Artist Name

Verstegen Soetkin

Residency Program Title

The Persistence of Memory - Dementia and Digital Aid Tools for Decision-Making

Residency Program

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Institute Lab Title

Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine IBME, University of Zurich / Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich

Artistic Background

Animation

Scientific Discipline

Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy, History of Medicine, Medicine

Video

Gallery

Biography

Biography

Brussel based Soetkin Verstegen (*1982) is an animated filmmaker with a handmade practice and a focus on documentary. Based on her interdisciplinary research she developes short animated films layered with different techniques, experiments and found footage. She studied Audiovisual Arts in Brussels and Cultural Studies in Leuven. Previously she was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany and artist-in-residence at Saari residency in Finland as well as at the AniDox:Residency in Denmark.

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Project

In previous films Soetkin Verstegen used the decaying qualities of image carriers as a poetic metaphor for an altered perception of the past. In regard of the artists-in-labs residency "The Persistence of Memory - Dementia and Digital Aid Tools for Decision-Making" she is interested in the connection between materiality and the intangible, for example if something as undefined as human interaction could delay the physical deterioration of the brain. 

Medical imaging, pictures and digital tools are used in treating dementia; the artist will be looking at how this digitization can aid, alter or regress memory, and how the images created in the process decay and outlive the human body.

Website

www.soetkin.com