Digital presence: Interview with Steye Hallema
Channel: Пьотр Армяновський
Date: 2021-08-23

Digital Presence is a series of interviews with leading European and Ukrainian artists about digital tools in art.

The third guest is Dutch director, artist and musician, founder of The Smartphone Orchestra Steye Hallema. He told about the orchestra of mobile phones, VR opera Weltatem, 360° film "Ashes to Ashes", social experiments and last volumetric project. 

The host is a Ukrainian director and artist, Piotr Armianovski.

00:00 Excepts from Steye's projects
02:57 Magic since childhood
06:37 Music video 360° "What Do We Care 4" - Steye & the Bizonkid
12:10 VR opera Weltatem
20:44 First VR experience
21:38 Commercial VR
23:49 Beginning of the Smartphone Orchestra
28:05 "The Persistence Of Memory" – a symphony orchestra and mobile phones
31:51 Social Sorting Experiment
44:46 WORK in cooperation with ANAGRAM
47:48 Film 360° "Ashes to Ashes"
53:09 More I do VR more I love the reality
53:43 Volumetric VR project "Imaginary Friends"
55:00 AR as spatial transition
56:50 As artist we have to do critical works

The project "DIGITAL PRESENCE" is supported by the European Union under the House of Europe program