Organisation

Marije Baalman – Chairperson – marije@instrumentinventors.org

Marije Baalman (°1978, The Netherlands) is an artist and researcher/developer working in the field of interactive sound and light art. She has a diverse background in applied physics, acoustics, electronic music, computation arts and interactive technologies, and has studied and researched at the TU Delft (NL), TU Berlin (DE), and Concordia University (Montréal, CA). Marije has worked as a consultant in academic research projects, and was part of the EU-project METABODY while working at STEIM. She is also a co-founder of Vrijcoop, an organisation dedicated to taking real estate off the market and transferring it to collective ownership for self-organized living and working, and is part of the collective Bajesdorp in Amsterdam, building a new artist incubator and housing cooperative.

Wen Chin Fu – Secretary – wenchin@instrumentinventors.org

Wen Chin Fu graduated in 2006 from the Classical Music Department of Shih Chien University, Taipei. She continued her studies at the Academy of The Arts in The Hague, receiving a bachelors from the ArtScience interfaculty program in 2010 and a masters diploma from T.I.M.E Muziektheater in 2018. Her performances explore the relationship between physical movement, sound and the environment. A key element of her practice is concentration, which opens the senses for perceiving things through new perspectives. She has organised events in contexts such as Tedx AmsterdamED and is involved in culture exchange programs between Taiwan and the Netherlands. Wen Chin is the founder of 台荷藝集 (Platform for Artists Netherlands Taiwan) .

Cathy van Eck– Treasurer – cathy@instrumentinventors.org

Cathy van Eck (1979 Belgium/Netherlands) is a composer, sound artist, and researcher in the arts. She focuses on composing relationships between everyday objects, human performers, and sound. Cathy’s work transcends genres and is presented at occasions as diverse as experimental or electronic music concerts, open air rock festivals, sound art gallery venues, digital art events, or performance art festivals. Cathy teaches at the Sound Arts department at the Academy of the Arts in Bern. She is also involved in iii’s Blueprint Series.

Ezequiel Menalled – Managing Director – ezequiel@instrumentinventors.org

Ezequiel is a versatile composer and music performer. He received his Bachelor and Master Composition degree at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, where later he taught from 2008 until 2016. In 2003 he founded Ensemble Modelo62. Besides his works of abstract concert music, he often collaborates with other creators in the field of dance, film, photography and theater. He coordinates iii’s team to execute the program and reports to the executive board.

Yun Lee – Workshop Coordinator – yun@instrumentinventors.org

Yun Lee is an artist, composer, curator and educator mostly working with text, sound, and performance. Much of their work engages critically and playfully with recording technologies (from the phonograph to the internet) to navigate shifting definitions of being human. Other works turn to acoustic phenomena to push the capacities of individual and collective sensorial experience. At iii, Yun programs workshops at the intersections of art, sound and technology.

Elena Apostolovski– Hosted program coordinator – elena@instrumentinventors.org

Elena Apostolovski is an independent curator, writer and educator. She seeks to question the relationship between social reality, artwork and the audience while affirming experiencing art as the physical experience of the body in space shared with other people. Her practice is focused on the exploration of interpersonal relationships in physical and digital reality shaped by dominant ideologies, aiming to find strategies that contribute to strengthening the connection within the community and disrupting conventions.

Lauren Jetty – Public Outreach, Communication Coordinator – lauren@instrumentinventors.org

Lauren Jetty Howells-Green (UK) moved to The Hague in 2017 to study a Masters in ArtScience at KABK/KonCon. Her practice explores the cross-modality of sensory experience; how our senses can collaborate or contradict one another to form new, often surprising, experiences. She has a particular interest in olfaction and her most recent works have been an exploration into scent, sound and language. She has also been nominated for the 2020 Sadakichi Award for experimental work with scent.

Mariska de Groot – Residency program coordinator – mariska@instrumentinventors.org

Mariska is an artist making, composing and performing installations. She explores the magic tucked in old inventions and finds non narrative stories by using patterns in light, sound and material form. Often this turns out in enveloping noise meditations. She also makes great Kombucha and enjoys cooking for artists.

Dieter Vandoren – Technical Coordinator – dieter@instrumentinventors.org

Dieter Vandoren (°1981, Belgium) is an artist, performer and developer who draws from diverse backgrounds in music, IT and experimental architecture. His works revolves around the creation and performance of spatial audiovisual instruments and environments with a special focus on immersion, embodiment, and primary sensory experiences. Dieter obtained a masters degree from the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague. He is a co-founder of iii and has extensive experience in the professional audiovisual rental and production field.

