Rietveld Academy Fine-Arts AV Amsterdam '89.
visual artist, art-installations/camera/
mot-graphics/edit/FX/sound.
lecturer video post prod at WITS FIne Art.

Biography

Cum laude graduate from the Rietveld Academy of Fine-Arts (Previously Audio-Visual), installation and sculptural art, Amsterdam (1989). Whereafter, he continued working on contemporary art installation pieces, sculpture and video art. His installation work was acquired by the Central Museum of Modern Art in Utrecht. From 1996 till present date he also works on motion-graphic design, animation, directing, camera and sound work, compositing, visual effects, editing and music scoring for video productions in the arts and the bordering applied arts fields. He became Head of Department Special/Visual Effects at the AFDA from 2005-2009. Currently, lecturing Post Production at Wits University in the Film & TV division and continues producing, collaborating and exhibiting work in the visual arts. In 2018 he received an MA in Fine Arts which was awarded with a distinction.

Accomplishments: a ‘Naledi’ award nomination for best AV-design in a 2015 theater production. Sound-recording & Graphics, documentary ‘Starkiss’, (Hyderabad, India), Gouden Kalf nomination (2002) for Best long documentary. Sound engineering & Graphics, documentary Dabbah Wallah's (Mumbai, India), Publics Choice at IDFA (1999). Sound-engineering, 'Punt NL' (short observations in Holland), best short film at the Venice film festival (2000). Technical workflow engineer, visual effects artist for Aryan Kaganof’s world’s first cell-phone feature film ‘SMS Sugar man’ (2005).