Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

Positions

Positions
AMMODO ✕ Van Abbemuseum
2022 - 2024

vanabbemuseum.nl

Photo: Installation by Ajla R. Steinvag in Positions #6, Peter Cox

Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam – Winner

Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam – Winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2020

One thing is clear: we need to understand how people interact with each other and above all what motivates them to make choices in their social interactions that are positive for themselves and others as well as for future generations and the natural world. This is what the nine-member team Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam (SENSA) at the VU University in Amsterdam is working on. It is investigating what happens in the brains of children and adolescents during all sorts of often subconscious, social interactions, the assumption being that the sooner you understand what is going on in the young, still developing brains, the greater the chance that you, their teacher or parent, can influence them in a positive way.

Read our interview from 2023 with Lydia Krabbendam en Tieme Janssen from SENSA.

ammodo-science-award.org

Production contribution

Production contribution
AMMODO ✕ De Ateliers
2020 - 2023

de-ateliers.nl

Photo: De Ateliers Offspring-exhibition 2015, Gert Jan van Rooij

michel van der aa: new productions

michel van der aa: new productions
AMMODO ✕ Michel van der Aa
2019 - 2022

Componer Michel van der Aa (1970) is a pionieer in the field of contemporary music and new technology. His work emphasises the theatrical and visual aspects of music and converges music, theatre, opera and multimedia installations. Ammodo supports three of his new project, to be realised between 2019 and 2022:  the VR installation Eight (2019), the film opera Upload (2021) and the music-theatre production The Book of Water (2022).

In 2022, Upload won an International Opera Award for best digital opera.

In 2023, Ammodo released the documentary In Between Realities about the work of Michel van der Aa. Watch it now at ammododocs.org.

vanderaa.net

Michel van der Aa, Eight (2019)

Stephanie Wehner – Laureate

Stephanie Wehner – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Stephanie Wehner is working on a fundamental challenge: how entanglement can be created over long distances in order to then make a quantum internet possible. Entanglement is a central concept in quantum mechanics, enabling safe communication and super-fast coordination. She now wants to realise this in the planned quantum network around Delft.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
AMMODO ✕ International Film Festival Rotterdam
2021 - 2023

iffr.nl 

Still from Wong Pings Fables 2 (2019), Wong Ping

Positions

Positions
AMMODO ✕ Van Abbemuseum
5 July 2014 - present

The Van Abbemuseum presents the internationally oriented exhibitionseries Positions, which is currently programmed for five years. Emerging and mid-career artists are invited to develop new work. Positions exhibits a diverse range of new artistic practices and gives direct insight into the themes that artists feel are urgent. Participating artists include Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Bouchra Khalili, Anna Boghiguian and Nástio Mosquito. Ammodo supports Positions because it focuses on the voice of the artist. Positions thereby offers an alternative to the larger thematic and research focused exhibitions and retrospective solo exhibitions that the museum also presents.

vanabbemuseum.nl

 

Anna Boghiguian, Salt Traders, 2015, photo: Peter Cox

Lenneke Alink – Laureate

Lenneke Alink – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Lenneke Alink takes the understanding of child maltreatment to a higher level with high-quality experimental research. She has a broad interest in the subject looking at both the role of chaos in the household, but also at that of the stress system in cases of abuse and neglect. Her work maps out the causes and consequences of this horrific problem – an important step towards solving it.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Gülsün Karamustafa & León Ferrari

Gülsün Karamustafa & León Ferrari
AMMODO ✕ Van Abbemuseum
2021

vanabbemuseum.nl

Image: Gülsün Karamustafa, Promised Paintings (Angels 2) (detail), Collection Van Abbemuseum

Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome – Winner

Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome – Winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2020

For decades the Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome research team at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam has been focusing on how exactly cells do in fact repair themselves. What is unique about this team is that they study this process, in relation to ageing and cancer, at difference levels of complexity: In relation to cancer and ageing, for example, they are looking atfrom single individual molecules to as well as at complete physiological processes within the cell or the patient.

ammodo-science-award.org

Jacco van Rheenen – Laureate

Jacco van Rheenen – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Jacco van Rheenen developed a groundbreaking form of microscopy, allowing individual cells to be tracked for weeks in a living organism. This new form of research provides valuable information about the behaviour of, and the interaction between, cells. For example, he was the first person to film the process of metastatic cancer.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Ewout Frankema – Laureate

Ewout Frankema – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Ewout Frankema studies the historical roots of global inequality between the poor and the rich. This inequality grew dramatically between 1750 and 1990, and since then it has hardly reduced at all. In his integrated historical approach, he combines research into the ecological and geographical conditions in which rural societies develop with the economic, political and social relations which are shaped by mankind.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Teun Bousema – Laureate

Teun Bousema – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Teun Bousema unravels the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite carried by mosquitoes that causes malaria. He is particularly interested in how a parasite from an infected human is then reintroduced to a new mosquito, and it was Bousema who discovered, among other things, that some people have an immune reaction that prevents this step from happening.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Positions

