technicolor circles at kunstvlaai 2012

My work technicolor circles is featured in the presentation of Frank Mohr International Masters at kunstvlaai 2012

locality #9

A new piece for my photo series sense of locality

the silver bullet at Freeze Festival

the silver bullet was screened at Freeze Festival 2012 in Leeuwarden

the origin of pace - photos

the origin of pace

Until 20th of August 2012 the live performance The Origin of Pace will be presented at the Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in Groningen. The Video and Dance performance was made in collaboration with the GAVA archive. Processed images from the GAVA archive are mingled with dance and music. The movement of the human body interplays with the repetitive element of machines. It is all about rhythm, repetition and the passage of time.

Concept and Video Production | Francesca Bardaro, Sarah Janssen and Eleanor Grootoonk
Music composition | Gianni Bardaro
Dance and choreography | Cinthya Oyervides

16-20 august 2012 at 21:30 and 22:30 location: Muziekkoepel in Noorderplantsoen

More info: www.noorderzon.nl

lines - final design

lines from Sarah Janssen on Vimeo.

My final proposal for an artwork for the city centre of Enschede. My idea is to visualize the outlines of a textile factory with a laser projection.

a question of repetition

sketch images as a moodboard for a video + dance performance, a project I am working on together with Eleanor Grootoonk and Francesca Bardaro.

white lines

The city of Enschede has started a project about the history of the city centre and invited me to design a concept for an artwork in public space. My idea is to make a light installation on a building where in the past the biggest textile factory of the Netherlands was located. Here are some experiments and results of my first research. My idea is to create a fragile image of the factory which visually reminds of woven fabric.

images from thin air

an image from thin air #1 from Sarah Janssen on Vimeo.

an image from thin air #2 from Sarah Janssen on Vimeo.

shaking of sheets

shaking of sheets from Sarah Janssen on Vimeo.

This is a movement study of three analogical film scenes. Each film scene originally shows a sheet that is shaken up, the outlines of the sheets were traced and overlayed to created this video.

Final Graduation Exhibition

photos of my graduation exhibition in summer of 2011

and another blog...

...where I upload sketches, graphics, experiments and try-outs for my thesis and exam: cineanalogies.wordpress.com

collecting analogical movie scenes

The idea that there are certain images/scenes that appear in all kind of movies fascinated me. At the beginning of this semester I started to create a collection of stills from movies, as basis for a research project on the meaning of this kind of cinematic imagery. To keep record of the collection process, I created another blog: http://analogicalscenes.blogspot.com

screening at Groninger Museum

Screening of my Videos "cinematic shivers" and "the silver bullet" during the Groninger Museum Students Salon on 05.01.2011

photos: Eleanor Grootoonk

ARpuzzle in use

set-up of the game "ARpuzzle" at forum images

black-and-white patterns

preparations for the interactive game @forum images

GoogleScape

This is the project I did in the php course this semester. GoogleScape is a photo gallery based on images of the Netherlands, provided by Google Streetview. Basically, it is a photo exhibition curated by randomness, every minute the site refreshes itself and shows a new photograph. Check it out: GoogleScape

the silver bullet

the silver bullet from Sarah Janssen on Vimeo.

2-channel video installation, made for the exhibition 'technological singularity' at 'planetart', Amsterdam.
The title refers to human striving for perfection, invulnerability and immortality. The technological progress makes us wonder if we soon can create a man-like intelligent machine. By opposing found footage material from TV commercials on the left screen to self recorded material on the right, the work illustrates our hopes and fears regarding technology and the idea of the perfect human.

1-bit Psycho

1-bit Psycho from Sarah Janssen on Vimeo.

Analysis of the famous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". First the pixels of each frame were rearranged by sorting them by brightness. Then the color of each pixel was set to either black or white, depending on its brightness. Made with Processing.

silver

For the speed assignment by our guest teacher Kees de Groot I am doing research about the element silver. It silver is used in modern technology for instance because it is antibacterial. I am interested in the fact that we are trying to become unvulnerable and perfect humans by technology. What intrigues me about silver is also the psychological part, the "cool" and modern image it has.
Here is are some scetch images I want to use for illustrating my ideas.

gleam of silver from Sarah Janssen on Vimeo.