HW#13/2: Research Artist: Gijs van Bon

I think Gijs van Bon is a maker who makes things very artistically and creatively. His works are mainly have to deal with human interaction and technological experiments. I love how he was able to use technology to incorporate into his artmaking in which he would bring people together. For example, in Sandwriter BLOM, a machine which draws an outline of a simple image, invites audience to color in the image, thus to make a participatory art piece. The images will be gone eventually due to nature but the piece of memory will live in the participant's mind.

I also like how Bon used technology in a very poetic and abstract way in his Skryf piece to convey a very conceptual idea about the Fleeting moment. See Below: Fleeting

Fleeting - Ink on wet paint from Gijs van Bon on Vimeo.

Reference: http://www.gijsvanbon.nl/about.html