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Process

Bodily expression dataset

Authentic Movement Excercise developed by Mary Starks Whitehouse in 1950

Random String generator

Believe simple ideas can produce complex systems

Can you think random?

ROI (Regions of Interests)

‘What do Images Want?’, 2005 van W.J.T Mitchell—
We need to see images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites,
demands, and drives of their own

Noise is an Asset

Turning the decoding system around
Combine methods from different softwares/disciplines/approaches

choreographer: Marjolein Vogels,
actress: Marina Miller Dessau

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Projects

Gesture Exhaustion Reformer (for Efficient Training)

Deconstructed and reassembled fitness apparatuses with custom steel and mechanical components, powder coating

2026

Assembled from discarded fitness apparatuses bought on the second-hand market, Gesture Exhaustion Reformer (for Efficient Training) combines handles, cables, and joints into a surreal and dysfunctional training device. The work reflects on a technology-driven society shaped by protocols, optimisation, and “how-to” logic that increasingly structure everyday behaviour. Technologies instruct us to swipe, and to adapt our movements and poses to the sensors. Unlike traditional physical labour, these gestures produce little physical resistance: nothing tangible is set into motion, while the body performs increasingly abstract and repetitive actions. Over time, these gestures become ingrained in our bodies, merging seamlessly into daily routines.

Interpersonal Biofeedback Apparatus Encoding Cardiac Fluctuations

Interactive 10-channel audio installation: ceramic, aluminium, vibration speakers, sensors, foam panel, acoustic panels, acrylate, SuperCollider algorithmic composition software, MaxMSP design environment for music, video and audio.

2021
This interactive installation examines our urge to exert control over our body, the uncontrollable nature of the conditions that influence how we feel, and the data systems that analyze our state of wellbeing. Visitors are invited to take a seat and place a sensor on their earlobe. Their heart rate variability (HRV), the period between heartbeats, will immediately become audible as the sound of ticking metal friction on ceramics, and squeaking polysterene. Changes in HRV directly impact on the sound composition by Sjoerd Leijten and vice versa.

An Evaluation of Affective Design Principles in Smart Object Environments

Performance with variable-position 7-channel audio, 12 minutes

2025-2026

While reading sentences from corporate Interaction design guidelines that articulate assumptions about us as users, the artist tests how smart speakers - that respond to her movements and are dynamically positioned within the space - embody the affective logic of contemporary technology.

Multi-Gesture Gym (performance)

performance 25 minutes. dancer, sound, sculpture

2023

The sculpture Multi-Gesture Gym is activated through performance, whereby a choreography of deconstructed, seemingly pointless, and absurd movements are combined with elements of prescribed rules and instructions and moments of improvisation

Infinite Posture Dataset

video 4K 15min loop, 65 inch flatscreen. Relax Zone Pro Inversion Table (extended and re-assembled), 20kg weight plate, motor

2021

She moves by endlessly morphing to the rhythm of the device – strapped in the frame of the screen - following or giving instructions; part human, part machine

Press Power, A Performative Exploration of Subtle Power Dynamics in Responsive Technologies, 2024

Performative lecture with Interactive audio sculptures, 10 minutes.

As technology becomes increasingly integral to how we communicate amongst each other subtle non-verbal cues are often lost. This performative explores how the power relations between humans and machines and humans amongst each other through machines could be designed more dynamic. By interacting with prototypes that respond in dynamic vocal sounds in a somewhat unpredictable manner to specific bodily gestures, the artist aims to foster a more nuanced relationship between the 'user' and the 'device,' encouraging a fluid exchange of status and control.

Dynamic Vocal Response to Movement: Prototype #2, 2023

Interactive audio sculpture, steel, webcam, laptop stand, cable management spine, web-based machine learning software Teachable Machine.

Dynamic Vocal Response to Movement: Prototype #1, 2023

Ergonomic kneeling chair with video screen, 3 minute loop.

Dynamic Vocal Response to Movement: Prototype #3, 2023

Interactive audio sculpture consisting of wood, steel, webcams, screens, computer, speakers and web-based machine learning software Teachable Machine.

In our daily lives, we unconsciously navigate and negotiate status through non-verbal communication. Simple actions like lowering our voice or straightening our posture can convey a higher status to others. However, when interacting with 'smart' devices in modern life, this fluid exchange of status often becomes impossible due to the static nature of the technology. This project investigates how power dynamics between humans and machines can be made more dynamic. By creating interactive prototypes that unpredictably - in dynamic vocal sounds - respond to specific bodily gestures, the artist seeks to evoke a nuanced relationship between the 'user' and the 'device.'

Cardiac Biofeedback Measurement #2

Interactive audio installation, porcelain, motor, ear sensor, foam panel, bended aluminium, led panel

2021

The interactive installations Cardiac Biofeedback Measurement #1, #2 (2022), by Amsterdam-based artist Coralie Vogelaar, deals with the urge to control our bodies, the uncontrollability of the conditions that influence how we feel, and the data systems that analyze our well-being. Visitors are invited to place a sensor on their ears and to listen to their own heart beat. The heart rate variability – the time between each heartbeat and influenced by many factors that are physiological, psychological and sensorial – is converted into sound on ceramics. Proposing an atmosphere of a test environment, Vogelaar shows us how our state of mind is complex and influenced by many factors including the observers bias.

