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Guy Van Belle has been working radically with computer music since the end of the 1980s.
Since this moment he has been involved with experimental media art. His work relies on the principles of synaesthesia, real-time generated images, abstractions and algorithms. With this, he has gradually turned away from the familiar parameters and skills for the production, display
and reception of the work of art as we know it today.

Van Belle set up a number of collaborative virtual organisations, such as Stellingname (1984- 1989), Young Farmers Claim Future (1990-2000), dBONANZAh! (1998-2002), mXHz. org (since 2002) and Society of Algorithm (since 2004), meant to investigate different forms of creativity (from real and non-physical beings, including machines).

Guy Van Belle was a co-founder and for many years an active member of Okno. In the period between 2005 and 2009, Van Belle lived in Bratislava where he began to work under the pseudonym Gívan Belá and co-founded the social-artistic organisation Col-me (2007). Living in Prague, he wrote the fragmentary denizen epos (unpublished) and began working from an eco-technological point of view.

Van Belle is a provocative and subversive figure who has launched a multitude of unverified stories, creating his own myth. Preparing an homage to Arseny Avraamov in Baku on the 7th of November, 2022, he set up the organisation The Baku 2022 Foundation (2006).

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Experimental Works (selection)

2009

'The Karass Suite,' the Movie (Menschen Haben Krizen)
'Vijf Nieuwe Herinneringen / Five New Memories (Society of Algorithm)':
      'The Last Theatre Show Ever', Muenchen (Germany)
      'The Art Pollution Kit', Praha (Czech Republic)
      'Vanricio Kagol III', Brussels (Belgium)
      'We don't Play Guitars 2', Praha/Tokio/Brussels
      'The Denizen (Writing Through...)'

2008

'The Karass Suite', the Gala (Menschen Haben Krizen)
'The Big Birthday Opera (Slovensky Rozhlas)', Bratislava/Tokio/Brussels
'The History of German Sound Art', Bratislava (Slovakia)
'Noise Calypsos', Bratislava (Slovakia)
'We don't Play Guitars 1 (Society of Algorithm)', Praha/Tokio/Brussels
'Vanricio Kagol II', Muenchen (Germany)

2007

'The Karass Suite', the Project (Menschen Haben Krizen)
'Thoughts Go By Air (MxHz)', Karlsruhe (Germany)
'Givan & Hardt', Beijing (China)
'Multiplace Internet Tour East', Bratislava-Zilina-Brno-Praha (Slovakia-Czech Republic)
'Pictures of a Bookstore (GP.inc)', Linz (Austria)
'The Last Balloon Show (MxHz)', Athens (Greece)
'Vanricio Kagol I', Bratislava (Slovakia)

2006

'La Terreur' (spatial sound installation), Théâtre de l'insas, Brussels (Belgium)
'DNSf' (For Art's Birthday) (digital brass band), A4 Bratislava (Slovakia)
'Radio Territories/Two-Way-Radio' (installation), Skolska28, Prague (Czech Republic)
'Two-Way-Radio' (performative installation), T-U-B-E, München (Germany)
'Convolution' (public sound installation), Multiplace, Bratislava (Slovakia)
'Mozart Jahr Maschine' (installation), Musica, Neerpelt (Belgium)
'ISO149006' (radio installation), Playgrounds Athens/Thessaloniki/Sofia/Iasi (Greece, Bulgaria)
'TICS en Patamutations 1', OKNO PUBLIC01, Brussels (Belgiëum)
'Patamutations 2' (online installation), Sonambiente, Berlin (Germany)
'TICS + Patamutations 2' (performance and installation), Neutral Ground, Regina (Canada)
'ISO149006' (radio installation), MMCAMP, Labin (Croatia)
'Lost Free Space', 13m3, Bratislava (Slovakia)
'LiveJacket', (installation), TROMP, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
'GP.inc, Baumax', Bratislava (Slovakia)
'LiveJacket + TICS' (installations, performance), Transgenesis, Prague (Czech Republic)
'Homage to the Vasulkas' (interactive audiovisual work, performance), NOD, Prague (Czech Republic)
'Trma-Vrma | Pole' (performative installation), Nextfestival, Bratislava (Slovakia)

2005

'Two-Way-Radio' (performative installation), RAM 7 Minsk (Belarus)
'Two-Way-Radio' (from FAMU Prague), Pixelache, Helsinki (Finland)
'Two-Way-Radio' (with goto10), Multiplace, Bratislava (Slovakia)
'Two-Way-Radio' (For Radio Tesla), TESLA, Berlin (Germany)
'Thoughts Go By Air' (mxHz.org), TESLA, Berlin (Germany)
'End of an era' (performatieve installatie), Nadine, Brussels (Belgium)
'Two-Way-Radio' (for Radio Copernicus), Garage, Strahlsund (Germany)
'This is the Day' (performative installation), OKNO Brussels (Belgium)
'Society of Algorithm' (collaborative performances), OKNO Brussels (Belgium)
'Thoughts Go By Air' (mxHz.org), CynetArt, Dresden (Germany)
'TICS' (installation), V2, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)