[-empyre-] Long Bio for Maria Verstappen
Maria Verstappen
Driessens/Verstappen
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot
email notnot@xs4all.nl
Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen have worked together since 1990. They
both studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam and the Academy of
Fine Arts, Maastricht. They have held numerous exhibitions in galleries and
museums. They gave presentations atart academies, festivals and conferences
in Europe, Australia and the United States. They received a 1st prize at
LIFE 2.0 and LIFE 5.0, an international competition for Art & Artificial
Life, with their Tickle robot projects.
Education
1988-91 State Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam
1982-87 Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht
Solo-exhibitions
2004 Driessens/Verstappen, gallery Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam
2002 Tickle Salon, Mediamatic Supermarkt, Amsterdam
2001 Driessens/Verstappen, gallery Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam
2000 Driessens/Verstappen, Consortium, Amsterdam
2000 To infinity and beyond, Exedra, Hilversum
1999 Ima Traveller, Chapelle du Genêteil, Château Gontier, France
1999 Breed, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany
1997 Erwin Driessens et Maria Verstappen, Le Carré, Chapelle du Geneteil,
Chateau-Gontier, France
1996 Erwin Driessens et Maria Verstappen, Galerie Le Sous Sol, Paris,
France
1995 Erwin Driessens et Maria Verstappen, Optica, Montréal, Canada
1995 The Factory, gallery Oh!, Brussels, Belgium
1994 (Un)controlling, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
1990 Exhibition, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
Group-exhibitions
2004 Looping, Chapelle du Geneteil, Château-Gontier, France
2004 Open Borders, as part of Cultural Capital of Europe 2004, Lille,
France
2004 Parcours Contemporain, artroute, Fontenay-le-Comte, France
2003 About land, sea and faces. Present-day Dutch Video Art, Erasmushuis
Djakarta, Indonesia
2003 ARCO, Parque Ferial Juan Carlos, LIFE 5.0, Foundation Telefonica,
Madrid, Spain
2002 Selective Whole, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
2001 Déplacement à Maribor, Umetnostna Galarija Maribor, Slovenia
2000 hard/soft/wet: Artificial Lives, Future Screen00, Australian Centre
for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2000 Collection été, F.R.A.C. Lorraine, Galerie des Arts,
Blénod-les-Pont-á-Mousson, France
2000 Oblique LU Nights, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2000 Samenscholing, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
1999 Officina Europa, Villa delle Rose, Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna,
Italy
1999 Corps à Corps, 2nd. Festival Art and Technology, Université de
Technologie, Compiègne, France
1998 Organic, Palais des Arts, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
1997 MU, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1997 Genuine Fiction, W139, Amsterdam
1994 Le bénéfice du doute, Galerie Le Sous Sol, Paris, France
1993 Le bénéfice du doute, Optica, Montreal, Canada
1993 En Scène, W139, Amsterdam
1991 Double Distance, Museum Het Kruithuis, 's Hertogenbosch
Commissions
2004 Birth coin Princess Amalia, concept/design of ten-euro coin
celebrating the birth of the throne heir
production Royal Dutch Mint, Utrecht, in assignment of the Dutch
Ministry of Finance
2003 Timewarp, in collaboration with Arnoud Holleman
W.G. Witteveenplein, Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam, commissioned by CBK
