Arnold Hoogerwerf

After two years of preparation, my interdisciplinary project De meeuwen van Tinbergen will have its grand premiere at this year’s Oerol Festival. This collaboration between Cowboy bij Nacht, Staatsbosbeheer and Museum Boerhaave is a hommage to ethologist and Nobel Prize Laureate Niko Tinbergen (1907-1988). The project consists of a theatre performance by Cowboy bij Nacht, [...]

A selection of short films made by students of my video courses at Utrechts Centrum v.d. Kunsten will be screened at the Filmin festival on sunday june 10 2012. Filmin is a European project aimed at improving cultural exchange through the use of audiovisual media. Location: PodiumWerkPlaats (
Burchtpoort 5
 3452 MD Vleuten)

On march 12 2012, i will present a lecture performance about supernormal stimuli in cooperation with philosopher Bas Haring en actor/director Alexander de Vree. This presentation is part of the project De meeuwen van Tinbergen and will take place within the scope of the Art and Science Month of art society De Kring in Amsterdam. More information [...]

A video installation specially made for the september 11 memorial that will take place in the Neudeflat in Utrecht. “Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they’re different. You can feel secure even though you’re not, and you can be secure even though you don’t feel it.” Bruce Schneier In Smile! You’re on [...]

From june 18th – 26th 2011, De Meeuwen van Tinbergen – De Proloog will have its premiere at Oerol Festival Terschelling. During this festival three small-scale projects (theatre, a lecture and a panel discussion) will be presented in run-up to next year’s bigger appearance at Oerol festival and several other festivals and Dutch universities. More [...]

A selection of short films made by students of two of my video courses at Utrechts Centrum v.d. Kunsten will be screened at the UCK festival on may 21st 2011.

From april 6-28 2011, i will present a digital portfolio of my work at the exhibition 10 jaar Vlampijpateliers, Stadhuis Utrecht. Opening hours: Monday – Friday from 9.00 – 17.00. Address: Korte Minrebroederstraat 2, Utrecht.

I created a video teaser for my upcoming project ‘De Meeuwen van Tinbergen’, about the life and work of Nobel Prize laureate Niko Tinbergen (1907-1988). ‘De Meeuwen van Tinbergen’ will be an interdisciplinary project in cooperation with Cowboy bij Nacht, Staatsbosbeheer, Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Institute of Biology (Leiden University) and Oerol Festival Terschelling. More information [...]

I will exhibit a small kiosk with a portfolio of my work in front of my atelier Address: Vlampijpstraat 50 3534 AR Utrecht

On september 12, a first public presentation will be held of my upcoming project ‘De Meeuwen van Tinbergen’ during Uitfeest Utrecht 2010, the start of the cultural season in Utrecht. Once every hour, on the city hall square, Cowboy by Nacht will present a ‘concert for seagulls’, presented through an 8-channel surround sound installation, placed [...]

I made some videos for the performance ‘Wij Bouwen de Stad’ by Domestica Rotterdam, which will have it’s premiere this weekend on September 5th, during the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival 2010. (In cooperation with Lotte de Vries.)

I was invited to take part in the ‘Gidsenproject’ of this year’s Oerol Festival. More info can be found here (in Dutch). I also was invited by Dutch television channel AVRO, to review two small projects at the festival. The results can be seen below:

I got nominated for the BNG WorkSpace Project Prize 2010, organized by Filmhuis Den Haag / ZAAL5, with a project proposal for an interactive light installation named ‘A Close Encounter of The First Kind’ (for which i’m still seeking funding). WORKSPACE is the annual project competition through which ZAAL5 seeks out talented filmmakers and artists [...]

Geen Familie is the latest theatre play of cowboy bij nacht, for which i composed music and co-designed the stage lighting. In Geen Familie, a young girl asks a number of people to act as her family to celebrate her birthday. Geen Familie is made by: Robert van Dijk (Text) Alexander de Vree (Director) Annefé de [...]

Cowboy bij Nacht will present a preview of their new theatre performance Geen Familie in the beautiful old Pastoefabriek in Utrecht, september 13, 2009. Geen Familie will have its premiere on nov 12, 2009 at Huis a.d. Werf, Utrecht.

In samenwerking met Huis en Festival a/d Werf produceert Cowboy bij Nacht Ik dacht dat ik mijn naam hoorde. Deze voorstelling is exclusief voor het Festival a/d Werf 2009 gemaakt. Ik dacht dat ik mijn naam hoorde gaat over dat wat zij zeker weet, terwijl hij daar toch anders over denkt. Over wat hij weet [...]

