Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Duo Expo
I went to artist collective B93 to attend the opening of the new exhibitions In Between Silence with painting by Saheed Wahab and Self Defense by Karolina Żyniewicz, in which she continues her long-term project on poisonous plants, where she makes embroideries depicting of poisiones plants with thread soaked with a sap of that plant. She was doing that during the opening while sitting cross-legged against a wall. She also had some note books with samples of poisonous plants with text describing the effects.Tuesday, November 11, 2025
BlinkyTile dodecahedron (Part 2)
This afternoon, I spend some time to put the BlinkyTile dodecahedron together with some masking tape. This evening, at TkkrLab, I spend about three quarters of an hour to solder the tiles that I had put together with tape. I used a lot of solder with putting it together. I did a quick check for short circuits and then it worked the first time I plugged it in. I have not looked into reprogramming it.Sunday, November 9, 2025
Stable coalitions
Yesterday evening, there was some mentioning about stable coalitions. In the Netherlands no party is large enough to form a government, which means parties have to form coalitions such that they have a majority in the House of Representatives. It means that they have to have at least 76 seats of the 150 to make that their proposals and motions will pass. Furthermore, parties should agree with each other on many subjects. Whether parties agree with each other can be estimated based on how often the agreed on how the voted on motions that were submitted in the past years (see table, I presented on October 7). In a possible coalition, the difference between the most right and most left party should not be too large. So, the question one could ask is whether there is a party in the coalition (probably one of the parties in the middle of the coalition) such that the lowest number of agreement with the other parties is the best. I wrote a program to calculate these numbers. The sorted output of the program is included as a comment in the source code of the program.The by many prefered coalition honouring the election results is a coalition with People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) with 22 seats, Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) with 18 seats, Democrats 66 (D66) with 26 seats, and GroenLinks-PvdA with 20 seats. This is a broad coalition with 86 seats and an average agreement score (taking into accound the number of seats per party) of 77.29 and when the program of the CDA is taken, a minimum agreement of 65% with GroenLinks-PvdA. However, the VVD has stated before the elections that they do not want to be in a coalition together with GroenLinks-PvdA. Dilan Yeşilgöz, the leader of VVD, says that the GroenLinks-PvdA is to far to the left, while in the past the VVD has been in coalitions with the Labour Party (PvdA). They prefer a coalition with JA21 instead, which has only a slighter higher average agreement score of 77.35% and when again the program of the CDA is taken, a minimum agreement of 67% with JA21. D66, who won the election, are not favour of a coalition with JA21, which is a far-right party that in their program have many plans that go against the constitution and/or international treaties, which are considered anti-democratic. There is another right-wing coalition where JA21 is replaced by Farmer-Citizen Moverment (BBB), Reformed Political Party (SGP), and Christian Union (CU). This coalition has an average agreement score of 78.26% and when the program of CDA is taken all parties agree at least for 72% (with BBB). Although this coalition is more 'stable', I am not sure D66 is very possitive about it, because the strongly differ on ethical issues (abortion and euthanasia, for example) with the two small Christian parties SGP and CU. The most 'stable' coalition is a left-wing coalition with Christian Democratic Appeal, Christian Union, Democrats 66, GroenLinks-PvdA, Socialist Party (SP), Denk, and Party for the Animals (PvdD), which has an average agreement score of 81.44% and when the program of D66 is taken the minimum agreement of 73% with CDA. But I wonder whether the CDA want to be in a coalition with the small (far) left parties, who have never been in a government and whether those small left parties want to be in the government, being afraid that they will lose even more votes.
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Flowers
This afternoon, Conny and I went on a bit longer walk that usual. We walked along the Usselerrietweg and turned to the left into the Oude Boekelerdijk (heading the South). The photo below shows the flowers in the field along Oude Boekelerdijk. (Farmers are encouraged to sow flower along the edges of their fields.)
