Tjebbe van Tijen

Last updated

Tjebbe van Tijen (born 1944, The Hague, Netherlands) is a sculptor, performance artist, curator, net artist, archivist, documentalist and media theorist who lives and works in Amsterdam. [1] He is best known for his 1960s collaborative public performances, and for his later artworks and projects done in collaboration with archives and libraries. [2] [3]

Contents

Life and education

Tjebbe van Tijen was born in 1944 in the Hague. [4] [5] From 1961 to 1965 he studied sculpture at schools in Den Bosch, Haarlem, Milan and London. [6] [7] In London he studied with Jeffrey Shaw (then a street artist), with whom he would later collaborate with on several projects. [8]

Art career

In the 1960s van Tijen was involved in numerous happenings in European cities. [9] [10] [11]

Sigma Projects

Returning to Holland in 1967, he developed a number of collaborative street art projects in Amsterdam under the rubric of Sigma Projects. [1] : 153  [8] One such project, with Jeffrey Shaw and Willem Breuker, was Continuous Film, a film project of abstract imagery projected onto buildings with a live performed soundtrack. [1] : 155  Another similar project Continuous Sound and Image Moments by the same trio involved a projected black-and-white animated film loop. [12] [13] [14]

Another Sigma Project was the work titled Continuous Drawings. [15] In it, and using various transportation including taxis and an airplane, van Tijen drew a line from the Institute for Contemporary Art in London to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and from there to Rotterdam. [16] [10] : 153  During the execution of the London side of the drawing, van Tijen and his friend John Latham were arrested on 24 August 1966 by police for refusing to clean the pavement of their drawing. [8]

Imaginary Museums

With Robert Hartzema, he founded the Research Center Art Technology and Society in Amsterdam, which operated from 1967 to 1969. [17] The center was based within the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. It later became the Documentation Center for Social History at the University Library, Amsterdam that operated from 1973 to 1998 and covered subjects related to the history of social activism within cities. [18] Van Tijen operated both centres as curator under the rubric of his Imaginary Museums project. [19]

In the 1980s van Tijen collaborated again with media artist Jeffrey Shaw on a project called the Imaginary Museum of the Revolution. [9] [20]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Constant Nieuwenhuys</span> Dutch painter

Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys, better known as Constant, was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam</span> Art museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe</span> Cultural institution in Karlsruhe, Germany

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, a cultural institution, was founded in 1989 and, since 1997, is located in a former munitions factory in Karlsruhe, Germany. The ZKM organizes special exhibitions and thematic events, conducts research and produces works on the effects of media, digitization, and globalization, and offers public as well as individualized communications and educational programs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mike Kelley (artist)</span> American artist

Michael Kelley was an American artist whose work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance, photography, sound and video. He also worked on curatorial projects; collaborated with many other artists and musicians; and left a formidable body of critical and creative writing. He often worked collaboratively and had produced projects with artists Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and John Miller. Writing in The New York Times, in 2012, Holland Cotter described the artist as "one of the most influential American artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amsterdam School</span> Dutch architectural style

The Amsterdam School is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked to German Brick Expressionism.

Tamás Waliczky (born in 1959, in Budapest, Hungary), is a Hungarian artist and animator, known for his new media art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mart Stam</span> Dutch architect, urban planner and furniture designer

Mart Stam was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th-century European architecture, including the invention of the cantilever chair, teaching at the Bauhaus, contributions to the Weissenhof Estate, the Van Nelle Factory,, buildings for Ernst May's New Frankfurt housing estates, followed by work in the USSR with the idealistic May Brigade, to teaching positions in Amsterdam and post-war East Germany. Upon return to the Netherlands he contributed to postwar reconstruction and finally retired,, in Switzerland, where he died.

Călin Dan is a Romanian artist, theorist and curator based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Member of the subREAL artist duo together with Josif Kiraly. As a curator, Călin Dan has produced numerous exhibitions and was appointed director of the Soros Foundation's Center for Contemporary Art in Bucharest in 1992.

Jeffrey Shaw is a visual artist known for being a leading figure in new media art. In a prolific career of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed work, he has pioneered the creative use of digital media technologies in the fields of expanded cinema, interactive art, virtual, augmented and mixed reality, immersive visualization environments, navigable cinematic systems and interactive narrative. Shaw was co-designer of Algie the inflatable pig, which was photographed above Battersea Power Station for the 1977 Pink Floyd album, Animals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Geert Lovink</span> Dutch academic

Geert Lovink is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socio-economical change of the new media field through events, publications and open dialogue. As theorist, activist and net critic, Lovink has made an effort in helping to shape the development of the web.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gerard Caris</span> Dutch sculptor and artist

Gerard Caris is a Dutch sculptor and artist who has pursued a single motif throughout the course of his artistic career, the pentagon.

