[ISEA2023] Artist Statement: Peter Sweenen — Animated Intro for the Third Summit on New Media Art Archiving

Artist Statement

Screening, Forum des Images, May 19-20

Animated Intro by Peter Sweenen for the Third Summit on New Media Art Archiving, as part of the 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2023, Paris, France.

Peter Sweenen: Artistic director and animation
Robin Noorda: Compositing
Alfred Marseille: Soundscape
Wim van der Plas: Production

Imagery came from the ISEA Symposium Archives, Sounds used were provided by Seth Shostak of SETI, Stelarc (his 1990 ISEA performance and the Way Back Machine.

  • Peter Sweenen (NL) is an artist, mainly known for his animations, like Animation Has No Borders (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278307/?ref_=nm_flmg_c_1_dr), He Almost Clutched His Hand (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245143/?ref_=nm_knf_c_1) and the 25th ISEA Celebration Animation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5NXrgCXlhw)
  • Robin Noorda (NL) started his study audiovisual design, photography and animation at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) in 1978 and was admitted to the post graduate Rijks Academie (Amsterdam), but thrown out as his free lance career already took too much time. He continued with a study composition, minimal- and electronic music at the Centrum of Electronic Music studio (Hilversum), and internships at the Toonder Studio and the Dutch public television broadcaster NOS. In the 80’s he was designer and animator for the NOS (Dutch public broadcaster) and the pioneering animator of computer animation at Antics, the first CGI studio in the Netherlands. In 1986 he was co-founders of both the ‘Tropism’ art movement and his design and film company Morphosis. https://www.robin-noorda.com
  • Alfred Marseille (NL) is Media artist and designer. Background in philosophy and electronic music.  Working in video, sound, photography and installation art. https://www.alfredmarseille.nl
  • Wim van der Plas (NL) is co-founder of ISEA and organiser of the three ISEA symposia held in the Netherlands. He led ISEA HQ in the first 8 years of its existence and was a board member of the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and ISEA International (both of which he also was co-founder) until 2017. Since then, he is Honorary Chair of the ISEA International Advisory Committee and ISEA Symposium archivist. He received a Leonardo Pioneer Award in 2018. https://wvdplas.home.xs4all.nl