About Us
We are an initiative formed in March 2026. We operate cooperatively: a group of artists, an ecology and art platform, a digital culture organisation, and three ecological institutions working together on a shared research agenda. There is no lead institution directing the work from above. Artistic direction, research decisions, and programme choices are made collectively.
The initiative was developed jointly by Zone2Source and a group of five artists. Zone2Source hosts the cooperative, providing the organisational and administrative home from which the work is produced. The artists brought the creative and research agenda; Zone2Source brought the institutional capacity and ecological network to make it possible.
Zone2Source is an exhibition space and artistic research platform with deep expertise in Art and Ecology, a wide international network, and extensive experience managing artist residencies, pedagogical programmes, and long-term ecological research projects.
Zone2Source operates from the Amstelpark in Amsterdam. On 4 October 2025, Zone2Source and the City of Amsterdam co-signed a formal agreement making the Amstelpark the first public Zoöp in the Netherlands, embedding the agenda of encountering non-human perspectives through art in municipal policy.
The five artists bring together practices spanning immersive installation, ecological fieldwork, wearable sensing instruments, kinetic sculpture, game engine simulation, interactive media, and in-situ prototyping. Their work engages non-human life not as subject matter but as co-investigator: ecosystems, organisms, and ecological data feed directly into the design of the experiences they make.
Each artist brings a distinct methodological perspective. Together they cover a broad range of IX technologies and approaches. What unites them is a commitment to embodied knowledge: work that is felt before it is understood, and that engages the body as its primary site of inquiry.
Creative Coding Utrecht is a digital culture platform bridging art, technology, ecology, and society. It contributes open-source infrastructure, community-building capacity, and technical development to the initiative. CCU also operates as a Zoöp, sharing the organisational ethos that runs through the initiative as a whole.
The artists are not externals commissioned by an institution. They are members with a seat at the table. Artistic direction and programme decisions are held collectively.
If one member's capacity fluctuates, the group redistributes rather than stalls. Friction surfaces early and is resolved collectively. Payments are coupled to delivery.
A horizontal structure with short lines of communication allows the initiative to respond quickly and adapt when needed.
Zone2Source holds financial responsibility and formal accountability. The cooperative holds programme governance. These are complementary roles, not competing ones.