TROPISM PRODUCTIONS (TROPRO)
Wat we do
We emphazise the muse in musea, enlighten nature in the city and create engaging art for cultural destinations.
Stimulating by shedding new light.
The Tropism Art & Science Foundation is, besides an independent artist collective, also a well equipped organisation for original, innovating and daring projects in assignment. The accumulating expertise of the companies behind the board members and associated artists are a guarantee for quality, conceptual excellence and delivery within budget and deadline. As we have expertise in a rare and qualitative combination of competence, we can offer moving media made to measure.
The thirty plus years experience on the front edge of pioneering computer animation, TV design and film of Morphosis, the extensive array of media projects done by Zeezeilen, the immersive solution orientated capabilities of Schrap Design, the spacial design of Monumental Tile and the cunning designs of our technical team are iconographic standarts in the contemporary media and the applied arts landscape. All these qualities of expertise are combined and excel in Tropism Productions.
Services
We have worked for governmental organisations, NGO's, corporations, musea and venue's providing them with concepts, installations, films, television productions, animations, documentaries, books, photography, interactive media, virtual reality, performances, web design, graphic design, corporate identity, product design, exhibition curation, exhibition design, mural art and spacial design. Tropism Productions projects can be defied as fresh, cunning and innovating creations made by senior creative directors that effectively do communicate. Messages of engagement like awareness, sustainability and respect for nature are wrapped in our production in a subtile way. We think that hidden messages that have to be discovered by youself have more impact and therefore endure better.
Clients
We can be proud on quite a divers and outstanding range of international clients and products we worked for.
corporate:
La Montre Hermès, Philips, VSM, Trebbe Bouw, Boom Publishers, Edition Stemmle Verlag, Beam Systems, Mediamachine, Blackmagic Design, Jowa Architetenbureau, Surfnet, Rocketta Film, Drysdale, Business Art Service, JVDW, Science Productions, Valk Producties
governmental:
Dutch House of Representatives, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National ombudsman, Rijkswaterstaat, gemeente Schiedam, Central Bureau of Statistics, Netherlands Film Fund, Flemish Film Fund, Wiardi Beckman Stichting, gemeente Bloemendaal
non governmental:
Comité Schone Lucht, Milieudefensie, Khadag Dutch Mongolian Cultural Foundation, Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation, SOS Kinderdorp, Natuurmonumenten, FMO Entrepreneurial Development Bank, Federation Against Biomass
musea, cultural, venues and festivals:
Van Gogh Museum, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam Historical Museum, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Sydney Botanical Gardens, Groninger Museum, Flower Art Museum Aalsmeer, Oer Museum Diever, Stichting de Nieuwe Kerk, Hermitage, Anne Frank Stichting, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Corpus, Masterly The Hague, Amsterdam Light Festival, Vivid Sydney, I Light Singapore, Sea World Shenzhen, Norrköping Light Festival, Noorderzon Festival Groningen, Bond & Blauw Theater productions, Waag Technology Society, 5e Kwartier Theatre Company, Overkill Festival
academic:
Netherlands Film Academy, ArtEZ academy of the Arts Zwolle, VRAcademy Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam faculties of Natural Science-Mathematics-Informatics, Academy Minerva, University of the Arts Utrecht, Sint Lucas Academy, Netherlands Institute of Animation Film, International Institute for Social History, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Reinwardt Academy, V2_Organisation, Police Academy Amsterdam/Amstelland, Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag.
television:
NOS, NOB and practically all Dutch public broadcasters, Teleac, Veronica, RTL, BRTN, ARD, Endemol.
Festivals, nominations and Awards
Animation films and broadcast design have been selected and awarded at many festivals like: Netherlands Film Festival (Gouden Kalf nomination), Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Siggraph USA, Annecy International Animation Film Festival (nominated twice), Espinho Cinanima, (award for Best Short Film), Premiers Plans Angers (audience award Best European Short Film), Broadcast Designers Association Awards USA (bronze award). New York Festivals (bronze, silver and golden awards) and awarded at the Sapporo Animation Festival in Japan.
Tropro delivers Moving Media Made to Measure.
Inquiries, please mail info(at)tropisme.nl or call +31(0)653 228858
Wat we do
We emphazise the muse in musea, enlighten nature in the city and create engaging art for cultural destinations.
Stimulating by shedding new light.
The Tropism Art & Science Foundation is, besides an independent artist collective, also a well equipped organisation for original, innovating and daring projects in assignment. The accumulating expertise of the companies behind the board members and associated artists are a guarantee for quality, conceptual excellence and delivery within budget and deadline. As we have expertise in a rare and qualitative combination of competence, we can offer moving media made to measure.
The thirty plus years experience on the front edge of pioneering computer animation, TV design and film of Morphosis, the extensive array of media projects done by Zeezeilen, the immersive solution orientated capabilities of Schrap Design, the spacial design of Monumental Tile and the cunning designs of our technical team are iconographic standarts in the contemporary media and the applied arts landscape. All these qualities of expertise are combined and excel in Tropism Productions.
