Behind the Scenes: Matteo Marangoni

Getting to know iii member Matteo Marangoni in an informal interview at his iii studio. We talk about his personal practice involving his long standing collaboration with Dieter Vandoren and the beginnings of iii as an ambitious organisation. […]

Behind the Scenes: Philip Vermeulen

Getting to know iii member Philip Vermeulen in an informal interview at his studio. With questions about the benefits of being in an organisation like iii and his first experiences with art. […]

Behind the Scenes: Marije Baalman

Getting to know iii member Marije Baalman in an informal interview at her home studio. The conversation follows her working methods and education trajectory before her pursuit of becoming an artist over an academic. […]

Coaching report: a resilient organisation of makers

iii was founded in 2013, and has steadily developed an extensive program with residencies and events, and since 2017 we have our own location with a project space and artist workspaces. In 2019 we started orientating ourselves towards the future, in order to apply to structural (four year) funding from the municipality and the national fund Creative Industry Fund NL. In the first months of 2020 we undertook a coaching trajectory supported by an open call for professionalisation by the latter fund. In this report we summarize what we learnt on the business side of our organisation, with a special focus on positioning of our organisation and finding a good financial balance. […]

Coaching Report: Communications as Network Building

In Spring 2020, iii members met with Richard Foster from WORM to get coaching on our communications strategy. We learned how to translate our values in our PR activities, how to personalize our message, reach out to traditional press, streamline our workflow, and much more. This is a report on our coaching sessions and what we are implementing in our communications plan. […]

Coaching Report: Developing an Art & Technology Workshop Program

How do you develop an art and technology workshop program? How do you translate the core values of a collective into such a program? How do you reach new audiences? And how do you financially sustain a workshop program? This is a report on iii's cultural education coaching sessions and their contributions to the development of the iii workshop program. […]

Coaching report: developing a nonprofit artist agency

Since 2013 iii has been functioning as an agency distributing experimental physical, spatial audiovisual performances. In 2020 we were coached on how to further develop our agency in order to reach new objectives that we set for ourselves. The coaching sessions helped us to prepare iii's plan for 2021-2024 and to define our agency more specifically as an "agency promoting the circulation of artists and facilitating international exchanges". […]

Sonic Embassy: Explorations between sound art and larp

In 2018, iii guest resident Nina Runa Essendrop collaborated with iii artists Marije Baalman, Matteo Marangoni, Wen Chin Fu, and Erfan Abdi to make a work at the intersection of larp and sound art. This article is a report on the collaboration. […]

Relay Conversation The Reading Room #29 & #30 -The edges of the voice

The Reading Room team have a conversation with researcher Amelia Groom and vocalist/composer Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman. In this cluster we focused on two texts that explore the limits and potentials of vocal expression; How Forests Think by Eduardo Kohn and "The Gender of Sound" by Anne Carson. We approach questions of voice and silence/ing through very different entry points; that of the non-human semiotic worlds of the rainforest, and that of the gendered politics inherent in determining how and whether voices are heard. […]

Relay Conversation The Reading Room #27 & #28 – Post-Digital Publishing

In this relay conversation, we discuss the practice Post-Digital publishing with Florian Cramer, Rebekka Kiesewetter, Joana Chicau and Alessandro Ludovico. 'Post-digital’ is a notion that describes a condition in which we live in, a hybrid time in which distinctions of 'old' and 'new media' have become obsolete, and where any publishing practice is being acknowledged as a material practice. What strategies, formats and notions of authorship and public may emerge from this new sensibility? […]

The Reading Room #25 & #26: a conversation with Douglas Kahn on Radiant Matter

A discussion with Douglas Kahn on transmission, perception and imagination of energetic phenomena, focusing on a discussion about the concept of Radiant Matter and questions which arose around his texts "Long Sounds and Transperception" and "Wordcarving, a dream of transmission". […]

Relay Conversation The Reading Room #23 & #24 – Time in the Age of Algorithms

The temporal structures of reality have become far more complex since digital technology has become present in everyday life. Flora Reznik and Jonathan Reus talk to theorist Yvonne Förster, meta-media artist Jaime del Val, computational neuroscientist Warrick Roseboom and composer/inventor Joel Ryan to untangle concepts of algorithmic time. […]

Artist in Residence Report: Jochem van Tol

During his residency Jochem van Tol focused on conducting research and writing about artists who combine in their practices the roles of composers, instrument makers and performers, addressing questions such as: how do you compose for self-made musical instruments? what language do you use or develop to communicate and document the scores for your new musical work?
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Relay Conversation The Reading Room #19 & #20 – Technologies of Survival (part 2)

