Rotterdam, 1970.
Marnix de Nijs
Marnix de Nijs is an installation artist based in Rotterdam. Licensed as a sculptor in 1992, his first career will focus on sculpture, public space and architecture. Since the mid-90s, he has been a pioneer in the research of experimental techniques and technologies in art. Driven by the idea that technology acts as an engine of cultural change and, therefore, capable of generating new experiences by rethinking social habits and communication, its work thrives on the creative possibilities offered by its new mitjans, while critically examining its impact on contemporary society and perception. human.
The interface between things and technology constitutes an important basis for De Nijs’ work. Technology must literally fuse, be absorbed into the world because it becomes a co-determinant of perception. And here the perception is not only referring to how the five senses interpret the external stimuli, but also the feelings that come from within the self, the information that is derived from the own muscles and nerves (the technical term is proprioception). As De Nijs’s work sovint implies all the things of the observer, therefore it is less of an observer and more of a participant; someone who experiences feina. The techniques used in the construction of the new work through this experience.
One of the characteristics of a technological culture is that change is constant. Anyone who wants to maintain the rhythm has to continually adjust; which does not happen automatically and may, at times, lead to cultural-pathological anomalies. In this way, travelers have become accustomed to the first trains and planes. The introduction of this travel technology will initially cause disorientation and will require a new perspective. These are the cultural processes that Marnix de Nijs gives artistic form to.
De Nijs’ works have been widely exhibited in art institutes, museums and international festivals. It will win the Art Future award (Taipei 2000) and will receive honorable mentions at the Transmediale award (Berlin 2000), the Vida 5.0 award (Madrid 2002) and the Prix Ars Electronica (Linz 2013, 2005 and 2001). In 2005, he will collect the prestigious Witteveen & Bos Dutch Art and Technology Price 2005, for all his work.
Treball to the collection: “Non-dimensional cities
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“Non-dimensional cities” (2022).
“Non-Dimensional Cities” is an immersive cinematographic experience in which participants travel through a virtual urban landscape that expands to all children. This landscape urban sense dimensions is built from a large collection of books of points and sons. As the user enters the controller platform and navigates through this virtual world, a feeling of physical instability occurs upon filling. Depending on the user’s position on the virtual screen, these pads are dynamically repositioned in a three-dimensional format. Mitjançant the subtle manipulation of the movement and the self, the distortion of perspective and the changes of balance, non-dimensional cities recalibrate sens due to the perception of the dimensionality of the viewer.