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![When fox and rabbit say goodnight.]( "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.")
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![When fox and rabbit say goodnight.]( "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.")
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![In My Tender Care]( "In My Tender Care")
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![In My Tender Care]( "In My Tender Care")
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![In My Tender Care]( "In My Tender Care")
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![In My Tender Care]( "In My Tender Care")
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The trailer of the expanded cinema installation "In My Tender Care".
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The trailer of the expanded cinema installation "Fiesta".
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![When fox and rabbit say goodnight.]( "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.")
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![When fox and rabbit say goodnight.]( "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.")
infoA still from the film.
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![When fox and rabbit say goodnight.]( "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.")
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![When fox and rabbit say goodnight.]( "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.")
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The short film, “When fox and rabbit say goodnight.”
Presenting clearly artificial depictions of humans as closely to their real counterparts.
Finn Stevenhagen is a filmmaker and installation artist who uses computer animation, scenography and animatronics to explore the limitations of human expression through fictional narratives. The quality and presentation of the narratives are dictated by their themes as the mediums shift with the characters.
In 2022, Finn Stevenhagen was given an honorary award in the Computer Animation category of Prix Ars Electronica for the short film ‘When fox and rabbit say goodnight.’ and it has since been screened in the Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Turkey, Hong Kong and the USA. In 2023, he became an artist member of Pulchri Studio, The Hague, NL.
Websites
Personal website
finnstevenhagenfilm.weebly.com/portfolio.htmlSocial media
Member of a professional association/artists’ association
Pulchri Studio
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2019 - 2023ArtScience BA Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
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2018 - 2019Art Foundation The Royal Drawing School, London diploma
exhibitions
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2023Screentime #6 Pulchri Studio Den Haag, Netherlands My short film, "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.", was screened at Pulchri Studio for one month. www.pulchri.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/screentime-6/ Group
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2023WATERPIECES 2023 | INTERNATIONAL VIDEO AND CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL NOASS art centre Riga, Latvia My short film, "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.", was screened. www.noass.lv/en/waterpieces/ Group
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2023ANIMATIONS Ars Electronica Patchlab Digital Art Festival Krakow, Poland My short film, "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.", was screened. en.patchlab.pl/ Group
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2023Microwave International New Media Arts Festival My short film, "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.", was screened. www.microwavefest.net/festival2023/?id=ScreeningProgramme Group
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2023ANILOGUE 2023 Uránia National Film Theater Budapest, Hungary My short film, "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.", was screened. urania-nf.hu/anilogue-2023/anilogue-2023-ars-electronica Group
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2023Matters of Being #10 iii Den Haag, Netherlands My short film, "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.", was screened at the 10th edition of Matters of Being at iii. instrumentinventors.org/agenda/matters-of-being-10/ Group
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2023Honk! Club Laak Den Haag, Netherlands Self organised and crowd funded group exhibition where I showed my work, "In My Tender Care". www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/14671-honk-artscience-graduation-preview-show Group
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2022Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition Ars Electronica Festival Linz, Austria My short film, "When fox and rabbit say goodnight.", won an honorary award at the Ars Electronica Festival 2022. calls.ars.electronica.art/2022/prix/winners/9092/ Group
Projects
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2023
In My Tender Care Den Haag, Netherlands finnstevenhagenfilm.weebly.com/in-my-tender-care.html “In My Tender Care” is an expanded cinema installation chronicling the estrangement between Charlie and his mother. Originating from a screenplay, the installation seeks to give agency back to the audience by removing the chronology of a film’s timeline. Consisting of animatronic talking mouths in a set, a floor to ceiling projection of computer generated animations, and two additional video works presented on CRT TV screens, “In my tender care” presents turning points and whole acts simultaneously, locked in scenes that are scattered across the room. Exploring each scene will expose more of the story and they can be viewed in any order. Characters, who take on the forms of disembodied floating mouths and digital humans, inherit empathy through the fidelity of their animator. As artificial forms, these characters are pushed to encounter the limits of what emotions their bodies can perform. By juxtaposing a characters’ limited ability of expression with their desire to do just that, one presents clearly artificial depictions of humans as closely to their real counterparts.
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2021
When fox and rabbit say goodnight. Den Haag, Netherlands finnstevenhagenfilm.weebly.com/when-fox-and-rabbit-say-goodnight.html “When fox and rabbit say goodnight." is a short film following a boy on his search for love and constancy. The film appropriates the hollow animation aesthetic of early 2000s' video games to explore the themes of neglect and grief through the limited dialogue, body language, and the depiction of characters. Negligence during the modeling, texturing, and animation stages has become the basis of the unspoken narrative and reinforces the themes.
Commissions
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2022What does that have to do with me? Parallel World Labs, Canada Mannheim, Germany "What does that have to do with me?", is a permanent multimedia exhibition at the Marchivum in Mannheim, Germany. A collaboration between Parallel World Labs, the Marchivum, and Tatwerk/finke media, this poignant exhibition takes a deep dive into Mannheim's Nazi era and asks the following key questions: What changes when a democracy is destroyed by a dictatorship? And how does democracy succeed again afterwards? This highly interactive digital exhibition tells the history of Mannheim during the Nazi dictatorship. I created the animations of its water installation. www.pwlabs.com/our-work/was-hat-das-mit-mir-zu-tun-what-does-that-have-to-do-with-me
Awards and grants
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2022Prix Ars Electronica 2022 Prix Ars Electronica Linz, Austria Received an Honorary Award in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2022.
Representation
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Secondary art-related activities
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2023 - 2023Guest lecturer on Expanded Cinema at ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL.
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2023 - --Guest teacher of 3D modelling for the "3D LAB IST" at KABK, The Hague, NL. On-going