Petervan composes artistic interventions, interruptions, and provocations that invite, permit, allow, and enable higher states of alertness and aliveness. Formats can be analog and digital artwork and productions, digital overlays, sketches, performance lectures, writings, poems, blogs, installations, soundscapes, recordings, documentaries, spaces, time capsules, curations, events, group experiences, immersions, expeditions, and exhibitions.
Petervan is the nickname of Peter Vander Auwera. Petervan was born in Brussels in 1957. He was trained as an architect at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and Ghent. Petervan spent 40 years in corporate innovation in retail, (re)insurance, financial services, fintech, and digital identity. His expertise in digital identity was recognized as a member of the WEF Personal Data Expert Group and the 2005 Microsoft Chairman’s Award. Peter won multiple FinTech Influencer Awards. He was the co-founder of Innotribe (SWIFT’s innovation initiative). In his role as architect and content curator of Innotribe at Sibos, he built a reputation as an innovation lead and designer of events and immersive learning experiences. After a sabbatical, Petervan returned to his artistic roots. He studied painting and digital visual arts at the Academy of Visual Arts in Overijse and Ghent. He lives with his wife Mieke and his daughter Astrid in Nieuwerkerken (Aalst), Flanders, Belgium.
The triangle represents the trinity of the three studios, the trinity of the shared methods, dynamics, and outcomes, and the trinity of moral, societal, and aesthetic advancement.
The trinity of Home Sapiens, Homo Faber, and Homo Ludens.
The trinity of the past, the present, and the future.
The trinity of space, time, and place.
The circle represents the infinity, wholeness, and unity of the trinities.
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