Jasper van Loenen is an artist / teacher / programmer based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, who mainly works with open source code and technology.

Jasper’s work deals with the relationship between people and the technology they use on a daily basis. His goal is to expose the hidden workings of these technologies and to offer users an insight into the processes and systems that lie below the surface. Through his work he tries to stimulate users to explore and learn about what those systems entail, not because of an aversion against technological progress, but because most of us don’t fully realize in what ways technology is being used by companies and governments, and what decisions and agendas have lead to their development.

By mastering and critiquing these technologies and using them for new artistic purposes, Jasper reveals the actual significance of these technologies. To amplify this search for transparency, most of his work is published under an open source license, meaning everyone is free to see how they work, to contribute, or to create their own derivatives.

Articles about Jasper’s work have appeared on platforms such as (in random order) CNET, Discovery Channel, Der Spiegel, Wired, Daily Mail, Make, Business Insider, Popular Science, Boing Boing, Mashable, VICE, NBC News, Alphr, Creative Applications, Engadget, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Bright and more.

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His work has been graciously supported by both the Mondriaan Fund with the Stipendium for Emerging Artists program, and the Creative Industries Fund NL.

Licence

All images found on this website can be used as long as they are presented with proper attribution to the artist (and the photographer if one is mentioned on the relevant project’s page). All projects are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless specified otherwise.

Exhibitions

• Aap Noot Kunst, Rotterdam, 2022
• Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2021
• Ars Electronica Garden, Utrecht, 2020
• Re,generation, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, 2019
• Open Labs, Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin, 2019
• Hello World!, CCU, Utrecht, 2018
• Big Brother or Smart Sister, Avans, Den Bosch, 2018
• Counting Digital Sheep, Tetem, Enschede, 2018
• Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2018
• Radial Networks, Brooklyn, 2017
• Pierre Janssen Zomertentoonstelling, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, 2017
• Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, 2016
• Rendering Realities, SSBA Salon, Amsterdam, 2016
• Once is Nothing: A Drone Art Exhibition at InterAccess, Toronto, 2016
• Design My Privacy exhibition, z33, Hasselt, 2016
• Plastic, The New Institute, Rotterdam, 2015
• Discovery Festival, at De Verdieping & Trouw, Amsterdam, 2013
• “News From Nowhere”, Piet Zwart Insitute‘s show at V2_, Rotterdam, 2013
• “Unlike Art”, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2012
• Cultuurnacht, Breda, 2011
• Items exhibition, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, 2010
• Discovery Festival, Amsterdam, 2010
• Spoorzicht Gallery Arnhem, Arnhem, 2010
• E-Pulse Festival, Breda, 2010

Presentations

• Tegenlicht Meet Up #118, Amsterdam, 2018
• V2_ Test Lab, Rotterdam, 2017
• CCU, Utrecht, 2017
• CCA, Amsterdam, 2017
• FD Young Circle, Amsterdam, 2016
• CMD Nachtlab, Breda, 2016
• Future Flux Festival, Rotterdam, 2016
• Zwarte Markt voor Kennis / Black market for knowledge, Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, 2016
• Maak Festival, Groningen, 2015
• Subnet, Salzburg, 2014
• Tools That Shape Design, NOP/LUX, Nijmegen, 2014
• Q&A at The New Institute, Rotterdam, 2013
• This Happened Rotterdam, at WORM, Rotterdam, 2013
• Ignite Amsterdam 30, at Mediamatic, Amsterdam, 2013
• How Do You Do, organized by Virtueel Platform, Ghent, Belgium, 2012
• E-Pulse Festival 2010, Breda
• Arnhemse Nieuwe, Arnhem, 2010

Other (publications, nominations)

• Summer Sessions Residency Art Center Nabi, Seoul (together with V2_ Institute for the
  Unstable Media, Rotterdam), 2019
• Ruimte voor Talent, Stimuleringsfonds, 2019
• Part of “S.E.A.T.”, auction organized by In4Art at Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2019
• Part of “Getting Prepped”, publication, 2018
• Werktraject Jong Talent, Mondriaan Fonds, 2017
• Web Training Collar won the Crypto Design Challenge, MOTI, Breda, The Netherlands, 2015
• ‘Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender 2013‘ (‘The Big Rotterdam Art Calender’) 2013, 2012/2013
• Hot100, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2013
• Items Magazine, 2010
• Nomination Youngblood award, 2010
• Gogbot Festival, Enschede, 2010
• Nomination (together with Petra Valdimarsdóttir) audience award Arnhemse Kunstnacht, 2010
• PICNIC Academy Hot100, 2009