Are you active as an amateur or professional artist? Want to show your work to a broad, international audience? Apply for the Open Source Expo Now! Deadline is set on June 20th. More info at here or send an email with max 3. small jpegs and description to merijn@incubate.org.

Every day, ’till June 20th we will highlight some of the work the artists have handed in for our Open Source expo. We’d love to receive some of your work as well!

Today’s artists are:

DEES – (see photo above) The main inspiration for DEES are the lyrics of Hip-Hop songs. With these lyrics as guides, he collects visual material to fit the topics he wants to get across in work. Just as Hip-Hop is characterized by it’s collage like use of music and sound fragments (samples), DEES works as a visual sampling machine. Elements of record covers are combined with images from his sketchbook, photo-archive, picture postcards, magazines, nature and art books etc. This working method leads to strongly graphic paintings and drawings reminding of flyers or record sleeves and sometimes even a three dimensional installations arises, however there is one thing these works have in common: They are always Hip-Hop related. More on his website here.

Koosje Schmeddes – The work of Schmeddes is created through impulses. It’s seems like ‘pop-ups’. Both the ones that appear on the internet, as well as the traditional paper pop-ups in a book. Every day she receives new impulses from the outside world. She saves them in sketches because they could be potential idea’s. The work arises from snapshots from whatever comes up in her mind, ‘to the point & out of the bleu’.