Timeline Rene Beekman

The following is an incomplete timeline of selected events and participations.

2021

April

• Group exhibition The Herbarium as a Place for Storing Ideas
  Installation Leaf.

2020

June

• Group exhibition Quarantäne 13 in Minetest.

2019

November

• Co-founded router gallery Gallery together with Albena Baeva. Our first exhibition was part of the wrong biennial.

2018

August - January 2019

• I spent 6 months as a mentor for two projects under the WEAR Sustain (Wearable technologists Engage with Artists for Responsible innovation) programme:
  Quietude (Sienna, Italy)
  Airlief (Sofia, Bulgaria).

2017

June

• Group exhibition Friendly Little Creatures shown at U10 Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia. Co-organised and co-curated with Albena Baeva.

April - October

• Organised and curated the Post-digital Lab at The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate in Sofia, Bulgaria. The project consisted of presentations, workshops and 4 commissions for new works.

2016

April and May

• Co-organised, co-curated and participated in the group exhibition Friendly Little Creatures (Малки забавни създания in Bulgarian). The exhibition was shown in April at the Credo Bonum Gallery in Sofia, and in May at the Contemporary Space Gallery in Varna.
  Co-organised and co-curated with Albena Baeva.

2015

August

• Held a 2-day workshop for new musical instruments (Работилница Нови музикални инструменти) at the Transfiguration Festival in Dolen, Bulgaria. Together with Albena Baeva.

June

• Curated the Being Post-Digital exhibition for One Design Week in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Participants in the exhibition included Addie Wagenknecht, Albena Baeva, Carl-Johan Rosén, Frederik de Wilde, Krassimir Terziev, LIA, and Stefan Donchev, as well as students from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, and in Novi Sad, Serbia.

2014

November

• Presentation Технология отвъд средствата. Една история на дигиталните изкуства (Technology beyond tools. A history of digital arts) in the series Медия или концепция (Medium or Concept), organised by Sariev Contemporary.
  I did an interview with Bulgarian National Television about the presentation. (local mp4 file)

May

• Wrote an unpublished text entitle На инат (Bulgarian for stubborn or obstinate) about 20 years of media art education in Bulgaria, intended for a book on the history of media art in Bulgaria. The book publication was later canceled.

2013

March

• Wrote 3 theoretical texts about media art for Artup!, Media Art in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, a project initiated by Goethe-Institut.
• Published Minor Differences (Малките разлики) in Bulgarian-language publication Blister Magazine.

2012

April & May

• Curated the exhibition Hello World, which included 6 young artists, recent graduates from the Digital Arts programme at the National Academy of Arts;
  Albena Baeva, Nellie Borisova, Nikoletta Boncheva, Martin Penev, Stefan Donchev and Yana Krachunova.
  The exhibition was shown in April 2012 at the Vaska Emanouilova Gallery in Sofia, and in May in the Contemporary Space Gallery in Varna, Bulgaria.

2011

April

• Re-started Dorkbot Sofia, together with Albena Baeva, the fridge and Robotev.

2010

June

• Jury member of the Baza award for Contemporary Art. Winner this year was Anton Terziev.

2009

October

• Co-founder, co-curator and co-organiser of DA Fest International Digital Art Festival, held at the National Academy of Arts.
• Performance of Antipodes at DA Fest. Collaboration with Xavier van Wersch.

2008

• Started xfilm lectures, a series of informal presentations on and screening of experimental film, held at the Vaska Emanouilova Gallery in Sofia. Collaboration with Krassimir Terziev. The last xfilm lectures was held in September 2012.

September

• Co-founder of the Digital Arts MA programme at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. I taught here until the spring of 2016.

2006

September

• Started teaching video-editing within the programme of the Scenography department at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia.

2005

• Did an artist-in-residency at the Experimental Television Center (Owego, NYS) and at Art Today (Plovdiv, Bulgaria).

