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MATERIALS: Coffe Pods, Arabic-gum.
MATERIALS: Ketchup bottles, tape, alarm clock, batteries.
MATERIALS: LU Crackers, electronic components.
MATERIALS: Solina p200 electronic organ, Wood.
MATERIALS: html code, paper, grand piano, pianist.
MATERIALS: Canvas, Mold, Time.
MATERIALS: Twig, USB Thumbdrive.
MATERIALS: Concrete, Turntable.
MATERIALS: Sewing machine, DC motor, Needle, Vinyl record.
MATERIALS: Harmonium, Vacuumcleaner.
MATERIALS: Record player, 9 Concrete Tiles, DC motor, Amplifier, Microphone, Various vacuum cleaner parts.
MATERIALS: Sheet, Typewriter.
MATERIALS: Vacuum Cast Mouldings, Water, Syrup.
MATERIALS: Software, Javascript, Smartphone.
MATERIALS: PHP, HTML
MATERIALS: PHP, Javascript, HTMLMay 29/ Cambrian Explosion on CounterCultureFestival2010, together with Erik Overmeire / Utrecht / LINK
Photo gallery: TAC Art & Design Sale, Eindhoven, NL May 15 - May 16 2010
Photo gallery: Group Exhibition TEST!0 Festival, Zagreb, Croatia March 22 - March 27 2010
Photo gallery: Boymans Young Fashion Design Competition January 3 - January 10 2010
Photo gallery: Echt Thema Exhibition March 15 - June 5 2009
Photo gallery: Soundtrack Exhibition February 13 - March 22 2009 / Video (Youtube)
Photo gallery: 1072 of 1992, Moddr window exhibition
Photo gallery: Work Offline Exhibition 2008-2009
Photo gallery: St Etienne Design Biennale 2008
Photo gallery: Bright Lounge Todays Art Festival 2008 Exhibition
Music: October 31 / Release of the 'Hark Too' LP with an ouverture by Dennis de Bel/ Cover / LINK
Photo gallery: Siggraph L.A. 2008 Exhibition
Photo gallery: Webcra.sh Exhibition (cooking cookbooks with JODI)
Article: Sew-O-Phone featured in Zinc Magazine, New York Fashion Magazine, May 2008.
Photo gallery: Parallel Space Exhibition
Photo gallery: 222volt Exhibition
Dennis graduated in June'07 as an Interactive Media designer at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy, in Rotterdam. In June'09 he completed the master-course Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute, also in Rotterdam. Currently he is the curator for the art program at the Rotterdam based triphouse record store and working for Net artist duo Jodi. His work is inspired by everyday life. Associations made between everyday objects and media result in hybrid forms and 'new media'. Recognizable but subtle and clever.
His work focusses on: consuming design/design interventions/questionable design.
STATEMENT
In everyday life we consume not only images and sound, we also consume objects, tangible things, design if you like.
Everything in our lives is designed, one way or another. This is sometimes hard to realize, whenever it is just good design or inevitable bad design. By introducing subtle 'design-interventions' I want to make people aware of the fact someone delibirately designed it the way it is. I want to encourage people to think about their everyday surroundings, and the objects they live and work with. I want to question design without solving problems. One only notices or questions something when there is something wrong with it. What happens to the object and it's consumer when you alter the function and,or form?
In my work I try to question previously made design decisions, decisions consumers take for granted. Therefore my work does not bear a message but rather asks a question.
To ask these questions I make use of the technique of language to build a critique of images, sculptures, sound and software. The medium I use is defined by the message, or question and thus can be anything.
Article: Interview Magazine September Issue 2009
Article: Zink Magazine May Issue 2008
In reaction to Bright's Creative Class '07: "Dennis de Bel's work is so well designed, the works look like they've always been like that" Ingeborg van Lieshout, Bright #18, vol. 3, Okt/Nov 2007
We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com "The work of Dennis de Bel particularly stands out from the pack. Not because of one of his work in particular but because most of his projects are extremely well-designed, witty and playful." Read the full interview: click here
Siggraph 2008 Jury review:
"The image of the sewing machine with the LP is almost enough to see this thing on its own. Definitely want these to be around for us to play with!"
"An experimental project that impressively joins the mechanical with the electronic, it focuses on audio design as a creation of found object and associative instrumental sound. Compelling, novel, and pointing to the art historical: DADA, Abstract Expressionism/Found Object, Pop Art, Fluxus and the Happening."
