Images of everyday life that broach wonderful themes

In the large movement everyday life gets subtitled. The audience sits in a small movie theater and see the outside world as if it were a film. Random passersby play the tragic lead role. The world stops and the lonely individuals engage in a jointed choreography.

A theatre-concept by Dries Verhoeven for Theater Festival Boulevard 2006. In 2009 the show was recreated with new software on new locations.

Sylvain created the software which included the simultaneous recording an playback of the outside world and choreographing unknowing passerby by manipulating the live-images from the world outside the theater.

De vogels houden u in de gaten

For the Terschelling Oerol-festival Judith Hofland created an audiotour on location about watching and being watched. The visitors were individually guided through the town, woods and dunes of West-Terschelling wearing white headphones.

They got told a story by a little girl about her grandfather, giving directions and assignments along the way. But during the tour one starts to wonder how much is true of the stories told and how real the little girl actually is.

The tour ends in a former communications-building on top of the dune where the visitors are confronted with security footage of themselves shot the village and woods.

Sylvain created the software that collected the footage from the network-cameras in the village and the trees and the interface to select these images and send them to the building up on the dunes. The visitors are then confronted with multiple screens and prints with footage of themselves while walking the tour.

Hallo, hallo, bent u daar nog?

Arnoud Traa created an audiotour for the Amsterdam Underground festival. The visitor was led through the dark maintenance-tunnel under the IJ in Amsterdam.

Sylvain created the hard- and software for an old telephone at the end of the tunnel that constantly rang and once picked up by a visitor played back an audiotrack that continued the tour.

If you use any more paper I'm calling the manager

For the Balie in Amsterdam L. van Munster created toilets that monitor the users every move through the use of sensors. A series of computers analyze this behavior and vocally react to it.The polite female computer voice gives information about how to behave correctly but can also lose herself in mixing up information found on the internet.

Sylvain created the software for this project in collaboration with Thijsenvanwijck nM.