Paul Thek was an American painter, sculptor and installation artist. Thek was active in both the United States and Europe, exhibiting several installations and sculptural works over the course of his life. Posthumously, he has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and his work is held in numerous collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Kolumba, the Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Art & Project</span> Former art gallery in the Netherlands

Art & Project was a leading contemporary art gallery by Geert van Beijeren & Adriaan van Ravesteijn from 1968 to 2001 in Amsterdam and Slootdorp, the Netherlands, as well as an influential art magazine published by the gallery between 1968 and 1989.

Willem Adriaan van Ravesteijn was a Dutch gallerist and art collectors in the Netherlands. He and Geert van Beijeren founded the leading Dutch art gallery Art & Project (1968–2001) and publishers of the art magazine of the same name (1968–1989). During its thirty-year existence, the gallery as well as the magazine made substantial contributions to the Dutch art climate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marinus Boezem</span> Dutch artist (born 1934)

Marinus Lambertus van den Boezem is a Dutch artist. He is known for his radical view of art and his works in public space. Together with Wim T. Schippers, Ger van Elk and Jan Dibbets, Boezem is seen as one of the main representatives of conceptual art and arte povera in the Netherlands in the late 1960s.

Petra Blaisse is a British-born Dutch designer. Her work is an intersection of the professions of architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, textile design, and exhibition design.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Han Schuil</span> Dutch multimedia artist (born 1958)

Han Schuil is a Dutch multimedia artist, who works in a Dutch tradition of compactness and tension in painting.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre</span> Academic building at the City University of Hong Kong

Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre is an academic building on the campus of the City University of Hong Kong, which was completed in 2011. It was designed by Daniel Libeskind cooperating with Leigh and Orange Ltd., and received several awards on its design. It was funded with a donation of HK$100 million from the Shaw Foundation and is named after Run Run Shaw. The building houses the university's School of Creative Media, the Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media and the computer science, media and communication, and English departments.

Barbara Nanning is a Dutch designer, sculptor, monumental artist, ceramist and glass artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rein Jansma</span> Dutch architect (1959–2023)

Rein Jansma was a Dutch architect and co-founder of the architectural studio ZJA.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Robert Adlington (12 September 2013). Composing Dissent: Avant-garde Music in 1960s Amsterdam. OUP USA. pp. 154–. ISBN   978-0-19-998101-4.
  2. ↑ "We no longer collect the Carrier but the Information". Mediamatic. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  3. ↑ Lovink, Geert. "Unbombing & Ars Memoria: An Interview with Tjebbe van Tijen". Archived from the original on 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  4. ↑ Hans-Peter Schwarz (1997). Media--art--history: Media Museum, ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Prestel. ISBN   978-3-7913-1878-3.
  5. ↑ Open. NAi Pub. 2004.
  6. ↑ "Tjebbe van Tijen - ZKM". zkm.de.
  7. ↑ Gerfried Stocker; Christine Schöpf (1 January 1996). Memesis. New York. ISBN   978-3-211-82846-5.
  8. 1 2 3 Timothy Brown; Lorena Anton (30 July 2011). Between the Avant-garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present. Berghahn Books. pp. 42–. ISBN   978-0-85745-079-1.
  9. 1 2 Geert Lovink (2004). Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia. MIT Press. pp. 386–. ISBN   978-0-262-62187-8.
  10. 1 2 Joann Cerrito (1996). Contemporary Artists. St. James Press. ISBN   978-1-55862-183-1.
  11. ↑ Ingrid Schaffner; Matthias Winzen; Geoffrey Batchen (July 1998). Deep storage: collecting, storing, and archiving in art. Prestel. ISBN   9783791319209.
  12. ↑ Claudia Giannetti (26 April 2004). Ästhetik des Digitalen: Ein intermediärer Beitrag zu Wissenschaft, Medien- und Kunstsystem. Springer Vienna. ISBN   978-3-211-00571-2.
  13. ↑ Jeffrey Shaw; Anne-Marie Duguet; Peter Weibel (January 1997). Jeffrey Shaw: a user's manual, from expanded cinema to virtual reality. Cantz. ISBN   9783893228829.
  14. ↑ Katharina Gsöllpointner; Ruth Schnell; Romana Karla Schuler (10 May 2016). Digital Synesthesia: A Model for the Aesthetics of Digital Art. De Gruyter. pp. 77–. ISBN   978-3-11-045993-7.
  15. ↑ Studio International. Studio Trust. 1967.
  16. ↑ John Albert Walker (1995). John Latham: The Incidental Person-- His Art and Ideas. Middlesex University Press. ISBN   978-1-898253-02-0.
  17. ↑ Christiane Paul (2 March 2016). A Companion to Digital Art. Wiley. pp. 52–. ISBN   978-1-118-47518-8.
  18. ↑ "List of the accrual of the collection of the Chinese People's movement, spring 1989" (PDF). www.iisg.nl. International Institute of Social History.
  19. ↑ Sharon Macdonald (16 August 2010). A Companion to Museum Studies. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 310–. ISBN   978-1-4443-3405-0.
  20. ↑ Jorinde Seijdel (2004). (No) Memory: Storing and Recalling in Contemporary Art and Culture. NAi Publishers. ISBN   978-90-5662-393-7.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.