2024
Bits and Atoms, Transmedia Research Institute, Pesaro, IT
Inframundos, Las Cigarreras Centro Cultural, Alicante, ES
The Queer Geobacter, Quartair, The Hague, NL
Plastic Tides, Mono8 Gallery, Manila, PH
More exhibitions
2023
The Outburst of the Digital Swamp, The Overkill, Enschede, NL
Feral Bodies, Synthetic Rituals, Uroboros Festival, Prague, CZ
Introduction on DDW, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
Maria Islands, Modeka Art, Manila, PH
TEST_LAB: Summer Sessions, V2_, Rotterdam, NL
Water Cities RotterdamNieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
Fragments, FIBER Festival, Amsterdam, NL
The Measure of the World, Radius CCA, Delft, NL
2022
Alternative Realities, Amare, Den Haag, NL
In:Visibilities, Balance Club Culture Festival, Leipzig, DE
Future Fossils, Tetem, Enschede, NL
Feminist Futures, Internationales Frauen* Theaer-Festival,Frankfurt, DE
The Transient Life of the Supernova, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
Deep in Vogue, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
2021
Collective Masquerade, The Overkill Festival, Enschede, NL
From Then to Here, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, NL
Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend, Het Wijkpaleis, Rotterdam, NL
Infocalypse Now, Yours TruthfullyGOGBOT Festival, Tetem, Enschede, NL
2020
Data-West, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
BIO26 Common Knowledge, MAO Museum, Ljubljana, SL
2024
Theater Rotterdam x Roffa Mon Amour, Rotterdam, NL
More scrennings
2023
Fifth Wall Fest, Manila, PH
2022
Open Doek Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam, NL
Ballroom Takeover Maaspodium, Rotterdam, NL
Ballroom Takeover Maaspodium, Rotterdam, NL
Groot Rotterdam Ateliers Weekend .zip, Rotterdam, NL
Queer Film Festival Utrecht Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Melkweg x IQMF Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL
Amsterdam Pride Waterkant, Amsterdam, NL
Habitat Cà de Monti, Tredozio, IT
Rooftop Cinema Volkshotel, Amsterdam, NL
Midzomer Festival M Leuven, Leuven, BE
Queer in Wonderlan EKKO, Utrecht, NL
Museumnacht Rotterdam Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
KO(o)RTS The Overkill Festival, Enschede, NL
1-euro Cinema The Overkill Festival, NL
Supernova Cinema International Queer Migrant Festival, Amsterdam, NL
2024
'Planetary health in the Anthropocene: transdisciplinary practices towards decolonial climate futures', EASST-4S Amsterdam, Making and doing transformations
'Transoceanic Mythologies', Heimland Festival, Diepenheim, NL
'Climate Futures', Estratos, Alicante, ES
More talks / workshops
2023
‘Maria Islands’ Modeka Art, Manila, PH
‘Collaborative Worldbuilding’ Impakt/Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
‘Maria Islands’ De Kazerne, Eindhoven, NL
‘Climate Futures’ Flotsam, San Juan, PH
‘Worlding’ Emerging Islands, San Juan, PH
‘Climate Futures’ (online), AIxDesign, NL
2022
‘Climate Futures’ Society 5.0 Festival, Amsterdam, NL
‘Climate Futures’, Uruboros Festival, Prague, CZ
‘Future Fossils’ Tetem, Enschede, NL
‘Future Fossils’ Cross-TIC, Enschede, NL
2021
‘Preferable AI Futures’ The Hmm, Amsterdam, NL
‘Collaborative Worldbuilding’ Roodkapje, Rotterdam, NL
‘Mutant Myth Worlds’ FIBER, Amsterdam, NL
‘How to Wake Up the Ghosts’ Tetem, Enschede, NL
‘Preferable AI Futures’ (online) PRIMER EU, Madrid, ES
‘Preferable AI Futures’ (online), Umanesimo Artificiale, IT
‘Preferable AI Futures’ (online) Uroboros Festival, Prague, CZ
‘Collaborative Worldbuilding’ AKI Academy of Art and Design, Enschede, NL
‘Preferable AI Futures’ (online), AIxDesign, Amsterdam, NL
2024
Bits and Atoms, Transmedia Research Institute, 3-month research residency, Fano/online, IT
La Cuarta Piel, 1-month research residency, Alicante, ES
More residencies / grants
2023
Summer Sessions, 2-month production residency, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, NL
Emerging Islands, 2-month research residency, San Juan, La Union, PH
2022
Habitat, 1-month research residency Cà de Monti, Tredozio, IT
2021
Hamburger Community, 10-months residency program, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, NL
Erik holds a BA in Crossmedia Design from AKI ArtEZ in Enschede, as well as having studied Design for Art Direction at the London College of Communication.
Some of their recent projects include audiovisual installation The World's Green is Rotting Lime (2023), exhibition series Maria Islands (2023–) and game installation Before the Deluge (2024–). Their work has been exhibited at the 26th Biennial of Design of Ljubljana, Radius CCA, Dutch Design Week, Las Cigarreras, Balance Club Culture Festival, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Nieuwe Instituut, and Roodkapje, amongst others.
They work for cultural institutions like Het Nieuwe Instituut, TENT and Wintertuin, are involved with projects with Valiz and the AIxDesign community, and frequently give talks and workshops at organisations such as FIBER, Sonic Acts and The Hmm.