Macular: Daan Johan & Joris Strijbos

Daan Johan (NL) is a Tilburg based artist, who works with kinetic light and sound installations. Well before receiving his bachelor and master degree in Artscience at the Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, he was building his own instruments and working in stop motion animation. That became the starting point for an ongoing exploration of how he could use and abuse the secret life that exists inside electronics in physical installations.

Joris Strijbos (NL, 1981) is a Rotterdam-based artist whose work focuses on the synaesthetic relation and interaction between moving image and sound. His artistic research focuses on cybernetics, swarm intelligence, communication networks and emergent systems. In his work he combines artificial, electronic and digital media with models and algorithms based on biological systems. What the pieces have in common is their multisensorial nature. Light, sound and movement are merged with precision into time-bound sculptures.