In The Shepherd and the Flock, I look at the relationship between (political) leaders and their followers. I’m curious to see how the group dynamics that arise at rallies, demonstrations and protests are represented and can be interpreted. I take outset in screenshots from online … Continue reading2020 | The Shepherd and the Flock
The Voters and the Politicians. Single channel video, stereo, duration 15.00 min., 2019 “People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do.” Donald J. Trump, Art of the Deal Since the fall of the Berlin … Continue reading2019 | The Voters and the Politicians
THE OPERATORS AND THE TARGETS consists of 2 series of modified screenshots and one single-channel video. The print series depict 2 aspects or participants of drone warfare, i.e. the drones themselves (as seen from the ground) and the people targeted by the drones (as seen … Continue reading2017 | The Operators and The Targets
THE OPERATORS AND THE TARGETS consists of 2 series of modified screenshots and one single-channel video. The print series depict 2 aspects or participants of drone warfare, i.e. the drones themselves (as seen from the ground) and the people targeted by the drones (as seen … Continue reading2017 | The Targets
THE OPERATORS AND THE TARGETS consists of 2 series of modified screenshots and one single-channel video. The print series depict 2 aspects or participants of drone warfare, i.e. the drones themselves (as seen from the ground) and the people targeted by the drones (as seen … Continue reading2017 | Sky Above
“Wherever people feel safe (…) they will be indifferent.” ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others The fourth and (so far) final installment of Safe Distance, originates from online footage of war-torn areas. It was inspired by the imagery appearing online following the destruction … Continue reading2016 | Safe Distance: Ruins
“Wherever people feel safe (…) they will be indifferent.” ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others Pirates is the third part of the Safe Distance series. These images are based on found footage taken on board vessels either being attacked by or themselves attacking … Continue reading2015 | Safe Distance: Pirates
“Wherever people feel safe (…) they will be indifferent.” ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others “A soldier wields violence and is also exposed to it; he is both an executioner and a victim. But what does he become once the very possibility of … Continue reading2015 | Safe Distance: High Ground
“Wherever people feel safe (…) they will be indifferent.” ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others Klik hier voor Nederlands The series Safe Distance takes its outset in the media images of the increasingly louder protests against the prevailing social structures (Indignados, Occupy, Gezi … Continue reading2014 | Safe Distance
North is the first series of images to emerge, using the techniques I also applied in Safe Distance. This time, instead of found footage or screenshots, I used photos from my own archive as well as new photos shot specifically for this series and with … Continue reading2014 | North
Looking Out is a 3 channel video installation, consisting of one video of unaltered eyetracking-footage and two videos in which the tracking-data has been used to visualize respectively a ‘homunculus’-view and a composite view. Click here for installation views.
A Tree in The Forest is a combination of works from the Observer Effect and the Observing Uncertainty series. 5 large prints from the third Observing Uncertainty series show the eyetracking-data superimposed unto single frames. The same data was used to create a large Observer … Continue reading2011 | A Tree in The Forest
In Manifest Gaze the eyetracking-data of at least 20 minutes is superimposed unto a single still-frame. Strange circular patterns appear in the scatter-charts when enough data is used. Click here for installation views.
Looking at Seeing is the 3rd series of works in the Observer Effect series. Once more the eyetracking-data is used to create a visual impression of ‘seeing’. Each photo consists of between 800-2000 frame cut-outs, app. 30-60 seconds of footage. Click here for installation views.
Einstein & Bohr is a series that combines a large Observing Uncertainty print with the corresponding Observer Effect sequence. They are made to match each other in size to suggest complementarity. This text was written for the exhibition Saccadic Sightings: Einstein & Bohr. The text … Continue reading2011 | Einstein & Bohr
0:46 min. (loop), no sound, 2011 A piece of the original MobileEye tracking footage. Also part of the video installation Looking Out
‘Observing Uncertainty – A Tree in the Forest’ is part of a larger series of work. Click here to see the whole series. The images of ‘Observing Uncertainty’ are stills from the MobileEye recordings. Superimposed on the single frame is the eyetracking data from the … Continue reading2010 | Observing Uncertainty – A Tree in the Forest
Observer Effect: A Tree in the Forest, 220x 20×15 cm c-prints on dibon, 400×165 cm (variable) Observer Effect: A Tree in the Forest is part of a larger series of work. Click here to see the whole series. In the series ‘Observer Effect’ I use … Continue reading2010 | Observer Effect – A Tree in the Forest
In the series ‘Observer Effect’ I use eyetracking data to visualize the foveal vision of my eye (the fovea is a structure in the very center of the eye responsible for full colour and sharp vision. It only covers a very small area of the … Continue reading2010 | Observer Effect – White Dress
In the series ‘Observer Effect’ I use eyetracking data to visualize the foveal vision of my eye (the fovea is a structure in the very center of the eye responsible for full colour and sharp vision. It only covers a very small area of the … Continue reading2010 | Observer Effect – Ophelia
In the series ‘Observer Effect’ I use eyetracking data to visualize the foveal vision of my eye (the fovea is a structure in the very center of the eye responsible for full colour and sharp vision. It only covers a very small area of the … Continue reading2010 | Observer Effect – LNL
Underpass Sequence, installation view In the series ‘Observer Effect’ I use eyetracking data to visualize the foveal vision of my eye (the fovea is a structure in the very center of the eye responsible for full colour and sharp vision. It only covers a very … Continue reading2010 | Observer Effect – Underpass
The images of ‘Observing Uncertainty’ are stills from the MobileEye recordings. Superimposed on the single frame is the eyetracking data from the recording session. — “…In Peitersen’s last show, the uncertainty of one’s perception and the particular reconstruction of the reality in the eye of … Continue reading2010 | Observing Uncertainty II
The images of ‘Observing Uncertainty’ are stills from the MobileEye recordings. Superimposed on the single frame is the eyetracking data from the recording session. — “…In Peitersen’s last show, the uncertainty of one’s perception and the particular reconstruction of the reality in the eye of … Continue reading2010 | Observing Uncertainty I
“…The following step was to ask somebody else to wear the device and to use scientific methods to reconstruct the visual perception of the other. This video material was first presented in Amsterdam in a show entitled “Saccadic Sightings: Ophelia” in 2009, accompanied by photographs … Continue reading2009 | Ophelia
“…The first series of photographs entitled Homunculus (2009) was Peitersen’s first step in working with the visual results. Here, the green-gray images of the scenes recorded while wearing Mobile Eye are overlapped by an image of the all-observing eye. In naming his first series “Homunculus” … Continue reading2009 | Homunculus
Peripheral Panorama was a video installation built specifically for the Project space, Zaal 5, in The Filmhouse in The Hague. As winner of the annual prize competetion, Workspace07, I adapted an idea from an earlier work to fit the specific setting of both The Hague … Continue reading2007 | Peripheral Panorama
Cross003, DVD, 4. min. loop, 2004 “In Cross003, an image resembling a cross is seen, first as a seemingly tangible manifestation – a glowing or burning cross – but secondly as a crevasse in a curtain in a window. The cross consists purely of light, … Continue reading2005 | Cross
[..]Fierce as these works may be, the real horrors are to be found in Peitersen’s darker photos and video’s of love-making couples.[…] …Peitersen’s bizarre retardations provide ample stimulation to look at reality with a widely awakened gaze. … Continue reading2001-2004 | Flesh