Klasien

waiting_for_cows is shortlisted for the DDG (Dutch Directors Guild) Award for Best Digital Storytelling ❤️ The DDG Award honours the most impressive directing achievements of 2025. waiting_for_cows is a large-format interactive film exploring the complex relationship between humans, animals and technology. The project offers rare glimpses into contemporary machinic rituals of farm life where the flow of bovine data reveals much larger systems of power. And that same technology steers the work itself, data streamed from cow wearables determines the pace at which visitors view the film 🐄🐄🐄 Congratulations to the fellow shortlisted projects — a beautiful selection of digital storytelling works! DDG members can vote until 25 May 🙏 👉🏻 link in bio

For Bloody Beautiful’s upcoming 3-part talks series we will explore a conscious (and critical) relationship between menstruating bodies and the planet. In the well-loved format of our🩸GOSSIP SESSIONS🩸moderated by @patsydixon we will be sharing ecofeminist ideas, speculating in witchy ways and calling on some experts in the field. Are you researching gender & environmental justice? A maker with ecofeminist ideals? Fed up with femwashing & pink marketing? Curious about the politics behind your period products? Same here. JOIN US ONLINE… Gossip Session #1 📅 25 March 2026 🕙 7.00PM - 8.30PM (Central European Time) Guests Ida Tin (Clue Co-founder) & Camilla Mørk Røstvik (Menstruation Historian) @camillamrostvik Gossip Session #2 📅 15 April 2026 🕙 7.00PM - 8.30PM (Central European Time) Guests @lasara_firefox_allen MSW (Author Genderqueer Menopause) & Ela Przybylo (author Ungendering Menstruation) Gossip Session #3 📅 20 May 2026 🕙 7.00PM - 8.30PM (Central European Time) Guest Marie Louise Søndergaard (Bio-artist) @marielouisejuul Link: Meeting link upon registration Registration LINK in BIO Tickets €5.50 per session or €12.50 for all three

I just returned from Cape Town where we (@affect_lab , @patsydixon ) were collaborating closely with the @districtsixmuseum to explore new ways of digital storytelling. 

This was such an inspiring and powerful collaboration, where Tina Smith (Head of exhibitions) completely immersed us in District Six, its history and powerful community The Museum is a testament to craftivism, a totally analogue space for the precious oral history, embodied knowledge and the dignity of a community that was forcibly removed from their homes over 20 years between 1959 and 1979. 

Natalie and I worked together with the Museum in two sessions. In the first we experimented with sonic archives by making a sound walk around the neighbourhood filled with sound clips drawn from interviews that the District Six team did with former residents. 
In the second we played with textures, and specifically where the “material” meets the “digital” through a knitting machine experiment (based on our previous Toolkit for the Inbetween project, in collab with @acscherp ).

 We are speculating to see what’s possible for future exhibitions and interventions that use digital tools. How AI relates to an existing material archive of photos and maps is a central and urgent question. 

Thanks to the District Six team and their affiliates for exchanging ideas with us and for so many powerful conversations. 

 Thanks to the Embassy for the Kingdom of the Netherlands for supporting our work in Cape Town. @culture_nlinsa 
 📷 photos by @1000thingsza

Hot Flash Dance Clash has been an ongoing research and creative project in our studio with a recent pitstop at Dutch Design Week. This work highlights the sometimes sweaty,messy and unruly relationship that menstruating bodies have with technology. We are celebrating bodies that can’t (won’t) conform to the norm; resisting the machinic neatness of smart technology and perfect data sets. 👾 We took a bunch of sensors, originally destined for the insides of computers and repurposed them into body wearables. They are worn close to the body by dancers during Hot Flash Dance Clash as players in two teams battle (hard dancing) each other to raise their temperatures. 👾 In many ways our cyborg-like wearables are an antithesis to the slick design of a smartwatch with a highly opaque translation of data. Our sensors are ungainly, awkward (and sometimes fall apart). They are visible to the naked eye with their long soldered wires and boxy designs. And when a dancer gets to peak temperature it creates a Hot Flash. Think of the sudden, unexpected glitch that hot flashes mean for people in real life. It throws people off. It’s the body hacking itself. Hot Flashes do not follow a pattern. They are random AF. Your data is not processed or fitted to a standard curve. And that’s real. Visualising this biometric data matters because it makes the unseen rhythms of bodies more tangible. It also playfully reflects on data that flows “quietly” in the background, yet holds such enormous power and value. Data tells a story about our bodies and that we are NOT the only characters in this narrative. Big tech, femtech, insurance companies and governments are also interested in biometric data and (spoiler alert) they don’t always have our interests at heart. 👾 More parties will unfold in the new year. Keep your eye out on our socials. And if you’d like to host a Hot Flash Dance Clash, the sensors are ready to go. We will bring the party to you.🩸 Trailer by Anisa @ani_jo ❤️

