In a nutshell

Pineapplejazz is a Dutch networked studio lead by Tijmen Schep that offers consultancy and support on digital cultural projects. Examples of my work:

• I am one of the founders of and creative lead at the SETUP medialab, where I help develop and polish ideas.
• I moderated a series of events about privacy design, and am finishing a book on the subject, together with MOTI and SETUP.
• Concepted How Do You DO, a large-scale event format that allows informal conversation, while employed atVirtueel Platform.
• Researched and created a book about medialabs in the Netherlands.
• Concepted a customer feedback system that uses edible location tracking cookies, with SETUP.
• Developed Gifted, a simulation of an popularity based economy.
• Working on very interesting location-based webservice which is below the radar..

Next to Pineapplejazz

• Working at Kennisland, a kick-ass thinktank on societal innovation based in Amsterdam.
• Part of the organising team of This Happened Utrecht.
• Member of the Art Council of Amsterdam.
• Boardmember at MU
in Eindhoven.

Expertise

• Internet of things, mobile technology
• Digital arts and makerculture
• Privacy and surveillance culture
• Design theory and ideology
• Good at developing fun participatory concepts that reach a wide audience

Not-at-all up to date Archive

• 2012 - Created a new product for SETUP: Real tracking cookies.
• 2012 - As program manager at Virtueel Platform I brough together represenatives of over 50 medialabs in Holland during the DEAF festival, after first curating a book about almost one hundred Dutch medialabs.
• 2012 - Sparked the creation of a new type of high-energy exhibition: the Expo Extravaganza, which uses the latest web- and mobile technologies to allow anyone to curate an exhibition, which itself is beamed onto the walls.
• 2012 - Produced the webapp for the Westerbork Luisterpad project, a HTML5 audiotour complete with GPS geo-fencing functionality.

• 2011 - As program manager at Virtueel Platform I created and curated a new event format called How Do You Do, which brought together over 50 top digital creatives and 500 visitors for close to 100 sessions about 'the making of' top Dutch Digital creativity. The event was held at the STRP festival.
• 2011 - Sparked many events and collaborations at SETUP, co-wrote large funding requests, and told funny stories during lunch.

• 2010 - Created a HTML5 version of the Treasuremapper software, an open source tool for creating location based experiences.
• 2010 - Jump-started SETUP by organising way too many events (over 50) and meeting a gazillion people in a three month pilot period.

• 2009 - Developed the Treasuremapper software, an open source tool for creating location based experiences on Nokia phones.
• 2009 - Worked with artist Esther polak on the Nomadic Milk project for 6 months, including a three week trip to Nigeria where we GPS-tracked Fulani herders and Wamco truckers. It's a long and fascinating story.

• 2008 - Created the Citizen Journalism project at the Incubate festival with designer Ruben Pater. In this project festival visitors can send picures to an urban screen, as well as have them printed out and glued to a wall, ready for 'analog comments'.
• 2008 - Sparked and co-developed the Gifted Project for the Impakt Festival.
• 2008 - Graduated with a masters in New Media and Digital Culture from the University of Utrecht

• 2006 - Organised the NetNiet.org Wireless Festival with two friends, on a tiny budget.

• 2005 - Graduated at the HKU with a masters in Digital Media Design.

Contact

Email: info@pineapplejazz.com

Location

Pineapplejazz is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I work together with a nationwide network of specialists.

About Tijmen Schep

Tijmen holds an MA in both interactive media design from the HKU (graduating with an interactive urban screen) and new media theory from the University of Utrecht (graduating with distinction on a thesis that critically examined ubiquitous computing ideology). This duality of perspective allows for a nuanced view of the field of design and technology.

Tijmen is a founding member of the NetNiet.org foundation and SETUP, Utrecht's event-focussed medialab. He is also an editor at This Happened. Tijmen has tought on pervasive and locative design at the HvA and the WDKA schools, and regularly lectures and hosts workshops.