MATERIALS: Coffe Pods, Arabic-gum.

Coffee pods in a new 'jacket'

This so called 'Drinkable' (a pun on 'wearable'), or 'Black Dress' is a combination of everyday objects, namely coffee and clothing.
The aesthetics of coffee pods inspired me to make a modular design which can be worn, and consumed.
This design is inspired by traditional Javanese clothing as worn by the people on the plantations harvesting this very coffee.
The Drinkable 'Black Dress' is made from 100% bio-degradable materials. The glue that holds the pods together is based on Arabic-gum. After wearing or consuming the dress it can be tossed in the green-waste bucket. Nearly 400 pods were used to manufacture this garment.
As finisage or opening of this piece's exhibition it can be consumed by the visitors.

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MATERIALS: Ketchup bottles, tape, alarm clock, batteries.

The ketchup-bomb, or 'Hollywood bomb', suggests a masacre, but infact only spreads sauce. Does no harm other then messing up your clothes. Bon a petit!
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MATERIALS: LU Crackers, electronic components.

Breadboard: Chew on this!

A 100% organic circuit board. It provides nutrition to laborers who otherwise would have to work for food under hazardous conditions.

The piece literally is a "breadboard". It consists of two transistors, two condensators, four resisters mounted on a wheat cracker and functions as a bistable multivibrator that makes an LED blink.

Beyond the word pun, the work is a reflection on electronic waste. Consumer electronics are mostly manufactured and "recycled" under precarious Third World labor conditions. The work invites the audience to reflect on how technology feeds our society. The board will rot after about two years, the equivalent of the average lifespan of a high-end personal computer. It is part of a series of works that combine everyday organic materials and substances with electronics and computation and use language puns as their source code. This piece, he promotes an alternative organic food approach to biological arts.

model: Kim Sadhinoch

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MATERIALS: Solina p200 electronic organ, Wood.
DOWNLOADS: soundrecording (mp3, 46 sec)

The Fourgan, is a modified Eminent Solina P200 electronic organ. The organ, a typical solo instrument and besides numerous 'one man shows' mainly used as solo instrument to lead a choir. The Fourgan consists of a typical 'home' organ divided in four sections aligned in a square cross. This way, group performances up to eight people are possible. Inspired by the minimal piano piece "Piano Phase" by Steve Reich from 1967  and the four piano setup of Simeon ten Holt's "Canto Ostinato" I composed a simple piece called 'Fourplay', to be played by four randomly picked persons from the audience. Each player will play a random note, wait 2 seconds, hit the same note again and wait 4 seconds. This process is then repeated several times. The counting of repetitions and pauses, creates a 'steady' rhythm, but because the players have to keep track of both the seconds they have to pause and the number of repetitions, they quickly lose track of time, creating an ever different performance and interesting social interaction.
Shown at V2, June 20 - 22, 2008. Click the 'soundrecording' link above for a excerpt from the performance at v2.

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MATERIALS: Canvas, Mold, Time.

Biological Generative Painting using mold. 1

MATERIALS: Twig, USB Thumbdrive.

This wooden thumbdrive answers the question: why usb thumbdrives are also called 'usb-sticks' ?1

MATERIALS: Concrete, Turntable.

Brick-up is a pick-up, or record-player, cast in concrete, to play your favorite musique concrete recordings. This is the first of a number of objects in the 'concretism' series. Brick-up could be placed between other concrete pavement stones, and is therefore actually the second version of the 'Stratenspeler'. Custom made on request, a maximum of ten Brick-up's are made, be quick to drop me a line in case you're interested! 1

MATERIALS: Sewing machine, DC motor, Needle, Vinyl record.

Combination between a recordplayer and sewingmachine. Update Oktober 2008: Completely working!

Shown at the Willem de Kooning Academy graduation show, at Las Palmas, Rotterdam, at the Villanuts gallery in the Hague, the Media Art Festival Friesland in 2007, in the Zink Magazine May Issue, at Siggraph Los Angeles 2008 and at the Design Biennale of St. Etienne 2008, France, Interview MagazineNew York.

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MATERIALS: Harmonium, Vacuumcleaner.
DOWNLOADS: soundrecording (mp3, 46 sec)

Combination in form, function, and words.

Shown at the Willem de Kooning Academy graduation show, at Las Palmas, Rotterdam, at the Villanuts gallery in the Hague, the Media Art Festival Friesland in 2007, in the Zink Magazine May Issue, at Siggraph Los Angeles 2008 and at the Design Biennale of St. Etienne 2008, France.

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MATERIALS: Record player, 9 Concrete Tiles, DC motor, Amplifier, Microphone, Various vacuum cleaner parts.

The 'Streetmusician' literally plays the street. It makes everyday urban patterns and structures audible.

Shown at the Willem de Kooning Academy graduation show, at Las Palmas, Rotterdam, at the Villanuts gallery in the Hague, the Media Art Festival Friesland in 2007, in the Zink Magazine May Issue, at Siggraph Los Angeles 2008 and at the Design Biennale of St. Etienne 2008, France.

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MATERIALS: Sheet, Typewriter.

Ever wanted to have a search option in a book? this is the d.i.y ctrl+f hardcopy search engine. How does it work?
Get a transparent sheet of plastic,place it in a typewriter, type your search term on the sheet and remove it from the type writer. Now move your sheet with your search term over the pages of the book you want to search. Focus on the word printed on your sheet.
If the word on the sheet matches with a word in the book, you can clearly read it and distinguish a shadow-like effect under the word printed on the sheet. You found a match! Otherwise it will clearly look distorted.

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MATERIALS: Vacuum Cast Mouldings, Water, Syrup.

M shaped ice cream. Designed by words; Pun on the Dutch word for icecream: ijsje and the word for girl (meisje) that results in 'Mijsje'.


Shown and eaten at Gallery Villanuts in the Hague.

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MATERIALS: PHP, HTML
DOWNLOAD: Click (16Kb ZIP)
LINK: View


Super simple, ultra minimal, extremely limited flat-file blogging script. No database needed, only php4+.

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MATERIALS: PHP, Javascript, HTML
VIDEO: View (Youtube)
LINK: Try (Down)


This project elaborates an explicit parody on the authority of Google Search ranking algorithm offering the possibility to revert its
calculation, placing the least valued links in the first place on top of its results.

After years of success servicing heuristic information to worldwide Internet users, the omnipresence of Google for our web searches is
scary to some and even scholarly questioned. What in reality looks like a neutral evaluation and attribution of popularity might just be
relative to a point of view, as the spectre of a subjective evaluation becomes a worrying doubt for those who consider it a totalitarian
monopoly on information.

While it still serves well our purposes, setting an higher standard for our web navigation and a growing number of Internet based
services, Google's hegemony of sense is turned upside down by a simple web-scraping algorithm built in a web browser extension.

This project, and other projects as Google Random (Shmoogle), suggest that the democratic spirit of Google's policies and its "we do no evil" motto
could lead to open its final and most obscure secret, the search rating algorithm, opening it as in the case of its other public
services. By offering a "Google Search API" for its users to customise search results and match the variety of possible evaluations, Google
can reply threatening criticisms with a fresh addition to its user interface, democratically empowering humans to interact with the
majestic power of its machine brain, for the noble sake of relativity of views.


Text by Jaromil. Part of the thematic project by Jaromil
at the Piet Zwart Institute Master course of the
Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Holland.

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