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Maarten Vanden Eynde (Belgium, 1977) is a visual artist who graduated in 2000 from the free media department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (NL), participated in 2006 in the experimental MSA (Mountain School of Arts) in Los Angeles (US) and finished a post graduate course in 2009 at HISK Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent (BE) where he is a regular guest tutor. Since 2020 he has been a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen in Norway, focusing on the history and evolution of external memory devices. In 2017 he was nominated for the first Belgian Art Prize and won the Public Prize.
In 2005, together with Marjolijn Dijkman, he founded Enough Room for Space, an interdependent art initiative that develops and coordinates events, residencies, research projects and exhibitions worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include: Exhumer le futur at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FR (2022) ; Tracing Memories at NOME gallery, Berlin, DE (2022) ; Digging up the Future at Mu.ZEE, Ostend, BE (2021).
Recent group exhibitions include : Beaufort 21 Triennial, BE (2021) ; Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design &amp; Architecture, Hasselt, BE (2020) ; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE (2020) ; Tallinn Photomonth &#8211; Contemporary Art Biennial, EE (2019) ; 6th Lubumbashi Biennale, DRC (2019) ; RIBOCA/Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, LV (2018) ; Belgian Art Prize 2017, Bozar, Brussels, BE (2017) ; 2050. A Brief History of the Future at National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW (2018), Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT (2016) and The Royal Museums of Fine Art, Brussels, BE (2015) ; Réalités Filantes, 4th Biennale de Lubumbashi, CD (2015) ; Beyond Earth Art at Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, US (2014) ; Ja Natuurlijk, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, NL (2013) ; The Deep of the Modern, Manifesta9, Genk, BE (2012) ; The Museum of Forgotten History, M HKA, Antwerp, BE (2012) and Dublin Contemporary in Dublin, IR (2011).
Vanden Eynde is represented by Meessen De Clercq gallery in Brussels, Belgium, and NOME gallery in Berlin, Germany.

Maarten Vanden Eyde

The five major oceanic gyres – the North and South Pacific Gyres, the North and South Atlantic Gyres and the Indian Ocean Gyre – collect and contain plastic from around the world. It was in the North Pacific Gyre in 1997 that Captain Charles Moore discovered a vast accumulation of plastic debris which came to be called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It led him to set up the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation in Long Beach, California.
It was from Captain Moore that Vanden Eynde acquired his first samples of plastic. Back in his studio he found that when it was melted the plastic took on a seemingly more natural form, resembling a colourful coral reef. The plastic rubbish gained a strange beauty whilst at the same time generating a double reference to both the worrying abundance of plastic in the ocean and the accelerating loss of coral reefs worldwide. Thus began the construction of Plastic Reef, a growing sculpture which over the next five years gained weight and size every time it was exhibited, helping to raise awareness of plastic pollution as well as alluding to its escalation. In total over 1000 kilograms of plastic debris from all five gyres was extracted from the oceans. By 2012, when it was exhibited in the Manifesta9 Biennial in Genk, Belgium, Plastic Reef had attained its maximum size of 450 × 500 centimetres. Subsequently, several smaller plastic reefs were created.
Ironically and tragically, in 2015 scientists discovered that natural coral was ingesting micro-plastics, poisoning itself in the process. Next to acidification and the rise in ocean temperatures, this is one of the main reasons why the Great Barrier Reef is disappearing.

Plastic Reef

Halle Al'Chair

VOID is a collective of visual artists comprising Arnaud Eeckhout (BE 1987) and Mauro Vitturini (IT 1985). They have lived and worked in Brussels since 2013. Active both in Belgium and abroad, they were notably winners of the Salomon Residency Award in New York (2019) and the Prix Médiatine (2015).
VOID is developing an artistic approach that questions sound as a vector of representation, using the medium of sound in the same way that a painter uses his brush to trace the contours of the visible. 
For the duo, the invisibility and immateriality of sound become the starting point for an exploration that questions the phenomena of language and memory. Their multi-disciplinary work takes a wide variety of forms, including video, installation, book, performance, sound pieces and public interventions.

Collectif VOID

Night Shift is a random Opera for a choir of articulated robots.
This project was produced through the collaboration of Colletif VOID with researchers from the University of Namur (UNamur).
Night Shift is based on the research of Elio Tuci and Timoteo Carletti (UNamur) in the domain of bio-inspired robotics and computational intelligence.The installation features a troop of robots designed to operate autonomously, following a restricted set of actions. Just like individuals in a swarm (bees, ants, etc.), each robot in Night Shift follows its own path.
Rules are :
Walk straight 
IF crossing the road of a peer 
THEN stop walking and start singing 
THEN repeat
The robots interact with one another randomly, each one with its own set of generated lyrics, creating a never-ending, always different composition.
Seemingly engaged in their duty, the anthropomorphized bots are called the Watchmen, guardians of an empty space. Their words reveal the Sisyphean aspect of any act of surveillance, as well as the condition of human beings involved in it :
We&#8217;ve watched and walked, 
We&#8217;ve searched and scanned, 
But still we wonder, what is our plan, 
Is there a purpose in this place, 
Or are we just filling an empty space?
The installation is produced in collaboration with the KIKK, TRAKK, UNamur, la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles.
Singers: Philippe Favette &#8211; Kenny Ferreira &#8211; Julie Calbete &#8211; Julie Vercauteren 
Engineering supervisor: Elio Tuci &#8211; Timoteo Carletti 
Engineering: Muhanad Hayder

Night Shift

Coworking Namur

VOID Collective

Gabey Tjon a Tham researches the complex systems that occur both in nature and in our digital world and how they affect each other through ever evolving processes. These principles are explored through audiovisual installations that are balancing between virtual and analog realities.
By acquiring cross-disciplinary knowledge in the natural sciences and computer science she finds connections between the natural and artificial in our anthropocentric environment. Her artistic practice revolves around the question: How natural is nature in our current time ?

Gabey Tjon a Tham

Every day we are surrounded by machines and technological systems that have their own internal clocks. If/Then seeks to make sense of these mathematical time systems contained in the technological systems we daily interact with. As humans we perceive time in a subjective and fluid way, while computer time and rules are measurable in strict miniaturised sequences and programmed units.
If/Then proposes a fluid interpretation of algorithmic software architecture speculating on the wave and particle duality, one of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics that states that at a fundamental level reality consists of two essences instead of one (1) or the other (0), as in our current digital binary system. The installation invites the viewer to observe the mixed substance as a particle or wave. Two wave machines are interconnected by means of a sensor that reads the movement of the wave on the other side of each machine. Water is used as a chaos element to generate random data. A self-directing dialogue is created of hydrogen bubbles, waves in water, sound recordings from rain and individual water droplets.
Credits
Commissioned by : FIBER
Supported by : Crossing Parallels (TodaysArt &amp; TU Delft), Stroom and the Creative Industries Fund NL
Software design &amp; development : Marcus Graf, Pandelis Diamantides, Amr Ranneh
Special thanks : Tatiana Kolganova, Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand, Bram Vreven, Erwin van Asbeck, Aurele Adam, Thim Zuidwijk, Nabi Kambiz, Aidan Wyber, Wim Uijttewaal, Luuk Meints