Friday, November 7, 2025
Official election result
Today, the official election results for the Dutch general election were announced by the Electoral Council. The final results with respect to the distribution of the seats, did not deviate from the distribution given on October 30. I downloaded the official report from the download page. From page 187 to page 230 of the PDF file it countains all the complaints that have been reported by people and how the councel dealt with them. From page 231 to 253 it reports all the recounts that have been commissioned by the electoral council and the corrections that were made based on the results. On page 254 it reports that (translated from Dutch): 'The Electoral Council has received more than 100 requests for a full recount of the votes, but without any justification or factual basis. The Electoral Council acknowledges these requests." That high number of baseless request and the higher number of complains, 23 pages in 2023 against 43 now, resulting in more recounts, 8 pages in 2023 against 22 now, must because of the many rumours of fraud going round on social media in particular X including the questions Geert Wilders raised quoting some wild rumours when it became clear that his party lost with a small margin from Democrats 66. Being a member of the House of Representatives since 1998, he should be well aware about the procedures for counting ballots and how the Electoral Council operates and how people should complain in case they think they have observed an irregularity. I am affraid that he is doing this and that it should be regarded as an attack on the foundation of our democracy.Links
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Exhibitions
Again, it was a warm day for the time of the year, but not as warm as yesterday. The temperature reached 16.1° Celsius at Twenthe Airport. In one of the exhibitions rooms of University of Twente, I saw the exhibition Dissonance with works by novice and professional photographers, a photo exhibition in collaboration with COWMAG. I found the following works noteworthy:- 15: Untitled by Læila Chaoui
- 13: Mapping on Grounds of Unvertainty by Annalisa Volcan
- 6: HOLLY GLEN - My family and the Elephant by Sietse Henselmans
- 4: Disrooted by Lana Amira
- 1: Untitled by Julia Bootsgezel
- 2: Sidwalk by Aalt van de Glind
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
18.4° Celsius
The temperature at Twenthe Airport has gone up to 18.4° Celsius, which breaks the previous record of 17.3°C on this date in 1963. According to the prediction, the temperature would only reach 15.8°C. When Conny and I went walking, we left without coat but with sweaters. About halfway, we took of our sweaters off. I spend some time in the garden, pruning our magnolia.Tuesday, November 4, 2025
BlinkyTile dodecahedron
This evening, at TkkrLab, I made an attempt to create a BlinkyTile dodecahedron, that I bought on August 11. It proved harder than I thought. I only managed to solder six of them together. Maybe I should try to use a different type of tape at home.Sunday, November 2, 2025
Profile picture
This afternoon, Conny took some pictures of me in our back garden. Below, there is one of them after a bit of trimming.
Saturday, November 1, 2025
64 years
I was born on Wednesday, November 1, 1961 at 9:45 in the morning (CET). That means that today, I will be 64 years according to the calendar and 23376 days old. But how old am I really? The tropical year, the time that it takes for the seasons to return, is said to be 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45.19 seconds. Yesterday, around 21:45:12 in the afternoon, it was 64 tropical years since I was born. But the tropical year is shorter than the sidereal year, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun once with respect to the fixed stars, namely 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.76 seconds. That means that, today at 19:31:24 it will be 64 sidereal years after I was born. The average anomalistic year, the time taken for the Earth to complete one revolution with respect to its apsides, is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 52.6 seconds. That means that, tomorrow around 0:33:06 it will be 64 average anomalistic years since I was born.Harvest: big red cabbage
