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Kronehoefstraat 30A, Eindhoven
Every day from
19 oktober – 27 oktober
The boundary between nature and culture has always been porous – but in an era of digital networks, artificial intelligence and synthetic landscapes, it is fading exponentially. Art d’Eco explores how ecology, technology and mythology intertwine in the world which is increasingly shaped by human design.
Featuring works by Studio Jonne Verheij, Studio Metaform, Hanchen Zhang, Terrence Wang and Jurel Bakker, the exhibition investigates how we create new realities: from a climate change data installation and electrical fungal communication to algorithmic rituals and post-industrial folklore.
Art d’Eco questions our urge to master both nature and digital worlds. We design ecosystems, tame rivers, build algorithmic gardens, and imagine we can grasp everything that grows or flows. Yet reality keeps slipping away: storms, viruses, and self-learning machines follow their own logic. Perhaps the greatest illusion is that nature was ever truly malleable — and that the new natures we are creating, digital or physical, will ever submit to complete control.
Artists
- Studio Jonne Verheij
- Studio Metaform,
- Hanchen Zhang
- Terrence Wang
- Jurel Bakker
STUDIO JONNE VERHEIJ | INTERWOVEN
Fungi communicate within their own network using electrical pulses. The installation Interwoven measures and translates this invisible language into projection and sound. When the fungus is touched, its effect can be seen and heard – thus, art and science collaborate in this installation.
Interwoven is about the relationship between humans and nature. Have we grown too far apart, or are we one? By bringing the viewer face to face with a fungus, Lidewei Reitsma & Jonne Verheij want to create a sense of connection with the fungus, and therefore with nature.
Lidewei Reitsma & Jonne Verheij
The artist duo Lidewei Reitsma & Jonne Verheij works with various media based on a deep fascination with science and nature. What can we learn from the non-human world and how can we collaborate to work towards a sustainable future? These are some of the questions they weave into their work. With their work, Reitsma and Verheij explore new perspectives. Collaboration is an important part of their practice, not only with each other, but especially with science and nature.
Studio Metaform
Studio Metaform is an Art-Science practice creating immersive, multi-sensory experiences that translate complex data into embodied understanding.
STUDIO METAFORM | SENSE
SENSE is an immersive audiovisual installation that transforms 36 years of environmental data into an 8-minute experience, enabling you to feel climate change.
The music is directly translated from temperature and net radiation measurements recorded at Cabauw, a KNMI measuring mast in the Netherlands, from 1987 to 2023. The installation features three video feeds that bridge the temporal and technological divide:
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You, the viewer, a sentient being that reacts in real-time;
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The mast, which has sensed and recorded decades of environmental shifts;
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The interaction, visualised through AI-generated imagery, representing the dynamic relationship between human perception and data.
Together, these elements create an intuitive dialogue between the immediate and the enduring as well as the human and the technological, prompting us to reflect on how we perceive our changing environment.
HANCHEN ZHANG | LIMINAL REVERBERATION
Liminal Reverberation investigates the hidden yet materially significant infrastructure of the digital “Cloud” through acoustic experience. By employing an interactive installation based on the symbolic form of a warning siren, the project transforms a tool originally associated with control into a participatory interface. Real-time spatial mapping through lidar sensors generates evolving soundscapes, triggered and shaped by audience presence and movement.
Through rendering audible the concealed territorial and ecological footprint of data infrastructure, the work critically exposes and contests the abstract entanglements between computation, land use, public memory, and calls them into question.
Hanchen Zhang
Hanchen Zhang is a Research-based designer, recently graduating cum laude from the Master’s in Geo-Design programme at Design Academy Eindhoven.
TERRENCE WANG
During the residency at TAC, he focuses on water-related folklore shared by Taiwan and the Netherlands, using AI to explore new stories through misreadings, repetitions, and playful coincidences.
Wang, Hsueh-Yuan (Terrence Wang) is a Taiwanese artist who reinterprets folklore through 3D modeling and printing, drawing inspiration from temple culture aesthetics. His works transform traditional narratives with creativity and humor.
JUREL BAKKER | CHRISTINA_1964.TO(_2095)
In her project Christina_1964.to(_2095), Jurel examines the role of data within the Dutch dairy industry. The work is named after Christina, one of the first cows in the Netherlands to produce over 100,000 kilograms of milk—a remarkable achievement in 1964, now considered standard. Thanks to advances in technology and the use of data on nutrition, behaviour, fertility, and milk yield, production per cow has increased significantly. This data enables farmers to steer breeding processes more precisely, optimising cows generation after generation. As a result, the evolution of the dairy cow has become tightly interwoven with digital systems and algorithms.
Jurel Bakker
In her work as a multimedia artist, Jurel Bakker explores the impact of industrial-scale agriculture—particularly the livestock sector—on the intricate relationships between humans, organisms, and ecosystems. She focuses on subtle signs of change: traces that often go unnoticed, yet reveal much about the consequences of human intervention in the landscape. At the heart of her practice are bioindicators—organisms that respond to environmental disruption and serve as witnesses to ecological change.
TAC
Art d’Eco is part of Automata 2.0, an ongoing programme line at TAC that explores the age-old relationship between art and technology. From the first mechanical devices of antiquity to contemporary AI and algorithmic systems, every technological innovation promises progress while raising new questions and tensions. Through exhibitions, experiments and conversations, TAC places these contemporary inventions in historical and artistic perspective.
At TAC, we showcase the latest, coolest, funniest, and most sincere emerging art from the TAC community. We’ve always done this, but now we do it several times a year. TAC in full splendour. Fully connected.
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