Mozzhukhin (2008) is a performance installation by cowboy bij nacht, inspired by a classic cinematic experiment by Lev Kuleshov, known today as the “Kuleshov effect”. Around 1918, Lev Kuleshov edited a short film in which shots of actor Ivan Mozzhukhin, looking into the camera, were intercutted with fragments of various objects. The audience praised the [...]

Ruis ik slecht verstaan and Bomans hoort u mij are two new theatre shows from Cowboy Bij Nacht and het NUT, a theatrical remake of the 1971 dutch radioshow ‘Alleen op een Eiland’. For both performances (playing simultaneously, and connected through a live radio connection) i composed music and took care of the design of [...]

My short film 24H Panorama will be screened at the International Environmental Short Film Festival, taking place from june 5-10 2008 in Istanbul (Turkey). My film is scheduled on the 8th of june at 20.30 hrs. Other selected dutch films (from Peter Delpeut, Erik Urlings, Frank van den Engel and Froda Kuipers) will be screened [...]

From may 25 – 28, Cowboy bij Nacht will present their latest performance Muisman Opnemen at Festival a/d Werf 2008 in Utrecht. Daily at 21.15 hrs, Wednesday May 28th also at 17.00 hrs.

This week I am attending the fourth and last week of the Cimatics Masterclass Live A/V 2007/2008 in Brussels. Cimatics is a Brussels based international platform for Live A/V. This Masterclass consists of a series of 4 workshops with lectures from different internationally renowned media artists / theorists (amongst others Marc Amerika, Lab[au], Yves de Mey, Jerry  Galle, Brendan Byrne & [...]

Muisman Opnemen is the newest performance of theatre group cowboy bij nacht, for which I again composed the soundtrack. Muisman Opnemen is based on the novel ‘The Overcoat’ by Nikolaj Gogol (1809 – 1852) and is about Muisman, a civil servant with a futile function. He nevertheless loves his job and everyday, he arrives happy [...]

From february 15th – february 19th 2008, i will present a new video from my ‘Time Sketch’ series at exhibition Narratives in Space // Spatial Narrations in Ghent (BE). This installation exhibition is organised by Ghent based foundation Existentie, a platform that brings together artists, arts critics and curators. The past couple of months, i’ve [...]

Time Sketch #2 (1.20 min. loop / SD Video / No Sound) is a short experimental video work, based on the same ideas and techniques i used in 24H Panorama and Scenes From My Backyard. Here, i experimented with the idea of showing simultaneously four different ‘tempi’ of one take of footage. Time appears in [...]

24H Panorama will be screened at the ‘Festival International Séquence Court Métrage’ in Toulouse (France). It will be part of the compilation programme “The World Under Construction”, scheduled on saturday december 1st, at 19h00 in Cinémathéque de Toulouse.

Maandag of Dinsdag is a new play of theatre group cowboy bij nacht, for which i composed music and (partly) did light- and stagedesign. It is inspired by ‘The Hours’ (2002), the oscar-winning movie directed by Stephen Daldry. Maandag of Dinsdag is a portrait of Gina, Laura and Clarissa, who all ended up in an [...]

On october 2nd 2007, a modified version of the motion tracking system i originally developed for my Lightroom project, will be used in an interactive sound-installation of Werner Urban at the Kinderboekenbal 2007 at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam. For those interested i will share here a little bit of the technical backgrounds of [...]

Cowboy Bij Nacht will present short excerpts from two upcoming theatre shows at Uitfeest 2007, marking the beginning of the cultural season. At Huis a.d. Werf, ‘Maandag of Dinsdag’ will be playing at 13.30 and 14.30 (Premiere will be october 25 2007 at Huis aan de Werf). At the Ganzenmarkt (Stadhuisplein), on every whole hour, [...]

From april 1-17 2007, Scenes From My Backyard will be exhibited once more at the videowall of the Stadschouwburg in Utrecht. Lucasbolwerk 24, Utrecht From 20.30 hrs. until late.

Welcome to my slowly ever-expanding website (which is still under construction, though). As i add more articles, this site will function as an online portfolio of my work. For now, I’m in the process of adding textual information about my projects. Later on, i will add documentation.