This morning, as usual, we went to pick up the harvest from Herenboeren Usseler Es. The harvest season is winding down, but there's still plenty in the fields and/or in storage. What you get depends on your subscription (number of mouths) and your own choices. I came home today with a red cabbage weighing 4 kilo. We will probably make sauerkraut with it again, since it is impossible to eat it all at once. I also picked up: small green bell pepper, two tomatoes that are still green, two leeks, small celeriac (without leaves), sweet potatoes, beets, salad, and an apple (from the giveaway table, from Limburg, probably traded with another Herenboeren there).Thursday, October 30, 2025
Election results
Yesterday evening until half past one this night, I again helped counting ballots for the 2025 Dutch general election. According to the exit polls, the social liberal and progressive party Democrats 66 (D66) got 27 seats from the 150 in the Dutch House of Representatives and thus becoming the largest party, while the previous largest party, Party for Freedom (PVV), only got 25 seats. However, when the numbers came in, the difference between D66 and the PVV became smaller and at some points the PVV was even ahead of D66. Now at 99.7% of the votes being counted, D66 is about 15,155 votes ahead of the PVV. In the municipality of Venray the verification of the counting has been delayed due to a fire. And there are also still mail votes that can be included. The official result will be announced on November 7 by the Electoral Council. It is expected that D66 will remain the largest party. It is even possible that they will get an extra seat due to the algorithm to distribute the residual seats. Now the residual seat goes to the Socialist Party (SP) but if the D66 gets more votes relative to the SP that seat will go to D66. If this happens, Geert Wilders, the leader of the PVV, will not be very happy, because he stated today that there was no party with more seats than his party. Some people have said that the loss of the PVV was a blow to the far right parties in the Netherlands, but that is actually not true, because the two other far right parties, the Forum for Democracy (FvD) and JA21 both got more votes and their total number of seats increased with one. After this election, the parties need to form a coalition to become the government. Any coalition needs to include at least four parties, but some parties have already expressed that they exclude some other parties or are not in favour to work together. Parties also fear that if they form a coalition with some other parties that their voters will turn to another party in an upcoming election.Some table with numbers of seats. The first four rows are about forcasts. The fifth column is a combined forcast based on the first three forcasts. The sixth column is the exit poll. The seventh column is number of seats based on the count of today where 99.7% of the ballots have been counted. It shows that the forcasts are not very reliable even if they specify a 95% range of lower and upper number of seats.
Peil ips 1v Isa wijzer Exit 30
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FvD 7 5- 9 6 6 4 4- 6 6 7
PVV 23 20-26 23 29 30 24-28 25 26
JA21 9 9- 7 11 8 8 9-12 9 9
BBB 4 3- 5 5 3 2 3- 5 4 4
VVD 22 20-26 17 16 18 15-19 23 22
SGP 3 2- 3 3 3 4 2- 4 3 3
CDA 20 16-22 19 19 20 18-22 19 18
CU 2 2- 3 3 3 3 2- 4 2 3
D66 22 20-26 23 24 22 21-25 27 26
Volt 2 2- 4 2 2 2 1- 3 1 1
G/P 23 20-26 23 25 24 22-26 20 20
SP 4 3- 5 4 5 3 3- 5 3 3
DENK 4 3- 6 3 3 4 2- 4 3 3
PvdD 3 2- 5 4 2 5 2- 4 3 3
50Plus 2 1- 3 3 2 0 1- 3 2 2
NSC 0 0- 1 1 0 1 0- 1 0 0
BVNL 0 0- 1 0 0 0 0- 0 0 0
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Voting in museum
I visited the Rijksmuseum Twenthe to vote in the voting station that was in the goblin hall. After having voted, you were allowed to visit the museum for free. At the front desk, they just let everyone not even paying notice. I walked around the museum and found the following works noteworthy all of which I have already seen before, some of them only casually:- Portrait, Isaac Israëls, undated.
- Girl in White Kimono, George Hendrik Breitner, circa 1895.
- Falaises près de Pourville, 1882, Claud Monet.
- Autumnal view of Louveciennes, Alfred Sisley, 1872.
- Winter Landscape (Farm with Woman and Dog in the Snow), Anton Mauve, undated.
- A Flock of Sheep with a Shepherd, Willem Steelink jr., first half 19th century.
- Along the Canal, Jacob Maris, undated.
