Workspace Unlimited
bio
Workspace Unlimited (2001) founded in Belgium by Thomas Soetens (1972) and Kora Van den Bulcke (1972) is an international collective that is at the forefront of media art, creating some of today's most compelling virtual worlds and interactive installations.
The collective's projects engage with the territories that emerge when physical spaces intersect with the enlarged public sphere of electronic networks and immersive technologies.
Workspace Unlimited is frequently invited for lectures and presentation and has been commissioned to create original large-scale works and site-specific installations by leading media art institutions and festivals such as the Museum of the Moving Image (New York), the new center for Experimental Media and Performance Art Center (New York), the V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, Spain), the Society for Arts and Technology (Montreal) and Elektra. The collective's work has been highlighted in numerous publications, including Space Time Play (Birkhauser 2007) and Interact or Die! (V2_publications 2007).
In addition to the artistic practice Workspace Unlimited also initiates research projects and workshops in collaboration with an international network of researchers, art institutions and universities.
More information (texts, images) about the work of Workspace Unlimited can be read on the page of Thomas Soetens & Kora Van den Bulcke.
documentation
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Common grounds: International network of virtual worlds - Wayne Ashley - 2008
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06/02/2008 -
Contemporary Visual Arts in Flanders - part I
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Marc Ruyters, Eva Wittocx, 2008Among the modern-art crowd, Belgium is known as the country with that 'surrealist' lineage: James Ensor - René Magritte - Marcel Broodthaers. While this is certainly a fine compliment for three artists of far-reaching significance, a great deal has changed in this country, which has been a crossroads of the Roman and Germanic cultures, a key logistic point between Great Britain, Germany and France, and home to the European Community.
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Exploring Social Dynamics and Identity Through Digital Art - Marleen Wynants - 2007
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17/01/2007 -
Implant: The Augmented Architecture of Workspace Unlimited - Wayne Ashley - 2007
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17/01/2007 -
Playing with Reality - Melanie Goodfellow - 2005
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17/01/2007 -
Breaking the Game: The Virtual Worlds of Workspace Unlimited - Wayne Ashley - 2006
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13/12/2006
