Marc Boumeester
Marc Boumeester (born 1965) is a Dutch artist. He is currently the director of AKI Academy of Art and Design, part of Artez Institute of the Arts.
He holds a doctoral degree from Leiden University, Centre for the Arts in Society. At an early age, Marc Boumeester developed a fascination for exploring the urban fabric. In the absence of other humans, he explored vast areas of residential, commercial and industrial terrain during nightly bicycle rides.
Boumeester has worked as head of production for a range of television and film production companies. In this capacity, he has realised over sixty productions, ranging from commercials to (international) feature films. He has also directed several experimental reportages on cityscapes and the visual identities of particular urban settings. Over the last decade, his focus has shifted from a practical to a theoretical perspective. Boumeester has been involved in the development of several new educational programmes for both bachelor's and master's degree courses.
In 2003 he co-coordinated an experimental research studio called ‘Camera Eye’ at the faculty of architecture at Delft University of Technology. This led to his appointment as a researcher/lecturer at the Delft School of Design.
In 2006, he expanded his teaching career to AKI Academy of Art and Design, and a year later he became involved in the foundation of the Interactive/ Media/ Design department at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. He led this department until 2015. At the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Boumeester was involved in the foundation of the Academy for Art, Communication and Design.
Boumeester has lectured and conducted workshops in a number of universities and art schools around the world, from Tokyo and New York to Moscow, Budapest and Nanjing. He has been involved in several international research projects, such as the research group ‘What Images Do!’, in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and The National Center of Competence in Research ‘Eikones – Iconic Criticism’ in Basel. He has published in a number of academic books and journals in the fields of media philosophy and art theory.
Publications
- (2016) The Impredicative City :or What Can a Boston Square Do? Article in the book Deleuze and the City, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press.
- (2016) The desire of the medium. Ph.D. Leiden University
- (2015) De e(s)thisch-politieke verantwoordelijkheid van de provocateur. Article in De Mythe van de Hedendaagsheid, Cahier book series. Brussels: Acco Uitgeverij.
- (2015) ‘Camera Eye’: Cinematic Studio Research into Architectural Practice in peer reviewed journal Architecture and Culture Vol. 3, Issue no.1 'Architecture Film', Bloomsbury Press.
- (2014) De gespecialiseerde generalist; Kunst en Design en het Osmotisch Oxymoron. Article in Cahier, volume 6. Tilburg: Fontys Press.
- (2014) The Bodyless Shadow; towards a Meta-medial framework. Article in Drawing-On, peer reviewed Academic Journal of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
- (2014) Medium Affect Desire: Hybridising Real Virtual and the Actualised through Affective Medium Ecology. In Footprint peer reviewed Architectural Journal, Delft University of Technology.
- (2012) The Asignifying Affordance of Assemblage: Enactive Embodied Embedded and Extended Urban Cartography .(pp. 13–23) in Architectural Journal nr.8, 2012 Beijing :The Architectural Society of China, PR China.
- (2011) Three Arms of Wisdom. In A Bal-Sanders, G.J.B. Bruyns & J. Schaap (Eds.), Liber Gratulatoria Arie Graafland (pp. 146–149). Delft: Delft School of Design.
- (2011) Reconsidering Cinematic Mapping: Halfway Between Collected Subjectivity and Projective Mapping. In F Penz & A Lu (Eds.), Urban Cinematics; understanding urban phenomena through the moving image (pp. 239–256). Bristol: Intellect, The Mill, United Kingdom.
- (2009) Cinematic mapping reviewed; transitioning to "collected subjectivism' by transferring media typologies. In Francois Penz & Andon Lu (Eds.), Urban Cinematics (pp. 90–99), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.