Between Mind and Matter
Within Without
ANIMA
Eefje de Visser
Iris van Herpen
Resonance Room
SKYLINE II
AETHER
ESPER
Maarten Vos
SKYLINE
POLARIS
IMAGINARY LIMIT
APERTURE
BJÖRK
AURORA
Lowlands
AETHER II
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Popul
AURA
Liquid Logic
about

Nick Verstand is a contemporary artist researching human perception through spatial audiovisual compositions. His autonomous installations and live performances investigate the frontier between the material and the immaterial, and are created through collaborative design processes aimed at breaking down social boundaries. The resulting intuitive experiences, co-creations of artist and audience, generate a hypnotizing environment for the subconscious mind.

Nick has exhibited and performed at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Shed (NYC), Rewire Festival (NL), Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai, CHN), National Opera & Ballet (NL), STRP Festival, Design Society (CHN), Paris Couture Week (FR), SXSW (USA), Dekmantel Festival, Art Central Hong Kong, MTV VMAs (NYC), Design Museum Gent (BE), Le Guess Who (NL), Iceland Airwaves (IS), Dutch Design Week and collaborated with artists such as Iris van Herpen, Björk, Caterina Barbieri, Lykke Li, Sarah Davachi, Eefje de Visser, Charlotte Adigéry, Doja Cat, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Fatima Yamaha and Suzanne Ciani. Dezeen selected his project AURA as one of the top 10 art installations of 2017, alongside Olafur Eliasson, Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor.

selected exhibitions & live performances

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)

The Shed (NYC)

Rewire Ferstival (NL)

Paris Couture Week (Paris, FR)

Dekmantel Festival (NL)

SXSW (Austin, USA)

Barbican (London, UK)

Art Central Hong Kong (CHN)

MTV VMAs (NYC)

Design Museum Gent (BE)

Lowlands Festival (NL)

Dutch Design Week (NL)

Design Society (Shenzhen, CHN)

Le Guess Who (NL)

Iceland Airwaves (Reykjavik, ISL)

MIRA Festival (Barcelona, ES)

STRP (NL)

Nuit Blanche (Paris, FR)

EYE Film Museum (NL)

De School (NL)

Nieuw Dakota Gallery (NL)

Concertgebouw (NL)

FRAME Lab (NL)

Sandberg Institute (NL)

Lehrter Siebzehn Gallery (Berlin, DE)

FORMS (Toronto, CAN)

De Nieuwe Kerk (NL)

TEDx (NL)

Van Gogh Museum (NL)

Gabriel Rolt Gallery (NL)

Amsterdam Dance Event (NL)

REC Festival (NL)

Trouw (NL)

Bimhuis (NL)

 

selected awards

Dutch Design Award - finalist

Elisabeth van Thüringenprijs - winner

Lumen Prize - category 3D/Sculpture - finalist

HKU Award Entrepreneurship - winner

 

strategy and website design

Agency Agency

 

selected collaborations

Iris van Herpen

Björk

Caterina Barieri

Charlotte Adigéry

Kara-Lis Coverdale

Sarah Davachi

Lykke Li

Eefje de Visser

Suzanne Ciani

Doja Cat

Fatima Yamaha

 

selected publications

Dezeen

Victoria & Albert Museum

FRAME Magazine

Resident Advisor

Elephant

Design Society

Mister Motley

BBC Radio

NRC

Volkskrant

3voor12

The Chicago Tribune

Creators Project

Engadget

Trendtablet

National Post

 

selected presentations

SXSW  - Linking Art & Science Through Technology

Netherlands Film Festival - Visualising Beyond The Mind

TENT Rotterdam - Collaborative Art Practices

Fiber Festival - EEG Interfaces In Contemporary Art

MTA Beijing - Discovering Interfaces Between Art, Technology and Sound

MU Artspace - Materialising The Internet

FORMS Toronto - AI In Art Is Metaphor

RTL Late Night - Muziek Maken Met Je Emoties 

HKU - Realising Multidisciplinary Art Projects

Blink YoungBlood Award - head of jury

Amsterdam Dance Event - Sound Lab

Pakhuis de Zwijger

Between Mind and Matter (2019) explores the subtle and diffuse transition space between physical and perceived reality. How do we relate to this newly found space?

Seemingly tangible laser light creates a perceptual architecture in the space, modulating through the tension of a physical string model. The light is influenced by the gravitational pull of spatial sound objects through deep integration in the 4DSOUND engine.

Between Mind and Matter investigates how this perceptual architecture can create a living, enveloping and constantly shifting audiovisual environment, engaging with visitors during extended interactions and enhances their human experience. How do humans respond to these evolving interactions, in a process of mutual adaptation?

medium
8 RGB laser, hazers, 20.4 speaker system, 4DSOUND

created by 
Salvador Breed
Nick Verstand

in collaboration with 
Marcel Smit
Stijn van Beek
Maarten Vos
4DSOUND

commissioned by
STRP

year
2019

dimensions
32 x 8 x 5,5 meters

photo
Hanneke Wetzer

video
Blitzkickers

press

Volkskrant (NL): "Enchantingly beautiful and also slightly confusing" 

NRC (NL): “It’s overwhelming and subtle at the same time: the wall of laser light sometimes seems soft as silk, at other times hard as steel.”