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Re-Mediate Reading
Honored to be reading my new Augmented Reality poem “(DYS)TO(PI)A(N) FUTURE!” at the Second Tuesday Salon of the Electronic Literature Organization dedicated to the launch of Re-Mediate Litmag Issue 3!
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Poem: A Bit of Surveillance
Berlin’s most sympathetic journal, Reality Scratch, published my UML poem “A Bit of Surveillance”. Thanks to editors Melissa Frost and Thomas McDonald and all the other authors for this great issue! This poem was constructed using UML (Unified Modeling Language), a modeling tool for software systems. To create the diagram and try and capture the current precarious moment in tech affairs, I used PlantText (the expert’s design…
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Hoofdkraan.nl
LEAD DEVELOPER – Hoofdkraan.nl is a jobs-board for freelancers. As the technical lead, I built Hoofdkraan from scratch to a site with more than 100,000 users. The platform is a complex PHP/Laravel system with a MySQL databases and complex VueJS front-end Javascript components. PHP / Laravel / MySQL / PostgreSQL / Javascript / React /…
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Prolinker.com
SENIOR FULL-STACK DEVELOPER – As a senior full-stack developer I helped extending the backend and frontend architecture to scale the platform up to be able to roll it out in six different countries around the world. The platform is a complex PHP/Laravel system with a PostgreSQL databases and complex VueJS front-end components. Combined, the sites…
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Filmpeople.com
LEAD DEVELOPER – Filmpeople is the largest Dutch platform for the film and television industry. Filmpeople includes sites such as Filmvacatures.nl, Filmnieuws.nl and Filmcastings.nl. As a back-end developer, I designed and worked on building the Framework (based on Laravel) on which the eight sites with more than 100,000 users of Filmpeople run. PHP / Laravel…
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Freelancematch.nl
SENIOR DEVELOPER – Freelancematch.nl was a job board for freelancers. In 2009, I built the first version of the site, from scratch, to a system with more than 70,000 users. The work consisted of developing new features, while maintaining existing functionality. PHP / CodeIgniter / MySQL / Javascript / jQuery / CSS
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Languages of the Future – Conference
I’m thrilled to be participating in the Languages of the Future conference at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University College London in the program Material Poetics of the Future. In the panel “Material Poetics of the Future”, I’ll be presenting my think piece On Becoming Aliens: Towards a Cross-Sensory Universal Language for Extra-Terrestrial…
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SETI AiR: Exoplanetary Poetry
Experimental Poetry – Super excited to work with my fantastic team mates Julie-Michèle Morin and Daniela Brill Estrada to combine our skills in art, science, and creative writing for the Cosmic Consciousness residency of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute! Our project titled “Exoplanetary Poetry” proposes chemistry as a possible universal language (in the…
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Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence
Very excited to be presenting our project Exoplanetary Poetry at TTT 2025 (TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE) together with Julie-Michèle Morin and Daniela Brill Estrada. We will be talking about exploring chemistry as a tool for communication with aliens. We aim to co-author a collection of poems with a speculative extraterrestrial being in the form…
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Knyahinya
Screenwriting – I’m writing the screenplay for the CGI-documentary with working title “Knyahinya” of Ukrainian artist Letta Shtohryn and Austrian artist and researcher Daniela Brill Estrada. In 1866, Europe’s largest meteorite fell in the Ukrainian Carpathians — then part of the Austrian Empire. Knyahinya’s well-witnessed fall inspired paintings, fiction, as well as scientific and speculative…
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SETI Artist Spotlight
Very honored to be featured in the SETI AiR newsletter of April 2025! Read the newsletter here
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Shared Futures
Visual & Digital Arts – Shared Futures is a multimedia poetry experience that addresses the colonial past between Ghana and The Netherlands. It consists of a mixed media art installation and an AR experience in which poetry, co-created with the local community in Elmina (Ghana), is layered on the walls of Elmina Castle, the oldest…
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WHAT_IS_LOST
My poem WHAT_IS_LOST was published by Volume Poetry! “What is Lost” is an executable code poem: a poem written in code, readable for non programmers, but executable on the command line of any Linux or Mac OSX computer. The poem reflects on how human minds have been transformed into sources of data collection and have…
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Rabbit Academy
Screenwriting – Since 2023 I’m writing episodes for the animation series “Rabbit Academy”. This new children’s series is produced by Akkord Film for KiKa (the children’s television portal of ARD and ZDF.) SWR, NDR, and HR. I’m excited, since it will be my first production in Germany. Inspirationals by Heiko Hentschel / Character Design by…
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Shared Futures
The past two months Paul Akrofie and I have been working together on our project Shared Futures in which we seek to decolonize spaces in both Ghana and The Netherlands through community-led digital interventions in order to empower local communities in Elmina and Amsterdam. Last week we organized the Shared Futures Lab workshop in Elmina…