Our Bloody Beautiful Festival was the biggest celebration of bodies with cycles that we’ve created so far. The entire day was packed with incredible speakers and participants. Here are just a few highlights from some of the keynote speakers and panellists: 🩸Letizia Chiappini on urban design for menstruating bodies: “You don’t have the same freedom as a female body when you explore the city; it is actually the other way around – you’re really aware. And that’s not just for female bodies, but we touch upon queer identity, race or ethnicity.” 🩸Scottish parliamentarian Monica Lennon on the Period Products (Free Provision) Act: “The way we wrote the legislation is you don’t have to provide evidence or proof or have a big conversation. You just get the products.” 🩸Dr Kim Notten on pelvic organ prolapse and the innovative Flexupp pessary: “There’s a lot of shame and taboo surrounding this topic. Only 3% of women consult a doctor for this problem (…) I pitch a lot but most of the time for the middle aged white men, and a lot of the times I need to explain that a vagina exists.” We hope you found this day just as inspiring and empowering as we did. We’re looking forward to being in conversation with our community again – stay tuned for the 2026 programme ❤️ The beautiful documentation is by @ani_jo

At the opening night of the Bloody Beautiful Festival (by @affect_lab ) we launched Hot Flash Dance Clash. A dance floor battle based on temperature sensors. A project I’ve been hacking and prototyping together in the last months with @patsyngtzm and @frenkie This launch happened at the legendary nightclub @doka_amsterdam , and went something like this: when a battle was about to begin, dancers headed backstage to the wearable booth, where they were strapped into their heat-tracking sensors. The two teams were then called to the stage by MC @annica_muller , and the competition began to see who could first dance their way to a “hot flash” (in other words, raise their temperature by two degrees). The competing dancers really gave it their all – big smiles and laughs all over the room, and plenty of steamy foreheads. @wuguanyan kept the floor sweaty with the hottest tunes 🔥 Great news! Hot Flash Dance Clash is travelling to Eindhoven for a party at @effenaar as part of their DDW x Music Innovation program @dutchdesignweek Where: Effenaar, Dommelstraat 2 Eindhoven 
Date: Tuesday 21 October
 Time: 19:30–21:30
 Tickets: Free! RSVP via link in bio Supported by @cultuurloket_digitall , @stimuleringsfonds , @afk020

We're hosting an algorave for @museumnacht.amsterdam 🙌 A special edition of Live Coding Sessions with Het Documentaire Paviljoen @hetdocumentairepaviljoen November 1st imagine Live Coding meets Documentary Film - storytelling becoming rhythm, image and motion with: @jokroese @sonologico @n1k1l1a and @eerieear entrance only with Museumnacht ticket * link in bio for more info and tickets *

In 2016, @tinidatin coined the term femtech to describe technologies, software and devices developed for women’s health. In just nine years this field has grown into a booming industry. From fertility tracking apps to at-home hormone testing kits, new start-ups are emerging fast – and investment funds are taking notice.  But where is the line between empowerment and exploitation in femtech? As the amount of data on women’s bodies increases and AI becomes central to predicting the behaviour of our hormones, it is time to reflect on both the potential and the risks of femtech. At the Bloody Beautiful Festival we invite you to join us for a critical design conversation with insights from our inspiring panellists… 🩸 Morgane Billuart gives a voice to the complexities of female health in her autotheoretical publication ‘Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed’. This research centres her own lived experience with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), a highly neglected condition, and takes a critical look at optimization of the body through femtech. As a writer and visual artist Morgane’s work explores digital discourses and internet culture through a feminist lens. 🩸Maria Carmen Punzi is a menstrual health and social entrepreneur who is currently working on the research project “Responsible Design and Use of AI-Driven Period and Fertility Tracking Technologies.” In this project she is exploring the broader ethical implications of AI algorithms in period and fertility tracking apps— including the responsibilities of the organizations developing these tools and what responsible design and use could look like.  🩸Klasien van de Zandschulp is the creative driving force behind the story-based and participatory experiences that are exhibited as part of the Bloody Beautiful movement, blending digital/physical and online/offline interactions. Her creative practice explores sensory design, embodiment, rituals, augmented realities, human interaction and (radical) thoughts around our daily technology consumption. ❤️Get your ticket with the link in bio❤️

