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Anouk Kruithof (b. 1981, Dordrecht, The Netherlands) is a visual artist with a trans-disciplinary approach, which encompasses photography, sculpture, collage, video, websites and (social) interventions in the public domain. Kruithof depicts the transience and the chaos of this world, which the artist skillfully addresses by mixing urgent societal issues with personal experiences. She graduated from the art academy in 2003 and currently lives and works alternately in Brussels, Belgium and Boto-Pasi, Suriname. Kruithof has had solo exhibitions in Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Centro de la Imagen Mexico City and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her work has also been included in the collections of MoMA San Francisco, Museum Folkwang in Essen and Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar. 
Universal Tongue is still intensively shown all over the world and has been exhibited in Museum Tinguely in Basel, Viernulvier (formerly known as Vooruit) in Ghent and at WHOLE | United Queer Festival, Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen, Germany.

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Twerking, vogue, Fortnite, flash mobs, a Sufi or musical chairs. Visual artist Anouk Kruithof is fascinated by dance as a form of self-expression and empowerment, which has led her to research dance styles from all over the world. The dance-conclave and video installation Universal Tongue leads us through the jungle of the internet. It explores how dance has developed throughout history as part of our global media culture, and how it manifests online today. 
The immersive installation is based on 32 hours of found video material presenting thousands of different dance styles, selected by a team of 52 researchers from all over the world from YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. 
Collectively, they collected 8800 videos; 250 hours of video material, 1000 dance styles, from all 196 countries of the world. This four-hour rousing dance video installation is spread over eight screens, with no less than 32 hours of found footage bundled into Universal Tongue, arranged by rhythm and the number of dancers. 
The ongoing loop of moving image erases typical categories of the world order, such as country, continent or culture. 
Instead, it looks at our era of fluidity, hybridity and non-stop connectedness with respect for and in celebration of our diverse historical backgrounds, cultural differences and unique individuality. 
&#8220;Dance—the moving body—more than anything in our diverse and complex world unites us in the recognition of our shared fragility and our common human condition. It also points us towards a possibility of a more inclusive world with limitless exchange and understanding of new identities, a world where simply everyone is a dancer.&#8221; — Anouk Kruithof

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Founded in Montreal in 2010, digital art studio Iregular creates audiovisual installations, large-scale sculptures, architectural projections and scenographies, with a focus on interactive and immersive experiences. At the crossroads between art and technology, these artworks experiment with geometry, light, sound, typography, mathematics, algorithms, communication protocols, AI, and machine learning. Iregular also develops its own proprietary technologies.
The studio works with the infinite and random combinations produced by interactive systems that the audience ultimately influences and transforms. The interaction is at the core of it all. It is only the relationship between the people and the piece that finalizes the artwork and gives it meaning.
Iregular’s work has been shown in 25 countries, notably including a solo exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, 5 solo exhibitions in Montreal, as well as other important presentations at Mutek (Montreal and Mexico), BIAN (Montreal), Mapping Festival (Switzerland), Chroniques Biennale (France), LEV Festival (Spain), Draaimolen (The Netherlands), Elektra (Montreal), Glow (The Netherlands), Lumiere (United Kingdom), Dubai Design Week (UAE), B39 (South Korea), Arttech (Colombia), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), and Aurora Festival (USA). Their creations are also in the collections of the WNDR museum in Chicago (USA), the Museo de Antioquia in Medellín (Colombia) and the Collection du Mouvement Desjardins in Montreal.

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This first version that uses the facial tracking feature depicts the universality of humankind. Using artificial intelligence, the system accurately tracks the faces of participants standing in front of the screen. It then unifies and aligns the features of the different faces, creating an ever-changing blended portrait of a single digital human.
Today more than ever, we must remember that we are all united across borders, that we are the same despite our diverse physical appearances. We are all in the same boat, and need to stick together and look beyond facial features. Technology can demonstrate this to us very easily in an engaging and entertaining way, but it is up to us to remember to apply this concept in our daily lives.
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Play with me is a place to meet and share that draws on our natural tendency to experiment and be caught up in play. It takes the form of a set of devices activated by the users&#8217; swaying, walking or bouncing. Each of these devices produces a different rhythm, melodic sequence or harmonies, parts of a musical composition that can be modulated by the amplitude of movement and hand pressure. The arrival of a second user makes it clear that it is possible to develop a close complementarity, encouraging people to play with it and to experiment more through the body and the music. 
The intuitiveness of the device is thus one of the keys to the project, as is the musical logic. The latter is based on sequences that can be easily combined with each other so that a non-musician can easily appropriate the object. The possibility of modulating these sequences and the rhythm offers an important variety of compositions in order to give the sensation of composing a piece, a bit like one could do in a small orchestra. The overall logic is to offer a simplified version of this orchestra so that anyone can be part of it and feel connected to the other participants, encouraging listening and sharing. 
By creating a collective and spontaneous experience and playing on the excitement produced by the game, Play with me gives the possibility to free oneself from the social barrier linked to the interaction with strangers and creates the conditions for a possible exchange, whether it is with friends, with people one has sometimes met for years without really knowing them or with complete strangers. The project thus lies somewhere between playground, art installation and performance, returning to the original etymology of the term concert, a &#8216;group of musical instruments playing together&#8217; which are here activated by the whole body and bodies of the participants.

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