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Daan Brinkmann (1983) is a media artist, which means that he employs new media and technology to realise his projects. Brinkmann caused a stir with Cellwise, a collaborative project with colleague Nenad Popov (RS). During the TodaysArt festival in The Hague the town hall was brought to life.

The gridded façade of the town hall was the starting point for giant projections. From the grid of white tiles started to grow new shapes with capricious, organic qualities. Part of the façade appeared to burst or to be soaked off and then to flow away. The sterile aspect of the architecture was thus defied and slowly but surely overgrown.

Cellwise was also exhibited in 2011 on the white façade of the Cankarjev Dom (House of Cultures) in Ljubljana.

At Stroom, Brinkmann will display documentation of this work and a ‘making of' video. Additionally, a projection is shown by means of the generating software that forms the basis of Cellwise. In the ‘making of' video we see Brinkmann at work in his studio, bringing the imposing work back to the human size. The camera must have been standing on a tripod in his studio. We see him walking in and out of the frame, inspecting his work and then going back to his computer to adjust something.

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Daan Brinkmann i.c.w. Nenad Popov, Cellwise, 2010
photo: © Rob Kollaard, courtesy Stroom Den Haag

Back wall: Daan Brinkmann i.c.w. Nenad Popov, Cellwise, 2010 | Front: Basten Stokhuyzen, Vanilla Options (Finishing from scratch), 2012
photo: © Rob Kollaard, courtesy Stroom Den Haag

Daan Brinkmann i.c.w. Nenad Popov, Cellwise, 2010
photo: courtesy the artists

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