https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site JurgenMeekel Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:52:14 +0000 https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site en https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/index Tue, 09 May 2023 01:23:06 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/index https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/About-1 Tue, 09 May 2023 01:23:07 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/About-1 <img width="1474" height="1330" width_o="1474" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ecd3ae8f5ce976a4b489984aced0e0ddd9e71ea73a34934fd8ab6da18488232/Warning-this-is-not-a-life-saving-device-for-About-3.jpg" data-mid="178127653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ecd3ae8f5ce976a4b489984aced0e0ddd9e71ea73a34934fd8ab6da18488232/Warning-this-is-not-a-life-saving-device-for-About-3.jpg" /> Rietveld Academy Fine-Arts AV Amsterdam '89. visual artist, art-installations/camera/ motion-graphics/edit/FX/sound. lecturer post production at WITS Film&amp;TV contact ︎︎︎&nbsp;Email︎︎︎&nbsp;Instagram︎︎︎&nbsp;Twitter Biography Jurgen Meekel (1963, Amsterdam) is an audiovisual artist, filmmaker, and designer. He graduated cum laude in Audiovisual Art from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam after training in graphic design and printing techniques. His multidisciplinary work spans installation art, sculpture, animation, cinematography, post-production and sound art. Recent collaborations include the Playgroup sound collective and AV projection designs for the performing arts. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is part of the Central Museum for Modern Art’s collection in Utrecht. He teaches Film and TV at Wits University’s School of the Arts, where he earned his MA in Fine Arts with distinction in 2018. Accolades include Naledi Award nominations for Best AV Design in 2015 and 2024 and a Gouden Kalf nomination (2002) for Best Long Documentary Starkiss, (Hyderabad, India). His sound work on Dabbah Wallah’s (Mumbai, India) won the Public’s Choice Award at IDFA (1999). Additional recognitions include Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival for Best in Beef, (2000), Best Artistic Design Award for Without Limits at the Free State Arts Festival (2024), Best Theatre Set and AV Design for A Street Taxi Named Desiree, State Theatre, and twice the Award for NIHSS Best Digital Humanities Collection in 2022 and 2024 for the online magazine herri. https://herri.org.za https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Palinopsia-seeing-again Tue, 09 May 2023 01:23:07 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Palinopsia-seeing-again Wits / Point of Order, 2018 Palinopsia / seeing again&nbsp; In 'Palinopsia / seeing again' Jurgen Meekel laser projects monochromatic images with a purplish-blue UV laser on a large fully covered glow-in-the-dark canvas. The elements appear line by line and continue to persist for some time. The projection surface records the image until it dissipates, where-after at some point a new image can be projected creating a new combined layered assemblage. The notion of the present and past, trace and decay, and the impossibility to observe time are central concepts in the work. Underscoring soundscapes create a dialogue with the images and echoing the temporal properties of the work.A one-time event in partial fulfillment of a Masters in Fine Arts degree. at Wits University, performed at the Point of Order gallery in, Johannesburg, South Africa. <img width="3584" height="1938" width_o="3584" height_o="1938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28d6132f98843a9f1b3cd4733ea099f9ec0526a3bc66ad91c8d3d7a8712b1360/Unsaved-Preview-Document-4.png" data-mid="178127661" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28d6132f98843a9f1b3cd4733ea099f9ec0526a3bc66ad91c8d3d7a8712b1360/Unsaved-Preview-Document-4.png" /> <img width="3584" height="1938" width_o="3584" height_o="1938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf572925c0ed7b3901b99c4f1a4bf68e570f9ac170fc39a3550d237fd555919d/Unsaved-Preview-Document.png" data-mid="178127660" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf572925c0ed7b3901b99c4f1a4bf68e570f9ac170fc39a3550d237fd555919d/Unsaved-Preview-Document.png" /> <img width="3584" height="1938" width_o="3584" height_o="1938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f6451b9f37dea273188b4f8965b20366903496a9ce25524d969ec7e11eaf809/Unsaved-Preview-Document-3.png" data-mid="178127658" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f6451b9f37dea273188b4f8965b20366903496a9ce25524d969ec7e11eaf809/Unsaved-Preview-Document-3.png" /> <img width="3584" height="1938" width_o="3584" height_o="1938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a0c96b7a4de158008093dc654795895d419646915bfe6fe7ebe8d8ad4128932/Unsaved-Preview-Document-2.png" data-mid="178127659" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a0c96b7a4de158008093dc654795895d419646915bfe6fe7ebe8d8ad4128932/Unsaved-Preview-Document-2.png" /> <img width="3584" height="1938" width_o="3584" height_o="1938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a0c96b7a4de158008093dc654795895d419646915bfe6fe7ebe8d8ad4128932/Unsaved-Preview-Document-2.png" data-mid="178127659" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a0c96b7a4de158008093dc654795895d419646915bfe6fe7ebe8d8ad4128932/Unsaved-Preview-Document-2.png" /> <img