Cardiac Biofeedback Measurement #1

Interactive audio installation, porcelain, motor, ear sensor, foam panel, bended aluminium, led panel

2021

Recognized

Performance, 22 minutes, 5 dancers, theater lights, sound

2021

What characteristics define whether a news-photo is successful or not? Amsterdam based visual artist Coralie Vogelaar in collaboration with choreographer Marjolein Vogels created a performance exploring the underlying compositional patterns of popular news imagery. Hereby recognizable images and compositions of protests, riots and victim scene's are analysed, deconstructed, decomposed and performed by five dancers.

Arranging, Moving, Rotating, Packing (Live)

Performance. 2 Kinect sensors, 2 NUC computers, 2 7-inch screens, 2 wireless keyboards, 4 tripods, 4 NBL sound boxes. Tape. Four dancers.

2019

A bin-packing algorithm – normally used for the transport or 3d printing industry – is used on a dataset of classical sculptures. This algorithm can calculate the optimal – occupying as less space as possible – packaging of irregular objects in a container. From this, a selection of the results are translated in a choreography for four dancers – designed in collaboration with choreographer Marjolein Vogels - performed live. Sound is created with the help of two Kinect depth scanners that are triggered by the movements of the dancers.

Optimal Bin Packing

CNC-milled RenShape BM-5185 modeling board.

2019

A bin-packing algorithm – normally used for the transport or 3d printing industry – is used on a dataset of classical sculptures. This algorithm can calculate the optimal – occupying as less space as possible – packaging of irregular objects in a container. From this, a selection is flattened into a relief and CNC- milled.

Untitled

HD video, dimensions variable
20 minutes

The making of the movie 'Arranging, Moving, Rotating, Packing' - a sequential 3d scanned movie based on poses of classical sculptures and a packing algorithm.

Random String of Emotions (artist publication)

publication of 368 pages with randomized generated facial expressions analyzed by emotion recognition software. 95x150mm, full color printed. hand bound.

2021

Emotion Recognition from an Algorithmic Point of View

Performance, around 20 minutes. theater light, stool, iphone with face recognition software triggering a sound scape.

2018

This work explores deconstructed facial expressions according to the Facial Action Coding System. This system forms the basis of contemporary emotion recognition software. With the help of the tracking mechanism of a mobile phone the performance demonstrates a computational approach to our emotions.

Nothing Detected

directly printed on dibond, acrylaat, foam

2018

Random String of Emotions

Two channel video installation played at a random order and read by emotion recognition software (Face reader), polyethylene foam around the frame.

2018

In this video work the artist uses this decoding system of emotion recognition software to turn the process around. Here - instead of detecting Action Units - a computer is used to generate a random string of these AU’s. In this way complex and maybe even non-existing emotion expressions are discovered. These randomly formed expressions, played in random order, is then analysed by professional emotion recognition software again.

Interface (A Research on Emotions by Pattern Recognition)

Two channel 4K video, 23 minutes loop. 55 inch, polyethylene foam, Arm Flat Screen Wall Mount

2018

In this video we see on one screen emotions that are being expressed by actress Marina Miller Dessau. On the right screen the observed components of facial movements are re-enacted the day after. The result is a non verbal exchange between computerized movements and their corresponding emotions, in which the detection technique is triggered by the emotions but also the other way around.

Facial Action Coding System

two layers of vinyl stickers on acrylate, two times directly printed on dibond 55cm x 100cm x 1.5cm

2018

Smart Selfie Stick

Powder coated assembled camera shoulder tripod, ball head, vertical bracket quick release and tablet holder. Medical tape.

2018

Gazeplots

2 clear polyester film 160 grs, photo clambs, 4 tripods, black matt spraypainted iron. Print direct on 5mm PETG

This installation shows elements of the artist's research into the desired features of press photos and can be seen as a visualisation of a popular news image algorithm in development

Recognized / Not Recognized (a comparative movement analysis of popular and unpopular news images)

2 channel video resolution 1920 x 1200 (16:10). Sound. 9 minutes loop.

Two photographs of the same event, taken at the same moment and from the same vantage point: one of the photographs has appeared thousands of times on the Internet, the other barely or not at all. Why is one image more successful than the other? In Recognized / Not Recognized, Coralie Vogelaar (NL, °1981) creates a comparative study of popular and unpopular news images. The result is an intriguing video installation.  

I Enjoyed the Parts in Your Mind

Robotic installation with pen plotter, 7-inch screens, arduino, raspberry, roll mechanism, steel frame, A0 paper roll, 3 motors, rubber band

This drawing bot consists of a combination of two rudimentary neural networks. One is fed by the constant data–stream of anarchistic message boards like 4-chan. Out of this data the algorithm seeks out sentences on the subject of artificial intelligence. With simple statistical analyses (probablity of chains of words) the AI generates sentences. When writing down these sentences the bot tries to generate handwriting thanks to another deep learning algorithm (RNN with Tensorflos). The result are absurdist sentences which are written down in an expressionistic drawing style.

WORKS
2017 – 2026