Finissage Technology requested and farewell party Heiner Holtappels

Technology Requested Finissage

February 4, 5 - 7 pm

On Friday, 4 February, a special finissage will be organized, around the theme of Heiner Holtappels's upcoming departure. With the exhibition Technology Requested Heiner Holtappels will be saying his farewell as general and artistic director of the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Heiner Holtappels has held that position since1998, and wraps up his work here as of the end of February, 2011. The artists in the exhibition have a special relation with the Netherlands Media Art Institute, with their work having been shown a number of times at the Institute during the past twelve years. Technology Requested shows new installations that were realized in 2010. For example, the performance-installation by Sonia Cillari was created this year as an Artist in Residence project at the NIMk.

At 6:00 p.m. on February 4, 2011, Maya Brush, a 'Homo Virtualis', will be born . She is a virtual sculpture who enters the real world for the first time at that moment. Maya Brush is the first virtual beauty to be created solely by the computer – an artificial body which is oriented to human ideals of beauty, yet comes into being entirely virtually, without being created from any real model. Maya Brush has been developed over the past three years by the artist Kirsten Geisler. nimk.nl/eng/birth-maya-bush