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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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I wrote this 7 years ago In it I called for cities to better embrace greenery, reflective coatings, water and shading to tackle urban heat. More relevant than ever…. www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This is Tools (v005), a virtual sculpture - a 3d scan of an assembly of various objects that one way or another connect to my art studio. The merged mesh is a way for my digital practice to connect to the ‘history of things’ (Kubler, 1962). Read more here: objkt.com/tokens/KT1Hg... #prehistory

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Hi all! For a new art project, I am looking for research and specialists on the domestication(s) of wolves (becoming dogs). Any anthropologists/archaeologists out there that I can connect to (and pick their brains 😀)? It will become a (digitally animated) video installation.

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Interesting book presentation and panel conversation yesterday at het paleis in Antwerp about the experience of war outside of the actual war zones. The evening began with a powerful poem written and read by Yousra Benfquih (first part in photos). toneelhuis.be/nl/programma...

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

with fellow artistic researchers @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social and Nele Möller, I organise Speaking Afield: interdisciplinary walks & discussions with academic and scientific researchers in the field of ecology & biology. Here a few weeks ago with @janverpooten.bsky.social in the Antwerp harbour.

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I am taking a stand with United Artists for Climate during COP30, a global campaign by contemporary artists committed to the environment for COP30 We want: To RAISE CLIMATE AMBITION To adopt the (TFFF) to protect forests To place CULTURE at the heart of climate action #UnitedArtistsForClimate

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Friends! Enemies! It's been a while since my last newsletter, and I would like to share my recent adventures, including a philosophy x art conference, an AR installation, and the acquisition of my audio work on vinyl, The Compositor/Composing, by the Middelheim Museum! mailchi.mp/4699e3ed14fe...

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Tomorrow at 11h, Blunderen festival opens in Bunde, near Maastricht. I will give a talk and a workshop revolving around the Carboniferous era, and you can visit my AR installation (filmed below on The Plot, a regenerating little forest in The Netherlands). www.bonnefanten.nl/nl/agenda/bl...

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Sunday, October 5th, my first ever augmented reality installation ‘opens’ as part of Blunderen festival, a coproduction of The Butterfly House and Bonnefanten museum Maastricht. An artistic information panel points to the browser-based work, Carbon Complex 👉www.carboncomplex.alexandracrouwers.com

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

In the EU? Please take a moment to sign this petition. Because what kind of species are we, allowing this ruthless planetary pillaging to continue? Destroying so many nonhuman cohabitants’ lives and habitats? We must be mad, right? act.greens-efa.eu/habitats?utm...

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Hands Off Nature - Stop the right from dismantling nature

Send an email to relevant EPP Members of the European Parliament who can make a difference.

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Hallo! This short text is written out of frustration with the misunderstandings about what it means to have a digital art practice in the context of the traditional arts. The situation is based on my observations in Belgium. Allow me to explain: www.linkedin.com/pulse/digita...

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Digital art & the knowledge gap of the contemporary art world: an advice.

This short text is written out of ongoing frustration with the many misunderstandings about what it means to have a digital art practice in the context of the traditional fine arts. The situation is b...

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Some bronze age stops in our Sweden road trip up north: drawings that were ‘in use’ between 6,000 and 1,000 years ago - near the magnificent Flatruet (broken arrow points nearby suggest the drawings were shot at), and a beautiful stone ship (apprx. 4,000 years old) near Strömstad.

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Meanwhile, in Cannes, a @tezos.com 5x5 projection with my Tools (v004) for @digitalcoleman.art ‘s curation. Filmed by @aleksandra.art - sent by @ganbrood.bsky.social Looks fantastic like this, yay!

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Cancelled OpenAI subscription today. I explored it as an aid for my thesis for a year, but over the last six months it became increasingly difficult to work with: sometimes it was excellent, but often it just went off rail. & You don’t want that level of unpredictability in your military, right?

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Preparing for a studio visit tomorrow AND the presentation of the virtual sculpture Tools (v004) at the Flemish Royal Academy for Science and the Arts in Brussels next week. I do seem to accumulate a lot of equipment, I noticed. I buy used mostly, and repurpose them for art. Artistic refurbishing!

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Hive mind of the interwebs! Can anyone tell me something about this vessel I found in an Antwerp thrift shop? It looks old, but I can’t find similar shapes to compare. (I have a thing for old, basic pottery, so couldn’t resist taking this one home 😀) #pottery

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ecstasy & Orewoet Museum PARCUM, Belgium May 10 - November 9, 2025 Showing Fundamental Mechanics (2019-2020). With works by Marina Abramović, Jeremy Shaw, Emma Talbot, Sylvie Fleury, Laure Prouvost, melanie bonajo, Tianzhuo Chen, Bogomir Doringer, Dome Wood, Alyson Sillon and Alexandra Crouwers.

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Opening May 9, and running until November 9: ‘Ecstacy & Orewoet’ at museum PARCUM in Leuven (BE), about the ‘unio mystica’ in contemporary art and historical religious art. www.abdijvanpark.be/en/exhibitio... With 👁️ @bogomirdoringer.bsky.social , @domewood.bsky.social , Laure Provost, and more 🪜

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Kids! Podcast tip: I recently became mildly addicted to the @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social The Blindboy Podcast. Do yourself a favour; it’s the equivalent of a warm bath of associative thinking. Start with this one: podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/t... You’ll become an expert in Irish mythologies 😀

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How I humiliated myself in a Canteen full of Accountants

Podcast Episode · The Blindboy Podcast · 15/01/2025 · 1h 9m

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

☎️ The 2-frame gif ‘Emergency’ (2022) is part of the ‘Shifting Landscapes’ screening programme running April 4 - May 5 in Wintercircus, Ghent (BE). Curated by @dianedrubay.bsky.social with a.o. @memoakten.bsky.social @claudiabraileanu.bsky.social @kelly-richardson.bsky.social @cerensu.bsky.social

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

May 9 opens ‘Ecstasy & Oerewoet’ at museum PARCUM in Leuven (Belgium), a transhistorical exhibition on the search for ‘unio mystica’ in art. My phone-based ‘Fundamental Mechanics’ are in it! Next to Marina Abramovic, Laure Provost, Melanie Bonajo, and many others. On view until November.

