PUBLICATIONS + PRESS

Texts and publications by or on AnneMarie Maes. Artists Books, articles in magazines and exhibition catalogues.

ESSAYS BY ART CRITICS

Essays and articles by Art Critics and Curators on the work of Anne Marie Maes
Rodrigo Magalhães (2024)

Rodrigo Magalhães (2024)

Organic Perceptions “Gemme la Natura perfin nella tomba, e il suo gemito vince il silenzio e l’oscurità della morte.”, thus laments Ugo Foscolo at the thought of the transience of life and its fatalities, which bring the extinction of the body, that perishes and tends to be annihilated by the sheer force of nature. Nature watches with an impassible eye the misfortunes and wanderings of the ontological mind enclosed in a material body that asserts his fulness of life in a short span of time, encapsulated in a clepsydra, that counts irrevocably, inexpugnably the temporal passage.
Sandrine Wymann (2023)

Sandrine Wymann (2023)

Alchimia Nova. Avant Propos. Anne Marie Maes est une artiste que l'on peut rattacher au genre art et science. Elle développe depuis de nombreuses années un travail qui s'appuie sur la recherche scientifique, la biologie, l'étude des micro-organismes d'une part, les sciences numériques et la passion du jardinage d'autre part. Dans son jardin à Bruxelles, elle cultive les plantes qui lui servent de matière première pour ses expérimentations, elle installe aussi les ruches qui lui permettent d'étudier le comportement des abeilles.
Angels Viladomiu Canela (2021)

Angels Viladomiu Canela (2021)

New Alchemy by Anne Marie Maes: The need to cultivate our Garden. Artist and beekeeper Anne Marie Maes, fascinated by bees for more than two decades, deals with the close interaction and coevolution between these insects and urban ecosystems through artistic research practices and in collaboration with scientists and engineers. Her projects involve complex relationships between living organisms and objects manufactured with biotechnology within the «postdigital paradigm», in a world where technology is completely intertwined with all facets of our existence.
Sue Spaid (2020)

Sue Spaid (2020)

Pairs Work Better than Singles. In 2008, AnneMarie Maes and her collaborators installed several hives on the rooftop of Okno (Russian for ‘window’), an artist-run space in an old industrial flour mill on the west side of the Brussels canal. A year later, she installed two more hives 400m due east on the roof adjacent her studio. Urban beekeeping had not been practised since the 1950s, so potential beekeepers faced huge learning curves. Her primary focus was to observe the bees to see whether they might meet up with bees inhabiting Okno’s rooftop garden.
Dennis Dollens (2018)

Dennis Dollens (2018)

BioIntelligent Beehive as Architectural Data. For most of the past decade, Annemarie Maes has been growing, hacking, digitizing, building, and thinking about beehives — particularly those in urban areas. Her constructed, prototyped, and grown hives are not immediately recognizable in classic forms of basket or wooden-box apiaries. Collaborating with a team of biologists, she is reconceptualizing what a beehive is and what it can be. Through the beehive she is addressing urban ecology, politics, and social systems. In this sense, what she builds or grows is recognizable as belonging to the realm of biological growths, found in nature and culture, and known in theory as animal, extended phenotypes.
Luc Steels (2016)

Luc Steels (2016)

On Growth and Form. AnneMarie Maes is fascinated in the processes by which Nature creates form: how bees create honeycombs in the hive, how they self-organize into swarms, how plants grow and form geometric patterns, or how bacteria and yeast collectively create material surfaces forming biofabrics. She observes and analyzes these processes, isolates them, or causes them to appear in artificial conditions , and then creates art works from this artistic research in many different media.
Edith Doove (2016)

Edith Doove (2016)

Il faut cultiver notre jardin … On the need for gardening To approach the work of AnneMarie Maes, an artist working with art-science projects that evolve around nature and ecology, it seems apt to use notions of ‘lines of flight’ (Deleuze) or ‘knots’ (Ingold), alluding to respectively the bees and the rhizomatic growth of her garden, but equally to the new networks she continually ads and develops.
Armin Medosch (2016)

Armin Medosch (2016)

Another Kind of Paradigm: Art as Practice, Art as Research. The Brussels based artist AnneMarie Maes has created an ecosystem in front of her apartment on the rooftop of a parking garage, with several hundred square meters filled with vegetables, salads, herbs, bushes, small trees and other plants grown in wooden containers, and also including several so called “intelligent beehives.”
Darko Fritz (2015)

Darko Fritz (2015)

Politics of Green Spaces. Contemporary art practices that investigate the role of urban political economy and private-public property relations in the social production of green spaces, we may classify under the umbrella of the Politics of Green Spaces. Such art practices do 'not just create a new aesthetics' but literally get 'involved in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations'.

PAPERS

Papers (co-)written by the artist AnneMarie Maes
The Art + Science + Policy Nexus – publication by EU/JRC

The Art + Science + Policy Nexus – publication by EU/JRC

title: The Art + Science + Policy Nexus ; editor: Kat Austen ; author: Kat Austen; distribution: Joint Research Center Ispra (JRC) / EU
How do cutting edge art-science initiatives intersect with policy? This scoping study surveys the landscape of the art-science-policy network, focussing on how and when art-science projects interact with policy and policymakers. What emerges is a diversity of channels by which learning and ideas from art-science make their way to policy
Alchimia Nova - De l’emergència de conrear el nostre Jardí, 2021

Alchimia Nova - De l’emergència de conrear el nostre Jardí, 2021

title: Alchimia Nova - De l’emergència de conrear el nostre Jardí; editor: Àngels Viladomiu Canela ; author: Àngels Viladomiu Canela; distribution: Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Belles Arts, Departament d’Arts visuals i Disseny, 08028 Barcelona, Catalunya, Espanya
Resum: L’artista i apicultora AnneMarie Maes, fascinada per les abelles des de fa més de dues dècades, tracta l’estreta interacció i coevolució entre aquests insectes i els ecosistemes urbans, mitjançant pràctiques d’investigació artística, en col·laboració amb científics i enginyers.
Dialectics of Nature - Leonardo MIT press, 2020

Dialectics of Nature - Leonardo MIT press, 2020

title: Dialectics of Nature: Metabolic Architectures meet Intelligent Guerrilla Beehives; editor: Leonardo ; authors: Dennis Dollens, AnneMarie Maes; distribution: MIT press, Leonardo Magazine Vol.53 No.5; DOI 10.1162/leon_a_01770
Leonardo: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/leon_a_01770 Between realms of cellular life, city occupation and technology, AnneMarie Maes’s Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive project and Dennis Dollens’s metabolic architectures share a theoretical lineage and form-finding curiosity, subscribing to the vie...
Sensorial Skin, Starts Residency at Hybrid Forms Lab, 2019-2020

