp>
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/flash/dana_8_2.jsp

greetings,

dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends

http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

DISCUSSION

after all the mistakes i made you had to fall into this one


desperately trying to get

DANA MILLER IN THE POND
flash, after effects & Edward Steichen, 7mb, _no_sound

http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/dana.jsp

greetings,
dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee