30-05-2013 / Short film - Life Needs Internet (Dutch)
"In Life Needs Internet digital media artist Jeroen van Loon researches the influence of the Internet on our daily life. In Life Needs Internet van Loon shows us the evolution of our global digitalization and its impact on different cultures."
This short film was commissioned by the Museum of Communication and was produced by Swinkels & Swinkels.
03-11-2012 / New work - Kill Your Darlings (2012)
My new work Kill Your Darlings is finished.
The work is co-produced by the Oddstream Festival
Kill Your Darlings shows the transformation of our teenagers as beautiful little darlings into cruel little devils.
The installation is also available in English.
06-10-2012 / Life Needs Internet wins a Europe Youth Award
Life Needs Internet has won a European Youth Award!
"12 projects coming from 8 European Countries have been selected by the EYA GRAND JURY 2012 as the best ones using ICTs to take action on the UN MDGs!"
03-09-2012 / Exhibition in Museum of Communication
Museum of Communication – The Hague
7 October 2012 – June 2013
‘Seriously, my life is in my laptop’
In Life Needs Internet digital media artist Jeroen van Loon researches the influence of Internet on our daily lives. He travelled from the hypermodern Singapore to the jungle of West-Papua, created video portraits from local people and asked them to handwrite him a letter on what internet means for them. Besides exhibiting the video-installation that shows a selection of these portraits and letters it’s also possible to become part of the project.
Where: Museum voor Communicatie, Zeestraat 82, The Hague, The Netherlands
When: 7 october 2012 – june 2013,
opening (free): sunday 7 october, 14:30 – 16:30
For more information visit www.muscom.nl
21-06-2012 / TEDxTalentSearch talk
I was selected to speak during the TEDxAmsterdam event in order to compete for the worldwide TED2013 Talent Search. On wednesday the 20th of june the event toke place in Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. It was an amazing event with 21 talented speakers.
You can vote here so that I could be selected to be part of the TED2013 event in L.A.