Biography
Hoos Blotkamp (1943 - 2014) has been a prominent figure in the Dutch cultural landscape. She was curator at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and served as the head of visual arts at the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (OCW). She later became the director of the Film Museum in Amsterdam, a role she held until 2000. However, her visual artwork—pursued alongside her demanding professional career—remains less known.
During the final years of her art history studies in 1971, Blotkamp learned computer programming as part of a course in Sonology at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, a globally recognized institution known for its groundbreaking work in computer-generated music and art. This was the same institution where her close friend, artist Peter Struycken, had begun working with computers in 1968. She soon started creating visual works through computer technology, developing a distinctive artistic approach.