April

• Co-organized and co-curated the xfilm festival for experimental film, video and new media. Guests included Lev Manovich, Miko Mikona, Radbaud Mens, Remko Schuurbiers, Frank Bretschneider, Hans Beekmans, Martijn van Boven, Jeremy Welsh, Kreutzerkompani, Telcosystems, and Bas van Koolwijk, among others.

2004

• Did an interactive video environment for the theater performance of M. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (Господин Ибрахим и цветята на Корана in Bulgarian) by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt at the National Theater Ivan Vasov in Sofia, Bulgaria.

April

• Started Dorkbot Sofia with 3 evenings until June of that year. Participants included Ivan Bachev, Boryana Rossa Dragoeva, Dimitar Paskalev, Krassimir Terziev, Raina Markova and Zhelko Terziev. Dorkbot Sofia would be continued in 2011.

2003

• Did the video for the theater performance of Neil LaBute’s Bash (Разбиване in Bulgarian) at the National Theater Ivan Vasov in Sofia, Bulgaria. Collaboration with Krassir Terziev.
• Taught a number of workshops as part of the project ABC, a series of week-long seminars for young Bulgarian artists. This project ran until August 2004.

October

• Remote particpation in a performance by Haraldur Karlsson. Karlsson performed at Steim, Amsterdam, while I performed from the Sofia City Art Gallery. The performance was organised by \An`a*tomic\
  An article in online Bulgarian-language publication Mrezhata (The Net) about the event is available here (PDF).

September

• Performance during \An`a*tomic\ within the Next 5 Minutes festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  An article in online Bulgarian-language publication Saga Technologies is here (PDF).

January - March

• Dertig jaar Nederlandse videokunst
  Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Illud Tempus.

2002

December

• Performance
  PEK Festival, Den Haag , The Netherlands
  Collaboration with Xavier van Wersch.

October

• Series of performances of Route in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Brussels
  Collaboration with Bruce Gremo.
• Performance of Antipodes at the Kiev International Media Art Festival. Collaboration with Xavier van Wersch.

July

• Mostar Intercultural Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Single screen viewings Ephèmerios and Illud Tempus.

2001

November

• Performance
  Kraakgeluiden in de binnenstad, OT301, Amsterdam
  Collaboration with Xavier van Wersch.

September

• Two permances at dot nu in Paradiso, Amsterdam & V2_, Rotterdam
  Collaboration with Xavier van Wersch.
• Microwave International Media Art Festival 2001, Hong Kong
  Single screen viewing Ephèmerios

August

• Gave a workshop during The Performer and the Mediated Image (local copy)
  Amsterdam Summer University, Amsterdam,the Netherlands.

May

• Performance
  Mixology Festival at Roulette, New York, USA
  Mutable Surface:inter-routing audio and visual improvisation using MAX/MSP and nato, or 14 theaters taken from a certain chinese encyclopedia
  Collaboration with Bruce Gremo.

April

• Organized and curated 4 realtime-video and nato.0+55 presentations at Harvestworks, New York.

March

• Curator for the international selection of a Video Art Programme as an off-event of the Sofia Film Fest 2001
  co-organized with Bulevart Association, Center for MediaArt InterSpace, Euro Bulgarian Cultural Centre and the Sofia Film Fest.

• Video Art Programme, Sofia Film Fest 2001, Sofia, Bulgaria
  Single screen viewing Route, December 9, 2000.

2000

December

• Performance
  Harvestworks & Suddensite studio, New York
  Talkative Gods, written and developed by Bruce Gremo.
• Below 45, London, U.K.
  Single screen viewing Ephèmerios.

November

• de Badcuyp, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Ephèmerios.

September

• Performance
  World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Route :inter-routing audio and visual improvisation using MAX/MSP and nato
  Collaboration with Bruce Gremo.
• Group exhibition
  Die Hollandische Welle, Städtische Museen Jena, Jena, Germany
  Multiple version of The Well.

August

• A Campingflight to the Lowlands Paradise, Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Ephèmerios.

