Off-Stage – Klaas Verpoest

WASP-107b

Klaas — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:26:02 +0000

Together with my collegue Johan Van Looveren at the Media & Information Design department of LUCA School of Arts, we visualised data collected by a team of European astronomers led by Prof Leen Decin of KU Leuven’s Institute of Astronomy.

Through the James Webb Space Telescope – NASA’s most powerful telescope – the team discovered the presence of water vapour, sulphur dioxide and sand clouds on the exoplanet WASP-107b. Using specialised imaging techniques, Klaas Verpoest and Johan Van Looveren captured this almost indecipherable data (an endless stream of numbers) from a planet never really seen.
The results of this groundbreaking study were published by the leading scientific journal Nature on 15 November 2023. Immediately afterwards, the news found resonance in the national and international press (VRT news, De Standaard, De Morgen, HLN, The Guardian, USA Today, The Independent, Forbes…).

Credits:
Illustration: LUCA School of Arts, Belgium/ Klaas Verpoest (visuals), Johan Van Looveren (typography).
Science: Achrène Dyrek (CEA and Université Paris Cité, France), Michiel Min (SRON, the Netherlands), Leen Decin (KU Leuven, Belgium) / European MIRI EXO GTO team / ESA / NASA

The Solitary One

Klaas — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:20:05 +0000

There you are, solitary in the middle of a pitch-black hole. How did you get there, and how could you get out? You’re shouting, screaming, signaling to the outside world, but everything seems to return to you like a boomerang. Nothing can escape the horizon, or does it? Is there something or someone out there who might see or hear your experience inside?

‘The Solitary One’ is a performative installation transforming the most extreme and paradoxical object that our universe harbours – a black hole – into an immersive audiovisual experience.

Visual artist Klaas Verpoest, sound artist Vincent Caers and cellist-composer Benjamin Glorieux tend to unite art and science in their individual work. A shared fascination for the inexplicable aspects of a black hole and the concepts of space and time led to a joint venture in which they explore the artistic potential of their combined disciplines for illustrating these themes. Along the way they collaborated with theoretical physicist Stéphane Detournay. Their aim is not to provide a scientific explanation, which remains the scientist’s task, but instead to create an immersive installation offering the audience an opportunity for experiencing cosmological phenomena and the incredible forces driving them.

October 23, 2021 – Februari 27, 2022: ‘Cosmos’ Exhibition – CID Grand Hornu, Hornu [B]
October 23, 2021: Opening performance ‘Cosmos’ Exhibition – CID Grand Hornu, Hornu [B]
February 18, 2022: Closing performance ‘Cosmos’ Exhibition – CID Grand Hornu, Hornu [B]
September 8, 2023 – February 4, 2024: Space is the Place exhibition – MUDAC, Lausanne (CH)
December 7, 2023: Space is the Place performance – MUDAC, Lausanne (CH)

Credits:
Vincent Caers: Sound Artist
Benjamin Glorieux: Cellist/Composer
Stéphane Detournay: Scientific Advisor
Klaas Verpoest: Video artist

©PhotoVirginieSchreyen

Birds in Berlin | Liesa Van Der Aa

Klaas — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:42:46 +0000

Liesa Van Der Aa’s debut album TROOPS. Presented in 10 different video’s by 10 different artists from 10 different songs, written and composed by Liesa Van der Aa.
Together with Ief Spincemaille I created the videoclip for the song “Birds in Berlin”.

Concept: Ief Spincemaille
Video: Klaas Verpoest & Ief Spincemaille
Song: “Birds in Berlin” is written, composed & performed by Liesa Van Der Aa

The album TROOPS was released on Februry 6th – 2012.

Huree

Klaas — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:53:38 +0000

An animation based on the free association of found images. The animation is laid out on the double bass solo ‘Huree 5’ by Peter Jacquemyn.

Motion: Klaas Verpoest
Sound: Peter Jacquemyn

I claim no ownership or copyright of any of the images in this film.
If you are the owner of a specific image & would like it edited or removed, please email.

Versporen

Klaas — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:49:24 +0000

The poem ‘Versporen’ by Chantal Sap has one central theme: the Holocaust trains during WWII, in contrast to the current human migrations in Europe.
This poem is based on ‘Different Trains’, a three-movement piece for string quartet and tape written by Steve Reich in 1988.

Words: Chantal Sap
Kinetic Typography: Klaas Verpoest

14.05.2011 – 05.06.2011: ‘Gëent’, exhibition at the St.Norbertuspoort – Abdij van Park, Leuven [B].

Sea Of Tranquillity | Hans Op De Beeck

Klaas — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:13:11 +0000

Title Sequence & closing Credit animation for ‘Sea Of Tranquillity’
Written and Directed by Hans Op de Beeck.

The medium-length film ‘Sea of Tranquillity’ is a combination of live video recordings of actors and digitally-generated 3D environments in which the viewer makes a night-time visit to a mysterious, mythical cruise liner, the ‘Sea of Tranquillity’.

Visit Studio Hans Op De Beeck for further information

25.01 – 02.04.2011:Argos (B)

Het Huwelijk | Willem Elsschot

Klaas — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:09:53 +0000

“Het Huwelijk” is a poem by the Belgian writer Willem Elsschot.
The typographic interpretation was made for “Tussen droom en Daad”,
the opening festival of the Willem Elsschot year in Antwerp.

Voice: Jan Decleir
Animation: Klaas Verpoest
a BEHOUD DE BEGEERTE production

29.05.2010: Premiere at Vlinderpaleis – Antwerp (B)

Interlude 4: Random thought while cutting carrots.

Klaas — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:52:06 +0000

Part of a series of short animations – Work&Play, this can be anything..

Tita

Klaas — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:49:24 +0000

Tita is an animated short based on a random selection of picture-sequences of aquarelle paintings and charcoal drawings. The video edit emphasizes on the cohesion of sound and motion.

Sigrid tanghe – Paintings, Peter Jacquemyn – Drawings
Klaas Verpoest – Motion Design
Peter Jacquemyn – DoubleBass/Voice, Jan Pillaert – Tuba/Voice

Idiosyncratic 1

Klaas — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:15:33 +0000

A dancer captures his movement in a graphic notation system…

a film by Klaas Verpoest and Patrick Keulemans

Seppe Baeyens – Performer
Peter Jacquemyn & John Edwards – Double Base
Michael W.Huon – Audio Recording
Cinematography, Editing and Post-Production – Klaas Verpoest