Sander Veenhof (Netherlands, 1973) is one of the members of "Manifest.AR", an international collective of artists working in the augmented reality domain. Installing their work virtually, at a distance, and without the need for them to be physically present anywhere, their works defy borders, physical boundaries or any thinkable limitation of whatever kind. The MoMA museum New York uninvitedly hosts a Manifest.AR exhibition, there are virtual objects inside the Oval Office and Pentagon, and from August 5th on, the global augmented reality sky now has a screensaver. Manifest.AR is everywhere! Even when they're not. Sander Veenhof / SNDRV.NL 2011

INTRODUCING: the screensaver anno 2011: in Augmented Reality Computers have evolved enormously over the past decade by becoming smaller and smaller. We are carrying tiny but powerful computers in our pocket. To be used on the street on the go, to communicate, view entertainment or to augment the world around us. Screensavers have evolved too. Growing from 320x240 pixel resolutions to bigger than life sized animations manifesting in the skies surrounding us - when there is no augmenting reality to be experienced, that is. CREATED ON THE OCCASION OF NOT HAVING AN AR ARTWORK IN THE SKIES OVER: - (un)seen sculptures , march 9-31 Rozelle, Sydney Australia - The "Distributed Collectives" show in the Little Berlin gallery    opening August 5th, Philedelpia USA REVIEW: Philadelphia Weekly "More radically site-specific than even a QR hobo marker, the collective Manifest.AR contributes the most exhilarating work in the show by deploying augmented reality (AR) technology to explore a new kind of space. Founded in 2011, the collective creates geo-specific art installations, backed by a stridently hopeful manifesto announcing that in AR, "The Safety Glass of the Display is shattered and the Physical and Virtual are united in a new In-Between Space." Dislocating the viewer from our "so-called Physical Real," this in-between space hurtles toward us when we stumble upon the colossal, hidden sculptures in "ScreensavAR" by Sander Veenhof. Visible only through a smart phone using the "filter" function in an app called "Laylar," VeenhofÕs work forces the viewer to physically scan the gallery in order to discover the delicately helixed sculptures that float above our heads. Like peering through a magic spyglass into another dimension, Veenhof's work plunges us into a spatially dissonant reality. SuddenlyÑimpossiblyÑwe physically exist in the same space as a virtual phenomenon."