- journal la gomera, 1996-1997, herman & susanne de vries, 1997.
- earth museum vol 1. la gomera, herman de vries, 1980.
- untitled [collected playa de la caleta, la gomera], 1982.
- holy days [with marion reißner], 2008.
- witches' monuments 2004-2013, herman de vries, 2013. Five frames with the following poisonous plants that were believed to allow witches to fly: Ergot, valerian, henbare, belladona, and monkshood.
- belladonna (digitized 16mm film), herman de vries, 1983.
- The ITBON relief (v67-36a), 1967.
- v70-07 random objectivation, 1970.
- The coven - tree love, melanie bonajo, 2019.
- The coven - trustingingeling, melanie bonajo, 2019.
- The coven - cuddle coven, melanie bonajo, 2019.
- Watershed (Tough Love), Mark IJzerman, 2025.
- Night Soil - Fake Paradise (Trailer), melanie bonajo, 2014.
- Eye of Silence, Charles Stankieveck, 2023.
- Nightfall Hymn, Eady van Acker.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Drive
I finished reading the book DRIVE: Train je stoïcijnse mindset (Dutch for DRIVE: Train your stoic mindset) by Mark Tuitert, which I started reading around September 19. I guess that the contents of the book is similar to the book The Stoic Mindset that he advertises on his page The Stoic Mindset. I bought the book on Friday, July 9, 2021 for €20.00. I am not sure if it was worth that price as I did not get much out of the book. I did not take time to do the exercises. I did like that the chapters did follow his personal life and that it is a kind of autobiography.Links
Monday, October 27, 2025
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Sunday, October 26, 2025
Fixed switch statement bug
Fixing bug for the C compiler I am developing as a replacement for the MES-compiler used in Live-bootstrap is taking more and more time as the bugs become harder to find. All the low fruit is gone. Yesterday, I found a bug in how the switch statement is translated. The implementation did not take into account the possibility that the expression in the switch could had a side effect and simply executed it multiple times. I changed the implementation, such that it places the value on the stack. I also implemented some unit tests to check the new implementation.Advent of Code 2025
This year Advent of Code will only have 12 days and not 25 like before. I understand the reason for this. Another change is that there will be no global leader board anymore. In the last years this was filled more and more with people using AI tools to quickly find a solution sometimes even using automated script to retrieve the puzzle text, generate some code, run it and find a solution. I have created a private leader board for people who want to solve the puzzles in pure C only using code they developed themselves. I have no way to check this. To join this private leader board, the following code can be used: 1563228-d419ba6d.Link
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Stillnes Between Moments
When I left home to go to the city, the sun was shining, but about half way, when I biking on a priority road and seeing some dark clouds, I put on my rain poncho while biking. Not a harmless act, but it went rather smooth. (I believe that if you cannot biking on upright riding bike without hands, there is either a problem with the bike that needs to be fixed or you are not good enough at biking to bike safely.) At Fotogalerie Objektief, I saw the exhibition Stillness Between Moments with photographs and mixed media by Nikolina Karoulla. The sun was shining again when I biked home after having paid some more visits.Link
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Disappeared villages in the Netherlands
At 14:55, we received a poster tube with the map 'Verdwenen Dorpen in Nederland' (Dutch for 'Disappeared Villages in the Netherlands') as poster giving the locations of 563 villages that have disappeared due to natural causes (primarily flooding), war, and/or economic changes (such as disappearing peat production). The map can also be accessed online in Dutch. Conny bought it as a gift for my upcoming birthday from Cartomatie.Link
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Flower
Conny noticed a flower in our back garden. I am a bit surprised by the number of flowers you can still see outside. I have no idea what kind of plant it is, but the flower does have white and pink petals and a yellow center. It could be a Dahlia 'Twyning's Smartie'.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
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Saturday, October 18, 2025
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
Flummoxagon puzzle game
