The BLOOOM Awards by Warsteiner have announced their ten finalists, and among them are three Dutch artists. Check out their work below!

Erik Alkema, The Last.
A reflection on Protestantism and Dutch labour ethics. Eighteen donkeys sitting on beach chairs. They lived to work. Finally their investment in the afterlife paid out. Eternal and everlasting holiday in heaven.

Jacky Hijstek, The Haunting Period.
Handwork, several of ways of weaving. Four large scaled prints are combined to a selfportrait. For Jacky making is thinking. She translated pixellation and going back to the old fashioned way of weaving, the pure arts and crafts into paper.

Alex Prooper, Marbling.

Marbling is an interactive virtual marble track. The installation contains a lying display, with a slight angle relative to the horizon. On the display virtual marbles roll down. The marbles leave colourful trails, which slowly vague like contrails in the sky. The colour patterns show some resemblance with the patterns created by the marbling technique.

Spectators can place 2 different real world objects on the display. One is a “marble source” and the other is an object against which the virtual marbles bounce. Once a marble enters from a marble source, a piano sound is heard. The same note is played when the marble bounces against one of the other objects. When the spectator moves a source or another object, the image on the display freezes and only a thin pad sound is heard. The system continues when the spectator removes his hand from the display.Marbling is a great combination of visuals, sound and interactivity. Spectators will experience a unusual combination of virtual and physical objects in this installation.

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