width="3584" height="1938" width_o="3584" height_o="1938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34ef415a4d6e5da1a7fce40a0d26869c3d9b172a0f20077e3fe85493f589276e/Unsaved-Preview-Document-6.png" data-mid="178127656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34ef415a4d6e5da1a7fce40a0d26869c3d9b172a0f20077e3fe85493f589276e/Unsaved-Preview-Document-6.png" /> The most recent iteration of the work was the practical component for Jurgen’s MAFA exhibition: ‘Palinopsia: Images at their Ends: A Practice-based study in Traces, Temporality and Image Dissipation, using Glow In The Dark Laser Technology as a Medium for Contemporary Art.’With a purplish-blue UV laser as a projection source and using fully covered painted phosphorescent canvas as the projection surface, after-glowing images are projected that appear line by line (much like a fax or inkjet printer). In this way, the projection canvas records the image. The projected image/text elements will diminish in luminosity over time. New elements are projected as the older ones fade. When projecting with lasers onto a glow-in-the-dark surface the image will leave a clear green trace and remains visible for some time (4-6 min). After that, one can re-project over the remaining image to create a visual layering. &nbsp;The way temporality and perseverance leave a finite mark or trace of the projected image positions glow-in-the-dark laser projection between cinema and photography. The proposed work for ISEA will be a collaboration between Jurgen Meekel and Jill Richards. Similarly to G-I-T-D laser projection, music operates on the basis of time. Therefore we have chosen existing contemporary musical pieces (recordings of my performances), self-composed pieces and pre-produced soundscapes from various audio recordings that have a relationship with temporality and decay. There will be 5 sections of each 10 / 20 minutes. The individual sections are different ways to engage and play with the medium, wherein some parts the improvised and premeditated music and sounds propel the projection and vice-versa in other parts. Like this, an audience will also be able to distinguish the difference between the sound and the visual approaches. There will be overlapping transitions in visual and audio depending on the dissipation of the images and timing of the soundscapes. It takes around 8 minutes for an image to fully dissipate and we will also use sounds that linger. ISEA -&nbsp;(international electronic arts symposium) - Durban 2018 Palinopsia / seeing again ISEA international electronic arts symposium - Durban ‘ - in collaboration with Jill Richard (sound score) The piece was performed for ±2 hours for an audience.. In the installation piece ‘Palinopsia / seeing again’ Jurgen Meekel laser-projects monochromatic images with a nearly invisible purplish-blue UV laser on a large fully covered glow-in-the-dark canvas. The visual elements appear line-by-line and continue to persist for some time. The projection surface records the image until the image dissipates, where-after at some point a new image can be projected creating a new combined layered assemblage. The notion of the present and past, trace and decay, and the impossibility to observe time are central concepts in the work. Underscoring soundscapes that were created in collaboration with Jill Richards form a dialogue with the projected images, echoing these temporal properties. ‘…it may just as well be compared to a continual rolling up, like that of a thread on a ball, for our past follows us, it swells incessantly with the present that it picks up on its way; and consciousness means memory.’ - H. Bergson, 1903 ‘The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.’ - John Berger, 1984. https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Time-Louder-Faster Tue, 09 May 2023 01:23:08 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Time-Louder-Faster Centre Of The Less Good Idea Time / Louder / Faster Video work by Jurgen Meekel (2017)The video installation piece includes three different projections in a triptych arrangement. It shows digitally manipulated video footage that was gathered during the first workshop held at the Centre for the Less Good Idea, an intiative of William Kentridge, in December 2016. The video material, that contains mainly dance and boxing, is treated with a filter that takes a number of video frames before and after the current frame. This produces a wavery effect.In addition, there’s an audio recording that runs simultaneously with the 3 videos, containing music and sounds that were also produced during the December workshop. The loudness-intensity of the audio track propels the footage forward, in a faster or slower manner. In other words, the higher dB’s (decibels) the faster the video moves forward in time and the lower the dB’s the slower it moves.The piece uses audio and video material that was recorded at the workshop, hence I would like to thank all participants that were subjects’ or involved in producing the recordings in this piece. credits: ’Time, Louder, Faster' by Jurgen Meekel Voice: Ann MasinaPercussion: Tlale MakheneDancer: Thulani ChaukeCamera: Dusko Marovic, Ivan Leathers, Jurgen MeekelSound Recording: Gavan EckhartTriptych video work featuring in Season 1 as part of the Blackboard Projectionsexhibition which was free to the public at the Centre for the Less Good Idea between 1 and 5 March 2017. https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Solving-for-X Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:52:14 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Solving-for-X Centre Of The Less Good Idea Solving for X&nbsp; Video work (4:3) by Jurgen Meekel &amp; Lebogang Mashile (2017)https://vimeo.com/897138180 Collaborative art video project between Lebohang Mashile and Jurgen Meekel featured in Season 1 of the Centre for the Less Good Idea as part of the Blackboard Projections exhibition which was free for the public between 1 and 5 March 2017 in Maboneng - Johannesburg - South Africa.