Services
We have worked for governmental organisations, NGO's, corporations, musea and venue's providing them with concepts, installations, films, television productions, animations, documentaries, books, photography, interactive media, virtual reality, performances, web design, graphic design, corporate identity, product design, exhibition curation, exhibition design, mural art and spacial design. Tropism Productions projects can be defied as fresh, cunning and innovating creations made by senior creative directors that effectively do communicate. Messages of engagement like awareness, sustainability and respect for nature are wrapped in our production in a subtile way. We think that hidden messages that have to be discovered by youself have more impact and therefore endure better.
Clients
We can be proud on quite a divers and outstanding range of international clients and products we worked for.
corporate:
La Montre Hermès, Philips, VSM, Trebbe Bouw, Boom Publishers, Edition Stemmle Verlag, Beam Systems, Mediamachine, Blackmagic Design, Jowa Architetenbureau, Surfnet, Rocketta Film, Drysdale, Business Art Service, JVDW, Science Productions, Valk Producties
governmental:
Dutch House of Representatives, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National ombudsman, Rijkswaterstaat, gemeente Schiedam, Central Bureau of Statistics, Netherlands Film Fund, Flemish Film Fund, Wiardi Beckman Stichting, gemeente Bloemendaal
non governmental:
Comité Schone Lucht, Milieudefensie, Khadag Dutch Mongolian Cultural Foundation, Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation, SOS Kinderdorp, Natuurmonumenten, FMO Entrepreneurial Development Bank, Federation Against Biomass
musea, cultural, venues and festivals:
Van Gogh Museum, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam Historical Museum, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Sydney Botanical Gardens, Groninger Museum, Flower Art Museum Aalsmeer, Oer Museum Diever, Stichting de Nieuwe Kerk, Hermitage, Anne Frank Stichting, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Corpus, Masterly The Hague, Amsterdam Light Festival, Vivid Sydney, I Light Singapore, Sea World Shenzhen, Norrköping Light Festival, Noorderzon Festival Groningen, Bond & Blauw Theater productions, Waag Technology Society, 5e Kwartier Theatre Company, Overkill Festival
academic:
Netherlands Film Academy, ArtEZ academy of the Arts Zwolle, VRAcademy Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam faculties of Natural Science-Mathematics-Informatics, Academy Minerva, University of the Arts Utrecht, Sint Lucas Academy, Netherlands Institute of Animation Film, International Institute for Social History, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Reinwardt Academy, V2_Organisation, Police Academy Amsterdam/Amstelland, Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag.
television:
NOS, NOB and practically all Dutch public broadcasters, Teleac, Veronica, RTL, BRTN, ARD, Endemol.
Festivals, nominations and Awards
Animation films and broadcast design have been selected and awarded at many festivals like: Netherlands Film Festival (Gouden Kalf nomination), Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Siggraph USA, Annecy International Animation Film Festival (nominated twice), Espinho Cinanima, (award for Best Short Film), Premiers Plans Angers (audience award Best European Short Film), Broadcast Designers Association Awards USA (bronze award). New York Festivals (bronze, silver and golden awards) and awarded at the Sapporo Animation Festival in Japan.
Tropro delivers Moving Media Made to Measure.
Inquiries, please mail info(at)tropisme.nl or call +31(0)653 228858
'You Lookin' at Me?' interactive light installation, part of lightfestivals in Amsterdam, Singapore and Sydney
Part of the largest light festival
The traveling interactive light installation 'You Looking' at Me?' was in 2017 part of the largest light festival of the world; Vivid Sydney in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney. In total over a million visitors saw the interactive eyeballs and it was a favourite by the press, public and crew of Vivid.
How does it work?
Translucent domes of PVC look like giant glowing eyeballs with colourful irises that stare randomly and a little bored in the depth. When a pedestrian passes, they interactively follow and don’t take their eyes of the visitor.
When the trespasser enters their premises, they act nervously and try to intimidate the intruder by a lot of blinking and rolling of the eyes. If the intruder is not scared away soon enough, the bloodshot eyes become more and more reddish angry and a sinister sound swells into a roar.
If the intruder persist, the eyes try an other strategy to chase the intruder away. They change appearance and morph into a totally different kind of eyes, namely the devilish look of a predator with vertical irises that is clearly getting quite annoyed. If that does not chase away the visitor, they give up, wink and turn into eyes wide shut or ignoring stare in denial.
When the visitor finally leaves, the eyes turn into the staring glaring mode again, some scanning the horizon for possible intruders.
If more people enter the territory of the eyes, all the interaction will be a lot more chaotic.
'You Looking' at Me?' is a good sample of the kind of biomimicry installations Tropism likes to design for public spaces.
La Montre Hermès
Assignment for six films and worldwide in store point of sale miniature sets for La Montre Hermès, Paris in collaboration with Bethany de Forest.
one of the fantasy world miniature set for a set of films and showcases for La Montre Hermès
6 meter wide print of a hyperbolic panorama artwork of Medical Centre Twente for Trebbe
exhibition with 120 works of art for the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
exhibition with 120 works of art for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
book, photo exhibition and documentary film on contemporary Mongolia for Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation
'Sneaky Serpents' interactive and underwater light installation in Amsterdam, Groningen, Norrköping and Shenzhen.