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De Balie has decided to take the initiative to bring artist and the business community together. Let us, for a change, not stand in opposition. Commerce is not afraid of culture, and with this project culture no longer rejects commerce. Where the government stops taking its responsibilities, the business community takes over. An economic investment in arts is an investment in social change, thus both parties achieve their aims. Change is good: To stand still means to fall back, both for society as well as the economy.

The portfolio of artists ranges across a variety of forms, from media to image, to text. However, they are all ambitious and innovative, qualities that should appeal to the business community. The artists selected for Steal my Idea distinguish themselves by taking just that slightly different point of view. As a result they will come to be known as innovators and trend-setters. It is these ideas of the artists that can be stolen, not just to copy them, but to inspire. This is how Steal my Idea wants to shift the boundaries and become a source of inspiration.


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The artists up for adoption:


ALMOSTREAL
GETOGETHER
by European Cultural Foundation in collaboration with STEALTH.[u]ltd

ALMOSTREAL getogether is a prelude to the first ALMOSTREAL event CONFRONTATION: Art as a site for encountering the Other. It is termed ‘get-together’ rather than a meeting since it is choreographed encounter, living installation intended to provoke an intimate and confrontational discussion.

URL:
www.almostreal.org

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LIRA NIKOLOVSKA

Bio:
Lira Nikolovska is an architect and interaction designer. She works at the intersection of architecture, interaction design and pervasive computing. Specifically, she works with furniture with embedded technology. She is interested in understanding how social situations are restructured in presence of technologies.

Lira is a PhD candidate at the MIT School of Architecture. She holds an Engineer-Architect degree from the School of Architecture at the University Sv. Kiril i Metodij in Skopje Macedonia, and a MSc in Building Design from Arizona State University. She has work experience as an interaction designer at Philips Design in The Netherlands, user interface consultant at Philips Research Labs NY and architect in the Studio Venci in Macedonia.

URLs:
web.mit.edu/lira/www/mas966/table.htm
web.mit.edu/lira/www/proposal/proposal_15_NOV.pdf

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FEDERICO D’ORAZIO

So far my choice is as followed;
I would like to project outside of the building of De Balie or any other building on Leidseplein the video of my UN Kadett. Loudspeakers for the sound and the compressed sculpture somewhere outside on the street near De Balie on the pavement.

For the film section I will screen Hitman, Crash and all the 1 minute compilation of "Stolen in one minute" in collaboration with Andrea Mi from VideoMinuto PopTV Italy.

URL:
www.galeries.nl/mnkunstenaar.asp?artistnr=2744&vane=1&em=&sessionti=451624296

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SIMON SCHIESSL

Bio:
Simon Schiessl is an engineer and artist. Trained in physics and engineering in Munich and Berlin, he designs and fabricates interactive media systems. He has been active in the techno-art scene for more than four years, two of which he spend as a researcher at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge/USA.

Coming from an engineering background, Schiessl is an artist whose material is technology, which he explores to achieve new forms of aesthetic experiences. His main focus has been technically innovative interactive installations that integrate various forms of active electronics, media elements, and artifacts from the non-digital world. His work has shown in galleries such as Location One (NYC), and the Gandhi Museum (New Delhi), and at major festivals, including Transmediale (Berlin), Sonar (Barcelona), and Ars Electronica (Linz).

URLs:
www.signalfluss.de/artwork
www.signalfluss.de/mech

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GEMMA SHUSTERMAN

Bio:
Gemma Shusterman is a multimedia and performance artist, currently pursuing a master’s degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab. Her research within the program focuses on the resonance of technology in relationship to subjectivity, physical experience and identity.

Her work is informed by her extensive background in movement and dance. Prior to attending MIT, she danced professionally and has worked as a dance teacher and as an actress for independent film and theater. She is also a certified Gyrotonic and Pilates instructor.

Gemma received her BA from Mills College in Oakland, California, where she studied computer science and studio art. Following the completion of her degree she worked as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems. She moved to New York in 2002 where she continued to work as a software engineer and movement instructor.

URL:
web.media.mit.edu/~gemma/projects.html

Interactive website for the installation in De Balie during 2 & 3 july:
atomicbee.com/cgi-bin/3x3.cgi

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PITIWAT SOMTHAI

BANGKOK, THAILAND

URL:
www.sculpturespace.org/artist/somtahi.html

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JEROME SYMONS

URL:
www.nbks.nl/frames/Jerome%20Symons_meer.htm

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DURO TOOMATO

URLs:
www.cincinman.info

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AGATA ZWIERZYÑSKA

The face makes visible the movements of the soul,
And ideas are the energy behind these movements.

My contribution to the Steal My Idea festival will be the results of several of my newest projects as well as the earlier Prix de Rome winning publication Listen® The Telephone Book. The new projects will be executed at Het Vijfde Seizoen, an artist-in-residency programme based at the psychiatric clinic Willem Arntsz Hoeve in Den Dolder, where I have been invited to work from March to June 2005.

URLs:
www.xs4all.nl/~agata/
www.vijfde-seizoen.nl/

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TEST PORTAL

Test-Portal wil defragmenteren en onderzoekt het samengaan der tegendelen:

Individualiteit met samenwerking, sociale relevantie met fantasie, rauw met digitaal, futuristisch met oorspronkelijk, conceptueel met poezie.

Test-Portal is een internationale now-art avondexpositie en vindt nu voor de tweede keer plaats van 10 t/m 25 juni 2005 in de Docklandshal op de NDSM Werf in Amsterdam Noord.
Beelden tijdens Test-Portal 2005 opgenomen zullen gedurende deze expositie
op een scherm te zien zijn in de kroeg van de Balie. Ook zal Aneta Lesnikovska
kunstenaar en curator van “Steal my idea” tijdens Test-Portal met een camera de kunstenaars interviewen over de rol van de kunstenaar in de maatschappij.

URL:
www.test-portal.nl

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T.Y. GUTTER

Bio:

• Exhibition We'll eat you alive, ArtSpace Witzenhausen Gallery in Amsterdam (2004)
• Exhibition Raft of the Medusa, ArtSpace Witzenhausen Gallery in Amsterdam (2004)
• Art Director of music video productions in Tel-Aviv (1997-99)
• Graphic Designer for "Dvash Electronic Bar" in Florentin, Tel-Aviv (1997-99)
• Lighting Coordinator for the "Dinamo Club" in Tel-Aviv (1997-99)

URL:
www.art-space.nl/fotos/fotos.asp?artiest=131

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SAOIRSE HIGGINS

URLs:
web.media.mit.edu/~simon_s/AB/index.htm
alumni.media.mit.edu/~saoirse/doom.html

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INGEZ EN ZEEM

Ingeborg Bijster and Maarten Siem. They both work as sound artists and are studying music and technology to develop the use of programming in the process of making artworks.

URL:
www.ingez.com

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DANA NERVE

URL:
www.dnerve.com

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FREDERICO CAMPANALE

URL:
www.blue-frame.com

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ROBERT SUERMONDT

URLs:
www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/2360
www.flyingcow.net/artists/robertsuermondt

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DFM RTV INT

A live independent multi-media internet broadcast network run by international media artists themselves. A realtime global meeting and sharing place for free sounds and images of people from all over the planet.

URL:
www.dfm.nu

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DFM RTV is broadcasting a selection of events live from the STEAL MY IDEA media art festival in de Balie 1-3 juli 2005.