Sensorial Skin, Starts Residency at Hybrid Forms Lab, 2019-2020

title: Sensorial Skin, Report of the residency; editor: AnneMarie Maes ; curators: Hybrid Forms Lab, STARTS residencies; images: AnneMarie Maes; distribution: Starts.eu
The artwork L’Origine du Monde’ shows a strongly enlarged bacterial chain made from glass cells and filled with colonies of cyanobacteria carrying out live real-time photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic bacteria that live in moist soil and water, often in a symbiotic relationship with plants or lichen. The glass cells for the artwork have been specially produced by glassblowers in Venice. Different strains of cyanobacteria have been cultured at the Hybrid Forms Lab, which is specialised in photosynthesis.
paper for  'Renewable Futures: Hybrid Labs' - Aalto University, 2019

paper for 'Renewable Futures: Hybrid Labs' - Aalto University, 2019

title: The Intelligent Beehive and the Genesis of a Microbial Skin; editor: Aalto University ; authors: Anne Marie Maes; distribution: RIXC, Acoustic Space (Vol. 20) / Renewable Futures (Issue 5); DOI
For most of the past decade I have been growing, hacking, digitizing, building, and thinking about beehives - particularly those in urban areas. Collaborating with a team of biologists, I am reconceptualizing what a beehive is and what it can be. The bio-art project The Intelligent Beehive monitors the behaviour of urban honeybee colonies as a source of inspiration for ongoing artistic research into issues of ecological, architectural and social sustainability in urban environments.
paper for Hiperorganicos - Rio de Janeiro University, 2018

paper for Hiperorganicos - Rio de Janeiro University, 2018

title: The Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive; Editor: Dr. Malu Fragoso; authors: AnneMarie Maes; distribution: NanoLab, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; ISBN: /
The Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive is a research project on the edge of art and science. It evokes issues of sustainability and biodiversity, giving viewers an artistic experience of my ongoing research related to the disappearance of the honeybee. The goal of the Intelligent Beehive is a double one. At one hand it offers a safe refuge for city honeybees, and at the other hand is is a biosensor that interacts with the environment and that measures the pollution of the foraging fields around the beeh...
Autopoietix - Intelligent Beehive as Architectural Data, 2017

Autopoietix - Intelligent Beehive as Architectural Data, 2017

editors: Dennis Dollens; authors: Dennis Dollens; title: BioIntelligent Beehive as Architectural Data; distribution: autopoietix.blog.it; ISBN:
I came to Maes’s work because her experiments connect living, intelligent systems and technology/biosciences with social (colony/urbanism) architectural and technological prototyping and experimentation. Her work illustrates radical and necessary ecological searches for sharing urban life. Equally, her toolset and research trajectory
Open Systems Exploration for Ecosystems Leveraging - paper, 2016

Open Systems Exploration for Ecosystems Leveraging - paper, 2016

authors: CS-DC e-laboratory members (Masatoshi Funabashi, Peter Hanappe, Takashi Isozaki, AnneMarie Maes, Takahiro Sasaki, Kaoru Yoshida) title: Open Systems Exploration for Ecosystems Leveraging, article for CS-DC e-laboratory, Springer publication
Abstract. We established a Complex Systems Digital Campus e-laboratory “Open Systems Exploration for Ecosystems Leveraging” in view of re- designing sustainable social-ecological systems related to food produc- tion ranging in food, health, community, economy, and environment. 6 initial projects have been set up, namely Synecoculture, P2P Food Lab, Open Systems Data Analytics, The Bee Laboratory, Open Systems Sim- ulation and One-Health Food Lab.
The Sound Beehive Experiment - paper, 2015

The Sound Beehive Experiment - paper, 2015

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: The Sound Beehive Experiment, article for IGNORANCE, the publication of the ALOTOF project, Brussels - april 2015, ISBN 9789491775987
The Sound Beehive Experiment The Sound Beehive Experiment monitors the development of a bee colony on the basis of the sounds it generates. For this purpose, we developed a beehive that is equipped with sensors, microphones and cameras. We made sure that this equipment is not hindering the bees in their daily action. The Sound Beehive is installed in our field laboratory on a rooftop in the Brussels city centre. Fig. 7. Diagram of the technical architecture of the Sound Beehive. The...
The Scaffolded Sound Beehive - paper for IJCAI exhibition & conference, 2015

The Scaffolded Sound Beehive - paper for IJCAI exhibition & conference, 2015

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: The Scaffolding Sound Beehive, paper for the A.I. and Art section in the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of IJCAI-2015, Buenos Aires (july 2015)
The Scaffolded Sound Beehive is an immersive multi-media installation which provides viewers an artistic visual and audio experience of activities in a beehive. Data were recorded in urban beehives and processed using sophisticated pattern recognition, AI technologies, and sonification and com- puter graphics software. The installation includes an experiment in using Deep Learning to interpret the activities in the hive based on sound and micro-climate...
Agroecology: A Fertile Field for Human Computation - paper, 2014

Agroecology: A Fertile Field for Human Computation - paper, 2014

authors: Peter Hanappe, Rob Dunlop, Luc Steels, Nicolas Duval, AnneMarie Maes title: Agroecology: A Fertile Field for Human Computation, Human Computation publication
abstract: Human Computation may be the best approach for the monitoring/analysis/management of agroe- cological food production systems. This is the preliminary conclusion we have reached in the P2P Food Lab experiments.

CATALOGUES

Catalogues and printed documentation of exhibitions
Alchimia Nova - La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, Feb-April 2023

Alchimia Nova - La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, Feb-April 2023

title: Alchimia Nova; start year: 16 Feb.2023; end year: 30 April 2023; curator: Sandrine Wymann ; artist: Anne Marie Maes ; production: Kunsthalle, Mulhouse
Anne Marie Maes est une artiste que l’on peut rattacher au genre art et science. Elle développe depuis de nombreuses années un travail qui s’appuie sur la recherche scientifique, la biologie, l’étude des micro- organismes d’une part, les sciences numériques et la passion du jardinage d’autre part.
Abstracte Kunst bestaat niet - Galerie Emergent, Veurne, 2021-2022

Abstracte Kunst bestaat niet - Galerie Emergent, Veurne, 2021-2022

title: Abstracte Kunst bestaat niet; start year: 2021; end year: 2022; editor: Frank Maes ; curator: Frank Maes; artists: ; distribution: Emergent, Veurne
In deze groepstentoonstelling presenteren we kunst die zich verhoudt tot de vele abstracties die onze levens beheersen. En dat terwijl het onmogelijk is om een abstract kunstwerk te maken.
Woven by Nature - iMAL, 2021

Woven by Nature - iMAL, 2021

title: Woven by Nature Catalogue; editor: AnneMarie Maes ; curator: Camilla Colombo; images: the artist; distribution: iMAL Brussels
In an era where anthropocentrism defines more than ever the relationship we as humans build with nature, shifting the centre of attention can become a revolutionary act.
Sensorial Skins - Pilar, VUB, 2021

Sensorial Skins - Pilar, VUB, 2021

title: Sensorial Skins Catalogue; editor: AnneMarie Maes ; curator: Camilla Colombo; images: the artists; distribution: Pilar, VUB Brussels
Sensorial Skins presents investigations into the sculptural potential of organic materials. AnneMarie Maes transforms them into fabrics, membranes and biofilms. She thus creates complex surfaces that arouse our senses through their materiality, their texture, their colours and smells.
Siva Zona - Grey Area: Discourses, 2021

Siva Zona - Grey Area: Discourses, 2021

title: Grey Area - Siva Zona: Discourses editor: Darko Fritz ; authors: Irena Bekić, Marija Borovičkić, Sarah Cook, Bronaċ Ferran, Darko Fritz, Sonja Leboš, Tonka Maleković, Ivana Meštrov, Manja Ristić, Sani Sardelić, Jadranka Vinterhalter, Lea Vene; Publisher:grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art
Grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art was inaugurated in Korčula in summer 2006 upon the initiative by the artist, designer, and curator Darko Fritz from Zagreb. In 2009 grey) (area was formally registered as a non-governmental organization and today it has nine members. Sonja Leboš joined in 2013 as project manager.
Un/Green Festival Riga, 2019