&nbsp; The soundscape was recorded during the first season of the Centre of the Less Good Idea and was shared by João Orecchia and was recorded by Gavan Eckhard. &nbsp; <img width="2590" height="1938" width_o="2590" height_o="1938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eee803f094b8a9f9aaf54e9b80757d91fc6b7bf6696f7df65138ab9909f0f925/Solving-for-X.jpg" data-mid="241207422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eee803f094b8a9f9aaf54e9b80757d91fc6b7bf6696f7df65138ab9909f0f925/Solving-for-X.jpg" /> https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/The-Missing-Link-from-Lausanne Tue, 09 May 2023 01:23:09 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/The-Missing-Link-from-Lausanne glazed porcelain, (30 x 12 x 25cm - l,w,h) The Missing Link from Lausanne 'The Missing Link from Lausanne' (Jurgen Meekel - 2015) side and frontal view <img width="1600" height="838" width_o="1600" height_o="838" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4aa4a8f5fc118d48b168bf306682a330c13a8b3bc309a084c081553aca60dd8/Missing-Link-Laussanne.jpg" data-mid="178127664" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4aa4a8f5fc118d48b168bf306682a330c13a8b3bc309a084c081553aca60dd8/Missing-Link-Laussanne.jpg" /> https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Before-Seeing-360-VR Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:56:44 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Before-Seeing-360-VR Summer School Globe PlayHouse Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF Before Seeing360˚ VR work by Jurgen Meekel (2020).Time-remapped video The loudness-intensity of the audio track propels the footage forward, in a faster or slower manner. In other words, the higher the dB (decibels), the faster the video moves forward in time, and the lower the dB, the slower it moves. Made as part of 6 XR projects during the Summer School project 'Globe PlayHouse' - at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (DEU). The artwork won best project at the Summer School.https://youtu.be/SFcl9fDM-hw <img width="1152" height="722" width_o="1152" height_o="722" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a77bdda381a286259732b4c6ec7735c22b5a2a27632aa9003940ae0a0ad73c3/KOPPIES-time-remap-color.jpg" data-mid="240135856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a77bdda381a286259732b4c6ec7735c22b5a2a27632aa9003940ae0a0ad73c3/KOPPIES-time-remap-color.jpg" /> https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Warning-this-is-not-a-life-saving-device Tue, 09 May 2023 01:23:09 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Warning-this-is-not-a-life-saving-device Centraal Museum mixed media, plastic, glass, metal, liquid(28 x 100 x 16cm - l,w,h) Warning this is not a life saving device (1989)Jurgen Meekel Acquisition for the museum by Sjarel Ex museum director in 1989, Centraal Museum Utrecht, The Netherlands <img width="1280" height="941" width_o="1280" height_o="941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a412ebf107ab66fbdc81010568f3c15d7691fb76bb512e9aeae685e57635b3e/This-is-not-a-life-saving-device.png" data-mid="178127666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a412ebf107ab66fbdc81010568f3c15d7691fb76bb512e9aeae685e57635b3e/This-is-not-a-life-saving-device.png" /> https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Vous-etes-ici Tue, 09 May 2023 01:23:09 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/Vous-etes-ici Het Recept, Amsterdam Mixed media, 18 trouser legs Combed yarn,&nbsp; metal, wood (800 x 450 x 320cm - l,w,h) Vous êtes ici (1991) Solo exhibition installation by Jurgen Meekel <img width="2500" height="2622" width_o="2500" height_o="2622" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8969dd73ee0a3eb9835be5551c104aca0105828b26685043839cdaf52f634338/Vous-etes-ici-2023.jpg" data-mid="178127669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8969dd73ee0a3eb9835be5551c104aca0105828b26685043839cdaf52f634338/Vous-etes-ici-2023.jpg" /> https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/het-haar-van-de-baard Tue, 09 May 2023 01:23:10 +0000 JurgenMeekel https://jurgenmeekel.cargo.site/het-haar-van-de-baard Oude kerk, Amsterdam mixed media, 9 beards, sisal,&nbsp; metal (1200 x 800 x 16cm - l,w,h) Het haar van de baard (1990) Installation for group art-exhibition ‘Stoned Ground’ de Oude Kerk, Amsterdam&nbsp; <img width="2500" height="2010" width_o="2500" height_o="2010" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2b218a8d4fcb6a324390f7d4e3d7b052c96eb7586785018af09f553d329ee38/Het-haar-van-de-baard.jpg" data-mid="178127672" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2b218a8d4fcb6a324390f7d4e3d7b052c96eb7586785018af09f553d329ee38/Het-haar-van-de-baard.jpg" />