Roel Wouters is a director, designer, and educator working across film, interactive installations, performance and immersive experiments.
Each project pursued by Roel, be it a short film, a music video, or a website, is informed by his fascination with the tension between our digital and physical realities.
A participatory, sci-fi, celebrating our physical reality.
A manifesto arguing for the intentional return of friction in digital products.
A browser game that exposes the cultural and technical boundaries inside machine vision datasets.
A design manifesto that values process over product.
A one-take trampoline music video for zZz that turns a simple setup into a precise visual event.
Tracking and profiling turned into a browserbased game.
A WebVR music video project exploring movement, in our digital realities.
A crowd-sourced music video shaped live through the cursor movements of online participants.
A series of performative talks.
A project centered on identity, transformation, and the staging of interior states through image and performance.
A memorial on the dam square.
A participatory performance on crowd behavior and individuality.
A visual campaign collaboration for Sandro inspired by the work of Louise Bourgeois.
What if a space has a first impression of the person entering it?.
A three-prototype sentient-space research trajectory exploring how environments can read, direct, and co-create behavior.
A digital environment project about atmosphere, composition, and mediated experience.
A project examining the boundary between digital representation and physical presence.
A participatory work built around suspense, inflation, and the collective tension of an imminent pop.
A physical website.