Geert Mul wins Art+Technology Award 2010
(01-09-2010)
Dutch media artist Geert Mul is to receive the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2010 for his entire oeuvre. He will receive the award at a presentation ceremony in the Bergkerk church in Deventer on 11 November 2010.
An independent jury nominated Mul convincingly. His work is pivotal to contemporary art because of the innovative way he treats the avalanche of information and images of modern-day life. Mul’s interactive works show viewers how to look at the enormous stream of information and images from a different perspective. The viewer is no longer subjected to a tsunami of images, but experiences them as a filmed series in a constantly varying rhythm. Mul's works are exhibited very regularly in the Netherlands and other countries.
Exceptional artist
Artist Geert Mul was born in Rotterdam in 1965 and graduated from the Arnhem Academy of Visual Arts in 1990. He subsequently spent several years travelling through countries including Mexico and the United States and lived for a year in Tokyo. On his return to the Netherlands he worked with video in the underground scene of electronic dance music (techno) in Rotterdam’s nightlife and at pop festivals like Lowlands. This phenomenon later became known as VJ (video jockey). Mul’s exceptional artistic talents are built on letting large groups of people experience video and audio in constantly changing spaces. He enjoys national and international repute as a VJ and media artist.
Using the latest hardware and self-designed software, Mul develops sculptures, projections, generative installations and interactive installations. The technology underlying his works remains out of sight to the audience. His works are seemingly simple and accessible. The installations exert a great attraction on viewers for their fast-moving mass of recognisable everyday images. The audiovisual and spatial perceptions invoked by Mul's works are most poignant when experienced physically.
About the Art+Technology Award
The Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award was established in 2001 to mark the engineering consultancy’s 55th anniversary. The award is in recognition of the relationship between art and technology and the designing creativity common to the two disciplines. Creativity is a precondition for bringing about modernisation and plays an important role in the work of artists and engineers alike. The prize consists of €15,000 in cash, publication of a book dedicated to the winner's oeuvre and an exhibition at the Bergkerk church in Deventer. The award is presented annually in November.
