By Carlos Garcia Moreno-Torres
So, that’s it, we did it…and it was huge, bright, exciting, different, new, busy, crowded, fun, exhausting, magnificent, difficult, great, geweldig, tietenaffengeil and so many other things that there are not enough words to describe it, so from now own let me just say, as a sway to sum it up, AWESOME.
pictures by Bart Dykstra www.bartdykstra.com
It took 6 months of intense work, problems, coffees, meetings, late days at work, solutions, e-mails, tweaks, construction, design, presentations to get to this point, and it was all on the line, but with the last weeks of great focus and the last few days in Dortmund with everybody showing great commitment we crossed the goal line…and boy, how we did it!
We got a little rain at the end, but that didn’t make the crowd (we got the terrace pretty crowded, people was dancing, seeing, listening to the music, having a drink, or all together) enjoy it any less. We’re very happy with how the system worked and how the projection looked, and we’re not the only ones, as you could only hear good words for our project walking around…some even overheard how it should be brought to Amsterdam…let’s hope that happens, you know we’re willing to redesign and adapt our experience to make it happen in Amsterdam!
pictures by Bart Dykstra www.bartdykstra.com
It’s important for us to remark that, after this great success, we believe it’d make no sense to let the project die, and we’re willing to adapt it and give it a whole new life in new events and locations. We are waiting for your ideas and suggestions, and looking forward to see what you want to do with it!
To show you the full potential of the project, we’ll soon release a mindblowing registration shot and edited by Hugo van der Meer, from Keyframe productions, a series of photographies from Bart Dykstra and a documentary that Marteen van der Burg shot for iTunes University about the project and the learning process of the student team.
The music, by Berlin based artist Kid Simius (watch this kid, in a few years it won’t be weird to anybody to see his name with Daft Punk or Kraftwerk!) also harvested lots of comments of surprise and admiration, wondering how can he not be a star yet, and when will he perform at some of the top locations in Amsterdam…we also hope to see that happening soon!
The dancers from Mine-Sports put on a great performance, Jan introduced the event with a charming multilingual speech, Beam Systems made all the technique perfect and with they’re “invisible” work they spared us the need to worry about the technics.
We’re grateful, so we also have to thank everybody in the E-culture Fair/Dortmunder U organization that made things easy for us, the initiators of the project and sponsors: Virtueel Platform and Institute of Network Cultures, and to everybody else that helped during the development of the project (Kars Alfrink from Hubbub, people from TrouwAmsterdam, Hugo van der Meer, Bart Dykstra, Marteen van der Burg…)
I can’t finish this post without thanking personally the rest of the team, (leaded by Jan, who solved a million problems for us) for their effort, their work, their commitment, their jokes, the lunchs and dinners, the beers and, in one word, the time together. It was great, it was fun, and WE ROCKED!