The stars of the show - dairy cows Robina, Margot and Aergentina - will feature in Utrecht for the glitzy gala at the @nederlandsfilmfestival . YES, waiting_for_cows has been nominated for one of the biggest prizes in the country, the Gouden Kalf award 2025 for digital culture. The whole family is going along for the ride including farmers Fokke Terpstra and Tineke de Groot. We are 100% ready to celebrate the amazing work that has happened in digital culture in the past few years, raising a glass to our fellow nominees, @wzzzt @steyehallema @studiobiarritznl The gala is streamed live on the @nederlandsfilmfestival YouTube channel on Friday night starting at 20.00. Let’s GO! @k.o.productions.nl @rubenhamelink @kottelianne @diego_van_uden @sashafominskaya @sanzserif @minniedrb @juliettebrederode @wuguanyan @annelivanenburg @opedrolobomau @slemmadilemmaemma @maria.had2 @marieke_nooren @rob_bothof

As an interactive artist and dance lover, Klasien’s favourite Bloody Beautiful moment is (perhaps unsurprisingly) a magical combination of avatars, dance and period blood. This is truly the heart of the Bloody Beautiful movement: creating inclusive spaces where new, empowering narratives can grow. Another project blending menstruating bodies and technology will premiere on the opening night of the Bloody Beautiful festival: Hot Flash Dance Clash. A dance battle with wearable heat sensors, it celebrates hot, sweaty bodies in all their glory. Full programme & 🎟️Tickets on 
 All the links in bio

🗓️ When: 3 October 2025
 📍 Where: Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam 🎫 Tickets: €79 regular / €39 student ✨ Opening Night 🗓️ 2 October 2025 📍 Doka Amsterdam 🎫 Tickets €12.50

This coming Friday 26 September we return to one of our favourite places, @nederlandsfilmfestival for the public opening of waiting_for_cows. We’re looking forward to showing you a work that is very special to us, not only because of how long we have been working on it (5 years) or the number of incredible collaborators who made this work possible (15 people) but mostly because of what it means when two very different worlds move closer to one another - artists and farmers. Rosi Braidotti @rosibraidottiofficial has been a guiding inspiration for us in making this work. She writes that as humans we are at a unique moment in history where the 4th industrial revolution meets the 6th extinction. And she really gets it: we feel anxious and depressed by the prospects of our planetary survival. “These are really the best and worst of times” . And when we are at such an extreme moment we need to ask the simple question: What subjects are we becoming? What has happened to us? In waiting_for_cows we make a humble offering to answer this question. By creating more nuance in the conversation about what it means to be human and to extend wholly to the more- than-human-world. We would love to see you there. Netherlands Film Festival Storyspace 26 September - 2 October 2025 Bibliotheek Neude, Utrecht

✨ Community is the killer app. ✨ Bloody Beautiful is a one-day creative festival that reimagines the future of women’s health. And tech is a major part of this. On 3 October we will delve into 🩸questions of profit and “our” bodies 🩸 intimate data and the privacy it demands 🩸 femtech and the industry around women's bodies. Because without people, technology is meaningless. It’s community that makes change possible. Join us as we explore the magical, messy and often-misunderstood worlds of menstruation and menopause. We’re not here to whisper about cycles—we want to reframe the conversation entirely. Full programme & 🎟️Tickets available on All the links in bio ❤️ 🗓️ When: 3 October 2025 📍 Where: @tolhuistuin , Amsterdam 🎫 Tickets: €69 regular / €39 students ✨ Opening Night 🗓️ 2 October 2025 📍 Doka Amsterdam (@volkshotel ) 🎫 Tickets €12.50