Last Sunday, I came across the Flummoxagon puzzle game by Nervous System as it was mentioned and discussed on Hacker News. I wrote a comment stating that it would be nice if they would publish the Exact Cover, such that I my solver to come up an estimate of the number of solutions. I got an answer that they ran their program for a couple of days and found tens of thousands of solutions. I decided to write my own program, flummoxagon2ec.c, for generating an exact cover given an example solution for the puzzle on the standard input. In the input the colours should be specified with the letter 'g', 'b', 'o', and 'p', matching the hexagonal shape of the puzzle, where there is one space between elements in the horizontal line and where there is a shift of one character for consecutive lines. For example:
o g g
o o p p
o p b
Because the output may contain duplicated vectors, one has to sort the output and remove duplicates with the command 'sort -u'. I first let my solver reduce the number of vectors by removing those that cannot occur in any solution. Then I started the program yesterday. After it ran for about twenty hours, it had only found three solutions and estimated that the number of solutions was about 1049. I was a little disappointed about the low number of solutions. The exact cover solver does not know about the nature of the problem and thus it could either decided to try all pieces to cover a certain location or try to place a piece at all possible places and orientations. If the latter is decided, it is possible that it is placed in the 'middle' of the 'open space' such that there are no possible solutions. This afternoon, I tried to make a modification such that it will only try to cover a location with all possible pieces that are left. That did work a lot better, finding about 20 solutions per hour. Still not the numbers that were found by the program by the people of Nervous Systems. Maybe their program fills up the locations in a fixed pattern, starting from one side to the other. Below the first 45 solutions are shown:
With this run, the program estimates that there are 10148 solutions, which is a lot more. It might be that the result is incorrect due to the limitation that I introduced. It is also possible that the actual number is somewhere between the two estimates. I have always had the idea that a generic exact cover solver that always explores the position with the least number of vectors first, would be the most efficient. But after today, I have to admit that that is not the case. Fascinating.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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Monday, October 13, 2025
Curly kale hotchpotch
Last Saturday, we got some curly kale in the harvest from Herenboeren Usseler Es. Today, we made some curly kale hotchpotch with it using some potatoes we also got from the harvest. I had some slices of gherkins and some small sausages with it. The sausages were sold as 'Catalan' sausages, but although they had some unions, garlic and pepper as ingredients, they were not like the traditional Fuet.Sunday, October 12, 2025
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- Flummoxagon puzzle game.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Pinguins on Ice
Yesterday evening, I played a bit with Pinguins on Ice puzzle game where you have to fit five pieaces of five squares each into a five by five square. The pieces can morph in the sense that the consist of two parts that can slide along each other. Each piece also has a small pinguin on one of the five squares. In the booklet with the puzzle, there are 60 puzzles, where you have find a solution where the pinquins are at some locations. This got the idea that there are at least 60 solutions. Today, I tried to figure out the number of solutions of the puzzle. I used the program gen_dpfp with the seventeen different configurations of the five pieces. I did some editiong to combine the different configurations for each piece together and next used the program dpfp2ec to transform the program into an Exact Cover problem that I fed into my solver to return only 44 solutions (not counting rotations). The solutions are shown below:
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Exhibitions
In the afternoon, I went into the city and visited Concordia. There I saw the exhibition Motiongraphy. I saw the following works/installations:- Untitled, Izabella Venskyte.
- Flipped Sock, Margarita Vasconcelos.
- Threshold Signal, Petra Lenghel.
- Bubblegum, Ariadna Kanaskova.
- Untitled, Chiara Kalalo.
- Untitled, Olivia Browne.
- Rumination Killed Mindfullness, Sonia Balampinadou.
- Untitled, Daria Nazarova.
- Untitled, Gheorghe Voinovan.
- Ready to slaughter, Tobias Poorthuis.
- Camera Obscura Self Portrait, Luca Stiphout.
