Transnatural Art & Design

___Over 28.000 persons visited the Regeneration exhibit at the Dutch Design Week. We’ve received so many positive responses form the audience and it got noticed by various press channels like VPRO, The Creators Project, De Betere Wereld and RTL Live. The exhibition continuous in Amsterdam till 28 April and Regeneration - Biotalk days are organized at Mediamatic upcoming period, so stayed tuned. Photos of the Dutch Design Week show can be viewed here. Regeneration explores the possibilities of regenerating our current, man-damaged ecosystems. The exhibition will show a variety of projects by artists and designers who deal with issues involved with this ecological regeneration and, simultaneously, they investigate newly possible resources derived from these regenerated ecosystems. A side program that consists of talks, demonstrations and workshops accompanies the exhibition. Regeneration opened on Friday 30 September in the Transnatural gallery in Amsterdam and will travel to Eindhoven for the Dutch Design Week in October.

___The Playing Life exhibition was running in the Veemgebouw at the Dutch Design Week from 17-25 October and continous its adventure till 15 April in Amsterdam. It got noticed by various media such as AvroTros Kunstuur, VPRO, De Volkskrant, Dutch Design Daily, Kennislink and RTL news. The Playing Life exhibition and talks explore the emerging field of creating and working with living materials as a medium for development of art and design projects. Playing Life features a combination of recent developments in biotechnology, interspersed with future concepts and projects that are influenced by craft and can be still be visited at Transnatural gallery in Amsterdam till 15 April 2016. Two Playing Life Biotalk events are organized at Mediamatic, first on Friday 11 Dec.. Projects and participants: Circumventive organs / Agatha Haines (UK) , Bistro in Vitro / Next Nature (NL) , Ghost in the Machine / Ted Lawson (US) , Posterus textilus  / Tamara Hoogeweegen (NL) , Re-Sea-Me  / Nienke Hoogvliet (NL) ,  Fungi fest / Tessa Kuipers (NL) , Playful Self / Alex Rothera & James Krahe (US) ++ Dutch Design Week participants: One Luminous dot / Teresa van Dongen (NL) , Algae Graphs / Lia Giraud (FR) , Peter Gentenaar (NL) , Christiaan Lieverse (NL) Transnatural Workspace Amsterdam Dates: 26 Sept. – 15 Apr. Open: Tue. – Fri., 10.00h – 17.00h / Sat. 13.00h - 17.00h Address: Lijnbaansgracht 148a Bg Amsterdam Playing Life - Biotalk (Mediamatic) : 11 December &  26 February Supported by: Creative Industy fund, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst,VSBfonds, Hybrid House Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds    

___Transnatural Label recently launched its brand new sparkling Label website with the latest Art & Design. The website includes an online shop function for all customers (B-B & B-C) and the new Laboratory department supporting development of art & design. You can visit the website here: www.transnaturallabel.com

___ Nice article in NRC Handelsblad 5 Sept., interview with director BEYOND Biennial Arjen Bangma and Tanja Myra Koning about Transnatural's new event BEYOND Biënnale starting 6 Sept. in EYE. www.beyondbiennale.nl

___ Transnatural is proud to announce a part of the Label collecton is adopted into the MoMA collection. The new Well Proven Stools series will be presented to the audience in New York city in October 2014. www.moma.org

___The first edition of the BEYOND Biennial takes place with a series of exciting events on the bank of the IJ in the North of Amsterdam from 6 - 26 September 2014. BEYOND transforms the Tolhuistuin and  EYE into a temporary hub for anyone interested in the latest developments in (interactive) media, art, design, technology and science. BEYOND focuses on future developments. Artists, designers, scientists, engineers, musicians, DJs present a dazzling program with performances, exhibitions, film screenings, experiments and a steamy night program. Besides there’s an education program for the youngsters. In collaboration with EYE the event starts with two nights full of performances, interactive work and experiments. The program is related to David Cronenberg The Exhibition and the film program that runs simultaneously. We're going to hack our own bodies and play with perception by using new (media) tools. The Reality Shift exhibition will  run at the Tolhuistuin from 17 till 26 September. The Reality Shift investigates and reflects a shifting reality in which man and technology, and the physical and virtual life under the influence of new (media) tools and data are increasingly forming one unity. BEYOND ends with Discovery Festival. The 9th edition of Discovery dives with its theme The Reality Shift not only new forms of media (data) systems and life, but also the ancient world of framing, lies and deceit. Discovery pushes the boundaries between real and unreal, truth and lies with a night of live experiments, micro talks, performances, demonstrations and music. www.beyondbiennale.nl