Yannik Güldner – Agency Coordinator and Artistic Development

Yannik Güldner (DE) is a curator, programmer and cultural worker in The Hague. He aims to question power structures and society through the multidisciplinary practices of upcoming, as well as renowned, artists. He is interested in creating narratives across the borders of disciplines that interlink art, science and academia. At iii he contributes to artistic development and coordinates the activities of the agency.

Tomas Busser – Press Officer – tomas@instrumentinventors.org

With a background in Slavistics and Philosophy, Tomas Busser came to work as a cultural journalist following his passion for music. Through his work for Dutch/Flemish music and arts magazine Gonzo (circus), he knows what it takes to realize interesting and compelling texts. In his role as Press Officer at iii he strives to connect inventors with open-minded audiences to further expand and strengthen iii’s community.

Myra-Ida van der Veen  – Education Assistant – myra@instrumentinventors.org

Myra-Ida is working in the field of multimedia performance, electroacoustic instrument building and vocal practice. She has a broad, experimental way of working. She mostly focuses on the process of collective creation and production as a way of building community and care. With visual atmospheres, smells and a broad variety of different instruments, she tries to create performative spaces where the boarder between audience and performers is playfully fluent. At iii, Myra assists the workshop program at the intersection of art, sound and technology.

Akash Sheshadri – Visual Communication Officer – akash@instrumentinventors.org

Akash Sheshadri (Mumbai, IN) is a designer-researcher and visual artist working through the integration of a variety of digital mediums; to produce images—both static and dynamic—and is interested-in their manifestation as artefacts. Akash tries to situate an artistic practice of expression and critique, that is synthesised from the many urgencies of the socio-real and hyper-digital. As a part of the Communications team, Akash works with social media and looks into public facing dissemination of the goings-on at iii. Akash is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design, India and a recent graduate of the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.

Satopin – Web Design

Satopin is a Web Developer/Programmer based in The Hague, Holland. He has been working for over 5 years, developing a number of ambitious web apps and websites for clients such as Modernista!, Shoebaloo, VPRO, Todaysart, Maxalot, Bach Collegium Japan, The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration, and ArtScience Interfaculty. Because of his insight and skills in web programming in combination with his educational background in Interactive Media Design his focus is not only on how to build the website/app well but also on how it is experienced by the users (User Experience Design).

Tanja Busking – Videographer

Tanja Busking is a filmmaker mostly working in the field of artscience, technology, coding, dance and fashion. She produces promos, summary videos, teaser videos, website video backdrops, 360 video, music videos and documentaries. Tanja captures iii’s ephemeral events and documents the process of iii members and guest residents.

Erfan Abdi – Videographer & Photographer

Erfan Abdi is a designer, performer and videographer based in The Netherlands. Focusing on video documentations of artistic practices by his peers, Erfan reaches to his background in art to initiate meaningful conversations with the artists to better understand their views and practices. Using simple and clear imagery that is knit within engaging temporal compositions, Erfan creates stories that weave the artists’ viewpoints to the contexts in which the artworks are developed and presented.

Pieter Kers – Photographer

As a photographer of cultural events since the 1980’s, Pieter Kers contributes his skills as a photographer to the field of art and science, working closely with artists and organisers. He is always looking for new ways to communicate concepts through images and enjoys working under challenging circumstances.

Benno Vogt

Benno Vogt is currently managing director at Korzo. Before this, he held various (financial) positions in the cultural sector, since 2006. Besides music and (modern) dance, he has always had a great passion for art & technology. In the past Benno was involved in street art festival Blikopener, where members of iii showed their first experiments and iterations of their work which would later grow into iii. Participation on the supervisory board completes the circle.

Rebekah Wilson

Rebekah promotes music, networks and technology in the digital arts. Her passion for developing technology for the arts led to co-creating the industry-standard remote-recording software Source-Connect. Her research promotes a future where internet/music/film/media technologies merge, lessening the distances between time based creators, artists, educators and students.

Joost Rekveld

Joost Rekveld is an artist who wonders what humans can learn from a dialogue with the machines they have constructed. In a form of media archeology he investigates modes of material engagement with devices from forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. Since 2017 he has been affiliated to the KASK school of arts in Ghent as an artistic researcher. He lives and works in Brussels.

Shailoh Phillips

Shailoh Phillips has a background in cultural anthropology, philosophy, cultural analysis, interaction design, and arts education. Over the past decade, she has been cultivating a practice of constructive troublemaking. Before going independent, she worked for over a decade in the cultural field in multiple roles — as a game designer, screenwriter for television (VPRO), as the Media Lab manager at the Rijksmuseum and in digital arts educational institutions.

Jorgen Karskens

Jorgen Karskens is a cultural sociologist. He has wide-ranging experience within the cultural sector: grant and policy making, researching, governance, funding and running cultural institutions.