Positions
AMMODO ✕ Van Abbemuseum
2022 - 2024

vanabbemuseum.nl

Photo: Installation by Ajla R. Steinvag in Positions #6, Peter Cox

Gülsün Karamustafa & León Ferrari

Gülsün Karamustafa & León Ferrari
AMMODO ✕ Van Abbemuseum
2021

vanabbemuseum.nl

Image: Gülsün Karamustafa, Promised Paintings (Angels 2) (detail), Collection Van Abbemuseum

Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome – Winner

Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome – Winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2020

For decades the Guardians and Caretakers of the Genome research team at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam has been focusing on how exactly cells do in fact repair themselves. What is unique about this team is that they study this process, in relation to ageing and cancer, at difference levels of complexity: In relation to cancer and ageing, for example, they are looking atfrom single individual molecules to as well as at complete physiological processes within the cell or the patient.

ammodo-science-award.org

Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam – Winner

Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam – Winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2020

One thing is clear: we need to understand how people interact with each other and above all what motivates them to make choices in their social interactions that are positive for themselves and others as well as for future generations and the natural world. This is what the nine-member team Social Educational Neuroscience Amsterdam (SENSA) at the VU University in Amsterdam is working on. It is investigating what happens in the brains of children and adolescents during all sorts of often subconscious, social interactions, the assumption being that the sooner you understand what is going on in the young, still developing brains, the greater the chance that you, their teacher or parent, can influence them in a positive way.

Read our interview from 2023 with Lydia Krabbendam en Tieme Janssen from SENSA.

ammodo-science-award.org

Production contribution

Production contribution
AMMODO ✕ De Ateliers
2020 - 2023

de-ateliers.nl

Photo: De Ateliers Offspring-exhibition 2015, Gert Jan van Rooij

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
AMMODO ✕ International Film Festival Rotterdam
2021 - 2023

iffr.nl 

Still from Wong Pings Fables 2 (2019), Wong Ping

Jacco van Rheenen – Laureate

Jacco van Rheenen – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Jacco van Rheenen developed a groundbreaking form of microscopy, allowing individual cells to be tracked for weeks in a living organism. This new form of research provides valuable information about the behaviour of, and the interaction between, cells. For example, he was the first person to film the process of metastatic cancer.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

michel van der aa: new productions

michel van der aa: new productions
AMMODO ✕ Michel van der Aa
2019 - 2022

Componer Michel van der Aa (1970) is a pionieer in the field of contemporary music and new technology. His work emphasises the theatrical and visual aspects of music and converges music, theatre, opera and multimedia installations. Ammodo supports three of his new project, to be realised between 2019 and 2022:  the VR installation Eight (2019), the film opera Upload (2021) and the music-theatre production The Book of Water (2022).

In 2022, Upload won an International Opera Award for best digital opera.

In 2023, Ammodo released the documentary In Between Realities about the work of Michel van der Aa. Watch it now at ammododocs.org.

vanderaa.net

Michel van der Aa, Eight (2019)

Positions

Positions
AMMODO ✕ Van Abbemuseum
5 July 2014 - present

The Van Abbemuseum presents the internationally oriented exhibitionseries Positions, which is currently programmed for five years. Emerging and mid-career artists are invited to develop new work. Positions exhibits a diverse range of new artistic practices and gives direct insight into the themes that artists feel are urgent. Participating artists include Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Bouchra Khalili, Anna Boghiguian and Nástio Mosquito. Ammodo supports Positions because it focuses on the voice of the artist. Positions thereby offers an alternative to the larger thematic and research focused exhibitions and retrospective solo exhibitions that the museum also presents.

vanabbemuseum.nl

 

Anna Boghiguian, Salt Traders, 2015, photo: Peter Cox

Ewout Frankema – Laureate

Ewout Frankema – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Ewout Frankema studies the historical roots of global inequality between the poor and the rich. This inequality grew dramatically between 1750 and 1990, and since then it has hardly reduced at all. In his integrated historical approach, he combines research into the ecological and geographical conditions in which rural societies develop with the economic, political and social relations which are shaped by mankind.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Stephanie Wehner – Laureate

Stephanie Wehner – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Stephanie Wehner is working on a fundamental challenge: how entanglement can be created over long distances in order to then make a quantum internet possible. Entanglement is a central concept in quantum mechanics, enabling safe communication and super-fast coordination. She now wants to realise this in the planned quantum network around Delft.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Lenneke Alink – Laureate

Lenneke Alink – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Lenneke Alink takes the understanding of child maltreatment to a higher level with high-quality experimental research. She has a broad interest in the subject looking at both the role of chaos in the household, but also at that of the stress system in cases of abuse and neglect. Her work maps out the causes and consequences of this horrific problem – an important step towards solving it.

www.ammodo-science-award.org

Teun Bousema – Laureate

Teun Bousema – Laureate
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2019

Teun Bousema unravels the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite carried by mosquitoes that causes malaria. He is particularly interested in how a parasite from an infected human is then reintroduced to a new mosquito, and it was Bousema who discovered, among other things, that some people have an immune reaction that prevents this step from happening.

www.ammodo-science-award.org