I also watched the videos in the exhibition Landscape, disrupted, which I already briefly saw on Saturday, September 27. One of the videoas was not on display due to some talk being planned with an artist. I left around the time that the talk started.
In the evening, I went to opening of the textile art expo FÆES-›!T by Overlap at Creative Broedplaats Enschede. There were also a meet-up around a table of (young) people drawing. I understand that they meet every week at this spot. The puzzle game Pinguins on Ice was laying around and when some people were playing with, I joined in and suggested a systematic way to solve the puzzle, but we failed to find a solution. Then when studying the piece, we noticed that the piece could be morphed. Each piece consisted of two parts that can slide along each other. Make use of this, we quickly found a solution. At the exhibition, I saw the following works:
- Slipjes, Zachtlandschap, Wild Yoni Flower, Botanical Yoni, Maria, Vlinderbloem, Yoni nestjes, and Yoni Flower by Willemien Nijman.
- untitled and The Giant by Maike Birkenhäger.
- Fasion Circus by Alisa Zheleznova.
- blablabla, Turn me on, Ode aan Paula Moderson-Beche, and Frida Kahlo by Willemein Nijman.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
From right to left
This afternoon, I found the website Partijgedrag (Dutch for 'party behaviour') which is based on information about how Dutch political parties voted on motions submitted by members of the Dutch House of Representatives. It has a voting guide ('stemwijzer' in Dutch) that gives you a rating which party matches best your vote on a number of motions from the set of motions. It also gives a table with percentages of how often parties voted the same on all the motions. It shows the parties in alphabetical order. I wanted to know how the parties are aligned from right to left. The table below is based on motions from the period July 2. 2024 to today, which is during the Schoof cabinet. There were fourteen political parties at the start of this period. I have tried to put the parties in a right to left order, which is shown in the table. There are some that are a bit difficult to place. The party Forum voor Democratie is a far-right political party but often with strange opinions, sometimes rather fascistic, at other times based on various conspiracy theories. The Partij voor de dieren is not the most left among the left wing parties, but most in disagreement with right wing parties. The strongest agreement is found among three left wing parties: Democraten 66, Volt, and GroenLinks–PvdA.
- Forum voor Democratie
- Partij voor de Vrijheid
- JA21
- BoerBurgerBeweging
- Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie
- Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij
- Christen-Democratisch Appèl
- ChristenUnie
- Democraten 66
- Volt
- GroenLinks-PvdA
- Socialistische Partij
- DENK
- Partij voor de Dieren
Sunday, October 5, 2025
crt1.o
In the past weeks, I made some good progress with respect to developing a C compiler as an replacement for the MES-compiler used in Live-bootstrap. The version of the Tiny C Compiler compiled with this compiler now runs on some simple program, but does not generate any code, because it cannot find the file crt1.o. The letters 'crt' stand for C Runtime. The file tcc-0.9.26/pass1.kaem gives the commands that are used to build the file using the GNU Mes compiler and using the sources of the C standard library that are included in it. I have to figure out how to convert this to using my C compiler.Saturday, October 4, 2025
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Friday, October 3, 2025
Crossbos
The 'Crossbos' (Dutch for 'cross forest') is a small park a few minutes walking from our home. See this map for its location. On June 13, 1926, a concrete cycle track named 'The Station' was opened in the norther part of the park, but due to the Great Depression it did not last long. After it went broke in 1928, it was reopened on July 17, 1932, but this too did not last long and it was closed around 1935. It was also used as an ice rink. (Dutch source.) Around 1960 there was not much left of the track, except for some elevations in the shape of the track. The area got overgrown by trees, but the centre area of the track remained open. Around 1990, the norther part of the Helmerhoek quarter was build around the area, which was left untouched. Some asphalt walking paths were constructed through it and children started to bike around it, making a cross track over the elevated parts, That is how it got its name. In the past years, the park has undergone some improvements by the local government after some people from the neighbourhood made some requests for this. For a long time, I have wanted to make a map of the part. Today, the weather was grey and I took 556 pictures in the park in the hope to see if I can use some Structure from Motion techniques to reconstruct a map.Wednesday, October 1, 2025
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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Into the city
I went into the city, but did not stay very long, because I had forgotten to take my chain lock with me, and I did not like the idea of my bike only being chained and only locked with one lock. At Concordia, I saw two exhibitions. I only had a casual look at the video presented at the exhibition Landscape, Disrupted with the following videos:- Archiving The Scene by Lo Yuen Ming & Chun-Yao Lin.
