Petervan Studios is the melting pot of three Petervan studios: The Art Studio, The Interventions Studio, and The Projects Studio. The Studios have the following methods, dynamics, and outcomes in common:
- Methods: Collisions – Layering – Activations – Speculations
- Dynamics: Translating – Unsnapping – Reframing
- Outcomes: Interventions – Interruptions – Provocations
The three studios share the motivation and desire for societal, moral, and aesthetic advancement.
The Forbidden Question at UnitedXR Europe – Homo Experiens Explorers
On 9 Dec 2025, Andreea and I gave a “talk” about our journey and lessons learned in creating The Forbidden Question. Rather than a talk, it was a performance about the performance. The talk also includes a speaking lamb from Van Eyck’s famous 1432 Ghent Altarpiece. See the lamb in the video of our talk…
Petervan’s Delicacies – Nov 2025 > Jan 2026
“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a…
Petervan’s Ride – December 2025
Petervan’s Musical Ride December 2025 – only 39 songs. As usual, mostly several recent releases, including those by Selah Sue, Tackhead, and Tsar B. Oldies from Chris Rea, Gary Claill, and The Durutti Column. Play in shuffle mode to increase the surprise factor. Enjoy!
The Orphic Experience: We are all Argonauts again
In my post about Dub-Techno artist Adrian Sherwood, I referred to the book “Dub Techno – The Orphic Experience of Sound” by Bahadırhan Koçer to describe my sound experiments with dub. As promised in that post, the most compelling part of the book appears in its opening chapters, where he introduces “The Orphic Experience.” The…
Inspiration – Even more David Claerbout
Studio David Claerbout just published the video of a lecture at The Cloud Collection, Nanjing on the occasion of the opening “Flow of Time. David Claerbout and Zhou Tao” exhibition. At 17:50, he explains how he made the Woodcarver and the Forest. Prompting ChatGPT to create a script and images, then filming what ChatGPT suggested,…
Petervan’s Delicacies – November 2025
“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a…
Petervan’s Ride – November 2025
Petervan’s Musical Ride November 2025 – 60+ songs. As usual, mostly several recent releases, including those by Rosalia, Portland, and Ozark Henry. Oldies from Toni Di Bart, Jimmy Cliff, and Brutus. Play in shuffle mode to increase the surprise factor. Enjoy!
The Weak Image Speaks
The camera—that profoundly liberal invention—whispers: I’m ready for anything.Give me chemicals, give me a little light,give me time and no shaking,and I will be done. A pocket-sized Enlightenment,believing every world is reachable,every surface printable,every body open to possibility. And now generative machines produce punctum—yes, Barthes’ punctum—the involuntary meaning that slips throughthe cracks of intention.Not planned…
Petervan’s Delicacies – October 2025
“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a…
Petervan’s Ride – October 2025
Petervan’s Musical Ride October 2025 – 40+ songs. As usual, we have a lot of recent releases, including The Charlatans, Monza, and Brandi Carlile. Oldies from Rhythm & Sound, Patti Smith, and Norman Greenbaum. Play in shuffle mode to increase the surprise factor. Enjoy!
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