(Center for Fine Arts), Rotterdam
1999 Art-Y-net #1, contribution to public internet terminals, Amsterdam
in assignment of the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts
Festivals/Screenings/Conferences/Workshops/Lectures
2004 Emerging Technologies, Siggraph 2004, 31st international conference
on computer graphics and
interactive techniques, Los Angeles Convention Centre, California,
USA
2004 unsorted, SonicActsX, Electronic Art and Music Conference, Paradiso,
Amsterdam
2004 Big Blip 04, Festival of Creative Arts, Science and Technology,
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
2003 ROBOT, robot festival, Eyebeam, New York, U.S.A.
2003 Creating the unforseen, the unthought and the unknown, Basque Country
University, Bilbao, Spain
2003 RGB, VJ/DJ festival, 20th edition of the World Wide Video festival,
De Melkweg, Amsterdam
2003 First Changmai New Media Festival , Changmai University Art Museum,
Changmai, Thailand
2002 Ik denk dus ik ben, talkshow, Gaslab, TU/e, University of Technology,
Eindhoven
2002 In Omgekeerde Richting, workshop at Gerrit Rietveld Academy,
Amsterdam
2002 Art and Artificial Evolution, workshop at Frank Mohr Institute, dep.
MFA IME, Groningen
2002 Sonar, 9th. International Festival of Advanced Music and Multi Media
Art, Centre de Cultura Contemporania
de Barcelona, Spain
2001 Second Iteration, international conference on generative systems in
the electronic arts,
Monash University, Arts & Design building, Caulfield campus,
Melbourne, Australia
2000 WIRE 2000, robotics workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
USA
1999 Copy & Paste, l'Usine, electronic music festival, La Bâtie, Geneva,
Switzerland
Competitions
2004 ACA Media Arts Festival , jury recommendation for Art Division,
Tokyo, Japan.
2002 LIFE 5.0, 1st prize, international competition Art & Artificial Life,
Madrid, Spain
1999 LIFE 2.0, 1st prize international competition Art & Artificial Life,
Madrid, Spain
Public Collections
2002 ABN/Amro, Netherlands
2001 Centraal Musem, Utrecht
1997 F.N.A.C., Puteaux - Paris, France
1996 F.R.A.C. Lorraine, Metz,
Publications / Catalogues
2004 unsorted, An A to Z for SonicActsX, Sonic Acts Press/De Balie, editor
Arie Altena, design Will
2004 Droog Event #1, Design etc, Open Borders, Lille 2004, Capitale
Européenne de la Culture,
editors Renny Ramakers and Wendel ten Arve, design Designlab
2004 Metacreation, Art & Artificial Life , author Mitchell Whitelaw, MIT
Press, Cambridge
2003 Morphogenitics: Generative processes in the work of Driessens and
Verstappen, author Mitchell Whitelaw,
Digital Creativity volume 14, Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers
2002 Het Blinkende Stof, op zoek naar een nieuw visioen, Querido
Amsterdam, author Anna Tilro
2001 Creative Evolutionary Systems, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN 1
55860 673 4
1999 Cho-Yaku, AI Japan, volume 1, December 99, ISBN 4 89367 613 X
1999 Officina Europa, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Edizione Mazzotta Milano
ISBN 88 202 1349 4
1997 The International Design Yearbook, editor Philippe Starck, Laurence
King Publishing, London
1994 Le bénéfice du doute, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Herblay, France
1990 Artscribe # 84, International Magazine of New Art, London
Press
2004 Artbots, Karl Williams, Servo, The Magazine for Autonomously Correct
Robots, January 04
2003 What the Dutch do for fun, Leigh Anderson, Popular Science, November
03
2003 Digital Art, Teleac/NOT radio 747 AM, October 25, 03
2003 Rise of the machines, Sarah Schmerler, Time Out, New York, # 406,
July 03
2003 RTL4 Nieuws, Reuters, RTL4, Nederland, July 03
2003 NY1 Technology News, Adam Balkin for NY1, New York, July 03
2002 Art Pick of the Week, Selective Whole: New Art from Amsterdam, Peter
Frank, LA Weekly, May 02
2001 The Tickle robot, Art and Artificial Intelligence, Anna Tilroe, NRC
Handelsblad, October 2001
2001 The Universe according to Driessens/Verstappen, Claudine Hellweg,
Kunstblad, April 01
2000 Sztuczna Sztuka, Christine Reilly, Aktivist Warsaw, October 00
2000 New on internet, Klaas de Jong, De Architect, September 00
2000 A cire perdu, Michel Gauthier, Omnibus January 00
1999 Organic, Magali Gentet, Art Press, March 99
1997 Contemporary poetry in Java-script, Ineke Schwartz, De Volkskrant,
December 97
1997 Computer & co., Anne Ring Petersen, Berlingske Tidende, October 97
1997 Dessine-moi un cyberspace, Libération, April 97
1995 Affiche, television broadcast BRT 2, Belgium
1994 (Un)controlling, Dominic van den Boogerd, Flash Art #177
1994 (Un)controlling, Michael Gibbs, Art Monthly #175
1994 Couleur Locale, Ineke Schwartz, De Volkskrant, March 94
1991 Model Spaces, Stuart Morgan, Artscribe #86
1991 The art of exhibiting: The exhibition as art, Dominic van den
Boogerd, Metropolis M #1-9
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