___ Transnatural Label  presents its art and design collection at Ventura Lambrate during the Salone del Mobile in Milan. The collection, which represents the symbioses between nature and technology, includes three new designs. The Well proven stools series by designers Marjan van Aubel and James Shaw explore a new way to reuse waste timber, which can run up to 50 to 80% in regular production. These woodchips are mixed with a bioresin. This mixture expands to a light and strong foam. By combining these waste products, a new and durable material is created. The Trap Light design (originally designed in 2012) features a new production of indoor and outdoor lamps in 2014. The lamps’ cages come in three colour variants: white, yellow and blue. The lamp’s glass is hand-blown and made by using the traditional Murano glass blowing technique. Within this technique the designers were able to embed photoluminescent pigments into the glass body of the lamp. These pigments trap light that is released as soon as it’s dark. The designers illustrate, that by taking a fresh approach to traditional production methods and existing materials, they can create an engaging, new lighting experience whilst making the most of energy. In addition to these new designs, the large version of the Thermophores will be showcased. With its organic, vegetal semblance, the Thermophores continuously changes color on the surface through temperature fluctuations in space. When heated a few degrees more, a beautiful motion operates, changing the organism’s color. After cooling down, the Thermophores slowly returns to its original color. Such a dynamic process turns this artistic and conceptual approach into a magical outcome. Join us at: Undai Gallery 8 April - 13 April, 2014 Address: Ventura Lambrate, Via Ventura 6 http://transnatural.org/category/collection/ http://www.venturaprojects.com/ Download Press Kit (incl. images and press release)

___ The Linking Parts show will start its international tour in spring 2014. Once a coal mine, the Grand Hornu monumental complex finds its roots in the industrial heritage of Europe. Now one of Belgium’s distinctive cultural centers, the site remains intrinsically bounded to technological, social and human developments over time. Today, it is with a shared sense of scientific rigor, aesthetic sensitivity, pleasure of discovery and knowledge that Grand Hornu Images and Transnatural join their mutual aspirations to pursue a reflection on contemporary art and design, and their relationship to our technological, social and natural environment into an inspiring exhibition. Following Transnatural’s annual 2014 theme ‘Teaming Up’, the Linking Parts exhibition offers the Grand Hornu’ s visitors a chance to look at different kinds of collaboration and organization with artists, designers and scientists - which collaborations can lead to systems of combined cleverness. What happens if we throw the capabilities and features of humans, animals, plants and machines all together and consider them as possible parts of new entities? Without any rules and pre-occupations about where a new combination should fit in, we let these new entities lead their own course into newly combined systems, shaped by the merging of modern and classical components. From micro-organisms that degrade plastics into harmless material, machines that give suggestions during the design process or bee burrows made from city wood waste, to beautifully executed symbiosis between two fungal organisms that can turn man-made synthetic materials into harmless bio-mass. Photo luminescent skins developed to convert waste energy back into visible light, or even 3D printing combined together with organic growing material – the exhibition will present enchanting and daring new works from young artists and designers; a dazzling experience for the senses. Works include amongst others: Erik Klarenbeek’s Mycelanium Chair, Jalila Essaidi’s 2.6g 329m/s (Bulletproof Skin),  Maurizio Montalti's  System Synthetics, Christian Fiebig's Comuputer Augmented Crafts, Mike Thompson and Gionata Gatto’s Trace Light, Tim van Comvoirt’s Thermophores and Studio 1:1’s Biological Clock. Linking Parts is curated by Arjen Bangma in thematical editorial cooperation with Klaas Kuitenbrouwer. Grand Hornu Images North Wing Sun 24 May – Sun 24 August 2014 Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm www.grand-hornu.eu

___ Discovery festival is growing and was organized in 3 different cities in 2012. In 2013 Transnatural took over controle of this extraordinary event in Amsterdam where science, stunning art &  design, and cutting edge music meet science lovers & hipsters. We did a restyle on the event in its experience, but did not kill our darlings… 

___ The director of Transnatural Arjen Bangma explains what Transnatural festival is all about in Het Parool of 6 September 2012.

___ Hollands newspaper Financieel Dagblad published an interesting article about  the growing role of design (as art) in galleries. Download the article  Design becomes Art, Financieel Dagblad

___ The SUPER.{FUTURE}.CONTENT members events offer us insights in the latest research & development out of studio’s, labs, (hardcore) innovation companies and other related institutes.

___ Once a year the festival will take place at our fantastic new location: the NEMO Science center. Still having the exhibition as the events' heart, the festival will grow with a music and performance

___ We're very excited to announce our brand new, reconstructed Transnatural headquarters at the Lijnbaansgracht is almost ready for the start of our events, agency and academy activities. You're welcome to visit the first exhibition Things That Mind Their Own Business and get an impression of our Art & Design collection after 21 October. For more details please check the calender.

___ Step into the mind of fish in this AR installation which connects the organic and virtual world in an excellent way. Different dialogues between fishes are visible at a ‘periscope’ screen. You can even interact by sending them a twitter message and your virtual fish will pop up too. Mind The Fish is part of the Cinekid Festival Medialab program running 12 October - 21 Octorber.