Technology requested

27 November 2010 – 6 February 2011

With Alfredo Ciannameo, Sonia Cillari, Kirsten Geisler, Edwin van der Heide, Marnix de Nijs and Christiaan Zwanikken

Opening 26 November, 5:00 p.m.
From 8.00 – 20.00 hrs Sonia Cillari will perform in her installation Sensitive to Pleasure and at 18.00, 18.45 and 19.30 hrs Alfredo Ciannameo will give a performance in his installation ionesis.

Work by artists who apply new technologies to initiate interaction with their audience will be central to the exhibition Technology Requested. The artworks only come to life when the visitor enters the artwork's physical space.

With the exhibition Technology Requested Heiner Holtappels will be saying his farewell as general and artistic director of the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Heiner Holtappels has held that position since1998, and wraps up his work here as of the end of February, 2011. The artists in the exhibition have a special relation with the Netherlands Media Art Institute, with their work having been shown a number of times at the Institute during the past twelve years. Technology Requested shows new installations that were realized in 2010. For example, the performance-installation by Sonia Cillari was created this year as an Artist in Residence project at the NIMk.

About his departure Heiner Holtappels declared: “For 12 years I have had the considerable pleasure of working for the Institute, and with its highly competent and deeply involved staff. Now the time has come again to do something different. Running an institute is chiefly management. I now want to focus again on making art, to go to work at that myself and to support artists in realizing their ideas.”

Heiner Holtappels studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf under K.O. Götz and sat the state examination in philosophy and art history. In addition to his function at the Netherlands Media Art Institute he is senior lecturer in Autonomous Art at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem. He is a member of the board of directors of the 5 Days Off Media Foundation, Dyne.org foundation, Moois Media Foundation, Nan Hoover Foundation and Euroz Foundation. He sits on the advisory boards of the Center of Art, Sangeorgiu de Mures and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (both in Romania), and from 2000 through 2005 was chairman of the committee on Visual Art and Design for the Cultural Council.

On Friday, 4 February, a special finissage will be organized, around the theme of Heiner Holtappels's upcoming departure. More information will be available after the beginning of 2011 on www.nimk.nl

Artists and works:
Sonia Cillari, Sensitive to Pleasure, 2010
Kirsten Geisler, Maya Brush, firstlife 2010
Edwin van der Heide, Evolving Spark Network, 2010
Marnix de Nijs, Physiognomic Scrutinizer 2010
Christiaan Zwanikken, Frantic Diggers (Scorched-earth Tactics), 2010
Alfredo Ciannameo, ionesis 2010

The exhibition is closed on december 25th and january 1st.