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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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