Born in 1982, lives and works in Amsterdam

Education: 2000 - 2005 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam


Solo exhibition
2006   'Sun_SET', Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam


Group exhibitions
2003   'Peepshow', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

2005   'The Story begins', Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam

2005    Media Art Festival Friesland, Leeuwarden*

2005   'Winterkou/Winterly cold', Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam

2005   'Room (with a view)', viewing, Arenbergschouwburg, Antwerp, Belgium* 

2006   'Utilizing the Space', SOCO, Amsterdam*


Life video performances
2004   World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam*

2004   Amsterdam Fashion Week, Amsterdam*

2004   Amsterdam Dance Event, Amsterdam*

2004   Motorola Live Visuals Award, Frankfurt, Germany*

2005   Transmediale Media Art Festival, Berlin, Germany*

2005   Unity Music Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa*


Publications
2005   "Amsterdam Index 2006, a shortcut to creative Amsterdam", magazine, Bis Publishers*

2006   "Mark, Another Architecture. Volume 2", magazine, Mark Publishers*


Awards
2004   Motorola Live Visuals Award, 2nd place, Frankfurt, Germany*

2005   Gerrit Rietveld Prize, Film/Video, Amsterdam



* =  in co-operation with NEWS:

Orpheu de Jong and Marco Sterk are the co-founders of NEWS.
NEWS is a design collective based in Amsterdam, working in a variety of fields including 
graphic design, interaction design and video design. VJ’ing turned out to be the medium 
where all their interests play an equal part in context and in technology. 
 
VJ’s NEWS has performed in different clubs and events, including the Worldwide Video 
Festival, Amsterdam Dance Event and as resident VJ's at Club 11 in Amsterdam.  NEWS has 
won the second prize in the Live Visuals Award in Frankfurt in 2004. In its performances 
NEWS tends to show a critical view on human behavior in media culture within a VJ narrative. 
Internet, information overloads, inflation of facts in the media and failing technology are
some of the recurring subjects in its performances.