In a spirit of bringing landscape, community, and interface together, Janne Schimmel is hosting  a pixel art hiking workshop. Participants are invited on a hike with the artist and create pixel-art interpretations of the view, compressing real-world vastness into the Game Boy’s 160×144-pixel screen. 

All the artworks will be bundled onto a Game Boy cartridge at the end of the workshop. Each participant will receive their own cartridge containing the collection. 

No specific knowledge needed, bring a tablet or laptop with a pixel editing app 
Janne recommends : 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixel-studio-for-pixel-art/id1404203859

you can also use Gimp, Paint.NET, Pixelorama (these Janne does not have experience with) or paid option such as photoshop or Aseprite

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: Sickhouse! Oldenzaalsestraat 128, Enschede.
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Pixel Art Hiking

Pixel art hiking workshop

What struck us at first when discovering the work of Janne Schimmel was his way of highlighting the beauty and sculptural aspect of hardware. When opening the box that is our computer, Janne re-curate its display without necessarily changing its function. By manipulating its aesthetic, Janne allows the hardware to become an interface between the physical world and the digital realm.

This interest for modding is at the heart of Janne’s Schimmel practice and a crucial movement within digital culture. His work is about hardware, obsolescence, memories, alternative storytelling. “

His work aligns with the right-to-repair movement, the modding community, and the broader discourse against digital enclosures. It reclaims creative and technological agency from an industry that is made on built-in expiry

 is an exhibition, curated with the artist, that showcases the modded consoles as sculptural vessels for games and videos created by guest artists. The invited artists come from a range of backgrounds, including media art and the homebrew community. Homebrew creators develop games outside of the game industry, outside of the norm, reinventing rules and mechanics for consoles considered obsolete. Together they are retroactively diversifying the library of these consoles and activating existing hardware instead of creating needs for new ones. Janne and Sickhouse collaborated with the invited artists to present their videos and games on the obsolete hardware embedded within his sculptures.

The exhibition welcomes the work of Janne together with projects from 

Paula Garcia Sans, B-Complex, Permacab, Vinzenz Sombray, Philip Ullman, astoryinpieces, Grenhunterr.



The exhibition will open on Friday 20-03 at 19:00 and run until Sunday 10-05. You can visit the exhibition on Friday’s and Saturday’s or on appointment with groups.




19:00 Walk-in 
19:30 small interview of Janne Schimmel by Marie Janin to look into his practice and the development of the new piece “Friendly Secrecy System” created with Vinzenz Sombray (In the cinema)
20:00 free tour in the exhibition space

Janne will also host two workshops in April to share his practice and support makers in their quest for alternative processes.

Participants are invited on a hike with the artist and create pixel-art interpretations of the view, compressing real-world vastness into the Game Boy’s 160×144-pixel screen. All the artworks will be bundled onto a Game Boy cartridge at the end of the workshop. Each participant will receive their own cartridge containing the collection.

Nintendo Wii-mote Permacomputing workshop, hosted with Rein van der Woerd



Participants are invited to imagine ways of re-activating Nintendo Wii-motes with contemporary software.

The exhibition will close together with a residency of Chloé Desmoiseaux, french artist and initiator of Fluid Space in Marseille. (more info coming soon)

Friendly Secrecy System - Janne Schimmel

The City of Lost Children (JP.Jeunet & M.Caro) - 1995 - FR

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

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Following our research topic “Dream No Return” we start with this classic movie with a spectacular set, a steampunk atmosphere and the score from Angelo Badalamenti (from Twin Peaks :)

Cinema Obscura is a curated film screening program focused on cult, experimental, and unconventional cinema.

In the early days, the films were never announced in advance and the spectators discover them either through the introduction by the organizers or even during the screening itself.

The program is challenging, controversial and unique. Each screening is meant to be a special experience, beginning at the moment you sit down in our vintage cinema chairs from 1936. You are invited to react, interact, discuss, scream, laugh and embrace the shared discovery of strange films.

Cinema Obscura will run throughout the year with a monthly screening. Some films will be announced, some will remain a mystery…