User:Inge Hoonte

Motivation

Last night, I pressed the PAUSE button. I froze time for a split second. I wandered through streets and living rooms, passing neighbors dozing off on their stoop, future lovers right before their first kiss, a spark in someone’s eye, and a little boy carrying a dog his own size around the supermarket. I zoomed in to register the smallest detail. I guessed words on lips and formed sentences of unfinished thoughts hanging in mid air. I studied, I memorized, I remembered. I bit my lip, smiled, and looked away. Then I pressed PLAY.

A Few Projects

I'll Miss You, Postcard

Art City Public Library

I was 28 in 1923, w/ Noe Kidder, Artist Book

Action Passing, w/Michelle Tupko, Performance Action Passing Dance Move on flickr

Study Log 2010-2011

For Language to Program to Speak to Write

• chapter 1 - install conversation
• chapter 2 - gnome support
• chapter 3 - people pay to have all their music stored in the cloud
• chapter 4 - cables with ladies (1971)
• chapter 5 - simulated travel
• chapter 6 - befriending your computer
• chapter 101 - reference material

The Machines Are Restless Tonight...

"The act of programming a computer invokes a set of reading practices both in the literary and cultural sense."
-- Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Will the real body please stand up? 1991

Prototyping

• sh > mg > midi
• Nederlanders emigreren massaal naar Turkije
• Clapping simulated 2-channel on Arduino
• dot rocks the dot

class notes

• Arduino
• Arduino clapping
• are your buttons pressed

Stocking

• lil amplifier

Users & Abusers

• Ted Nelson, Dream Machines
• Personal Computers
• Vannevar Bush, As We May Think (1945)
• Thierry Bardini, Bootstrapping
• Blog This!
• Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur
• Hackts
• YOUstuff
• Olia Lialina
• Mirko Schaefer
• hidden secret pocket of links

Build, Break & Broadcast

• Surveillant sorting the city
• the Shock of the Old

Artist Statement

Combining real and imagined narratives, I document human interaction through observational writing, performance, photography, video, and sound. I investigate the space between people, and the attempt to connect with one another across this undetermined terrain: a constantly changing landscape amid physical, emotional, sociopolitical, and psychogeographical boundaries, among many other. Examining the play between reaching out and keeping one’s distance in both intimate and everyday relationships, I require myself, as well as participants and audience, to be playful and vulnerable, while embracing the unknown outcome when our paths collide.

Aiming to capture and elongate these rapid, fleeting intimate encounters, I am a dreamlike storyteller with a sense for timing and an obsessive attention to detail and architectural setting. Alongside a rigorous editing process, I carefully collage seemingly disparate information into a dense and rich construction, leaving space for the audience to insert themselves and form their own associative experience.

Bio

Inge Hoonte’s work has appeared at the Whitney Biennial through Neighborhood Public Radio, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, FiveMyles, 3rd Ward (Brooklyn/NYC); Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami); 321 Colton School (New Orleans); NPR Radio, Columbia College A+D Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); Southern Exposure (San Francisco); labotanica (Houston); Saskatchewan Communications Network, Toronto Free Gallery, aceartinc (Toronto/Winnipeg/CAN); Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, FIN); Consortium (Amsterdam), and TENT (Rotterdam, NL).

Inge received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a BFA in Visual Art and Public Space from the School of the Arts Arnhem, NL. She lectured at the Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, and is an active member on the board of labotanica, a Houston, TX, based project that intersects creativity and social transformation. She's currently pursuing a degree in Digital Communication: Networked Media, at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL.