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Bio-Extended NFT, by Marlot Meyer
Installation: Touch Ground Sim-biocene, 2022.
The project Bio-Extended NFT is a continuation, a conclusion, of the installation Touchground Sim-biocene by Marlot Meyer. In the installation, a small ecosystem was created that grew wheatgrass in the end. The help of the visitors was necessary, who activated an irrigational system by their presence and movements alone and thus kept the eco-system alive. In the end, shapes were to be cut out of the grown wheatgrass, which were then offered as works of art. The fact that media art was used to create the wheatgrass shapes inspired us to develop this approach further.
Courtesy Art Claims Impulse
Using NFT (Digital File) to enhance the wheatgrass artwork and convert it to 3D for future reproduction.
Courtesy of Art Claims Impulse
Bio-Extended NFT
With the purchase of a Bio-Extended NFT, the buyer receives a 3D scan of the original and also a wheatgrass artwork, created from the Touch Ground Sim-biocene installation. If the living artwork no longer exists, there is still the image and the digital 3D scan as an NFT, which could theoretically enable a reproduction from a bio-printer or similar.
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A Sace War Monument, Dani Ploeger
The perception of the Gulf War (1990-91) has been dominated by images of advanced military technologies, especially satellite-enabled navigation and targeting, using Global Positioning System (GPS) and laser technology. Hence, the Gulf War has also been called ‘The First Space War.’ However, the ground offensive of Operation Desert Storm in the Kuwaiti desert also had decidedly low-tech aspects. Notably,armoured bulldozers and mine ploughs were deployed by the US military to bury alive an unknown number of Iraqi soldiers. After the War, GPS technology was made widely available for civilian use. Bulldozers for the construction industry were the first machines equipped with this technology. Thus, the contemporary GPS-enabled bulldozer can be seen as a civilian symbiosis of two prominent Gulf War technologies.
A Space War Monument was commissioned by the Kuwait Pavilion for the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the end of the Gulf War.
A Space War Monument
digital video, 1’30”
Traces of military activity during the Gulf War remain visible in the desert landscape of Kuwait in various places. At 29°46’11.5”N 47°26’53.6”E, left-overs of Saddam Road, which was constructed by Iraqi troops, are still visible. Using a GPS-guided bulldozer, a flat area in the shape of a perfect square of 100 by 100 metres is created, within which traces of the road are removed. Using a quintessential post-Gulf War technology, a monument is erected through which the remains of the disarray of warfare are overcome. An act of erasure to commemorate the unknown bodies that have disappeared under the sand.
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Edition: 4 of 2 AP Edition 1: 2000€

Serapeum Helios (after the Gulf War), 2021.
desert sand, biopolymer, magnets, wood; 35x35x170cm
A sand object in the shape of a Trimble GCS900 GPS antenna for bulldozers floats in a magnetic field. In this form, the artefact becomes reminiscent of landmines and spaceships. According to legend, the Serapeum temple in Alexandria, built under Ptolemy I around 300 BCE, featured a floating Helios statue, the first reported instance of magnetic levitation. Helios, god of the sun, is also the all-seeing god. While driving the sun chariot across the sky, nothing that happens on earth remains hidden from his view.
Unique artwork= 18000€
Satellite Map (real gold)'
gold leaf / desert sand and carbon on paper; 35x42cm
Two maps of a land art work located at coordinates 26.769861, 47.448222 in the Arabian Desert, cast in genuine Kuwaiti desert sand and 23.75 carat Rosenobel gold leaf.
“The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself.” – Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, 1977
Satellite Map (genuine desert sand)'
gold leaf / desert sand and carbon on paper; 35x42cm
Two maps of a land art work located at coordinates 26.769861, 47.448222 in the Arabian Desert, cast in genuine Kuwaiti desert sand and 23.75 carat Rosenobel gold leaf.
“The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself.” – Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, 1977
Edition 2= 650,00€
Dani Ploeger
Born in Middelburg, Netherlands
Studio: Dreesstraat 2, 4384 DC Vlissingen, Netherlands
Represented by Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
Education
2007-2013 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex, UK
2003-2005 Advanced postgraduate certification, music. Excellence programme of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, Germany
1999-2003 Bmus, music performance. Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, Netherland
Exhibitions and Performances (selection)
Solo/Duo
2021 A Space War Monument, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
2020 B-hind: intimate innovation, V2_Lab for the unstable media, Rotterdam
2019 Bombs & Grenades, Zeeland Maritime Museum, Vlissingen, NL
SMART FENCE, Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem, Belgium (duo with Peter Puype)
2018 MedienKörper, panke.gallery, Berlin (duo with Yvon Chabrowski)
CHECK OUT, Import Projects, Berlin (duo with Aram Bartholl)
2017 fronterlebnis, arebyte_Gallery, London
2015 The Stuff of Machines, Watermans Art Centre, London
2014 FETISH, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group
2021 SPACE WARS, Kuwait Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale
Disobedient Devices, National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya
Bon Voyage! Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
2020 ZERO WASTE, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany
Real Feelings, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, Switzerland
2019 Seasons of Media Arts, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
neuhaus, The New Institute Museum for architecture, design and digital culture, Rotterdam
2018 100 years, between war and peace, Museum of the Polish Library in Paris
2017 Digital Matters, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK
WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
2016 For Play, MU Art Space/Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
2014 London Design Festival, Victoria & Albert Museum
Commissions / prizes (selection)
2022 House of Electronic Arts, Basel (CH). Commission for new digital work (smartphone app)
2021 Nominated for the Leverhulme Prize (UK)
Kuwait Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale. Commission for new work to commemorate 30th anniversary of the end of the Gulf War
2019 ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (D). Commission for public space art work
2018 VRHAM festival for art and Virtual Reality, Hamburg (D). Vrhammy Award (jury prize)
2016 Japan Media Arts Festival. Jury Selection
Teaching / Research Positions (selection)
2020- Fellow, V2_Lab for the unstable media, Rotterdam, NL
2016- Research Fellow, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK
2018-20 Artistic Researcher, Leiden University, NL
2013-2016 Senior Lecturer and Course Leader Performance Arts, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
2012-2013 Lecturer in Theatre and Digital Arts, Brunel University London, UK