100 Days of digital wasteland

What happens if data has an expiration date, and public content decays over time?

These booklets document the outcomes of an algorithm that performs just that. Popular Instagram posts are taken through the algorithm, which decays the images over the course of 100 days, by slowly replacing pixels.

The booklets will be available as Original Copies* (Every booklet is a xerox copy of the previous booklet).

A live running version of the algorithm is available here and on GitHub

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Feed @arianagrande on December 30 2020

Feed @arianagrande on December 30 2020
100 days in a booklet

100 days in a booklet

The Daisy Engine: An interactive narrative engine

With Elastique, Wetteloos in 2015 - 2020 for WNF, Beeld en Geluid, BNNVARA

The Daisy Engine is a custom narrative engine that allowed us to create interactive, non-linear narratives. The engine is used in projects for Dutch broadcasting association BNNVARA, the World Wildlife Fund (WNF) and the new Beeld en Geluid Museum. The backbone of the engine are CSV's. Each chapter of a narrative in the Engine has it's own. Writers (and users) can jump between sections both inside and outside of a chapter, allowing for endless branching; The only limits were in our imagination.

Together with the BNNVARA we used the engine to create the first (unreleased :() "Whatsapp Soap", a transmedia experience. Over the course of a season players would receive text messages via the primary storytelling medium: the web app with a WhatsApp-like interface. Here, they could interact with various characters using a multiple-choice answering system. The story world further unfolded via the secondary, more passive, layer; through websites, articles, Youtube videos, etc.

I've created a prototype and written a story allowing 2 weeks of gameplay, accessible via https://www.wetteloos.nl/daisy/.

Most recently, we've used the engine as the core of the companion app of the new Beeld en Geluid Museum, allowing for a fully personalized and seamless museum trip. At the time, this really felt like the project of a lifetime, but as museum exhibitions take a lot of time to build, I left Elastique before the opening in 2023.

HIVE004

in 2019 using Gamemaker Studio, HTML/CSS

In HIVE004 the roles are reversed. In this game, the player is not in charge but expected to follow the beat, guided by the voice of the queen. Be a submissive part of the colony, do as your told and we're sure you'll have a great time!

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HIVE004 is inspired by ant colonies, and its hierarchical structures and ways of navigating as a colony. Players are initially motivated to, just like in ant colonies, follow the beat of a drum, and repeat a simple pattern. But the opposite is true; the true goal of the game is to break through the obvious patterns, and start looking for clues of what the real game is. Discover and unlock nodes outside of the game to break the pattern.

Printed Matter

in June 2022

Two abandoned printers, observing the world around them. The printers are connected to each other using a long sheet of paper creating an infinite loop. Both printers are modified. One printer makes a mark every time it notices someone passing, and the other printer erases the marks again.

What started as the ambition to create my own pen plotter; a dream that changed due to budget reasons (stepper motors are expensive) and the fact that I kept finding orphan printers everywhere, resulted in a series of modified printers. Some printers are in mint condition, others are stripped to the bare minimum.

All printers are time-based. Instead of being able to draw lines for a specified amount of pixels, points, or centimeters, the printhead and paper feeder move for a set amount of seconds. As the traveled distance is dependent on the speed of the motor, and therefore the amount of voltage left in the battery, no line created by these machines is the same. Or controllable.

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Printed Matter in the S/ash Gallery

Printed Matter in the S/ash Gallery
Printed Matter in the Tram

Printed Matter in the Tram
Printed Matter in the Maastunnel

Printed Matter in the Maastunnel

Rub me the right way

in 2021 using oil paint, processing

A relationship with a phone is very tactile and almost sensual. As a person who doesn’t like to be touched that much, the relationship with my phone is the most touchy-feely one I’ve ever had. You touch it, play it, stroke it, throw it away, and take it everywhere.

There is a strange power balance in that relationship. Who is the owner of the device? Is that me? Or am I the slave, since I cannot stop looking at the device and touching it, even though it’s just a bright light, a couple of pixels that, based on how I touch the device, evoke feelings and emotions.

These are the 8 gestures performed on my 8 most used apps, translated into digital and visual outputs using code and Photoshop, and lasercut back into screen protectors, so we'll forever stay together.

