Audio-visual studios & ’Beeldend Platform' (Digital Production Studios)

Audio-visual studios & Digital Media platform

The Audio-Visual and Digital Media Platform work spaces encompass studios for three-dimensional, audio-visual art. The Digital Media Platform is a collaboration between the Vrije Academie and the World Wide Visual Factory (WWVF) and is part of the Audio-Visual department. The studios are designed to be used for concept development and for trial runs of installations and performances. Artists are encouraged to experiment and research the connection between image and sound. What is the relationship between different images? How does sound work in a room? How do you choose the right image format and medium?

In the Digital Image Platform artists are allowed to work on optimal, three-dimensional set-ups, while the studios may be used to produce new work and experiment with set-ups. During the working process curators, exhibition makers and experts in the fields of film, video and sound will be invited to exchange ideas with and offer advice to participants.

Production and reproduction facilities, such as Apple Mac Pro (Final Cut), digital recording equipment, blue key studio, priva lite panels, video projectors, monitors, DVD players, sound equipment, lamps and a variety of projection screens, are available in the studios.

There Audio-Visual department (including the Digital Media Platform) has two studios that are situated on de second floor of the Vrije Academie building. Studio 1 has a ‘lab version’ of a 360 degrees video panorama, complete with a screen that is 25 meters in diameter and 10 synchronized video projectors. This studio is intended for the development of artworks that are suitable for 360 degree projection. Studio 2 is used for different kinds of set-ups, blue key recordings, editing and research into the relationship between stationary and moving images.

Co-ordinator & artistic coach: Tom van Vliet

Use of the studios

Artists who wish to use the studios for projects or longer periods of time can submit a proposal. To make an appointment, please send an e-mail to: info@vrijeacademie.org

ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Some of the Vrije Academie's Artists-in-Residence have been specifically invited to work in the Audio-Visual studios.  Names and websites of the artists that have been invited this fall can be found in the Artist-in-Residence Programme, elsewhere on this website.