June

• Composing Images published in Lier en Boog, Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, volume 15, Screen-based Art.

April

• Audio CD release
  ZERO
  Audio Research Editions , ARECD103
  Vox Et Praeterea Nihil
  ‘Zero’ CD project was part of the Video Positive 2000 festival in Liverpool, UK.
• Group exhibition
  RTMark @ the Whitney Biennial, New York City, U.S.
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/seq1/00.html
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/seq2/00.html
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/seq3/00.html
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/seq4/00.html
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/seq5/00.html
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/seq6/00.html
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/seq7/00.html
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/seq8/00.html
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/seq9/00.html

March

• Group exhibition
  videopositive 2000 - the other side of zero, Liverpool, UK
  Zero audio CD, Audio Research Editions, ARECD103.

February

• Media City Festival, Windsor, Canada
  Single screen viewing Ephèmerios.

1999

November

• 13e Rencontres Video Art Plastique, Herouville St. Clair, France
  Single screen viewing Ephèmerios.

October

• Co-organized the That Media Thing 2 Symposium with the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/TBA, the Lier en Boog series and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis.
• Group exhibition
  Project End, Sofia, Bulgaria
  videoinstallation Videogram.
• Toronto International Video Art Biennial, Toronto, Canada
  Single screen viewing Prelude.

September

• WoldWide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Ephèmerios.
• Hotel Utopia, Vienna, Austria
  Single screen viewing Ephèmerios.

May

• Co-organized the That Media Thing Symposium with the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/TBA, the Lier en Boog series and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis.
• Group exhibition
  De Avonduren, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  single channel video work Ephèmerios.

February

• Audio CD release
  TRACE
  Audio Research Editions, ARECD102
  Residuum
  Trace was produced to coincide with the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art 1999.

January

• TV broadcast on January 15
  PARK 4D TV, Offener Kanal Berlin, Germany
  etude en blanc.

1998

December

• Ephèmerios entered the distribution collection of Montevideo / TBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

November

• Group exhibition
  ArtVent - Kunst, die ankommt!, Die Holländische Welle
  Galerie/ Edition Lutz Fiebig, Berlin, Germany
  multiple version of The Well.
• offline@online: French-Baltic-Nordic Video and New Media Festival, Tallin, Estonia
  Single screen viewing Ephèmerios.
• Videotage, HongKong
  Single screen viewing Prelude.
• MUUMediaFestival, Helsinki, Finland
  Single screen viewing Prelude.

October

• Group exhibition
  Art Multiple 1998, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Die Holländische Welle, Galerie/ Edition Lutz Fiebig, Berlin, Germany
  multiple version of The Well.
• Group exhibition
  Split International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
  videoinstallation Corpora.

September

• Group exhibition
  68 Hope Street Gallery, Liverpool, UK
  ninth International Symposium on Electronic Art
  Collaborative installation HOPE.

August

• Audio CD release
  HOPE
  Audio Research Editions , ARECD101
  Early Morning
  A CD project presented at the 9th International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA98), Liverpool, UK.

April

• Solo exhibition
  The Kitchen, New York, US
  videoinstallation Corpora.

1997

October

• Group exhibition
  Oog in al / Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  videoinstallation Corpora.
• Group exhibition
  Montevideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  EuroVision exhibition
  videoinstallation Corpora.

August

• Group exhibition
  Montevideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Videoplaza exhibition
  videotape Prelude.

July

• TV broadcast
  Imaginairy Landscapes Bellissima TV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Illud Tempus.

May

• IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Prelude.
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück,Germany
  Single screen viewing Prelude.
• Rencontres Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France
  Single screen viewing Prelude.

April

• 12th Video Formes Festival , Clermont-Ferrand, France
  Single screen viewing Prelude.

1996

December

• Prelude entered the video distribution collection of The Kitchen, New York,USA.

November

• Two works included in a public video library, Nagoya, Japan
  Silent Garden & die himmel.
• 10th Video Art Plastique, Herouville St. Clair, France
  Single screen viewing die himmel.