Un/Green Festival Riga, 2019

title: Un/Green Festival Catalogue; editor: RIXC ; curators: Jens Hauser, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits; images: the artists; distribution: Rixc Center for New Media
The 2019 RIXC Festival aims at complicating the pervasively employed notion of ‘green’ by providing a cross-disciplinary platform for discussions and artistic inter- ventions exploring one of the most paradoxical and broadest topics of our times. The festival features the UN/GREEN exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art, and the 4th Open Fields conference that aims to ‘un-green’ greenness, eco-systemically reconnect post-human postures, and discover and unpack 'Naturally Artificial Intelligences'.
Eco-Visionarios, Laboral, Spain - 2019

Eco-Visionarios, Laboral, Spain - 2019

title: Eco-Visionarios, exhibition catalogue Laboral Gijón; editor: Karin Ohlenschlager; authors: K.Ohlenschlager; distribution: Laboral; ISBN:
The exhibition Eco-Visionaries is dedicated to the topic of ecological change and presents artistic responses to current challenges. How are new media, technologies and technology-scientific methods used in the arts to draw attention to pressing ecological issues? What visionary projects and ideas are emerging to tackle climate change, food shortage and resource depletion? Which solutions are worth pursuing?
Leve[n]de Kunst, Academie voor Wetenschappen & Kunsten, 2019

Leve[n]de Kunst, Academie voor Wetenschappen & Kunsten, 2019

title: Academie Berichten; Leve[n]de Kunst; editor: Jan Albert ; curators: Jonas Lescrauwaet; images: Jonas Lescrauwaet; distribution: KVAB
Wanneer kunst, wetenschap, design en technologie hun krachten bundelen, komen ze tot prikkelende en wederzijdse inzichten. De beelden, gedachten en producten die eruit voortkomen verruimen zowel de kennis, de verbeelding als de toekomstperspectieven. Leve[n]de Kunst: ontmoeting tussen kunst, design en (micro)bio(techno)logie.
Intelligent Beehives as predicates for Metabolic Architectures, 2019

Intelligent Beehives as predicates for Metabolic Architectures, 2019

title: Intelligent Beehives as predicates for Metabolic Architectures; editor: Stadtkuratorin Hamburg Maschine ; authors: Dennis Dollens; images: AnneMarie Maes; distribution: Hamburg City Council
Theory-driven architecture may be organized to encode and set procedures for research-by-design seeking data from prototyping as an extension of art. Through art, a research scaffold may emerge for exploratory architectural experimentation and discussion. Associatively, interlinked sets of observational data, sensor readings, laboratory tests, environmental analysis, and fablab models permit potential hybrid materials to embed data for exchange between science, design, and urban sites.
Imagining Cities beyond Technology 2.0, 2019

Imagining Cities beyond Technology 2.0, 2019

title: Brussels in SongEun: Imagining Cities beyond Technology 2.0; Editor: Gluon/SongEun ArtSpace; authors: the Artists, Ramona Van Gansbeke, Pooluna Chung, Min YoungLee; distribution: Gluon/SongEun ArtSpace; ISBN:
Technology has been a crucial element in preparing cities for a turbulent future. This is why Brussels in SongEun: Imagining Cities beyond Technology 2.0 engages in a socio-political discourse that involves contemporary visual artists in facing this issue -the question of what constitutes a desirable 'intelligent' city in a time of technological revolution?
For a Brave New Brussels - catalogue, 2018

For a Brave New Brussels - catalogue, 2018

title: For a Brave New Brussels; Editor: Gluon; authors: Paul Dujardin, Christophe Dejaegher, Stéphanie Pécourt; distribution: Gluon; ISBN:
For a Brave New Brussels (Maat, Lisbon Oct/Nov 2018) is an exhibition and discussion platform that stimulates the discourse around ‘Smart Cities’. Since its early days, the application of new digital technologies to urban spaces and pro- cesses has been celebrated for its ability to increase the well-being of citizens, but this engagement has mostly been limited to a technocratic focus on energy systems, mobility and building efficiency. It has privileged ...
Hybrid Labs Symposium -  Aalto University, 2018

Hybrid Labs Symposium - Aalto University, 2018

title: Hybrid Labs Symposium 2018, Aalto University; Editor: Noemalab.eu; authors: Elena Giulia Rossi; distribution: NoemaLab; ISBN: https://noemalab.eu/ideas/article/hybrid-labs-symposium-2018-aalto-university/
Between May and June 2018, the prestigious Aalto University hosted the “Hybrid Labs Symposium 2018”. For several years, design, digital media, audio-visual representation methods, architecture, emerging technologies and urban planning have been an integral part of Aalto University’s agenda, incorporating experimental research. These fields contribute to an interdisciplinary debate starting from the hybrid, which is understood as an actual state in which everything can be recognised: languages, academic disciplines, professions and life itself.
Miró Foundation - Where are the bees? (2017)

Miró Foundation - Where are the bees? (2017)

editors: Gemma Gallardo; authors: Martina Millà, Andrea Valdés and the artists; title: Where are the bees? ;distribution: Fundació Juan Miró; ISBN: 978 84 16411 42 9
Beehave explores the right of honey bees to inhabit urban spaces, the coexistence of the city's desired and necessary biodiversity with the artificial elements of the urban landscape.
Nova XX - catalogue, 2017

Nova XX - catalogue, 2017

editors Stéphanie Pécourt: ; authors: Stéphanie Pécourt, Juliette Bibasse; title: Nova XX; distribution: Culture et Patrimoine, Halles St.Géry; ISBN:
A forum dedicated to innovation by women in technology, science and art at the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution / 4.0. The first edition of Nova XX will happen in Brussels from 9th to 30th December 2017. The main events include an exhibition of 9 installations by artists from Brussels and elsewhere in Europe, as well as
Beaf Bozar. Tendencies - catalogue, 2017

Beaf Bozar. Tendencies - catalogue, 2017

editors: Bozar, Halles St.Gery; authors: the curators; title: BEAF2017, Bozar Electronic Arts Festival; distribution: Bozar; ISBN:
The Tendencies exhibition unites contrasting narratives of some of the most interesting and intriguing voices in Belgian arts. Tendencies presents artworks that ‘use’ or ‘comment upon’ the latest evolutions in science and technology. Tendencies puts emphasis on works which question scientific and technological innovations as much as they incorporate them.
Foraging Fields - catalogue, 2014

Foraging Fields - catalogue, 2014

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: Foraging Fields Catalogue, published at the occasion of the exhibition FIELDS (2014)
Catalogue accompanying the installation Foraging Fields which is developed for the exhibition FIELDS - curated by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits (Rixc) and Armin Medosch. The FIELDS exhibition is one of the major exhibitions of Riga– European Cultural Capital 2014. It runs from 15/5/2014 to 4/8/2014 at the Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Arts Museum. The landmark exhibition shows approximately 40 artworks by international artists focusing on art/science interactions and ecological issues. Annemie Maes studies the co-evolution b...
Scientific Inquiries - catalogue, 2013

Scientific Inquiries - catalogue, 2013

author: Basak Senova, title: Scientific inquiries, published at the occasion of the exhibition SCIENTIFIC INQUIRIES (2013), ISBN
Seven research-based artists were invited to Koç University to meet with researchers from various fields to develop artistic projects which are engaged with the outstanding researches that are being conducted in the university. At first, huge amount of researches were presented by Koç University to the artists and the curator, then, 33 researchers, whose researches are in synch with the artists’ area of interest, were selected by the curator. After attending a set of meetings both with the curator and the researchers in a period of ...
Creating Ecological Corridors in Cities - essay, 2013

Creating Ecological Corridors in Cities - essay, 2013

author: Luc Steels, title: Creating Ecological Corridors in Cities, published in: the Transparent Beehive Notebook (2013) - ISBN 9789081898515
AnneMarie Maes is representative of a new wave of artists for which art is life and life is ecological. This direction of work is of course not entirely new. It is the visionary 20th century artist Joseph Beuys who already in the nineteen sixties showed the need for a radically different kind of art. He argued forcefully against the wasteful use of natural resources and in favor of a social humanitarianism that tries to connect individuals back to their communities and to the ecosystems on which human life depends....

