Projects

SMILE 2024
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audio visual installation
48ch video | 3ch sound | 1ch cam | infinite duration

AIIA - The Forgettable Art Machine 2023
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audio visual installation
1ch video | 1ch cam | infinite duration

Harmonic Dissonance Quartet 2022
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audio visual installation
4ch video | 4ch audio | 4ch IR cam | infinite duration

het Licht van Jan 2021
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light installation
led | steel | infinite duration

a Trail of Water 2020
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light installation
led | concrete | infinite duration

Harmonic Dissonance 2020
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audio visual experience
2ch video | 5ch sound | 2ch IR cam | duration 15"00

Mirror One 2018
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audio visual installation
1ch video | 2ch sound | 1ch IR cam | infinite duration

Assen van Assen 2018
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light installation
led | steel | acrylic | infinite duration

plplpl.pl::synchrony 2016
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audio visual installation
48ch video | 6ch sound | 3ch IR camera | infinite duration
OFXFlowTools 2014 - 2024
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software toolset
multiple interactive installations
Mutual Wave Machine 2013 - 2023
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audio visual installation
2ch video | 6ch sound | 2ch EEG headset | duration 8"00
plplpl.pl part 1 to 9 2009 - 2012
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series of visual installations
projection mapping | live video | Time Distortion
Bijlmer MoodWall 2009
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permanent light installation
led | acrylic | 1ch video | 2ch IR Cam | infinite duration
E4 MotionWall 2007
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audio visual installation
led | Vinyl | 1ch video | 6ch audio | 3ch IR Cam | ∞ duration

About

Tech artist Matthias Oostrik works at the intersection of digital art, installation art, film, and architecture. His artworks establish unpredictable relationships between people and their surroundings. Using digital technology, his installations respond to visitors with transforming light, video, or sound, enabling visitors to reshape their environment and their relationships with each other. Matthias Oostrik collaborates with renowned performance artists, neuroscientists, engineers and, crucially, his audience, who often become an integral part of his award-winning work.

From the poetical:
Blending human expression and algorithms into visual landscapes.

Past the irrational:
Inverting surveillance technology to activate audiences.

To the impossible:
Using EEG brainwave devices to create intimacy.

With Suzanne Dikker he co-founded Harmonic Dissonance, a collective dedicated to the exploration of human synchrony through artistic and scientific inquiry.

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Commissions

Public Light Installation Transition in Yellow and Blue
commissioned by ProRail | NL | 2025

Public Light Installation ΛV
commissioned by the Municipality of Vijfheerenlanden | NL | 2024

Audiovisual installation PL:NG
commissioned by ING | NL | 2021

Public Light Installation Een Spoor Water
commissioned by the Municipality of Assen | NL | 2021

Public Light Installation het Licht van Jan
commissioned by the City of Amsterdam | NL | 2020

Public Light Installation Assen van Assen
commissioned by the Municipality of Assen | NL | 2018

Visual Performance Foam Fusion
in collaboration with ISH | commissioned by Foam | NL | 2017

Visuals for the immersive space SenseImage
commissioned by DigitalArti | FR | 2016

Visuals for the VideoSync app
commissioned by ShowSync | Amsterdam | NL | 2016

Visuals for the performance Hidden Features
commissioned by Deutsche Oper am Rhein | DE | 2014

Visual Installation Voices of Design: 25 Years of Architalx
commissioned by the Portland museum of Art | US | 2013

Site Specific Visual Installation plplpl.pl pt7: Entrance
commissioned by TodaysArt | NL | 2011

Public Light Installation Bijlmer Moodwall (with Urban Alliance)
commissioned by The City of Amsterdam | NL | 2009 - present

Grants and Awards

Creative Industries Fund NL
Project Grant | NL | 2024

Creative Industries Fund NL
Experiment Grant | NL | 2021

Mondriaan Fund
Commissioning Contemporary Art Grant | NL | 2019

BPD CultuurFonds
Project Grant | NL | 2019

Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Project Grant | NL | 2019

Creative Industries Fund NL
Project Grant | NL | 2018

Stichting Niemeijer Fonds
Stipend | NL | 2017-2019

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Art of Neuroscience Award Award | EU | 2016

