How Do You Do 2011

About 500 digital creatives, 50 speakers, 90 sessions on the most innovative projects and a sparkling finale.
How Do You Do? 2011 was a successful meeting and an inspiring day of sharing ideas at the STRP Festival in…

Danja Vasiliev – “When you work with technology you have the power to transform people’s minds”

Around the table with Danja Vasiliev

You know your devices can do cool stuff but how does it actually work !? Do you know or maybe more importantly is the question should you know ?

At the How Do You…

Champagne Valentine – “It’s about getting people actively involved and engaged”

Around the table with Champagne Valentine

Champagne Valentine showed us their beautiful creative and colorful projects. Like the video ad they made for the Versace collection for H&M and on their website you can find more polished work as they…

Rafael Rozendaal – “Find a space, bring an artist and don’t forget your projectors”

Around the table with Rafael Rozendaal

Rafael is today speaking about what drives him while making numerous websites and using the internet as his canvas. His sites are like a piece of art where the owner receives a certificate and…

Solar Sinter – Markus Kayser

Around the table with Markus Kayser

Markus Kayser is preparing his presentation about using natural energy and resources to print 3D objects. He is going to show us his recent projects; his journey starting with the sun cutter leading up…

Daan Roosegaarde – “Don’t copy paste but copy morph”

Around the table with Daan Roosegaarde

Reality is the worst game ever. 
 

At How Do You Do, Daan Roosegaarde talked about the beauty and the bullshit of his work among other things)

As tactile beings and living in an over…

Blender – “The community takes over the quality control and support”

Around the table with Blender

Blender is said to equal the quality of a professional 3D package like Maya, but there is a major difference: Blender is completely free. “We don’t even know who our users are” because registration is…

Ultimaker – Erik de Bruijn: “Finally open source goes physical”

Around the table with Erik de Bruijn

While an orange Ultimaker is printing a bracelet, Erik de Bruijn is telling us about the making of the Ultimaker and the importance of open source hardware.

He compares the Ultimaker to Wikipedia,…

Peter Kirn

Around the table with Peter Kirn

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let’s get started: who’s at the table ? Big fans of Peter Kirn’s blog and people interested in music and media innovation.

Playing like Debussy on…

A-Gaeke Analog VJ Team

Around the table with Walewijn den Boer

Walewijn started the A-Gaeke Analog VJ Team because he missed something while watching visuals. He realised that people wanted to join the VJ in making visuals, thus he created a way in which…

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Google – Luuk van Dijk: “If you have to admit that your project is complex, you’ve already lost”

Around the table with Luuk van Dijk

Luuk van Dijk is telling us about working at Google at the “complex projects” table. How complex is it to work at an organisation on such a huge scale?

Before he started to…

Solid Ventures – “A powerful entrepeneur is someone who is willing to make certain sacrifices”

Around the table with Solid Ventures

It is hard to survive in a creative culture, says Floris van Alkemade. His company Solid Ventures invests in creative startup companies. His way of presenting is very open as he start of asking…

Robin Koek

Status: confirmed
Robin Koek is active as a composer, musician and designer of artistic systems. Over the last years he established a repertoire of various multidisciplinary collaborations. With a main focus on sound art and
interactive systems he was involved…

Eleanor’s distillery

Status: confirmed

Eleanor Groontonk is a visual artist and photographer that will tell us about her experiments with 4K video, a very high-definition blend of video.

Eleanor’s distillery

Blue Noise Department

Status: confirmed

Turning DNA into music: who wouldn’t want to know the ‘making of’ story behind that?

Blue Noise Department

Zero To midnight

Status: confirmed

Zero To midnight has reserved a table during the Bring Your Own Portfolio part of the day. As a music composer with a “rock ‘n roll edge”, we’ll surely be in for a treat.

Zero to Midnight

Sep Gerritsen

Status: confirmed

Sep Gerritsen, who has studied at the Crossmedia Lab at the Willem de Kooning academy, is a cross-media advertiser with a kick-ass portfolio.

