This five-minute piece is part of my course requirement for a Masters in Digital Arts at Wits University for Christo Doherty. (Course -- WSOA 7007: Critical Debates in Digital Art and Culture.) In it, I discuss the 'Modern Living/Neurotica' series of interactive Flash animations by Nederlands artist, Han Hoogerbrugge. The series is at http://ml.ho...

One of the famous Hoogerbrugge animations

HOTEL is the trailer of an interactive animation in 10 episodes created by Han Hoogerbrugge. Watch the complete series on SubmarineChannel: http://www.submarinechannel.com/hotel HOTEL takes place in the anonymous space of an extraordinary and strange hotel. This hotel is the home base of Preconstruction, the company run by Dr. Doglin. The evil Dr ...

Arte flash de las manos del mejor artista digital

"You've got to..." by The Young Punx. Video by cult internet animator Han Hoogerbrugge.

Here the Hoogerbrugge-avatar dances smoothly in the spotlight. Until you click on him. Then the music changes, and he turns into a skeleton doing the same smooth moves. Each time you click, the change happens, with a library of different tunes backing the action.

A closeup snippet of Han Hoogerbrugge's scene in the "Modern Living/Neurotica" series. I used this to open my presentation, and a little later in the body of the presentation. What's happening here is that Hans self-portrait avatar averts his eyes when the mouse is off him. Every now and again, the eyes make fleeting contact with the viewer/inte...

The viewer/manipulator moves their mouse over Hoogerbrugge's avatar. This makes the shadow hand behind the avatar move in circles above the avatar's head. This in turn makes the avatar move his head around in a daze. A click, and the avatar slaps his own face with both hands, and both shadow and avatar appear to be in pain. Who's in control here? ...

Han's Avatar is banging away at a computer keyboard. When a viewer rests their mouse on the Hoogerbrugge lookalike, he stops typing, and looks imploringly at the viewer. When you click, the avatar leaps into the computer screen with a loud 'whoosh', only to emerge again from nowhere.

The screen loads up with a white cross in view. When you slide your mouse over the cross, a maniacal Hoogerbrugge-avatar dances puppet-like beneath the holy symbol. His eyes look demonic. His hands curl lasciviously.

Hoogerbrugge's avatar appears in the cross hairs of a rifle's telescopic sights. When the viewer/transgressor clicks, the avatar performs some form of gruesome self-mutilation, accompanied by what turns out to be a camera shutter. Compelling stuff.

The title track from The Young Punx' debut album "Your music is killing me". Animated video by Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge. www.theyoungpunx.com www.hoogerbrugge.com

In Hoogerbrugge's "#90: Black Hole Vertigo", when the interactor/user/viewer clicks on the upside-down man, he flips over, while the entire interface also flips over. This leaves the whole screen upside down, until you click on the dude again. You can navigate away from the piece to other pieces, and they stay upside down. One of the interesting th...

http://www.theyoungpunx.com http://www.laurakidd.co.uk Behind the scenes of the recent video shoot for MASHitUP, by The Young Punx featuring Laura Kidd. See the finished video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YCwQOrZCns Filming and photography by James Cumpsty and animation by Han Hoogerbrugge. http://www.8x10.co.uk http://www.hoogerbrugg...

Here Han Hoogerbrugge's avatar responds to your mouse movement by reaching up, and tearing off the mask he's wearing. This reveals that beneath the mask is his own face. Which is yet another mask. Not to mention the buzzing of the flies!

Animated video for "Wake up, make up, bring it up, shake up" by UK mashed up electronica act The Young Punx. Video created by dutch artist Han Hoogerbrugge. The song is based on a loop from an early song by The Police. Taken from their album "Your music is killing me".

http://www.theyoungpunx.com MASHitUP by The Young Punx featuring Laura Kidd, currently on release in Japan on Young Punx mini album 'One Point Five'. Filmed by James Cumpsty and animated by Han Hoogerbrugge.

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From album Cago. Animation by Han Hoogerbrugge.

Trailer of the Theatre-Dance-Comedy-Show LA SCHMOOVE by Sascha Engel. Performance: Sascha Engel, Peter Cseri & Dan Hayward. Animations by Han Hoogerbrugge. Artistic Advice: Andreas Scharfenberg.

Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim)'s remix of "You've got to..." by The Young Punx featuring a sample of Manu Chao's "Bongo Bong / King of the bongo". Video by Han Hoogerbrugge.

An interactive concert held in Japan, produced by Gil Kuno of Unsound.com. The audience was given headphone radios to tune into the artists of their choice. 4 DJs and 4 VJs were performing simultaneously to the same beat. Everyone was able to mix and match their favorite DJ/VJ combination.

An sci-fi dance film about fighting for freedom-of body & mind. Fight The Power-always!!! Written, Directed and Edited by Sascha Engel. Produced by Kees Kasander-Kasander Film. Premiered at the International Rotterdam Film Festival 2004.

Meltin'Pot fashion show at the Angel Orensanz Center, February 8, 2006. Live event & interview with Augusto Romano,owner,general manager; Han Hoogerbrugge, animation artist;Fabio Novembre, architect. The animation was based on the film "The Lives of the Saints" ..see trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn9wtvYbJBs

The leader of Holland Animation Film Festival's 2004 edition. This leader was made by Han Hoogerbrugge, Jeroen Beltman (3-D), Aad den Ouden (Geluid).

Available in NTSC and PAL: http://www.submarinechannel.com/shop This DVD represents the best of what SubmarineChannel has to offer, featuring shorts, animations and music videos by upcoming as well as established creative talents of today's moving image culture. The DVD contains 14 short films from SubmarineChannel's 'Chunks' program with works ...

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2008 show reel of dutch production company Shop Around.

A tribute to the Samois Jazz festival

Music video for the song MASHitUP by The Young Punx featuring Laura Kidd. Filmed around Hoxton and at "Phone in sick" club at the Electricity Showrooms. Post-production and animation by Han Hoogerbrugge. Guitar by Guthrie Govan.