ORGANISATION & CONTACT
Name
The Tropism Art & Science Foundation is also known as Stichting Tropism Art & Science Collective or as abbreviation TASC force.
A tropism (from Greek τρόπος, tropos, 'a turning') is a biological phenomenon, indicating growth or turning movement of a biological organism, usually a plant, in response to an environmental stimulus” (Wikipedia). The most common example of tropism is a plant growing in the direction of light.
The Tropism was founded some forty years ago in 1986 by Alfred Marseille, Robin Noorda and Bob van Walderveen †. Current members also include Menno Schrap, Margot van de Stolpe, Paul Godschalk and a range of guest Tropists.
Taking their lead from the biological phenomenon, the Tropists are a Dutch collective of installation artists, photographers, media artists, designers, cineasts and scientists. In their work they deal with phenomena occurring literally or figuratively at the edge of perception - events that are hardly noticed, but which lead to a reaction similar to the manner in which a plant responds to light (e.g. phototropism.)
The Tropists feel a great affinity with the natural world and their works seek to depict natural phenomena in new and unusual ways.
Target
Tropism branches in a variation of art domains with nature, science and technology as frequent ingredients in order to surprise and perhaps every now and then generate awareness. All projects on this site are available for festivals, galleries, museums, theatres or, if applicable, obtainable as works of art. As we have expertise in a rare and qualitative combination of competence, an array from concept, scenario, film, television design, production, documentary, animation, art skills and VR, to initiating and curating exhibitions, we can offer moving media made to measure. With art we can fulfil, cheer and enlightening.
Supervisory Board
Dick Rijken, director of the STEIM Foundation
Wilco Geursen - owner ‘Het bureau der dingen en andere zaken’
Wouter Vos - CEO Veld Tulpenwodka
Jos Denissen - jurist, economist
Committee of recommendation
Taeke Kuipers - erstwhile director of the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, manager donations at VSB fund.
Harry Schreurs - head of the VRAcademy Amsterdam and Immersive Media department of the Netherlands Film Academy
Board & Core Artists
Robin Noorda - chairman, artist
Alfred Marseille - secretary, artist, philosopher
Menno Schrap - treasurer, artist, professor
Margot van de Stolpe - designer, artist
Paul Godschalk - technical supervisor
Associated artists, technicians and scientists
Adriaan van Aelst - scientist
Arie in 't Riet - artist, scientist
Bethany de Forest - artist
Els van der Monde - artist
Frans Holthuysen - scientist
Jan Baeke - poet
Jilt van Moorst - artist, programmer
Rick Hulsinga - artist, programmer
Susanne Ohmann - choreographer
Vesna Petresin - artist
Name
The Tropism Art & Science Foundation is also known as Stichting Tropism Art & Science Collective or as abbreviation TASC force.
A tropism (from Greek τρόπος, tropos, 'a turning') is a biological phenomenon, indicating growth or turning movement of a biological organism, usually a plant, in response to an environmental stimulus” (Wikipedia). The most common example of tropism is a plant growing in the direction of light.
The Tropism was founded some forty years ago in 1986 by Alfred Marseille, Robin Noorda and Bob van Walderveen †. Current members also include Menno Schrap, Margot van de Stolpe, Paul Godschalk and a range of guest Tropists.
Taking their lead from the biological phenomenon, the Tropists are a Dutch collective of installation artists, photographers, media artists, designers, cineasts and scientists. In their work they deal with phenomena occurring literally or figuratively at the edge of perception - events that are hardly noticed, but which lead to a reaction similar to the manner in which a plant responds to light (e.g. phototropism.)
The Tropists feel a great affinity with the natural world and their works seek to depict natural phenomena in new and unusual ways.
Target
Tropism branches in a variation of art domains with nature, science and technology as frequent ingredients in order to surprise and perhaps every now and then generate awareness. All projects on this site are available for festivals, galleries, museums, theatres or, if applicable, obtainable as works of art. As we have expertise in a rare and qualitative combination of competence, an array from concept, scenario, film, television design, production, documentary, animation, art skills and VR, to initiating and curating exhibitions, we can offer moving media made to measure. With art we can fulfil, cheer and enlightening.
Supervisory Board
Dick Rijken, director of the STEIM Foundation
Wilco Geursen - owner ‘Het bureau der dingen en andere zaken’
Wouter Vos - CEO Veld Tulpenwodka
Jos Denissen - jurist, economist
Committee of recommendation
Taeke Kuipers - erstwhile director of the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, manager donations at VSB fund.
Harry Schreurs - head of the VRAcademy Amsterdam and Immersive Media department of the Netherlands Film Academy
Board & Core Artists
Robin Noorda - chairman, artist
Alfred Marseille - secretary, artist, philosopher
Menno Schrap - treasurer, artist, professor
Margot van de Stolpe - designer, artist
Paul Godschalk - technical supervisor
Associated artists, technicians and scientists
Adriaan van Aelst - scientist
Arie in 't Riet - artist, scientist
Bethany de Forest - artist
Els van der Monde - artist
Frans Holthuysen - scientist
Jan Baeke - poet
Jilt van Moorst - artist, programmer
Rick Hulsinga - artist, programmer
Susanne Ohmann - choreographer
Vesna Petresin - artist
Dick Rijken, Wouter Vos, Wilco Geursen, Paul Godschalk, Menno Schrap, Margot van de Stolpe, Robin Noorda and Alfred Marseille during the second foundation of the Tropism foundation on 14-11-2017 (the first Tropism foundation existed from 1987 to 1997).
Contact
Tropism Art & Science Foundation
Loods 6
KNSM laan 175
1019 LC Amsterdam
+31 (0)6-53228858
perceptions(at)morphosis.nl
www.tropism.eu
Contact
Tropism Art & Science Foundation
Loods 6
KNSM laan 175
1019 LC Amsterdam
+31 (0)6-53228858
perceptions(at)morphosis.nl
www.tropism.eu