PUBLICATIONS

Publications by AnneMarie Maes & art collective OKNO
Matter of Kinship - fieldnotes  (Stolen Books, Pt - 2024)

Matter of Kinship - fieldnotes (Stolen Books, Pt - 2024)

title: Matter of Kinship; editors: Elsa Garcia, Oliver Leistert ; authors: Anne Marie Maes, Jonathan Minchin, Luc Steels, Teresa de Albuquerque, Alvaro Garcia de Zúniga ; distribution: Stolen Book Portugal; ISBN: 978-989-35589-0-4
This publication -a visual essay- is one of the outcomes of Anne Marie Maes' residency at the Casa de Mateus Foundation. It complements the exhibition 'Matter of Kinship' / 'Matéria de Afinidades'. Artist Anne Marie Maes installed her mobile studio on the grounds of Casa de Mateus. She carefully observed the different ecologies and responded with interventions to the specific aspects of the vast domain. With her work, she subtly introduces angles that show the site from a new perspective.
Hamburg Machine Revisited - publication by Adocs Verlag 2022

Hamburg Machine Revisited - publication by Adocs Verlag 2022

title: Hamburg Machine Revisited; editors: Isabella Kohlhuber, Oliver Leistert ; authors: Érik Bordeleau, Michael Dudeck, John Gerrard, Christian Huck, Francis Hunger, Nina Kalenbach, Oliver Leistert, Isabell Lorey, AnneMarie Maes, Britta Peters, Martina Raponi, Marius Skroče, Sue Spaid, Axel Stockburger, The Silent University (Abimbola Ayodele, Salah Zater), Kathrin Wildner, Inga Wellmann.; distribution: Adocs Verlag Hamburg; ISBN: 978-3-943253-40-5
In its second term from 2018 to 2020 with the title HAMBURG MASCHINE, the urban initiative project "Stadtkuratorin Hamburg" revolved around the theme of digitality in the context of art in the public sphere. This publication documents, updates, and expands the program developed and curated by Dirck Möllmann.
Hiperorganicos - Reconexoes ancestrofuturistas

Hiperorganicos - Reconexoes ancestrofuturistas

title: Hiperorganicos - Reconexoes ancestrofuturistas; Editor: Carlos Augusto M. da Nóbrega, Fabiane M. Borges, Maria Luiza P.G. Fragoso; authors: distribution: Rio Books, Rio de Janeiro; ISBN 978-85-9497-055-8/
Este livro é um projeto editorial resultante das atividades de pesquisas realizadas no NANO – Núcleo de Arte e Novos Organismos / EBA-UFRJ, laboratório criado em 2010 pelo artista-pesquisador Carlos Augusto (Guto) M. da Nóbrega, coordenado desde então junto com a também artista-pesquisadora Maria Luiza (Malu) P. G. Fragoso. O laboratório NANO atua no âmbito da graduação, e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais, da Escola de Belas Artes, na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Eco-Visionaries - Lisbon, Basel, Gijón, publication 2018-2019

Eco-Visionaries - Lisbon, Basel, Gijón, publication 2018-2019

title: Eco-Visionaries; editor: Pedro Gadanho; authors: Amale Andraos, TJ Demos, Matthew Fuller, S.Johanson, M.Pestana, Yvonne Volkart, L.Weintraub; distribution: Hatje Cantz; ISBN: 978-3-7757-4453-9
The exhibition Eco-Visionaries is dedicated to the topic of ecological change and presents artistic responses to current challenges. How are new media, technologies and technology-scientific methods used in the arts to draw attention to pressing ecological issues? What visionary projects and ideas are emerging to tackle climate change, food shortage and resource depletion? Which solutions are worth pursuing?
Bee Writings - Beehave @ Fondation Miró, 2018

Bee Writings - Beehave @ Fondation Miró, 2018

editors: Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona; authors: Martina Millà, Xavier Theros, Domenic Leo, Jorid Bosch, Jaume Cambra, Anna Febrero; title: Bee Writings ;distribution: Miró Foundation ; ISBN: 9788416411 40 5
One could say that ever since Joseph Beuys adapted the theses of Rudolf Steiner, the author of a series of famous lectures about bees, the importance and symbolism of these insects has been widely examined by contemporary artists.
Fair/Fear. Resonances II - publication, 2017

Fair/Fear. Resonances II - publication, 2017

editors: Adriaan Eeckels; authors: A. Eeckels et al.; title: Fair/Fear. Resonances II.; distribution: Publication Office of the European Union; ISBN: 978-92-79-71773-4
Can artists collaborate with scientists and policy makers? That is the question the European Comission's Science and Knowledge Service, the Joint Research Centre or JRC, put itself. The JRC wanted to understand if the rapprochement between art and science of the last decades could help it to adapt to changing times, to refine its policies and reach out to the public.
Ecovention. Art to transform ecologies 1957-2017 - publication, 2017

Ecovention. Art to transform ecologies 1957-2017 - publication, 2017

editors: Sue Spaid; authors: Sue Spaid; title: Ecovention Europe. Art to transform ecologies 1957-2017; distribution: Museum De Domeinen, Sittard; ISBN: 9-789075-883565
This section introduces ecoventions as a subset of land art, presents a succinct chronology of the past 60 years of ecological events in Europe and describes the global art scene that inspired the 2002 exhi- bition “Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies,” as well as what transpired afterwards.
CyberArts Publication - Ars Electronica, 2017

CyberArts Publication - Ars Electronica, 2017

editors: Jutta Schmiederer; authors: the artists, the curators; title: CyberArts 2017; distribution: Hatje Cantz Verlag; ISBN: 978-3-7757-4336-5
The CyberArts exhibition at the OK Center for Contemporary Art (Sept.7-Sept17, 2017) features the best works singled out for recognition by the 2017 Prix Ars Electronica. The world’s most coveted prize honoring creativity and pioneering spirit in media art has been awarded annually since 1987.
Renewable Futures (essay Sound Beehive) - publication, 2017

Renewable Futures (essay Sound Beehive) - publication, 2017

editors: Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Armin Medosch; authors: many, p171 AnneMarie Maes, the Soundbeehive Experiment; title: RENEWABLE FUTURES. Art, Science and Society in the Post-Media Age; distribution: RIXC, ISBN: 978-9934-8434-6-4
With this Renewable Futures volume, we begin a new series of Acoustic Space, that will focus on exploring the transformative potential of art in the post-media age. Our book presents the research and practices that aim to invent new avenues for more sustainable and imaginative future developments. The papers from the 1st Renewable Futures Conference selected in this volume are aimed at shaping new contact zones between traditionally separated domains – art and science, academic research and independent creative practices, sustainable businesses and social engagement in the 21st century.
Resonances I : FOOD - publication, 2016

Resonances I : FOOD - publication, 2016

editor: Resonances team, author: many title: FOOD, distribution: JRC Ispra, ISBN:978-92-79-64409-2
The book, an art book on food, is based on material gathered during RESONANCES I, an ad hoc project organized by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission at the occasion of the Universal Exhibition EXPO 2015: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. The material has been deconstructed and reconstructed into a new narrative that evokes the need of considering food not only as a mere scientific, technical and commercial matter of fact but also as a social, cultural and political matter of concern.
Alchimia Nova - publication, 2016

