A blonde-haired girl slowly floats up from the depths of a well. After a while, two more girls appear in front and from behind. One by one, they turn their faces toward us while descending further and further into the deep. A naked young woman with waves of blonde hair like the others, rises up. With an extended hand, she floats towards the viewer, so far that she breaks through the virtual floor into ‘reality.’ An alternately angelic and dissonant music accompanies the images.

Video mapping bij Foam

A Performance Tech Lab collaboration with Dansmakers Amsterdam and Beamlab.

Partnering with ShowTex for PepperScrim awesomeness.

Vlisco Anniversary - fashion show

Waterlandplein Amsterdam - videomapping in combinatie met lichtshow.

Video mapping hot wheels

Nijntje videomapping, Centraal Museum Utrecht.

Wehkamp Living 25

Waalwijk videomapping ter gelegenheid van jubileum Rabobank Waalwijk.

Augmented Reality installatie

While we are looking upwards, below and around us, the bodies reach us from an endless deep. Very slowly. What are they, these glimmers of light in the darkness? Stars? Angels? The closer they get the more form they acquire. They are very young children, some of them still babies. One by one they come, and they go. Free of the background they float in space. Touchable with the fingertips until they disappear again.

Despite this peaceful beginning it turns out that Once So Bright is not quite so heavenly after all. Particularly as the images present you with an atmosphere of paradoxes: light/dark; reality/illusion; transparency/lack of transparency; close by/far away; happy/sorrowful. The music of composer David Dramm, dissonant yet soothing at the same time, strengthens this perception.

Once So Bright is about the loss of a dearly loved child and the wish to bring him/her back. Everlasting life on earth for your dear ones – for many a dream. Yet a dream which is becoming closer to reality each day. With the unlimited possibilities of biotechnology – cloning – and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a solution. This work of art poses existential questions for science and art. It is a culture-critical work which makes visible the relationship between man and emerging technologies.

Arent Weevers is a 3D pioneer in the Netherlands and exhibits regularly at home and abroad. With ‘Once So Bright’ he is conducting research on the dept possibility with an unique combination of 3D-stereoscopic high-speed recording and Virtual reality.

BeamSystems Showreel 2017: Samsung Experience, Nijntje, Project A-15, Bosch by Night ...

Ons echte goud - Museumweek Maastricht. Videomapping op Onze Lieve Vrouwe Kerk.

Lichtshow Bosch by Night in kader van Jheronimus Bosch 500.

Lancering Project A15

BeamSystems Showreel