Rogier Klomp presenting in São Paulo at What Design Can Do, 2016
About
KLOMP.tv | Rogier Klomp | Visual Storytelling
In 2004 I founded KLOMP.tv in Amsterdam, a studio specialised in visual storytelling, animations, and transmedia stories. I translate complex issues into palpable stories.
Notable exhibitions & screenings: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MU Hybrid Art House, Foam, VPRO television, IFFR, DOK Leipzig, Metropolis Beirut, FICCO Mexico, What Design Can Do São Paulo.
‘He draws for you to understand’ this is how Google translates the title of an article in Portuguese about my work. That’s nice, it’s also a funny sentence, but it’s not really true. Maybe more accurate would be: I draw for me to understand, …then I try to translate that into something that resonates with others as well, which can be drawn, but also animated, filmed, interactive or even a workshop.
Drawing is my way to grasp the complexities of our world. To map out intricate dynamics and to contextualise those by translating them into stories.
I tell stories in different media in which the medium itself is intertwined with the subject. Some examples: a data-driven documentary in which open data is used to investigate a secretive multinational, a set of short films in which intrinsically biased people train subsequently biased algorithms, a crowdsourced animation film about Europe by Europhiles as well as Eurosceptics and propaganda films on the subject of propaganda.
I’ve worked as a graphic journalist at the newspaper NRC Handelsblad and produced animations for multiple VPRO Tegenlicht documentaries and other TV series.
Furthermore I’m an educator at several art academies and was supervisor and curator for the masterclass Sandberg@Mediapark for the editions Technology as Religion (2018), Artificial Imagination (2019), The Vrijplaats Residency: The New Wilderness (2020) and Positionality (2021), Tech lab Developer Meets Designer (2021, 2022) and Kickstart/Studio Camera Lab (2023, 2024).