Alchimia Nova - publication, 2016

editor: AnneMarie Maes, authors: Luc Steels, Armin Medosch, Darko Fritz, Edith Doove, AnneMarie Maes, title: Alchimia Nova, distribution: MER.Paper Kunsthalle -ISBN 9789492321480
AnneMarie Maes is a multi-media artist who has been studying the tight interactions and co-evolutions within urban ecosystems. In the open-air lab on the rooftop of her studio, she created an experimental garden and has been keeping bees in self-designed beehives, equipped to bring out hidden structures in the life of the colony. Her “field notes” provide an on-going source of inspiration for her artworks.
the Transparent Beehive Notebook, updated - publication, 2016

the Transparent Beehive Notebook, updated - publication, 2016

author: AnneMarie Maes, editors: AnneMarie Maes, title: the Transparent Beehive Notebook, ISBN 9781364475666
AnneMarie Maes studies the tight interaction between city honeybees and urban ecosystems. Her preoccupations with bees come from a fascination with these amazing insects: the way their bodies look and function, they way they organize their complex societies, and the way they explore their environment.

Ignorance - publication, 2015

Ignorance - publication, 2015

authors: the artists of the ALOTOF-consortium, editors: Giván Belá and AnneMarie Maes title: IGNORANCE, ISBN 9789491775987
A collection of plans, descriptions of art works, pictures of events, creative texts and drawings, made by an international group of artists about issues in environments and art. The initiative 'A Laboratory on the Open Fields' (ALOTOF) was working outside the general and accepted lines of conventional creativity, trying to investigate new forms and methods for an ecological media art.
the Transparent Beehive Notebook - publication, 2013

the Transparent Beehive Notebook - publication, 2013

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: the Transparent Beehive Notebook, published: 2013, ISBN 9789081898515
The Transparent Beehive Notebook gives an overview of the Transparent Beehive Project. It describes in words and images the intense process of Bee Monitoring and the close collaboration with numerous colleague artists, scientists, engineers and beekeepers. The relation bees and flowers is an evident one and is never far away in this notebook. In an artistic way and starting from hands on experiences as a beekeeper, I give an account of the building of monitoring systems and their implementation in the beehives at the open field labs. Working with the collected...
TIK Ideas :  Travelling Through Open Greens - publication, 2012

TIK Ideas : Travelling Through Open Greens - publication, 2012

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: Travelling through OpenGreens, published: 2012, part of Time Inventors Kabinet-publication (TIK), editor: OKNO Brussels
1. TIK ideas 1.6 Thinking of the Garden 1.6.1 definition of a non-garden like 1.6.1.a Travelling through OpenGreens
Connected OpenGreens - publication for Burning Ice #4, 2011

Connected OpenGreens - publication for Burning Ice #4, 2011

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: Connected OpenGreens, published: 2011, as documentation and artwork for my contribution to the festival Burning Ice 2011 (Kaaitheater, Brussels) , editor: SO-ON Brussels
This fourth edition of Burning Ice -'It's the economy, stupid!'- will be built up around the theme of economy. Climate change confronts us with the consequences of our actions. It turns our world-view with its endless growth completely upside down. Our civilisation appears to be underpinned by waste, excess and fundamental inequality.

Continuum Cinema : the Vision Machine – publication, 2004

author: AnneMarie Maes, editors: AnneMarie Maes, title: Continuum Cinema: the Vision Machine; VUB press 2004
Continuum Cinema : the Vision Machine is een onderzoeksproject naar de productie-, presentatie en perceptie van collaboratieve werken in de hedendaagse kunst. Cinema moet hier gelezen worden zoals gedefinieerd door Peter Greenaway : “de totale som van alle technologië die ingezet worden ter bevordering van het bewegend beeld : film, computer en digitaal beeld, en structuren als gesproken en geschreven woord, acting, montage, klank en licht.” Het is een ruim onderzoek, dat gevoerd wordt vanuit de taal van de nieuwe media. Het project onderzoekt het ...

MEDIA & PRESS

Media coverage on the different projects. Written press, television, radio.
Kunstenaars en designers zijn niet vies van schimmels en bacteriën (feb.2024)

Kunstenaars en designers zijn niet vies van schimmels en bacteriën (feb.2024)

title: Kunstenaars en designers zijn niet vies van schimmels en bacteriën; editor: Hendrik Tratsaert, Pieter Coupé; author: Maarten Buser; distribution: De Lage Landen magazine - n°1/2024
Van ziektemakers tot de vuilnismannen van de natuur: schimmels, bacteriën en algen brengen vele functies en associaties met zich mee. Kunstenaars en designers omarmen steeds vaker de zintuiglijkheid en het duurzame poten­ tieel van deze eigenzinnige micro­organismen. Maak kennis met lichtgevende schimmels en wevende bacteriën.
Anne Marie Maes et Alchimia Nova à la Kunsthalle de Mulhouse -  Poly Art (mars 2023)

Anne Marie Maes et Alchimia Nova à la Kunsthalle de Mulhouse - Poly Art (mars 2023)

title: Anne Marie Maes et Alchimia Nova à la Kunsthalle de Mulhouse; editor: Suzi Vieira; author: Suzi Vieir; distribution: Poly magazine, la culture n'a pas de frontières - 31/03/2023
Apicultrice et apprentie biochimiste, la Bruxellloise Anne Marie Maes investit la Kunsthalle de Mulhouse avec ses œuvres organiques, fruits d’une Alchimia nova poétique. Entre laboratoire de folles expériences et savant cabinet de curiosités, Anne Marie Maes a transformé, le temps d’une déroutante exposition, le musée mulhousien en poste privilégié d’observation de la nature, dans toute sa mystérieuse complexité et sa plus fascinante beauté.
Fruits de la science et du hasard, les créations d'Anne Marie Maes célèbrent le vivant - France Culture

Fruits de la science et du hasard, les créations d'Anne Marie Maes célèbrent le vivant - France Culture

title: Exposition "Alchimia Nova" à Mulhouse : fruits de la science et du hasard, les créations d'Anne Marie Maes célèbrent le vivant; editor: Chrystel Chabert; author: Chrystel Chabert; distribution: France Culture - 30/03/2023
A partir d’éléments végétaux et de bactéries, l’artiste belge Anne Marie Maes crée des œuvres où science et art dialoguent de façon surprenante. Le résultat d'un travail mené en collaboration avec une équipe de microbiologistes du CNRS de Strasbourg.
Avec Alchimia Nova, Anne Marie Maes explore la matière vivante à Mulhouse - Makery (Mars 2023)

Avec Alchimia Nova, Anne Marie Maes explore la matière vivante à Mulhouse - Makery (Mars 2023)

title: Avec Alchimia Nova, Anne Marie Maes explore la matière vivante à Mulhouse; editor: Elisa Chaveneau; author: Elisa Chaveneau; distribution: Makery, le média de tous les labs - 29/03/2023
Anne Maries Maes présente « Alchimia Nova » à la Kunsthalle de Mulhouse jusqu’au 30 avril. Une exposition à ne pas manquer pour les féru(e)s de peaux de kombucha, teintures naturelles, cire d’abeille, lichens et autres colonnes de Winogradski.
Elixir de vie Microscopique - Novo (Mars 2023)