- I Wan'na Be Like You by Broersen & Lukács.
- Wild Plants of Palestine by Alaa Abu Asad.
- Alternative Echelon by amy pickles
- Between Delicate and Violent by Şirin Bahar Demirel
Friday, September 26, 2025
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Bring Your Own Beamer
I went to TETEM art space to attend the Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) event. (BYOB was founded by Rafaël Rozendaal.) This time I did not have the opportunity to join in the event like I did on February 2, 2018 due to other obligations this afternoon. I bought a ticket for € 5.00 and got five tokens that I was allowed to donate to the projects I liked most. The makers of those projects would get one Euro for each token at the end of the evening. I saw the following projects:- Projection by Studio Beautiful & Beast
- Projection by Kelly van Grootheest
- The installation Nieuwe Verhalen
- Pixel Funeral by Annoying Kids.
- morethanhuman.zoommeeting
- Fractal Love: An interactive light art installation, which I found quite interesting.
- TIC-80 Demo
- Projection by Stef.
- Projection by Merlin Marsk
- Video by Annoying Kids.
- Interactive installation Unfolding Being by Stefan Venbroek.
- The game Fever Dream
- Installation Colour Fusion by Jonah.
- Projection Afterimage by Marlies van Grootel
- Installation Help! A Bear In My Tent! by Leon van Oldenborg
- Installation with game by 100% FAT
Monday, September 22, 2025
Antifa
The Dutch House of Representatives followed suit the USA government by accepting a motion to request the government to designate Antifa as a terrorist organisation (the motion in Dutch). The government can deny to implement such requests, for example, when it is not possible with the current laws. Laws are proposed by the government and have to be voted by the House of Representatives and the Senate to become effective often from a specified date to allow the various government bodies to implement them. It is rather clear that the motion cannot be implemented and thus also not enforced with the current laws and regulations with respect to terrorism. For this reason the acceptance of the motion is rather symbolic. The motion was submitted by the political parties Forum for Democracy, Party for Freedom, and the Farmer-Citizen Movement, which are all considered radical-right parties. These parties do not have a majority in the House of Representatives, meaning they needed the support from other parties. The dominant right wing party in the Netherlands, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, also voted for this motion, which can be considered as another sign that they are leaning towards the radical-right more and more. Although the text of the motion states that and anti-fascist cells are active, threatening politicians, disrupting meetings, intimidating students and journalists, and not shying away from using violence, the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism is warning more for extreme right groups. Last weekend there was a large demonstration of radical-right supporters and somewhere between 1200 to 1500 people started to riot, shouting fascist, racist, Nazi, and anti-Semitic statements, and attacking the police, journalist, and even the head office of the Democrats 66 party by throwing stones through the windows. Of course, all political parties expressed their disgust of this, but when some left-wing party leaders said that the riots where politically motivated, members of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy blamed them for causing division.Sunday, September 21, 2025
GOGBOT: Day 4
After my fifth volunteer shift (the fourth was yesterday evening) at GOGBOT, which was at the Grote Kerk, I looked at the following art works:- The Center of Attention by David Peters.
- Stuck in the Scroll by
- Ben Grosser
- Empathy Vending Aid by Jan Everaert
- Loopscroll by Shaman Garage
- Media Burn by Ant Farm
- All the World's a Stage – Ways of Seeing by Donna Verheijden.
