MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM

D E W E R K TA N K
A Hoogstraat 33
3 360 Bierbeek,
Belgium
T +32 (0)497 502 865
E kurt@werktank.org
W werktank.org
De WERKTANK is a small-scale production house
for media art. It wants to provide artists with the
possibility to create media art in professional
circumstances. De WERKTANK is located in an
old factory in Bierbeek near Leuven. It includes a
large exhibition hall and a number of recording
studios, rehearsal spaces and workshops. It is an
organisation run by artists, focusing on the concrete realisation of works of
art. The goal is to produce fully finished work. This of course does not exclude
a thorough period of reflection which might precede the actual production
phase. A large variety of artists are working here. They share a concern with
the sensual palpability of media art and focus on its sensorial aspects. De
WERKTANK makes a deliberate to work with artists who display have a high
degree of (technical) independency in their work. The intention is to offer these
artists a context and a framework within which they can produce their work,
without losing their artistic autonomy. Upcoming projects include productions
by Mekhitar Garabedian, Wim Janssen, Kurt d’ Haeseleer, Ief Spincemaille and
Aernoudt Jacobs.
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Bounding Boxes (2009)
Wim Janssen