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Marina Toeters (HOT100 ’08)

Status: confirmed

Marina Toeters works for fashion and technical companies and tries to bridges the gap between those branches. This multidisciplinary way of working is still quite new. That’s why it is often hard to communicate together, because they don’t…

Deframe Collective

Status: confirmed

DEFRAME is a group of visualists and audiophiles that create mind blowing experiences. Their work mostly consists out of audiovisual installations and live visual performances. Key to their work is to get rid of the frame and create…

@Doodsbedreiging

Status: confirmed

How do new media influence the way we communicate, express and behave ourselves in the digital public domain?
To shed light on the various social and cultural aspects implicated by this question, Sietse van der Meer and…

Dirk Oosterbosch – Fritzing

Status: Confirmed

Fritzing is a tool that is a great addition to the Arduino and Processing tools that are already used to rapid-prototype new systems. It allows you to design, document and produce custom circuit boards. They even have a…

Lieven van Velthoven

Status: confirmed

Lieven van Velthoven is specialised in creating interactive installations that adjust flawlessly to its surrounding. His installation Room Racers won this years Cinekid award and is exhibited at STRP’s exhibition next door.  Virtual race cars race around without…

Big Orange

Status: confirmed

Big Orange is a company specialised in interactive sound. They have created sound designs for several online campaigns/games like Vodafone, Skoda, Volkswagen, Chocomel, Audi, Bavaria and many more.

At How do You…

Freedom Of Creation (Brian Garret HOT100 ’10)

Status: confirmed

Brian Garret (HOT100 ’10) is a Dutch industrial designer with interests and skills ranging from graphic to interactive and computer aided product design. He’s currently working as a product designer for the visionary team of Freedom Of…

Videolounge

At How Do You Do we have multiple spaces to chill out. One of them is our Video Lounge. Here you can see films and clips about digital creation, art and design, such as:

• Clips from various works who’s

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€ per Minute Design

Status: confirmed

At HDYD the Ultimaker will be well represented! The new opportunities that arise with 3d-printing are numerous, especially now the Ultimaker is portable! Euro per Minute Design is a business concept that lets people print any…

E-Sphere

Status: confirmed

Cees Jan Mol of U-approach will explain the evolution of the E-Sphere. The system enriches the visitors experience by giving them personalised recommendations and the chance to share their opinion on the objects exhibited.…

Mariska de Groot

Status: confirmed

After she learned about the principle of synthetic sound on film, Mariska de Groot started building cinematic instruments and installations on the subject of optical sound. As a student at the ArtScience Institute in The Hague she…

Guerrilla Games

Status: confirmed

Besides cheese, football,  tulips and windmills the Dutch seem to have a new product they should be proud of… Games. So since we’ve got the makers of Killzone inhabiting our little country, we should offer them a big…

Claynote

Status: confirmed

Music enhances the experience of gaming. Just as with film it plays an important role in creating suspense. However, if you play a game the player has influence in how the narrative develops, which means you need music…

Heinze Havinga

Status: confirmed

Heinze Havinga is a man much in demand for his skills in doing cool things with (live) data sets. He co-organized an event called Databending during GOGbot festival in Enschede. An event where several pieces of art communicated…

Ine Poppe

Status: confirmed

Them F*ckin Robots will be shown at How Do You Do’s video lounge. The film is a portrait of Norman White, a pioneer of media art who fought to get technology accepted in the mainstream art-scene. Norman’s open-source…

Dropstuff

Status: confirmed

Where most urban screens are exploited by commercial parties Dropstuff provides a network of urban screens devoted to show digital and interactive arts. They’ve put their mobile screens on different festivals such as Lowlands, Impakt and…

Edhv

Status: confirmed

Edhv is an interdisciplinary design agency. They call themselves architects of identity who, with a wide range of specialists, can compose a team that can take on every job. Edhv has a portfolio that shows their skill in graphic…

Project Hitchhiking

Status: confirmed

Also nominated for the STRP Talent Pit Award are Maria Zendrera and Christo Buschek with their intriguing work called project Hitchhiking.
The project is about disembodied hitchhiking. Maria makes virtual trips without moving out of…

iPawn – Michiel Rademakers: “it’s not the idea, but the execution that makes it unique”

Around the table with Michiel Rademakers

“As all other companies, Jumbo Games – already 160 years old – had to step into the online world as well”, Michiel Rademakers tells us. “Last year we found the booming business of the iPad.…

Erfan Abdi

Status: confirmed

Erfan Abdi graduated at the Art Science department of the Royal academy in The Hague with his performance Notesaaz, which is nominated for the STRP Talent Pit Award.
Saaz has two meanings in Farsi: it stands for…

Bram Snijders

Status: confirmed

Bram Snijders’ installation Sensible 1.0 is nominated for the STRP talent pit award. The interactive installation explores how users can  experience a virtual layar made of digital matter in physical space. The layar only becomes visible if a…

Hexaplex

Status: confirmed

Hexaplex is a design duo based in Brighton and Amsterdam. Micha and Cheryl work in a vibrant network. They often develop their ideas in close collaboration with people in their network. This way they can adjust easily to…

Bèr Kessels

Status: confirmed

Bèr Kessels is an experienced webdesigner who has put his experience into practice by setting up Webschuur: a company that helps individuals, businesses and governents to expand through internet.
Next to this Bèr knows a lot about…

