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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 2d

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!

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 5d

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).

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 10d

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

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

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.

act.greens-efa.eu

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Aug 27

“AI is a lie” by @wesleygoatley.bsky.social

www.idler.co.uk/article/the-...
(read with a free account)

The AI Con | Idler

From our new issue – out now

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Aug 20

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:

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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...

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Jul 3

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Jul 3

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 · Jul 2

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?

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · May 27

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 · May 23

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 · May 3

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 · May 2

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 🪜

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Apr 23

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 😀

How I humiliated myself in a Canteen full of Accountants

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

podcasts.apple.com

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Apr 16

☎️ 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 · Apr 15

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 · Mar 28

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.

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Mar 22

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Mar 21

Aw thanks!

alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Mar 21

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 · Mar 16

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 · Mar 14

Well, it’s a transitional phase, right? Nobody is nowhere and most people are everywhere, in short.

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Mar 12

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · Mar 12

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.

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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!

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