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I am so proud to have my virtual 3d sculpture ‘Tools (v003)’ be included in the Museum of Stone Tools, an initiative by prof. Mark Moore of the University of New England. The Contemporary Art category also includes a digitally sharpened chert by Dov Ganchrow. stonetoolsmuseum.com/artefact/eur...

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hey kids! Check out my totally revamped website! I tried to keep it as lean as possible, but could not resist turning the landing page into a circus, with all the browser-based fun and what not. It even has a little shop! Quick, go here: alexandracrouwers.com Let me know what you think.

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Today ends the Hydromedia: Seeing with Water group show at the Museum of Technology (Technische Sammlungen) in Dresden. The exhibition includes my work ‘Nereda 2: a Hydromancy’ - which is also shown this weekend in London (see quoted posts). www.alexandracrouwers.com/nereda-2-a-h...

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A quick update on recent and upcoming exhibitions, screenings and projects: both online and in physical spaces! 🥳 Do subscribe if you like the content - I make these irregularly, only 4-6 times a year or so. mailchi.mp/0443a1b7f937...

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Alex/andra Crouwers | Newsletter | March 2025

Ongoing and upcoming digital and real-world exhibitions, an Instagram live interview and more in my latest newsletter!

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Had a talk on my work yesterday on Instagram live with @officeimpart.bsky.social ‘s Johanna Neuschäffer and @dianedrubay.bsky.social on the occasion of ‘Down the Silicon Meadow’ - on view until June on down-the-silicon-meadow.common.garden 15 minute interview 👇 www.instagram.com/reel/DHEGAk1...

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Using this first Flashes post to announce an Instagram live interview happening tomorrow between me and Diane Drubay and Office Impart gallery (Berlin) on the occasion of our group show ‘Down the Silicon Meadow’! Tune in at 4PM CET (16h) and listen to me ramble about deep history.

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🔔❕ Recommendation! ‘Det Digit’ (Netherlands, 1935-2024) was a pioneer in digital fabulation, traveling across the world (and to Mars) through messageboards and self-built websites. Working on the artworld’s sideline, her work was finally recognised with this survey: underbelly.nu/product/det-...

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Dwaze Verrukking | Foolish Delight - Underbelly

One of the first female digital and internet artists in the Netherlands! Det Digit (1935-2024) combined technology and art to explore themes of chaos, structure, nature and technology

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

International women’s day and my mother’s 80th birthday 🥳 My mom who - started beekeeping aged 75 - has a wonderful ecological garden with native plants, trees and herbs - bakes the best pancakes - can crack a joke - tells stories about animals (especially squirrels) - loves to thriftshop ♥️🍀

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Kids! Important news: NGMI, my experimental short animation (12 minutes, 2022) responding to post-pandemic sentiments is now public on YT: youtu.be/FQ-956YMVV0?... NGMI stands for 'not gonna make it'. The title song is an anthem for the end of the world as we know it. Audio on! Singalong!

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

One of the main issues with the lack of environmental action is caused by too many people in this region thinking that pollution and waste are developing countries’ problems, simply because our cities, gardens and highways look ‘clean’. Air quality in Antwerp today and yesterday: “horrible”.

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Solidarity post! Code Red, combining activist movements of Belgium including Extinction Rebellion, is protesting at a Belgian dependance of Cargill, a US monstrosity of food production, food trade and greenwashing. Tomorrow, at 10AM at Mechelen train station: code-rouge.be/en/join-us/s...

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Allow me to brag a little bit: my recent nft editions Tools v003 and v004 are doing surprisingly good in a so-called ‘bear market’ (crypto jargon can be cute) and with a minimum of shilling (yes, ‘shilling’ 😀). 👇 objkt.com/tokens/KT1QE... objkt.com/tokens/KT1Jh...

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Now available: ‘Tools v004’ 🥳 for 60 Tez as part of @digitalcoleman.art x Cyberforms ‘5x5 EARTH’. Visit Tools: objkt.com/tokens/KT1Jh... Read what Chris writes about EARTH: objkt.com/collections/...

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 24/02/2025

I curated a small show of work around the idea of EARTH with artists I deeply admire. objkt.com/collections/... With @rujunko.bsky.social @mrprudence.bsky.social @stusontier.bsky.social @acrwrs.bsky.social and Subnet

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A World Reimagined (banned) - Chat GPT & Eliminated words by Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing”.) Here’s a poem that incorporates all the words you provided:

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Code Rouge / Rood @coderougerood.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Read our demands towards agribusiness. We want a food system that respects farmers, provides healthy food for everyone and does not harm the planet. 💚✊ 👉 Sign up for our action: tally.so/r/nGqEAz 🙌 👉 Read more about our story: code-rouge.be/nl/over-ons/... 💚

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Stoked to have my film x audio work ‘Nereda 2: a Hydromancy’ at the Conjuring Creativity conference in London on March 15&16! Also on view at the Technische Sammlungen in Dresden until March 16. Below, the installation at Secondroom in Antwerp last year. Audio on! conjuringcreativity.org