From February 2026 until August 2026 most of my robots and inventions are shown in an exhibition in museum OYFO in Hengelo. The exhitbition is called ‘Het huis van de Uitvinder’ (the inventor’s house) – and consists of a large
For Keiken’s installation ‘Spirit Systems of Soft Knowing‘ I have developed audio (transducer) hardware which is placed inside a silicone ‘womb’ which can be worn on the body. The setup had been on display at Amos Rex, Helsinki from March-June
For Leonard van Munster I made the technology to make two life-size ‘limberjacks‘ hop in sync with music for Almere’s Alluminous light festival The technology consists of two motor mechanisms with a cam-shaft, controlled with a MIDI track (same technology
Commissioned by Cross-TIC, a theatre production is set up with a ‘living’ tiny house as set, stage and character. This house will walk on robotic chicken legs (think Baba Yaga‘s hut meets an AT-ST) and will be on the run
Sonnevanck theatre is developing a play in which robot Ravi is one of the stars. Ravi is going to be controlled by a challenging mix of live control input, pre-recorded sequences and autonomous behaviour. More information on Sonnevanck’s website. The
A very intensive but also satisfying collaboration (again) with Remie Bakker (Manimalworks) finished last summer, this time for Sevdaliza’s incarnation ‘Raving Dahlia’. She appears for the first time in the videoclip ‘homunculus – oh my god’ (around the 4.00 minute
The project ‘Foundscape orchestra’ has received an earlier grant by the Stimuleringsfonds and has been realised in the ‘Drukpershal’ in Enschede. The project focuses on the sonification of the big hall with ceramic objects, pneumatics, tappers, strings and other creative
For the course Social Robot Design in the Interaction Technology programme at University of Twente, I have been working on the idea to use improv theatre as interaction simulation tool for a while now. After a number interesting, but less
In a number of creative theatrical vehicles and animatrons by exoot (Tristan Kruithof) I have been responsible for the control, electronics and software. His vehicles are usually based on converted electric golf-carts or wheelchairs. Part of the control consists of