[ISEA2024] Artist Statement: Peter Sweenen, Robin Noorda & Alfred Marseille — Animated Intro, 4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving

Artist Statement

Animated intro for the 4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving.
Artistic direction and animation: Peter Sweenen
Compositing: Robin Noorda
Soundscape: Alfred Marseille
Production: Wim van der Plas

  • Peter Sweenen, born 1951, Amsterdam, NL. Independent, commercial & commissioned professional artist since 1979. 1983-2006 active in art and animation education. Pre-web ‘Net Art’: “Animation has no Borders”, 1986 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Bp68zAKtk). Distribution of his work in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chili, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, former Yugoslavia. https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/person/peter-sweenen
  • Robin Noorda (NL) studied animation and photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Visual Communication at the Rijksacademie. In the eighties he was a designer and animator at the NOS (Dutch Public Broadcaster) and pioneer in the field of computer animation at the first CGI studio in the Netherlands. At that time he founded his design agency Morphosis and was co-founder of the Tropism Art & Science Collective. Around 2000, autonomous work finally won the battle with applied work. Since then he has worked as an independent stop-motion animation filmmaker, experimental photographer and light installation artist. He was affiliated with the animation film institute NIAF, animation committee member for Netherlands Film Fund and Flemish Audiovisual Fund and taught at art academies and the Netherlands Film Academy. Tropism Art & Science Collective. https://www.tropism.eu
  • Alfred Marseille (NL) Designer, media artist. Background in philosophy and electronic music. Working in video, sound, photography and installation art. Designer for interactive media since 1995. Founded design studio Zeezeilen in 2000. Clients include Royal Dutch Library, Van Gogh Museum, Dutch House of Representatives, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National ombudsman, Dutch Filmmuseum, International Institute for Social History, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Wiardi Beckman Foundation, Amsterdam South Africa House. https://www.alfredmarseille.nl