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ORGANISATION & CONTACT
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ORGANISATION & CONTACT

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A tropism (from Greek τρόπος, tropos, 'a turning') is a biological phenomenon, indicating growth or turning movement of a biological organism in response to an environmental stimulus. The most common example of tropism is a plant growing in the direction of light.

Taking their lead from the biological phenomenon, the Tropists are a Dutch collective of installation artists, visual artists, photographers, media artists, designers, cineasts, technologists 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. Tropism turns you on.

Troppro
Tropism Productions (Tropro) 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 in this site are available for festivals, galleries, museums, theatres or, if applicable, obtainable as works of art. The Tropism Art & Science Foundation is, besides an independent art collective, also a well equipped organisation for original, innovating and daring projects produced in assignment. We have expertise in a rare and qualitative combination of competence. It is an array from concept, curating, scenario, production, film, television design, production, documentary, animation and virtual reality. We emphasise our muse in musea, enlighten nature in the city and create engaging art for cultural destinations. With art we can fulfil, cheer and enlightening. Tropism Productions  can offer moving media made to measure.

Tropism Lab
Research and experiments are done in the Tropism Lab in the Flower Art Museum in Aalsmeer where we have our own exhibition space. Recent artworks, projects and installations and films are on display and change each six months.

Board & Core Artists

The Tropism foundation was founded in 1986 by Alfred Marseille, Robin Noorda and Bob van Walderveen († 1995) and went in hibernation in 1996 to be resurrected in 2012 as Tropism Art & Science Collective foundation (TASC).  
​Robin Noorda - chairman, artist, filmmaker, installation maker, writer
Alfred Marseille - secretary, treasurer, sound artist, media designer
, installation maker, philosopher
Margot van de Stolpe - board member, artist, graphic- and exhibition designer
Menno Schrap - artist, media technologist, professor
Paul Godschalk - technical supervisor

Associated artists and scientists

Adriaan van Aelst - scientist, scanning electron microscopist
Arie in 't Riet - X-ray artist, scientist
​Bethany de Forest - pinhole artist
​Diana Roos - theatre producer
Els van der Monde - artist
Frans Holthuysen - 
scanning electron microscopist
​Heidi Vierthaler - choreographer
Jan Baeke - poet, writer, festival programmer
Jilt van Moorst - VR artist, coder
Jeff Shaw - artist, programmer
Jos Schuring - cultural journalist, writer
Luca Cacitti - dancer
Marieke van der Velde - writer
Nienke Rooijakkers - dramatist​
Nienke van der Pouw Kraan - artist, molecular biologist
Jean-Philippe Deugnier - science artist
Rick Hulsinga - VFX artist, coder
Robin Cay - artist, photographer
Shay Partush - dancer
Susanne Ohmann - dance therapist
​Victor Gama - sound artist, composer, instrument maker
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Supervisory Board
Dick Rijken, director of the STEIM Foundation
​Wouter Vos - CEO Veld Tulpenwodka

Committee of recommendation
​Taeke Kuipers - former director of the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, manager donations at VSB fund.
​Harry Schreurs -
former head of the VRAcademy Amsterdam and Immersive Media department of the Netherlands Film Academy

Associated companies
Zeezeilen - media design
Morphosis - animation film
Sandvoort Gallery - gallerist
Schrap Solutions - media technology

Valk Productions - film producer
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Dick Rijken, Wouter Vos, Wilco Geursen, Paul Godschalk, Menno Schrap, Margot van de Stolpe, Robin Noorda and Alfred Marseille during the most recent foundation of the Tropism foundation on 14-11-2017 - (first foundation 1986 - hibernation 1997 / 2011 - resurrection 2012 - second foundation 2017).
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Contact
Tropism Art & Science Collective (Foundation)
Loods 6
KNSM laan 155
1019 LC Amsterdam

+31 (0)6 53228858 Robin Noorda
+31 (0)6 26787989‬ Alfred Marseille
info (at) tropisme.nl
www.tropism.eu

Camber of Commerce  70961158
Bank NL22 TRIO 0338 9233 65   BIC: TRIONL2U
VAT nr: 858526888B01


Route by public transport
From Amsterdam Central Station: 
Take bus 48 direction Borneo Eiland. Get out at the 5th busstop, Azartplein (6 minutes) and walk passing the fountain and you will see the Loods 6 building. Take the central entrance, not the West entrance.

From e.g. Leidseplein, Vijzelgracht or Weesperplein: take tram 7 direction Azartplein (get out at terminus Azartplein)


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Tropistic sayings

• Tropism is a phenomenon of imperfect coincidence and it reveals itself in the periphery of our perception. It is the origin of our gestures. Bob van Walderveen (1931-1995)
• Tropism gets stuck where others continue. Alfred Marseille
• Life multiplies by devision. Robin Noorda
• Under pressure everything becomes liquid and is moldable. Robin Noorda
• Tropistic artists are stimulated by plants. Margot van de Stolpe
• Tropism connects the irreversibility of the notion of entropy with the causally inexplicable connectedness of Jung's synchronicity. R. Cay
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    • ALFRED MARSEILLE
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    • FLORA'S ARK >
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      • FLORA SONORA (EEG)
      • STRUCTURAE FORMA
      • INSECTA SPECTRA (UV)
      • MICRO CRYO COLOR (SEM)
      • TRANS PLANTA (X-RAY)
      • CAMERA OBSCURA (PINHOLE)
      • FLORA VOLTA (KIRLIAN)
      • DIORAMA NIGRA
      • INFRA RUSSUS (IR)
      • PAREIDOLIA IN IR
      • MICRO ARS RAVUS (SEM)
    • HYPERWARPS
    • HYPERBOLICS
    • INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY
    • VIDEO-CAMERA-OBSCURA
  • INSTALLATIONS
    • YOU LOOKIN' AT ME?
    • SNEAKY SERPENTS
    • THIS IS IT, BE HERE NOW
    • SONOTROPE VR
    • FLORA SONORA
    • SHADOW HARP
  • CINEMA
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    • REBIRTH OF VENUS >
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