De Zondagsschool #8: Sport    The emotions, laws and decorum of sports also inspire designers and artists like Yarre Stooker who designed the game of line football for the Jan Cunen museum. The combat and mental sports hybrid Chess Boxing draws it inspiration from Enki Bilal’s cartoon album 'Froid-Équateur'. Iepe Rubingh founded chess boxing in 2003 and won the inaugural World Chess Boxing Championship in Amsterdam in that same year. The champion will give a presentation about this special sport. In addition, e-sports will also be dealt with: pro-gamer OmniRocket discusses the thin line between sports and gaming. Presentations are alternated with film and video screenings from Camille Verbunt, MauzZ, Spike Jonze and Michael Koch. Sunday School is an intellectual variety show in which scientists, designers and artists deal with various themes from surprising perspectives. The event is Dutch spoken. Date: Sunday May 24 2009, 2 pm Location: Impakt HQ, Kokerloods, Lauwerecht 10, Utrecht Tickets: 7 euro Reservations: info@impakt.nl or by telephone at +31 (0) 30-2944493 from Monday through Thursday 10.00 am – 18.00 pm Ivo van Hilvoorde Ivo van Hilvoorde is working as sport philosopher at the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences (Free University of Amsterdam). In addition, he works one day a week as associate lector at the School of Human Movement & Sport (Windesheim, Zwolle) and conducts research at the W.J.H. Mulier Institute (’s-Hertogenbosch). With his work, he addresses philosophical, sociological and historic issues surrounding the phenomenon of sports. His particular interest goes out to the relationship between sports and (bio-) technology, the enhancement of human performance (among others, by means of drugs), and the relationship between (top) sports and national pride and identity. Van Hilvoorde was the co-author of 'Beter dan Goed' (Better than Good). About Genetics and the future of top sports (2006) and 'Fitter, Harder & Mooier' (Fitter, Tighter and Prettier). The compelling rise of fitness culture] (2008, Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers/Het Sporthuis). For more information: http://www.move.vu.nl/members/ivo-van-hilvoorde/ Arie Altena Arie Altena writes about arts and new media. He works as an editor/researcher for the V2_Archive in Rotterdam (since 2007) and is a member of the editorial staff of the Sonic Acts Festival (since 2004). His articles are regularly featured in magazines such as De Gids, OPEN and Metropolis M, and he co-edited the Sonic Acts publications 'Unsorted, Thoughts on the Information Arts (2004)', 'The Anthology of Computer Art (2006)' and 'The Cinematic Experience (2008)'. In 2006, he worked as a researcher on the Ubiscribe project at the design department of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht where he edited the print-on-demand publication 'Pervasive Personal Participatory, Ubiscribe 0.9.0 (2006)'. He cycles several thousands of kilometers a year on his racing bike, preferably without computer and GPS. Over the past three years, his blog developed into an archive of his cycling travels: ariealt.net/blog. At this Sundayschool, Arie Altena will go into the ‘mediatization’ of speed cycling and the various ways in which communication media are used during the races. He will discuss the history of cycling – the way in which cycling developed hand in hand with the development of newspapers, radio and television – and more recent developments such as the Internet and GPS. For more information: http://ariealt.net/blog/ Yarre Stooker In 2004, Edwin Jacobs, director of the Central Museum Utrecht, invited artist Yarre Stooker to design a project for the Jan Cunen Museum in Oss, where Edwin Jacobs was the director in 2004. Stooker came up with a new game related to the game of football, he called it Line Football and invented the players (actors) along with it. On the line football website www.lijnvoetbal.nl the (fictitious) competition was visible months before the actual tournament started. Teams were formed carrying names that referred to works of art from the museum. There were club shirts designed referring to the same works of art. A pilot of the game was run in the park next to the museum where the team of TOP Oss, the local first division football club, tested the game and where the final tournament was eventually played. The very first line football event was a fact. In line football, the fictitious game is mixed with reality. Players of TOP Oss compete against the actors while the line football site follows both the fictitious tournament and the games actually played. On the basis of common elements (the game itself, the heroes in it, etc.), spectators are able to form their own reality. In 2006, Cascoland (an international network of artists) invited the project to a township near Cape Town in South Africa. Here, Stooker fenced off the line football field with 1,200 beer crates from the South African Breweries. In that same year, the project travelled to Amsterdam twice using the same concept except that the crates used were from the Dutch Bavaria Breweries. All of these competitions collectively formed the overall line football competition which could be followed continuously on the Internet. In his other projects from the same period, Yarre Stooker also often used elements from sports. In his recent films, sports as such play a less prominent role. The element of play is still present, but the focus has increasingly shifted to the movements between individuals. Spectators of his work land in a world of silent communication where words are absent and body language comes to the fore as an element of expression. For more information: http://www.yarrestooker.nl Marco Jongerius/OmniRocket Among gamers, Marco Jongerius is better known as the "OmniRocket". From 2001 to 2004, he took part four times in the World Cyber Games, an event which can be seen as the “Olympics of computer games”. In addition, he participated in many other computer games tournaments. During this edition of Sunday School, he will discuss whether gaming can be regarded as a sport and whether it should be featured at the Olympic Games. For more information: http://home.kpn.nl/jong9840/ Iepe Rubingh Iepe Rubingh's innovative work includes blocking off intersections with red ribbons in Berlin and Tokyo in order to create major traffic jams. In addition, he was responsible for the 'Wonders of Berlin and Singapore' where he created highly local rain showers under so called 'miracle trees' by means of an invisible raining system. Iepe founded chess boxing in 2003 and won the inaugural World Chess Boxing Championship in Amsterdam in that same year. He currently serves as the prime mover and master spokesperson of this new sport. For more information: http://wcbo.org/content/index_en.html
Arie Altena (artists) Arie Altena writes about arts and new media. He works as an editor/researcher for the V2_Archive in Rotterdam (since 2007) and is a member of ... |
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