Sunday School #8: Sport

Event

Sunday School #8: Sport

24 May 2009

14:00

Location: Impakt HQ

Entrance: €7

Faster, higher and better. This mantra is used to extend the limits of sports further and further. Sunday School investigates this phenomenon with contributions by Ivo van Hilvoorde, sports philosopher at the Free University of Amsterdam – he explores the future of the perfect marriage between sports and technology – and media theoretician and cycling fanatic Arie Altena who will go into the increasing importance of the communication media in the world of cycling.

The emotions, laws and decorum of sports also inspire designers and artists like Yarre Stooker who designed the game of line football for the Jan Cunen museum. The combat and mental sports hybrid Chess Boxing, developed by Iepe Rubingh, draws it inspiration from Enki Bilal’s cartoon album ‘Froid-Équateur’. In addition pro-gamer OmniRocket discusses the thin line between sports and gaming.

Presentations are alternated with film and video screenings from MauzZ, Spike Jonze, Tamusz Bihnstock and others.

Sunday School is an intellectual variety show in which scientists, designers and artists deal with various themes from surprising perspectives. The event is Dutch spoken.

Ivo van Hilvoorde Arie Altena Yarre Stooker Marco Jongerius/OmniRocket Iepe Rubingh

Ivo van Hilvoorde

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Ivo van Hilvoorde is working as sport philosopher at the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences (Free University of Amsterdam). In addition, he works one day a week as associate lector at the School of Human Movement & Sport (Windesheim, Zwolle) and conducts research at the W.J.H. Mulier Institute (’s-Hertogenbosch). With his work, he addresses philosophical, sociological and historic issues surrounding the phenomenon of sports. His particular interest goes out to the relationship between sports and (bio-) technology, the enhancement of human performance (among others, by means of drugs), and the relationship between (top) sports and national pride and identity. Van Hilvoorde was the co-author of Beter dan Goed. Over genetica en de toekomst van topsport [Better than Good. About Genetics and the future of top sports] (2006) and Fitter, Harder & Mooier. De onweerstaanbare opkomst van de fitnesscultuur [Fitter, Tighter and Prettier. The compelling rise of fitness culture] (2008, Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers/Het Sporthuis).

Arie Altena

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Arie Altena writes about arts and new media. He works as an editor/researcher for the V2_Archive in Rotterdam (since 2007) and is a member of the editorial staff of the Sonic Acts Festival (since 2004). His articles are regularly featured in magazines such as De Gids, OPEN and Metropolis M, and he co-edited the Sonic Acts publications Unsorted, Thoughts on the Information Arts (2004), The Anthology of Computer Art (2006) and The Cinematic Experience (2008). In 2006, he worked as a researcher on the Ubiscribe project at the design department of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht where he edited the print-on-demand publication Pervasive Personal Participatory, Ubiscribe 0.9.0 (2006). He cycles several thousands of kilometers a year on his racing bike, preferably without computer and GPS. Over the past three years, his blog developed into an archive of his cycling travels: ariealt.net/blog.

Yarre Stooker

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Yarre Stooker is a Dutch artist whose work explores the intersection of play, sport, and social interaction. In 2004 he created Line Football, a hybrid game commissioned for the Jan Cunen Museum that blended fictional tournaments with real matches, involving actors, professional players, and online spectators. The project went on to appear in South Africa and Amsterdam, transforming public spaces with playful interventions like football fields fenced in with beer crates. While early works often drew directly on sports, Stooker’s more recent films shift focus from games to the subtleties of nonverbal communication, immersing viewers in worlds where gestures and movement take precedence over words.

Marco Jongerius/OmniRocket

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Among gamers, Marco Jongerius is better known as the "OmniRocket". From 2001 to 2004, he took part four times in the World Cyber Games, an event which can be seen as the “Olympics of computer games”. In addition, he participated in many other computer games tournaments.

Iepe Rubingh

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Iepe Rubingh is a Dutch artist born on August 17, 1974 in Rotterdam. His innovative work includes blocking off intersections in Berlin and Tokyo in order to create major traffic jams. He was also responsible for raining “miracle trees” in Berlin and Singapore. Iepe founded chess boxing in 2003 and won the inaugural World Chess Boxing Championship in Amsterdam in that same year. He currently serves as the prime mover and master spokesperson of this new sport.

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