MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
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T O M H E E N E<br />
°1969, G H E N T<br />
E theoumek@<br />
gmail.com<br />
W theoumek<br />
wordpress.org<br />
W darkmatr.be<br />
W imal.org/saltlake<br />
Tom Heene is an audiovisual artist developing<br />
multidisciplinary projects in film and in digital<br />
arts. He has worked with choreographers, visual<br />
artists, scientists and code artists on interactive<br />
environments using digital tools. In 2009 he<br />
collaborated on an Art&D research project<br />
funded by the Flemish Interdisciplinary Institute<br />
for Broadband Technology (See also section on<br />
Innovation). His latest installation DarkMatr is a result of this research and<br />
an ongoing project.<br />
The issues in Tom’s media work are about questioning the human<br />
relation with new media, data mining the internet, storytelling and creating<br />
alternative cinematic experiences. For 2011 and 2012 he received a funding for<br />
his research on storytelling and participation in film and new media arts.<br />
In film, Tom is active as a director, assistant director and production<br />
manager. He worked on movies made by filmmakers like Alain Berliner, Frédéric<br />
Fonteyne, Philippe Falardeau, Olivier Smolders, Jürgen Leth & Lars Von Trier.<br />
In the year 2011 he will complete the production of his own feature film<br />
Welcome Home.<br />
Tom has assisted in various workshops linking new media with the<br />
performing arts. He has worked as a production manager on several art<br />
exhibitions and often collaborates with Brussels based iMAL (see section on Art<br />
Organisations). He is a founding member of the ‘RGB~Toysband’, a collective of<br />
performers using electronic toys as instruments to play with in public spaces.<br />
Tom is also part of the artists collective ‘r-Ohm’ which reflects on visual arts,<br />
new media, biology, food and economics.<br />
DarkMatr, Ongoing project (2009-2011)<br />
© Tom Heene<br />
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