Elixir de vie Microscopique - Novo (Mars 2023)

title: Elixir de vie Microscopique; editor: Maïta Stébé; author: Maïta Stébé; distribution: NOVO - 03/2023
Avec 'Alchimia Nova', Anne Marie Maes investit la Kunsthalle de Mulhouse en la transformant en Laboratoire Artistique du vivant.
Anne Marie Maes transforme la Kunsthalle en laboratoire (Mouvement, mars 2023)

Anne Marie Maes transforme la Kunsthalle en laboratoire (Mouvement, mars 2023)

title: Anne Marie Maes transforme la Kunsthalle en Laboratoire; editor: Alexandre Parodi; author: Alexandre Parodi; distribution: Mouvement - 03/2023
Apicultrice, herboriste et apprentie biochimiste, Anne Marie Maes traite la nature comme un répertoire de formes infinies. Au fil de ses expériences, elle produit des textures et des matières inédites qu’échantillonne l’exposition Alchimia Nova à la Kunsthalle de Mulhouse.
Anne Marie Maes, artiste et alchimiste - l'Alsace (21/02/2023)

Anne Marie Maes, artiste et alchimiste - l'Alsace (21/02/2023)

title: Alchimia Nova; editor: Frédérique Meichler ; author: Frédérique Meichler; distribution: journal 'L'Alsace' - 21/02/2023
'Alchimia Nova' à la Kunsthalle de Mulhouse: une exposition dédiée au travail de l'artiste belge Anne Marie Maes, artiste et alchimiste.
Alchimia Nova (Kunsthalle Mulhouse)

Alchimia Nova (Kunsthalle Mulhouse)

title: Alchimia Nova; editor: Elisabeth Itti ; author: Elisabeth Itti; distribution: https://elisabethitti.fr/2023/02/17/alchimia-nova-anne-marie-maes/
'Nous sommes contaminés par nos rencontres : elles changent ce que nous sommes pendant que nous ouvrons la voie à d’autres. Comme la contamination modifie les projets de mondes en chantier, des mondes mutuels ainsi que des nouvelles directions peuvent émerger.' Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 'Le champignon de la fin du monde'
Bees and Bacteria in Art Making - KI Culture

Bees and Bacteria in Art Making - KI Culture

title: Bees and Bacteria in Art Making; editor: KI Culture ; author: Valentina Bianchi; distribution: KI Culture - https://kiculture.medium.com/bees-and-bacteria-in-art-making-an-interview-with-annemarie-maes-bb33c9e72104
AnneMarie Maes is a renowned Belgian artist, particularly involved in art/science projects, often participating in fruitful collaborations between scientists and artists, but also with more unusual co-creators such as bees, bacteria, and algae. AnneMarie welcomed us in her Brussels home and showed us her marvelous urban garden, a beacon of lush biodiversity in the middle of the city. We talked about her experience with cultural institutions and the general public in relation to environmentalism and her daring hybridization of techniques, her groundbreaking work with communities (human and non-human ones), and the effectiveness of art as a teaching tool. ___ interview by Valentina Bianchi
Kunstenaar-Onderzoeker AnneMarie Maes - De Markten, 2021

Kunstenaar-Onderzoeker AnneMarie Maes - De Markten, 2021

title: Kunstenaar-Onderzoeker AnneMarie Maes; editor: De Markten 2021 ; author: Nora Kempeneer; distribution: De Markten
Buren van de Markten - Kunstenaar/Onderzoeker AnneMarie Maes. AnneMarie Maes bereikt wonderlijk mooie resultaten in haar werk met bacteriën, schimmels, mossen en bijen. In haar daktuin vindt ze alles wat ze hiervoor nodig heeft.
De Mosterd - Hart magazine, 2021

De Mosterd - Hart magazine, 2021

title: De Mosterd: AnneMarie Maes; editor: Kathleen Weyts ; author: Anne-Marie Poels; distribution: HART-magazine
In deze rubriek polsen we waar kunstenaars de mosterd hebben gehaald voor hun (recente) werk. Deze keer vertelt AnneMarie Maes (1955, Leuven) over de Sensorial Skins, tactiele texturen waarvoor ze onder andere bacteriën inzet.
Point Culture - Rencontre en Images - magazine

Point Culture - Rencontre en Images - magazine

editors: Alicia Hernandez-Dispaux; authors: Alicia Hernandez-Dispaux; title: AnneMarie Maes, rencontre en images; distribution: Online Brussels Magazine; ISBN:
C’est la rencontre de l’art et de la science, un dialogue esthétique inattendu où formes du passé s’entrelacent avec celles du futur. Femme de génie, Anne-Marie Maes réconcilie les antinomies usuelles pour produire un travail infiniment complexe et stupéfiant de poésie ....
Boombartstic, Brussels Artzine

Boombartstic, Brussels Artzine

editors: Eric Mabille; authors: Eric Mabille; title: Bozar Electronic Arts en quatre expositions 2017; distribution: Boomartstic Brussels Artzine; ISBN:
Tendencies, c’est l’art belge à l’ère numérique en mode féminin, seconde édition. Six artistes-femmes – Alex Verhaest, Stéphanie Roland, Anne-Marie Maes, Claire Wiliams, Katia Lecomte Mirsky et Esther Venrooy réunies sous le commissariat de Stéphanie Pécourt.
SivaZona Gallery Show - press, newspapers

SivaZona Gallery Show - press, newspapers

authors: Tris, Dubrovnik Herald; title: Flags, Grids and Sensorial Skins ; distribution: SivaZona / Grey Area
Press Siva Zona / Grey Area Gallery Show: Flags, Grids and Sensorial Skins. PDF download: dubrovnik_herald tris
AnneMarie Maes: Alice in Wonderland - magazine

AnneMarie Maes: Alice in Wonderland - magazine

editors: Sabine Alexander; authors: Hilde Van Canneyt; title: AnneMarie Maes: Alice in Wonderland; distribution: Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen; ISBN:
Al te vaak leeft de idee dat kunst en wetenschap elkaars tegengestelde zijn, dat ze elkaar uitsluiten, maar steeds meer groeit de overtuiging dat de creativiteit en de originaliteit van beide met elkaar verwant zijn. Ook neemt het aantal kunstenaars toe dat wetenschap als uitgangspunt neemt voor de meest uiteenlopende artistieke experimenten: ze maken sculpturen uit lichaamscellen, componeren muziek aan de hand van hersengolven ofontwerpen robotica en informatiesystemen. Voor het publiek is het even wennen.
I am fascinated by their behaviour, 2019

I am fascinated by their behaviour, 2019

title: I am fascinated by their behaviour.; editor: http://havibaj.com; interviewer: Balazs Kulcsar; distribution: www.havibaj.com, www.magyarmuhely.hu
- Nowdays the newspapers are filled with the climate change problem. Do you think that, in a thousand years, there will still be humans on earth? - I think humans are a strong animals (laugh). Big survivors. Better would be if there are less humans on Earth, it would be good to have a balance and restore Nature more or less. For sure, Nature will exist in 1000 years. When I started my rooftop garden on the rooftop of my studio in Brussels (where we discussing now), the first few meters were a terrace.
Gonzo: Bijen zijn net sciencefiction robots, 2019

Gonzo: Bijen zijn net sciencefiction robots, 2019

title: Bijen zijn net ScienceFiction Robots.; editor: redactie GonzoCircus; authors: Maarten Buser; images: AnneMarie Maes; distribution: Virtúmedia
AnneMarie Maes is gefascineerd door bijen. Ze doet artistiek onderzoek naar slimme korven voor de ernstig bedreigde insectensoort. Wetenschap en Kunst moeten niet als los van mekaar gezien worden, benadrukt ze. Inmiddels heeft ze een belangrijke stap gezet richting een bijenkorf die aansluit bij de behoeften van haar bewoners.
Le Nouveau Monde d'AnneMarie Maes

Le Nouveau Monde d'AnneMarie Maes

editors: Connaissance des Arts; authors: Valérie De Maulmin; title: Le Nouveau Monde d'AnneMarie Maes ;distribution: Connaissance des Arts, Magazine mensuel; ISBN:
« Il faut cultiver son jardin » : tel pour- rait être le premier axiome d’AnneMarie Maes, artiste plurimédia et authentique chercheuse scientifique, adepte de l’urban gardening, qui a conçu un jardin de 750 m2 sur son toit, en plein centre de Bruxelles. « Mon jardin, c’est mon laboratoire opéra- tionnel. Je l’ai créé pour les abeilles, chaque plante est utile pour la pollinisation. Il y a des arbres fruitiers, beaucoup d’herbe, une serre artificielle, des légumes... » ...
Beehave - AnneMarie Maes. Fundació Miró.