Hay Kranen

Status: confirmed

Hay Kranen works as a front end developer at the Dutch broadcasting network VPRO. Hay makes a lot of funny applications like the Balkenende translator, Mentalpong and the website 365 days art.  The website is an art project…

Adri Schokker (HOT 100 ’11)

Status: confirmed

Adri Schokker is a media artist with a background in sculpture. With his graduation work Reconstruction of a Catastrophe he used full 3d body scans and 3d prints of the audience to recreate a scene that shows the…

Iphion BV

Status: confirmed

Iphion is an Eindhoven based company that offers a television-over-the-internet solution:

“Iphion Cloud Broadcasting, a next generation IPTV solution that offers TV broadcasting of peerless quality, with the added benefit of online services such as interactive program guides

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Vlambeer

Around the table with Vlambeer

Vlambeer consists of Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman, two very young guys who decided to quit their HKU studies to zealously work on the things they wanted to make:…

FigureRunning

Status: confirmed

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Post Panic – “Aim high, you can always find a way to make things happen.”

Markham tells, ‘We want to add something to the ideas that companies have, when they approach us. We are perfectionists, maybe a bit extreme, but we are. We can make a video, but since we are self educated, we have…

Resolume

Status: confirmed

Resolume is a real-time instrument for live (audio) visual performances. It is created back in 1998 when a few guys with VJ-ambitions created their own software that could handle their needs. Back then vj’s used VHS tapes. Now…

Bert Kommerij

Status: confirmed

Bert Kommerij works for the Dutch independent broadcasting organisation NTR. Bert develops contemporary radio plays and  cross-media projects in cooperation with a a wide range of people; from media students to psychologists.

His latest project is Media Me,…

Miraclethings

Status: confirmed

Miraclethings is Arjan Scherpenisse, an all-round creative technologist who works as a freelancer for a variety of clients. At How Do You Do he will give us a look inside the proces through which his latest project came…

Stiktu

Status: confirmed

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Richard Vijgen

Status: confirmed

Richard Vijgen is an information designer working with dynamic and screen based media. The results are generative and/or semi-autonomous software and installations. Richard’s work is object oriented in terms of development (object oriented programming) and perspective (the relationship with…

Submarine

Status: confirmed

Media, games and web producers Submarine, respresented by Sara Kolster, will offer us insight into their Transmedia work. Transmedia storytelling is about weaving complex narratives across multiple media, in order to create a richer experience. Submarine has…

Boomerang Create

Status: confirmed

Everybody knows the witty free Boomerang cards that you can get at your local bar and club. Some cards are based on existing art by established artists while others are made by young designers. To make these cards Boomerang…

Philips Design Probes

Status: confirmed

Carried out by Philips Design, the design probes research ‘far-future’ technology. The research aims to identify developments that could have a significant impact. Their research generates insights in five main areas; politics, economics, culture, environments and technological futures.…

Ministerie van Nieuwe Dingen

Status: confirmed

The Ministry of New Things create innovative products by using magic! Due to their unconventional approach they invent beautifully designed consumer products with a futuristic appeal.

Why did we invite them: because of their skill to change raw technology…

Bubble Foundry

Status: confirmed

Peter Robinett runs Bubble Foundry; a web-design company that’s specialised in building web applications and Iphone apps for start-ups. Besides his design activities he also keeps a large database of Dutch web companies and technology investors. So, a…

HeyHeyHey

Status: confirmed

HEYHEYHEY is an Eindhoven based design studio which has an intuitive approach in the way they build their work. The crew is not limited by a visual style or medium and this open-minded approach creates exclusive communicative ideas.…

Head Candy

Status: confirmed

Head Candy creates tangible user interfaces and other interactive media that try to escape the screen. For example, they do a lot of work on Microsoft’s Surface.

Why did we invite them: Head Candy has to…

Fons Schiedon

Status: confirmed

Fons Schiedon is a visual artist who uses various techniques in his work, from animation to sculpture. His work explores the immersive role of art, cinema and popular culture in the formation of the principle “make believe”. One of…

Job, Joris en Marieke

Status: confirmed

Animation, illustration, character design and music are among the practices of versatile studio Job, Joris and Marieke. Their visual style is very sweet and appealing just like their solution to the question:  ”who will be frontman of your band…

Roamler

Status: confirmed

Roamler is a platform that allows you to mobilise users to perform tasks in real space. For example, you can ask users to take pictures of certain buildings or results of advertising campaings for a little fee. It’s a…

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling has been invited to STRP as a speaker. He’s a brilliant at that, but what’s he like when you sit down with him?

Status: invited

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Sterling is presenting his ‘map’ Theory Object of anticonventional products during his…