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 Production
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, experiences and VR, to initiating and curating exhibitions, Tropism Productions can offer moving media made to measure. With art we can fulfil, cheer and enlightening.
Board & Core Artists
Robin Noorda - chairman, artist, filmmaker
Alfred Marseille - secretary, artist, philosopher
Menno Schrap - treasurer, artist, professor
Margot van de Stolpe - artist, graphic- and exhibition designer
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
Heidi Vierthaler - choreographer
Jan Baeke - poet
Jilt van Moorst - artist, programmer
Jeff Shaw - artist, programmer
Marieke van de Velde - writer
Rick Hulsinga - artist, programmer
Susanne Ohmann - choreographer
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 - former 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
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 Production
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, experiences and VR, to initiating and curating exhibitions, Tropism Productions can offer moving media made to measure. With art we can fulfil, cheer and enlightening.
Board & Core Artists
Robin Noorda - chairman, artist, filmmaker
Alfred Marseille - secretary, artist, philosopher
Menno Schrap - treasurer, artist, professor
Margot van de Stolpe - artist, graphic- and exhibition designer
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
Heidi Vierthaler - choreographer
Jan Baeke - poet
Jilt van Moorst - artist, programmer
Jeff Shaw - artist, programmer
Marieke van de Velde - writer
Rick Hulsinga - artist, programmer
Susanne Ohmann - choreographer
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 - former 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
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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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
• Look in the dictionary: Trump something up; invent a false accusation or excuse. Trump
• 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.
• The opposite is also true. Robin Noorda
Contact
Tropism Art & Science Foundation
Loods 6
KNSM laan 175
1019 LC Amsterdam
+31 (0)6-53228858
tropism(at)morphosis.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
• Look in the dictionary: Trump something up; invent a false accusation or excuse. Trump
• 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.
• The opposite is also true. Robin Noorda
Contact
Tropism Art & Science Foundation
Loods 6
KNSM laan 175
1019 LC Amsterdam
+31 (0)6-53228858
tropism(at)morphosis.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)