Atkritka is a theatrical performance by Cowboy Bij Nacht. It is based on the documentary film Checkpoint of Yoav Shamir, concerning the social intercourse between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian citizens at checkpoints around the Palestinian areas. For this play, I composed a multichannel soundtrack. In Atkritka, the tensed situation around the checkpoints is stripped of [...]

Scenes From my Backyard is a 4-channel video installation in cooperation with Alexander de Vree and Mariska Hogendoorn. It is a ‘panoramic tableau vivant’ in which moving panoramic images are extended over 4 adjacent projection-screens. In a 15 minutes long time lapse sequence, the spectator is taken along different ‘everyday scenes’ of a family in [...]

24H Panorama (4 min. / SD Video / Sound) is a short animated film of panoramic still images. In this film, time and space seem to exist independently in a sequence of tranquil landscapes. It is the first project in what will become a series of short films that deal with manipulated perception of time [...]

Brel 2 is a musical theatre play of Toneelgroep Oostpool, directed by Rob Ligthert. It is a follow-up of the very successful Brel, both about the life and music of the Belgian chansonier Jacques Brel (played by Jeroen Willems). I did video-editing for the 30 minutes opening scene (in cooperation with / directed by stagedesigner [...]

Lightroom is an interactive light/sound installation. 64 Lights are placed in a square grid on a floor filled with white shingle. The room is totally darkened when the visitor enters. By walking in between the lights, the visitor triggers the lights and influences the behaviour of the installation; the room becomes ‘filled’ with fluid-like waves [...]

Een Samenzwering Der Idioten is a play by De Theatercompagnie, directed by Theu Boermans. It is about the life of Ignatius Riley, the protagonist of A Confederacy of Dunces, a posthumously published novel by John Kennedy Toole (Kennedy Toole himself committed suicide. He never found a publisher for his manuscripts). I edited several videos for [...]

Film/Space is a monumental multi-channel video installation without sound. It exists of 24 projection-screens, placed in a precise spatial arrangement. The visitor walks around in a filmic landscape of continuously changing projected forms in perfect linear perspective. One’s ability to perceive space is constantly put to the test; the visitor is encouraged to view the [...]

Sonic Light was the name of the 2003 edition of the annual Sonic Acts festival. As a member of the editorial staff, i was involved in the design of the Light Box, a gigantic light-/videoprojection sculpture in the main hall of Paradiso, which served as the only light source during the festival. For different live [...]

(Un)Aimed is a multichannel, interactive sound installation. It exists of several rotating parabolic speakers. These speakers produce extremely narrow beams of sound that appear very near to the visitor, when standing in such a beam (and almost silent when standing outside of it). Because the speakers turn around and the walls of the room function [...]

Light Modulator is a 16mm film-installation. A film-loop is projected on a precisely cut-out projection screen, creating a ‘trompe-l’oeil-like’ effect. The material for this project consists of chemically and digitally treated found footage. This project functioned as a sketch for the Film/Space project. In cooperation with Seema Ouweneel. This installation is exhibited: march 15 / [...]

Bouwnummer 1077 is a ‘Heavy Physical Sound Performance’ by Bart Visser, Remco de Jong and Arnold Hoogerwerf. This project is both a performance and a sound installation. The installation scans the surrounding space of the installation with microphones and speakers, which are built into hanging cubes. It can be played like an instrument, by grasping, [...]

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An electroacoustic composition in three parts, made in 2000. Performed during a concert with fellow composers from Rotterdam (among others Philemon Mukarno, Oskar van Dillen) at Bolnes Dockyards, Rotterdam.

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Ontleding Van Het Filmische is a performance / light installation. In this performance, a mechanical light construction is built and carefully tested, with the ultimate goal of creating one ‘cinematic’ moment. This project is an ode to the pioneers of cinema: all the artists, priests, alchemists and scientists that passionately worked on the invention of [...]

Afterimage is a 3 channel video installation in cooperation with Mariska Hogendoorn, and is about the thin line between perception and interpretation. Flashes of faces with different expressions randomly appear on three monitors, that immediately begin to degenerate into “smears” of color. Because images appear unexpected, the visitor is almost always ‘too late’, forcing him [...]

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Secret Places is a performance installation by Forced Entertainment with 13 performers of the Rotterdam and The Hague Art Academies. In this 4 hours lasting performance, the performers are sitting next to each other with their eyes closed, telling each other stories from memory. “Surrounded by 1000 snapshots of the city 13 performers embark upon [...]

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