Artfuture Interview at Siggraph 2008 (youtube link).
Feel free to contact me:
Dennis de Bel
www.danos.nl
blog
dennisdebel.nl
info@dennisdebel.nl
June 30, 2010
Materials:
concept
Description:
Concept for LED-zeppelin and Blimp 182.
June 29, 2010
Materials:
software, javascript, smartphone
Description:
New website using google maps to find and share trash, or in our words 'gold'. Very useful if you're into recycle-art, or otherwise looking for materials for your project! Check it out here link. Also works on your smart-phone.
May 17, 2010
Materials:
Coffee-pods, arabic-gom-glue
Description:
First wearable incarnation of the Drinkable, also known as 'black-dress' (see below). No milk, no sugar.
May 17, 2010
Materials:
All found materials, wood, hangers, cardboard, concrete reinforcement
Description:
For the Art and Design Sale (link) in Eindhoven NL, Merel Vermeijden (link) and I needed something to carry our works in. Since we were going there by public transport we also couldn't take tables and chairs with us to present our works on. So I decided to make a cabinet which could be a presentation pedestal, as well as some sort of 'flight-case'. The 'Cabinetcase' above is the answer to these problems.<br>
The cabinet not only proved to be practical, it inspired us to develop a presentation model for our work. Although this is still a work in progress we want to: showcase new works every 'season' in a self-contained environment as gesamtkunstwerk. This way of working will give us structure to our spontaneous way of working, or as we like to call it: improv-design.
May 13, 2010
Materials:
Tissues, paper, printer, glue, photos
Description:
Instead of bill's printed on toilet paper, Softpron joins form and function into one object that shows that there isn't much of a difference between cliche and taboo. Available in discreet pocket sized 50 tissue volumes.
May 4, 2010
Materials:
Mop, glue
Description:
It seems that most (industrial) designs are improvements on existing models. This mop expresses this sentiment in a playful way. A simple design intervention resulting in a true twist-mop.
February 23, 2010
Materials:
Jeweler's saw, Needle, Yarn, Custom Grip, Aluminium
Description:
Hand-sewing machine made from a jeweler's saw.
February 23, 2010
Materials:
Piece of museum
Description:
Series of 'museum pieces', 'museum stukken' or pieces of museums. Number one is a piece of the Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL link. instead of using a 'non-art' context to create art in, I take an art context and turn this context into art. If you stumble upon a piece of a museum, please take a picture and email it to me link!
February 23, 2010
Materials:
Coffee-pod, string, staples, paper
Description:
Tea-bag style coffee-pod.
February 10, 2010
Materials:
Outward bent staple
Description:
New media often resorts to notions of metaphysics and cybernetics in order to provide context for yet, unproved grounds. The question what new media is, or how 'new' new media is forms the discourse of this 'meta-dialectical' discussion.
The meta-staple is not a critique on new media, nor new media.
This introspection of the phenomenology of new media is limited to my conformity.
January 13, 2010
Materials:
Paper, print, marker
Description:
250 unique business-cards. Each of them is hand-numbered by me.
December 7, 2009
Materials:
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Description:
The Black Dress link is nominated by the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen for their fashion design contest link ! The winner is announced on January the 10th at the museum where you can see the total of 10 nominated works in real life. More info will follow soon .
December 4, 2009
Materials:
Book cut-out
Description:
The handbook is a concept for a 'handbook' shaped like a game of peek-a-boo indicating that the reader is not available right now. It shows similarities to the 'hand of Fatima' and thus protects the reader from the evil eye, literally.
December 1, 2009
Materials:
Wooden Case, Foam, White Paint, Paint Roller, Painters Tape (not in image), Filler, Filler Knife, Sticker Remover
Description:
Kit #1, The White Cube Restoration Kit. Everything you need in the aftermath of an exhibition.
November 25, 2009
Materials:
Print
Description:
Modular radiator prints
November 23, 2009
Materials:
Coffee-pads
Description:
Prototype, Javanese Sarong-model. The Black Dress is a 'drinkable', a wearable drink.
November 20, 2009
Materials:
Software
Description:
Fed up with complicated blogging and cms software, I made my own ultra minimal script. This site is running on it!
This Software is released under the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Grab it here: link
copyright 2009 texthibit by dennis de bel