Ties van Asseldonk

In many of his works, Ties van Asseldonk plays with the relationship between the digital and the physical, exploring the often surprising effect of taking elements from either digital or physical media, and putting them in the context of the other. Ties mostly focus on exploring the often unseen conflict that he believes exists between digital systems and the analog/physical world we live in. The digital is a rigid system built on order, so whenever it has to store or predict anything from the physical/analog world outside of the computer, it is unable to properly deal with the inherent chaos of that world. Ties believes that understanding this hidden conflict is vital to understanding how we should think about and use our digital systems.

How Computers (Fail To) See
Research Project

Digital algorithms and AI systems are often regarded as being objective and absolute. Ties van Asseldonk believes that this is not only false, but dangerous as well. With his project 'How Computers (Fail To) See' he attempts to showcase how computers, in much the same way as humans, only experience a limited and very specific part of our world, and are completely oblivious to the rest of it.

Ties van Asseldonk showcases the limitations of these computer models by turning them into physical model dioramas, each based on the data from a different computer algorithm. By letting the audience walk around and compare the different dioramas, the audience can see how algorithms, like humans, are only making decisions based on their own limited and subjective view of the world.

Upstream.gallery
Practical Assignment

Commissioned by: Upstream Gallery.

For their online exhibitions, Upstream Gallery has been looking for innovative and creative solutions that would emphasize the virtual gallery space. The goal was to implement a component of real-time visitor visibility and interaction within the online platform, making it a more live-social space.

Ties van Asseldonk and Deborah Mora worked together to implement a feature that would display all the users’ cursor real time, indicating their movement in the virtual gallery. For the opening event of one of the exhibitions, a WebRTC audio chat feature was developed. This allowed the user to speak to and hear the other visitors in the gallery only if their cursors were close to each others.

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