Toktek and Simon Berz documentary
Here is a nice short documentary about one of our featured performers at the festival: Toktek & Simon Berz.
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The new Cracklebox kits
Now it’s time for everyone to make their own Crackleboxes. With the help of crackle-hacker Daniel Schorno and crackle interaction design specialist Jon Reus, our new engineer Marije Baalman has…
Open Call: Handmade Music at STEIM Festival
Attention, makers of things that make music! Be part of an open laboratory, a science fair-style show and tell of work during the STEIM Patterns+Pleasure Festival. We want to see…
STEIM Fanfare Instruments in the Volkskrant!
Our electronic marching band project “STEIM Fanfare Instruments” were featured in the Volkskrant newspaper today. These instruments were build under commission by the region of Limburg and will be premiered…
Instrument Lab #1 starts!
Our brand new seminar / workshop course Instrument Lab #1 has kicked off this week. This is an extension from our previous Orientation workshops but with more focus on the…
FUKUSHIMA! AMSTERDAM
“Not No More Fukushima nor Stand Up Fukushima, but just Fukushima!, free of any adjectives. We want to start by looking at Fukushima in its current state, unvarnished by any…
Call for Volunteers: STEIM Festival Patterns+Pleasure 2011
STEIM is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help organize the PATTERNS + PLEASURE FESTIVAL taking place in Amsterdam during September 26 – 28 2011. The festival will feature an international…
We stand in solidarity with Olof van Winden and will not allow police violence
This past weekend protests (“Mars der Beschaving /March for Culture”) took place in a number of cities in The Netherlands. This culminated in a large gathering in The Hague where…
Response by New Media Art Organizations to Governmental Cuts
On June 10, The Dutch secretary of state for Culture in the Netherlands, Halbe Zijlstra, published his policy plan which called for drastic cuts starting in 2013. Among these plans…
It’s up to us not them
Despite the recent drastic and depressing news about the art funding in the Netherlands, the music should always continue. June 18th is an important date for STEIM – it was…