Tag: Tracy Metz
What does it mean to be human in a time when man and machine merge? The exhibition Robot Love, curated by Ine Gevers, asks whether our capacity for love still distinguishes us from robots, now that robots – thanks to artificial intelligence – have the ability to learn. Can robots learn to love? Ine Gevers is also a guest in my talkshow Cinema Stadsleven in EYE Film Institute on Oct. 24th.
‘Fotografie is een kopieerapparaat, een foto is informatie’
Voor kunstenaar en fotograaf Anne Geene is dit een oogstjaar: de Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs, acht werken verkocht op Unseen aan het Rijksmuseum, én nu samen met haar partner Arjan de Nooy een tentoonstelling in het Fotomuseum Den Haag. Hoofdpersoon daar is hun alterego, de fictieve ‘Universele fotograaf’ U. Het boek en de tentoonstelling zijn een onderzoek naar een fotografie zonder esthetiek: ,,De fotografie is een fotokopieerapparaat”. Net als zij probeert U. door beelden eindeloos te ordenen, schikken en rubriceren, grip op de werkelijkheid te krijgen.
TRACY•TV #59: Saskia Boelsums brings drama to Dutch landscape
At first sight, the flat Dutch landscape under gray skies would seem to be lacking in drama. Photographer Saskia Boelsums has found a way to make the landscape look truly dramatic: with color, with clouds, with patience and of course with the computer. And rather than having Instagram crop her images into squares, she decided to photograph in a square format herself. “It’s difficult. I like that.” She has a solo show now at Eduard Planting Gallery.
Irma Boom, koningin van het boekontwerp
Filmmaker en grafisch vormgever Lex Reitsma heeft vier jaar gewerkt aan zijn film ‘Boom Maakt Boek’, over boekontwerper Irma Boom. De kijker leert haar niet kennen, maar ziet wel duidelijk met welke totale overgave en begeestering Boom het resultaat bereikt dat haar voor ogen staat. ,,Ik kan alleen werken met opdrachtgevers die mij vertrouwen, en die ik vertrouw.”
TRACY•TV #58: Kleiklooster brings God (back) to the city
The churches are almost empty, but religion is undergoing a comeback in the city. One example is Kleiklooster, a modern-day ‘monastery’ in the 60’s apartment block Kleiburg in the Bijlmer. I met with one of the founders, Johannes van der Akker, who will also be a guest in my live talkshow Stadsleven on Sept. 27th. And… they also brew beer!
Barcelona gives streets back to people
Cities all over the world are trying to take back public space from cars and give it back to people. Barcelona has thought up – and implemented – a new urban strategy, as radical as it is simple: the superblock, or in Catalan superilla. “Every city should try something like this”, says Sílvia Casorran, mobility expert and a resident of Poble Nou, the posterchild of Barcelona’s riposte to the car – and to the city’s excessive air pollution. Bordered by the sea and mountains, Barcelona is Europe’s third densest city, after Paris and Athens.
TRACY·TV #57: Superblock in Barcelona for people, not cars
All over the world, cities are trying to take back public space from the car. Barcelona has invented the ‘superblock’, where through traffic is banned to make space for playgrounds and gardens. I went to see the superblock in the neighborhood Poble Nou. Where four lanes of through traffic used to drive, there are now gardens, benches and playgrounds. “All cities should try this”, says neighborhood resident Silvia Casorran.
TRACY·TV #56: Rem Koolhaas Casa da Musica in Porto
The Portuguese city of Porto was European Cultural Capital in 2001, and one of the projects that spawned was the Casa da Música by Rem Koolhaas’ OMA. It took longer than expected – it didn’t open until 2005 – and it went way over budget, from 31 million euro’s to 111 million. But the result is spectacular, combining hard materials like concrete, glass and aluminium with soft surfaces like the Noridc pine wallsof the main hall with goldleaf motifs and the lovely wavy glass wall around it. One thing did surprise me: the Soviet-style furniture along the walls....









