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Tjebbe Beekman – Mall IV

text and image roberto voorbij In the entrance hall of the Amsterdam center The New Love – a place for debate, religion, poetry and more – hangs this impressive painting (Size: 630 x 220 cm. Medium: sand, acrylic and enamel … Continue reading

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EVERYBODY SUSPECT

text and image roberto voorbij Quite regularly the discussion revives, usually when the nation’s temper is overheated because of a horrible crime, then the real crime fighters take advantage of the emotional state of the nation to stress the importance … Continue reading

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Who monitors you?

image bof text roberto voorbij WHO MONITORS YOU? FIGHT FOR INTERNET FREEDOM. DONATE. – BITS OF FREEDOM. WWW.BOF.NL/DO-YOUR-BIT/ Campaign image – note the visual word play – for Bits of Freedom, a Dutch digital rights organization, that’s committed to privacy … Continue reading

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Surveillance

text and image roberto voorbij When people from abroad visit the Netherlands they are often surprised by how close the windows of our houses are situated to the street, by the unobstructed view of our interiors. Reading the book The … Continue reading

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Open TV

text and image roberto voorbij If you have always wanted to observe people as if you were a security guard or if you yourself are the one who likes to be observed, there is now the perfect opportunity. Spread over … Continue reading

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World of Waste

text and image roberto voorbij Dutch photographer / visual artist Peter Smith has created a globe made of PET bottles, street litter which took surprisingly little effort to collect, Smith says. In the Amsterdam IJ floats since several weeks this … Continue reading

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Incubate 2012 Open Source Expo

text and image roberto voorbij As part of the annual incubate festival takes at the Tilburg Koepelhal for the second time the Open Source Expo place. Everyone had the opportunity to submit work, hence the title, and nearly 300 artists … Continue reading

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City of Abstracts

text and image roberto voorbij As part of the Holland Festival is currently in the central hall of the Amsterdam Central Station the projection City of Abstracts by William Forsythe presented. As the description already suggests, in the beautiful designed … Continue reading

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Preview Stedelijk Museum

text and image roberto voorbij After the preview for the press on May 9 was yesterday and today the opportunity for the public to get a first impression of the new Stedelijk Museum. For an empty museum there was a … Continue reading

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FREE ACID

text and image roberto voorbij Artist unknown – street art, Amsterdam. No, to be honest I haven’t tried one, three other persons did apparently. Free drugs, where do you still find that? Or did they mean acid free paper? Nah, … Continue reading

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