
Intro: Biography Robin Noorda studied in Amsterdam animation, graphic design, film, and photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijks Academy. In the early eighties, he was a designer for the Dutch broadcasting cooperation, and he was computer animation pioneer at the first CGI studio in the Netherlands. He co-founded the art movement Tropism and his media design company Morphosis. As an independent filmmaker, he makes animations, shorts, and documentaries. As an artist, he makes interactive light installations and experimental photography. Documentary His Mongolia cross-media project, consists of the documentary film ‘Shivering Beauty - Soundscape of Mongolia’, the book ‘Transit Mongolia’ and the photo exhibition. A story about the harsh transition of a country from equal but unfree into unequal but free. Animation films Other highlights are the international awarded short stop-motion animation films ‘Red end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society’ and Red-end and the Factory Plant. Now he is working on the feature 'Spur'. Curator ‘Photosynthesis - shedding new light on plants’ is an international traveling art exhibition on the unknown worlds of flora. The first exhibition was in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, the second was in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Now Photosynthesis can be seen in the Flower Art Museum at the permanent Tropism exhibition wing. Installations Sneaky Serpents is one of the Tropistic interactive light installations. It was part of the Amsterdam Light Festival and the Norrköping Light Festival in Sweden, Noorderzon Festival (Groningen, NL), and Shenzhen Cultural Festival (China), The installation You Lookin' at me? Was at the ALF, I Light Singapore, and was favourite at the biggest light festival of the world: Vivid Sydney. Virtual Reality The Sonotrope music sculpture installation had a dance performance at the Cinedans Festival in Eye Film Museum Amsterdam and a synthesizer music performance during the Overkill Festival.