{"id":1514,"date":"2009-09-28T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:29:43","slug":"announcing-this-happened-utrecht-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/28\/announcing-this-happened-utrecht-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing This happened \u2013 Utrecht #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four weeks from now we’re running the fourth edition of This happened \u2013 Utrecht<\/a> (the last one for this year). It’ll take place in Theater Kikker<\/a> again, on 26 October and we’ll start at the usual time: 20:00 hours (doors op 19:30 hours). Ianus<\/a>, Alexander<\/a> and I have been debating this edition’s line-up fervently, and have come up with the following three great speakers for you:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Elmo Diederiks<\/a> will talk about the Ambilight<\/a> feature in Philips flat panel televisions. In 2002 Elmo worked as designer and researcher at Philips Research<\/a> and lead the research on how dynamic lighting in the background of the TV image enhances the viewing experience. The research resulted directly in the most differentiating feature of Philips’ flat panel televisions that remains a unique selling point today.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Sue Doeksen<\/a>, member of the new media art collective Zesbaans<\/a>, will present De Metronoom<\/a>. Six connected installations point six laser beams into the room. Visitors play the lasers like instruments and compose a soundtrack, arranging samples from classical instruments, street artists, beats and the machine room of a printing press. De Metronoom was present at the Mood Elevator party at Trouw Amsterdam and Stekkertest at Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht. Sue gives us a look behind the scenes of De Metronoom\u2019s development – which Zesbaans is hoping to continue in the coming period – and shares their ideas on technology, performance and interface.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Emily Gobeille<\/a> and Theo Watson<\/a> will present the process behind Funky Forest<\/a>, an interactive ecosystem where children create trees with their body and then divert the water flowing from the waterfall to the trees to keep them alive. The health of the trees contributes to the overall health of the forest and the types of creatures that inhabit it. The Moomah Edition of \u2018Funky Forest\u2019 expands on the original by introducing four seasons, each with a unique environment and creatures to match. Each season also features an interactive particle system. The Moomah edition is permanently installed at the Moomah Children\u2019s Cafe<\/a> in New York City. <\/p>\n

This edition is made possible by the support from the Utrecht School of the Arts<\/a> and Utrecht based web agency Rhinofly<\/a>. Many thanks to them for their generosity. <\/p>\n

Registration opens October 12 at thishappened.nl<\/a> at 12:00 hours. Hope to see you there!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four weeks from now we’re running the fourth edition of This happened \u2013 Utrecht (the last one for this year). It’ll take place in Theater Kikker again, on 26 October and we’ll start at the usual time: 20:00 hours (doors op 19:30 hours). Ianus, Alexander and I have been debating this edition’s line-up fervently, and … Continue reading Announcing This happened \u2013 Utrecht #4<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[15,11,673,715],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-events","tag-interaction-design","tag-this-happened","tag-this-happened--utrecht"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}