Hello everyone, after a long break we are back with a new episode featuring Gabey Tjon a Tham & Jeanine Verloop. We talk about alternate realities, what really is technology, new ways to blow glass, and more.

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? In her current practice she is focusing on working from location-specific experiences to reflect directly on environments where agents function with their own time cycles and behaviour, influencing a living system in becoming.

Jeanine Verloop is a Dutch, Rotterdam based visual artist, that creates multimedia and kinetic sculptures and currently works predominantly with Borosilicate glass. In her work Jeanine explores how technology expands, shapes, and limits imagination. By challenging the conventional perception of machines as powerful and indestructible, she seeks to embrace vulnerability, malfunction, and destruction. During exhibitions her glass machines seem to malfunction of self-destruct. She sees this as a deconstructive performance where the machine takes on the role of the performer, and she the assistant. In her recent works, Jeanine is incorporating various sensors, inviting the audience to engage and immerse themselves in a parallel reality where technology has taken an alternative path. At iii Jeanine was working on a new installation with the name Chime that utilises the fragile and flexible nature of glass and resonance to generate movement. 

Listen on to hear more about how mechanical cameras perceive our world, why a pottery wheel can help you with precise glass work, and how sometimes beauty over function can be interesting.

Gabey Tjon a Tham - https://www.gabeytjonatham.com/

Jeanine Verloop - https://jannetjejeanine.nl/nl/

Transition Music - Airboene Landscapes by Gabey Tjon a Tham

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