Beehave - AnneMarie Maes. Fundació Miró.

editors: Dennis Dollens; authors: Dennis Dollens; title: AnneMarie Maees. Bees. Rights of Nature; distribution: autopoietix.blog.it; ISBN:
Circulating through the Fundació Miró, I’m reminded that the 1972 museum building was designed by Josep Luís Sert and, that the exhibition I’m seeking, was curated by Martina Millà. There, in collaboration with the building’s space and curatorial brief, AnneMarie Maes investigates the too-little-appreciated cognitive performance between bees, nature, and humans. Doing so, her installation delivers glimpses of bee intelligence. In this artist-, architect-, curator-, mediated space, a species’ cognition — nearly foreign to hu...
Neural Magazine - Intelligent Guerilla Beehive, bee careful

Neural Magazine - Intelligent Guerilla Beehive, bee careful

editors: Neural Magazine, It.; authors: Chiara Ciociola; title: AnneMarie Maes, Intelligent Guerilla Beehive, bee careful; distribution: Neural Mag.January2018; ISBN:
The complex bee ecosystem and its influence on others has been underlined by science, such as the threats caused by the urban pollution. “Intelligent Guerilla Beehive” is a beehive designed to allow bee colonies to survive in particularly compromised urban environments. It is a sensitive device that reacts to possible environmental pollution and contributes internally to the preservation of bee health.
The Word - magazine

The Word - magazine

editors: Emi Vergels; title: 5 reasons not to miss ...; distribution: the WORD; ISBN:
Five reasons not to miss this year’s BOZAR Electronic Arts Festival. Amongst a long string of cutting-edge expositions, the eye-catching Tendencies: Belgian Art in the Digital Age. In the Feminine #2 is absolutely unmissable. For the second edition of Tendencies – an intricate study of the increasingly blurred boundaries between contemporary arts, media and technology –
Hilde Vraagt - online, blog

Hilde Vraagt - online, blog

editor: Hilde Van Canneyt, author: Hilde Van Canneyt title: Ongewone gesprekken met hedendaagse Kunstenaars: AnneMarie Maes, distribution: online
Hilde vraagt. Ongewone gesprekken met hedendaagse kunstenaars. http://hildevancanneyt.blogspot.com.es/2017/01/interview-met-annemarie-maes.html
Kunstletters - magazine

Kunstletters - magazine

editor: KunstWerkt, author: Annemie Vingerhoets title: Werk in de Kijker: Guerilla Beehive (AnneMarie Maes), distribution: KunstWerkt vzw
In elk nummer van KunstLetters stellen we een kunstwerk extra in de kijker. We zoomen in op een bijzonder object of concept dat de praktijk van een kunstenaar typeert. In dit nummer stelt AnneMarie Maes 'Guerilla Beehive' voor. Deze bijenkorf in een radikaal nieuwe vorm is het resultaat van haar zoektocht naar nieuwe materialen en fabricagemogelijkheden.
Interview met AnneMarie Maes, 2016

Interview met AnneMarie Maes, 2016

title: 4321 Vragen aan 123 Kunstenaars; editor: MERbooks.be ; author: Hilde Van Canneyt; distribution: Borgerhoff&Lamberigts; ISBN 9789463932226
Hilde Van Canneyt interviewt kunstenaars uit België en Nederland, in het boek ' 4321 vragen aan 123 Kunstenaars'. Publicatie Borgerhoff&Lamberigts en merbooks.be, 2020. Interview met AnneMarie Maes afgenomen Herfst 2016.
Curious Observations - press, La Vanguardia

Curious Observations - press, La Vanguardia

editor: La Vanguardia, author: Vida, title: Una exposición muestra en Barcelona la vida de las abejas en las ciudades, distribution: newspaper+online
Barcelona, 7 may (EFE).- La importancia de la vida de las abejas en las zonas urbanas se explica en una exposición organizada por el Instituto de Biología Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC) que se ha inaugurado hoy en el vestíbulo del edificio del Centro Mediterráneo de Investigaciones Marinas y Ambientales de Barcelona.
TF1 USHUAIA - RTBF - TV BRUSSEL

TF1 USHUAIA - RTBF - TV BRUSSEL

Summer and autumn 2011 we were visited by several television crews, due to the participation in the Open Gardens city circuit organized by the bibliothèque René Péchère. Several News or Garden programs covered our intensive edible rooftopgarden in a short documentary. TV Brussel were the first to film, on september 25th 2011. A day later, the crew from Jardins et Loisirs / RTBF followed. The young guys from Ushuaia TV experimented in the rooftop with their Canon 7D cameras and travel stuff, for the program Garden party, on november 22nd 2011.
Travelling through OpenGreens - paper

Travelling through OpenGreens - paper

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: Travelling through OpenGreens, published in the TIK Publication 2011 - ISBN 9789081898508
The Time Inventors’ Kabinet connects local OpenGreens in an international network of experimental gardens where artists work with natural processes. These gardening situations serve especially to look into microsociological and ecological systems related to time as starting points for the development of new artistic practices. The OpenGreens allow us to study the implementation of contemporary art in an ecological context and to observe and draw content from eco-data and natural patterns and processes. Using media technology and electronics a...
Study on the ecology of urban habitats - paper

Study on the ecology of urban habitats - paper

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: Study on the ecology of urban habitats, guided by the observation of city honeybees, published at the occasion of the TIK (Time Inventors Kabinet) conference in Graz (2010)
The range of habitats in urban areas is surprising. Most of the major terrestrial habitat types are represented in towns and cities, either as remnants of previously rural environments, or as artificial analogues of semi-natural habitats. The OpenGreens project focuses on two rooftopgardens located in Brussels’ city center on 400 m from one another: an edible forest rooftop garden on top of a parking lot and a wild flower rooftop garden on top of an old w...
Connected OpenGreens Catalog vs.1.0 - publication

Connected OpenGreens Catalog vs.1.0 - publication

name: Connected OpenGreens, publication, year start: 2009, year end: 2010, pictures and texts: annemie maes techniques: independent publishing
Connected Open Greens is a publication covering the actions from 2009 to 2010 in the Open Air Lab 'Connected OpenGreens'. The Open Green project blends organic and technological matter into one and the same nature. Through analogue and digital means we do long term observations on the growth, blossoming and decay of plants and insects submitted to natural elements such as wind, sun, rain and pollution in an urban context.
Politics of Change: on Eco-Technology - publication