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The Phone Orchestra

in 2022 using USB Phones, TouchDesigner

View video via https://vitrinekast.xyz/projects/the-phone-orchestra

This small, closed network results in a self-oscillating orchestra. The phones are interconnected. One microphone is connected to another phone's speaker and vice versa. The microphone's input is transformed into a frequency and blasted through the room via the phone's onboard speaker. Ofcourse, this sound is picked up by another microphone again, and, depending on the distance between the devices, a feedback loop is created and the self-repeating orchestra starts to play.

Due to financial limitations, the Orchestra has limited seating. Only 7 participants are able to perform together. In the future, this can, in theory, be scaled up to 52 phones.

Vitrinekast Soundsystem

The Vitrinekast Soundsystem is an ongoing series of instruments and or audio modifiers. Some are circuit-bent, and others are made from scratch. I use the Vitrinekast Soundsystem as a vehicle to continue my research towards mathematical structures, voltages, circuit bending, electronics, making, breaking, hacking, noise, pop music structures, performance (without performing), feedback loops, noise again, DIY culture, machines, etc. etc. etc.

I've always been very passionate about music, and with my history and background in making products and tools, making instruments is an interesting new perspective.

Below is an overview of all devices currently part of the Vitrinekast Soundsystem collection.

Overview of instruments

Name	Description	Links
VS-000	Audio Source. "Spiegeltje Spiegeltje aan de wand" Distorted toy	SamplePack
VS-001	Audio Source. Casio keyboard with a patchbay. Midi enabled	SamplePack
VS-002	Audio source. This book toy now has an audio out	SamplePack
VS-003	Audio Source. Drumcomputer if combined with VS-SEQ01	-
VS-SEQ01	Trigger. Custom built Baby 8 Sequencer. Battery powered and (sort of) CV-out	-
VS-004	Audio modifier/Modified distortion pedal	SamplePack
VS-005	Microphone with audio out and signal modifiers	-
VS-006	Matrix mixer (one gigantic glitch)	-
VS-007	2 Channel merger	-
VS-008	AM Radio noise looping system	-
VS-009	Remake of VS-006	-
VS-011	DJ Replacement system	Documentation
VS-014	Digital Analog Tape Delay.	Documentation

Notes

VS-011 was a major release and holds its own page within this document.
Based on VS-000, VS-001, VS-002, and VS-004, 2 sample packs have been released on bandcamp .

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VS-000

VS-000
VS-001

VS-001
VS-002

VS-002
VS-003

VS-003
VS-004

VS-004
VS-SEQ01

VS-SEQ01
VS-005

VS-005
VS-006

VS-006
VS-007

VS-007
VS-008

VS-008
VS-009

VS-009
VS-011

VS-011
VS-014

VS-014

VS-011: Might Crash Machine

using Found Material, PureData, Teensy

The VS-011 is my first digital hardware synth where I try to replace a conventional producer/DJ in a club setting. Via the keypad on the left, you can enter a 6-digit seed. This acts as the input for the (un)written rules about the structure and sound design of western Electronic Dance Music, and starts the in real-time generated audio performance. After 5 minutes, a human needs to enter a new sequence to keep the party going.

The relationship between math (in its broadest sense) and music is something that has interested me for the past 10+ years. First initiated by a High School graduation project where I wanted to abstract classical music into a single mathematical formula (an ambition that's still there).

For VS-011 I focussed on structures, musical notations using computers, and generative music in the 60's (inspired by Bell Studios and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop). One of the structures for the VS-011 is shown below in a spreadsheet. The machine is made out of existing materials, such as a 2005 Apple Magic Keyboard. This keyboard is later also used for the VS-014

The project is documented further on Github

To make the audio-performance-research project complete, I've also started a new DJ career (bookings@vitrinekast.xyz), exclusively performing at Female/Queer skate festivals.

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Keypad to enter the seed

Keypad to enter the seed
Offline VS-011

Offline VS-011
CSV of the song structure used by VS-011

CSV of the song structure used by VS-011

Portfolio 2023

Projects

100 Days of digital wasteland

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The Daisy Engine: An interactive narrative engine

Links

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HIVE004

Printed Matter

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Rub me the right way

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The Phone Orchestra

Vitrinekast Soundsystem

Overview of instruments

Notes

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VS-011: Might Crash Machine

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