Creative Industries Fund NL Traveling Dialogues
Open Call | NL | 2016

Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Project Grant | NL | 2016

Creative Industries Fund NL
Project Grant | NL | 2015

Marina Abramović Institute Neuroscience Package
Project Grant | US | 2014

Dutch Design Award best product in public space
Award | NL | 2009

Solo Exhibitions

NXT museum Harmonic Dissonance Quartet NL | 2022

Doornburgh Art/Science Center Harmonic Dissonance Quartet NL | 2022

Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Harmonic Dissonance: InSync DE | 2019

Studio Mellius Harmonic Dissonance NL | 2018

Pioneer Works Mutual Wave Machine US | 2017

V2 plplpl.pl: Scrutiny NL | 2016

3LD Art & Technology Centre Mutual Wave Machine US | 2016

Zaal 3 Mutual Wave Machine NL | 2014

Weteringschans plplpl.pl: Curtain vs. Mirror NL | 2010

Group Exhibitions

Museu do Amanhã Nova Bienal BR | 2023

Dead End Gallery AIIA - Infinite Infusion NL | 2023

Museum de Lakenhal Imagine Intuition NL | 2022

The Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea
O Caminho para a Luz porque Passa pela Luz
PT | 2021

ICK Space for Dance Art Opening NL | 2021

Nieuw Dakota BeamLab Presents NL | 2018

Ballet National de Marseille BNM Fest FR | 2018

Espacio Fundación Telefónica
Beyond 2001: Odysseys of Intelligence
ES | 2018

Doornburgh Art/Science Center Transitie NL | 2018

Grote Kerk Gogbot NL | 2018

Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland Overdaad NL | 2018

Post Pavilion OPUS 1 US | 2017

La Bourse du Travail Foam X Arles FR | 2017

Foam Foam Fusion NL | 2017

Eusebiuskerk Oddstream NL | 2017

Eres Stiftung No Secrets! DE | 2017

Tweede Kamer Museum Night NL | 2016

Tivoli Vredenburg Cultural Sundays NL | 2016

Theater aan het Spui TodaysArt NL | 2016

The Great Hall FORMS Festival CA | 2016

NRW Forum Next Level: Festival of Games DE | 2016

Benaki Museum As One GR | 2016

Lowlands Lowlands Science NL | 2015

VDNKh Optika Pavilion Lexus Hybrid Art RU | 2014

McEnery Centre Silicon Valley Contemporary US | 2014

Manhattan Pratt Gallery Sleuthing the Mind US | 2014

Former Ministry of Internal Affairs TodaysArt NL | 2013

NIMK Impossible worlds NL | 2012

MMC Kibla Soft Control SI | 2012

Garage Centre of Contemporary Culture
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present RU | 2011

The Hague City Hall TodaysArt NL | 2011

Paradiso iliketowatchtoo NL | 2010

MAMCO Mapping Festival CH | 2009

Press & Publications

Marcelo Velasco and Ignacio Nieto US | 2024
The Art-Sciensce Symbiosis

Irish News US | 2024
It’s so weird to hear a computer laugh

DesignBoom US | 2021
passersby activate dynamic projections in matthias oostrik's light installation in amsterdam

Architectenweb NL | 2021
Meegolvend licht onder een spoorviaduct

Frontiers in Neuroergonomics US | 2021
Hybrid Harmony: A Multi-Person Neurofeedback Application for Interpersonal Synchrony

NeuroImage US | 2021
Crowdsourcing neuroscience: Inter-brain coupling during face-to-face interactions outside the laboratory

Floornature IT | 2020
Light installation by Matthias Oostrik in Assen

Architectenweb NL | 2020
Lichtkunst verbindt nieuw spoorviaduct met historie van Assen

Metropolis M NL | 2020
Harmonieus uit balans - dans ontmoet kunst en wetenschap

Süddeutsche Zeitung DE | 2017
das Datendilemma

Het Parool NL | 2017
Een apparaat dat blij wordt van jouw gekke gedrag

Deutschlandfunk DE | 2017
Reiz und Gefahr digitaler Selbstüberwachung

Current Biology US | 2017
Brain-to-brain synchrony tracks real-world dynamic group interactions

Creators Project NL | 2017
Kijk één keer naar dit kunstwerk en je komt er nooit meer uit

KNAW NL | 2016
MWM wins international competition art of neuroscience

Scientific American Mind US | 2016
The art of neuroscience

Creators Project US | 2016
These artists are crafting the future of immersive experiences

Metropolis M NL | 2015
De meetbaarheid van een hersenspinsel

Marina Abramović Institute US | 2014
MAI presents