Politics of Change: on Eco-Technology - publication

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: Politics of Change: on Eco-Technology and Hands-On Workshops, published: 2009, published in: Magazine Art is Politics (edition 2009)
My interest in the women Solar Engineers and the Mahila Samiti groups for women’s empowerment in Rajasthan comes out of a personal involvement that links art, women empowerment, ecology, technology and social engagement. When I learned about the Barefoot College project, I was struck by certain similarities between two practices that seem worlds apart at first sight: my own artistic work environment and the practical trainings/workshops in Rajasthan. Okno is an artist-run organization for media, a...
x-med-a (experimental media arts) - publication

x-med-a (experimental media arts) - publication

authors: the artists, scientists and designers of the x-med-a workshops, editors: OKNO (AnneMarie Maes), FoAM (Maja Kuzmanovic), nadine (nadine), Imal (Yves Bernard), title: x-med-a (2006), ISBN 9081073311
The review originated from a series of technically and artistically diverse workshops, organised by four independent technological arts initiatives in Brussels: FoAM, nadine, OKNO, and iMAL. The workshops responded to the need for a place where continuous learning and dialogue between peers is encouraged, with the objective of sharing of experience, skills and knowledge among diverse groups interested in emerging ideas, media and technologies.
No2Pho [from Noise to Voice] - paper

No2Pho [from Noise to Voice] - paper

author: AnneMarie Maes [so-on], title: No2Pho [from Noise to Voice], published in: x-med-a [experimental media arts] - ISBN 9081073311
No2Pho is an artistic research project investigating the behaviour of language in its many appearances: textual, sonic and visual, as well as gestural or body language. How do these disparate elements relate to each other and how do they organize within a system which includes human and computer as a sender and a receiver [and vice versa]? As a generative sound installation No2Pho plays with a connected set of elements. It is composed of dissonant synthetic voices, changing in real time from speech to sound. The multiple voices...
Zonder Interactie gebeurt er niets - interview

Zonder Interactie gebeurt er niets - interview

author: Sarah Kesenne, title: Zonder Interactie gebeurt er niets, published in: RUIS Magazine (september 2006)
Nieuwe mediakunst mag dan een even veelkoppig als ongrijpbaar beestje zijn, het is zeker dat we in de toekomst nog veel zullen horen over kunstenaars die internet, nieuwe technologieën en interactiviteit in hun manifesten hebben getypt. Annemie Maes is een van de crazy scientists die achter de schermen van de collectieven OKNO, So-On en Code 31 aan haar installaties en projecten verder brouwt. Annemie's NOTOVO installatie op het Happy New Ears festival in Kortrijk leek een gepaste reden om haar een bezoekje te brengen in haar loft aan het kanaal ...
Akihiro Kubota - interview

Akihiro Kubota - interview

author: AnneMarie Maes [so-on], title: Interview with Akihiro Kubota, published: 2006, published in: x-med-a [experimental media arts] - ISBN 9081073311
[s-o] You define yourself as a digital materialist. Can you explain what you mean by this and what your artistic background is? [AK] 'Digital materialism' is the fundamental concept for my audio-visual work: installations and performances. I see the computer not as a tool but as a raw material for generating artworks, similar to stone, wood, iron and so on.
Reflections on OKNO and Looking Glass - essay

Reflections on OKNO and Looking Glass - essay

author: AnneMarie Maes [so-on], title: Reflections on OKNO and Looking Glass - a conversation between so-on and the jabberwocky generator, published: 2006, published in: x-med-a [experimental media arts] - ISBN 9081073311
A conversation between so-on and the jabberwocky generator. ... It seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't know exactly what they are. There's a devil in the Looking Glass! The imagination of technology. Investigations of expressivity are interesting, starting from historical texts. Teaching, learning and development of new projects is referred to the experiment with the presented original. Visualization of the installations of emerging...
the Poetics of Performance Cinema - publication

the Poetics of Performance Cinema - publication

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: The poetics of performance cinema: een artistiek onderzoek naar actuele, realtime presentatievormen beeld/geluid, published in: Art is Politics Magazine (edition 2005)
Welke zijn de vernieuwende expressievormen in de geschiedenis van de 20ste eeuwse kunst, en wat hadden deze tot gevolg voor de verhouding kijker/kunstwerk? Bouwen de hedendaagse mediakunstenaars voort op de experimenten van hun voorgangers, of liggen de zwaartepunten op een totaal ander terrein? Welke gevolgen heeft deze artistieke expressieve vernieuwing op de maatschappelijke status van kunstenaar en kunstwerk? Historische referenties zijn de ‘abstract cinema’ van...
Continuum Cinema : the Vision Machine - publication

Continuum Cinema : the Vision Machine - publication

author: AnneMarie Maes, title: Continuum Cinema: the Vision Machine, published in: VUB Press 2004
Continuum Cinema : the Vision Machine is een onderzoeksproject naar de productie-, presentatie en perceptie van collaboratieve werken in de hedendaagse kunst. Cinema moet hier gelezen worden zoals gedefinieerd door Peter Greenaway : "de totale som van alle technologië die ingezet worden ter bevordering van het bewegend beeld : film, computer en digitaal beeld, en structuren als gesproken en geschreven woord, acting, montage, klank en licht." Het is een ruim onderzoek, dat gevoerd wordt vanuit de taal van de nieuwe media. Het project onderzoekt het ontstaan ...
People Database Archive - interview

People Database Archive - interview

author: Dirk De Wit, title: People Database Archive: Gesprek met Annemie Maes (Dirk De Wit en Els Roelandt), published in: Digitaal Platform, naar aanleiding van de ARGOS presentatie over kunstenaarsarchieven (2003)
Gesprek met Annemie Maes - 19 Mei 2003 Met: Annemie Maes (Unamas Projects), Els Roelandt (A Prior Magazine) Dirk De Wit (Interviewer) Annemie Maes studeerde grafische kunst aan St. Lukas Brussel. Daarna werkte ze voor 5 jaar als grafisch ontwerpster voor de ancienne belgique in Brussel. In 1998 startte ze samen met Jan Bultheel het filmproductiebedrijf pix&motion, waar ze actief was als producer en regisseur. In 1998 organiseerde ze het project...
People Database Archive: het Archief als Kunstproject - paper

People Database Archive: het Archief als Kunstproject - paper

author: Annemie Maes, title: People Database Archive: Het Archief als Kunstproject, Brussels, Luca School of Arts
In een persoonlijk archief werkt de kunstenaar met zijn uitgebreide databank aan beelden en gevoelens en onderzoekt via bepaalde combinaties van heden en verleden de eigen identiteit. Het archief van de identiteit is opgebouwd uit een veelheid aan socio-culturele, historische en psychologische elementen en invloeden. Op hun beurt spelen tijd, plaats en geheugen hierin een belangrijke rol. Het onuitputtelijke aantal combinaties van deze elementen vormt voor de kunstenaar een ideaal speelterrein voor onderzoek van bepaalde constructies.Het archief...
Closed Circuits #2 - review

Closed Circuits #2 - review

author: Patrick Van Rossem, title: Closed Circuits #2, Brussel 1999, published in: catalogue Art in Public Space - ISBN
In de jaren '90 kende de idee kunst in de publieke ruimte, na 25 jaar artistiek experiment omtrent de "blurring between art and life" (Allan Kaprow) en de veelvuldig gestelde vraag naar de betekenis van kunst voor het leven, een verschuiving van het opsmukken van de fysieke omgeving en het promoten van een esthetische kwaliteit, naar het leveren van een concrete bijdrage aan de kwaliteit van dit leven. Het traditioneel tentoonstellingsmaken, waarin de bestaande kunstwerken tentoongesteld werden in een specifieke configuratie, werd steeds...