October

• Group exhibition
  Kitchenette, The Kitchen Video Annex at Thread Waxing Space, New York, US
  single channel video installation, die himmel.
• Bridge the Gap, Rialto theatre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Illud Tempus.
• Viper International Film, Video and Multimedia Festival Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
  Single screen viewing die himmel.
• Low Res Video Festival, New York, US
  Single screen viewing die himmel.

September

• 9th European Media Art Festival , Osnabrück, Germany
  Single screen viewing die himmel.
• Videonale 7, Bonn, Germany
  Single screen viewing die himmel.

July

• Gave a workshop (part 2) for PARK 4DTV within the framewok of the VideoHart festival in Sofia,Bulgaria.

June

• TV broadcast
  PARK 4DTV, 48 hours broadcast in Middelburg, The Netherlands
  etude en blanc 03.

May

• die himmel entered the distribution collection of Montevideo / TBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Art Amsterdam/KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing die himmel.

April

• World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing, die himmel.

March

• VideoFormes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  Single screen viewing die himmel.

1995

• Work I created for PARK 4D TV was included in Jaap de Jonge’s installation O.T.S. (Openbare Televisie Skulptuur / Public Television Sculpture). The installation was featured in the travelling exhibition The Second, Time Based Arts from the Netherlands (1996), and the DVD series Installations 1975-2006 (2007).

December

• Gave a workshop (part 1) for PARK 4DTV within the framewok of the VideoHart festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• Springtij Festival 1995, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  5 single screen viewings: White On White, Illud Tempus, Silent Garden,Geste Du Soleil, Impressions of an Installation and die himmel.

November

• TV broadcast
  AT5 Kunstmaand, AT5, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Prelude.

September

• Artist in Residency at the International Cultural Exchange Program of Harvestworks Inc. / Studio PASS, New York, USA.

May

• Uitgelicht, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Illud Tempus.
• TV broadcast
  PARK 4DTV RIGA, Riga,Latvia
  etude en blanc 03.

March

• TV broadcast
  Kabelkunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Silent Garden.

1994

• TV broadcasts throughout 1994 and 1995
  PARK 4DTV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  etude en blanc
  etude en blanc 02
  etude en blanc 03
  etude en blanc 04

November

• DEAF’94, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Illud Tempus and Silent Garden.

March

• Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
  Single screen viewing Illud Tempus.

1993

December

• Diagonale ‘93, Salzburg, Austria
  Single screen viewing Silent Garden.

November

• Group exhibition
  Appollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  videoinstallation Geste Du Soleil.

May

• 4th International Sound Basis Visual Art Festival Wroclav, Poland
  Single screen viewing Illud Tempus.

April

• World Wide VideoFestival, Den Haag, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Illud Tempus.

1992

November

• IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing Silent Garden.
• Video Art Plastique, Herouville St. Clair, France
  Single screen viewing Silent Garden.

October

• 2nd Fukui International Media Art Festival, Fukui City, Japan
  Single screen viewing Silent Garden.

September

• European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
  Single screen viewing Silent Garden.

April

• Silent Garden] entered the distribution collection of Montevideo / TBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

March

• Radio broadcast on March 12
  AudioArt VPRO Radio 4, The Netherlands
  Untitled.

1991

June

• Illud Tempus entered the video distribution collection of Montevideo / TBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Schau Mir In Die Augen , Kassel, Germany
  Single screen viewing White On White.

April

• Signalementen serie young composers, De IJSBREKER, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Single screen viewing White On White.

March

• Sheffield Media Show, Sheffield, UK
  Video-installation White Out.

January

• Radio broadcast on January 3
  AudioArt VPRO Radio 4, The Netherlands
  Athena, Landscape & Caged.

1990

November

• AVE Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  2 single screen viewings.

October

• 1st Fukui International Youth MediaArt Festival, Fuikui City, Japan
  2 single screen viewings.