In this conversation with Nishant Shah, we focus on issues of digital rights as human rights, and considerations of digital piracy and copyright inflecting life and conditions of living. […]

Relay Conversation The Reading Room #19 & #20 – Technologies of Survival (part 1)

With the theme 'Technologies of Survival', this cluster of The Reading Room seeks to build a toolbox of postcolonial perspectives on computation, and to think through these ideas to better understand the computer, computation and the lives of those who are computed. In this conversation we identify touchstones for thinking about Postcolonial scholarship on computing and technology. […]

Relay Conversation The Reading Room #22 – In the thick of things (part 2)

In this relay conversation we continue our discussion on improvisation with Marcel Cobussen, Lila Athanasiadou, and Andrej Radman. We continue with a focus on ways in which improvisation can be considered as relational, existing within a physical space occupied by players and potentials to act. Through this perspective, we will work to deconstruct the persistent idea of the improviser as a freewheeling subject, or navigator, and instead emphasize a model of subjectivity that is constantly shifting in the exchange of energies between human and technological players. […]

Relay Conversation The Reading Room #21 – In the thick of things (part 1)

While there has been much written and said about the value of improvisation in discussions about innovation and creativity, there seems to be no prescriptive formula for improvisation itself. The aim of this cluster of The Reading Room is to make improvisation slightly more knowable. With guests Marcel Cobussen, Andrej Radman and Lila Athanasiadou. […]

Artist in Residence Report: Peter Bosch

Artist in residence Peter Bosch from Bosch & Simons shares the process behind building the installation "Último Esfuerzo Rural V" for “Installatie Expeditie” at the Kruithuis in Den Bosch. "After losing their original functions, objects that remind us of everyday aspects from our recent past are given a new soul. Once brought into resonance by air-driven industrial vibrators, these objects recover their forgotten value by producing mysterious, hypnotic sounds" […]

The Craft of Experience Design – report and documentation

On October 5th, 2017, iii hosted the symposium "The Craft of Experience Design". Goal for the symposium was to bring together different views on creating participative artworks: in which the audience is invited to take part in playful and open-ended experiences. We invited six speakers coming from performance, theatre, exhibition design, media art, game design and larp to share their ideas and methods. […]

Relay Conversation Reading Room #17 – Anarchival Practices (part 1)

Counter-movements and efforts to archive the daily practices left out of official archives are gaining momentum and challenging the limits of traditional approaches. Anarchival practices attempt to reproach archival methods that often erase the processual, affective, and contextual aspects of lived experience. […]

Relay Conversation Reading Room #18 – Anarchival Practices (part 2)

In this cluster of Reading Rooms we ask how can anarchiving be developed as a creative approach for both artists, activists and academics to use? These questions were unraveled through texts and works in the diverse fields of dance, film, queer and feminist movements as specific memories of daily life. […]

Reading Room #16 – Ecologies of Existence (part 2)

The Undercommons was chosen to highlight overlaps between radical positions in ecological and postcolonial thinking, and the importance of taking histories and systems of colonization into account when considering the histories and lived experiences of logistics that contribute to our current planetary crisis. […]

Häxan at the Sounds of Silence festival – creating an immersive performance from a silent film

For the Sound of Silence festival 2017 iii created a multimedia performance inspired by Benjamin Christensen’s silent film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages. In this article, we discuss our approach to reworking the format of a silent film screening accompanied by live music. […]

Books on participation in art

Marije Baalman In preparation for the symposium “The Craft of Experience Design”, I have been reading a number of books that deal with the topic from different perspectives. I am briefly describing them here. Participation Edited by Claire Bishop 2006; MIT Press, copublished with Whitechapel Art Gallery, London This book is a collection of a […] […]

Reading Room #15 – Ecologies of Existence (part 1)

The current planetary situation is perceived as one of crises; ecological, economic, and psychological. While it is tempting to surrender oneself to these paralysing processes, it seems ever the more urgent to question the current tendency of subsuming the "ecological" as a label for anything and everything. What kinds of artistic practices and aesthetic strategies emphasise a kind of “ecological thinking"? And how can we conceive of such an ecological thinking so that it does not become a haunting "new call to order", falling victim to the reductive tendencies of our mental, political, and social present?
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Till Bovermann Residency Research

iii artist in residence Till Bovermann documents his research and experiments […]

Mariska de Groot Residency at STEIM

Mariska de Groot tests installation setups during her residency at STEIM […]