We believe new narratives, art forms and creative collaborations are needed to imagine alternative futures for our society.

We develop cutting-edge projects across the performing arts, cinema and digital culture. For each project, we forge unexpected collaborations with emerging artists* from around the world — together they form the growing artist community of Truth.io.

On a larger level we investigate through our projects how – in today’s world – comprehensive works of art can be developed, organized, expressed and experienced in new and sustainable ways.

Truth.io is founded and led by artistic director Ruben Van Leer. Currently we’re in the process of recruiting new members for the organising board.

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Truth.io is a non-profit foundation (register no. 65444965, The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce) and works on the basis of the Cultural Governance Code, the Code Diversity & Inclusion and the Fair Practice Code.

What we do:

  • Creation: developing and producing cross-media art projects

  • Artistic research: project based, inclusive and open-sourcing

  • Networking: unite international artists & institutions in progressive culture

  • Distribution: developing next distribution methods connecting diverse audiences

team day-to-day operations:

Press:

 

The Huffington Post

“The gorgeous film project Symmetry, combines the best parts of opera and dance with the titillating rigor of digital art and physics to create a visual narrative that explores the philosophical elements of the giant particle accelerator.”

 

WIRED

“There's a post-apocalyptic vibe in the video imagines members of band Yeasayer as scientists struggling to find a cure for an unnamed global affliction. In addition to the Naturalis tower, the band filmed in molecular biologist Hans Tanke’s lab at Leiden University.”

Volkskrant

“Six dancers fly in geometrical formations across the large stage, pumping in a circle, pulsing across diagonals, breathing deeply, elongating their bodies, stretching their limbs far out or spreading out, as if they’d want to whip the energy in laser beams through the light.”

 

Hyperallergic

“The operatic and choral music by Joep Franssens and Henry Vega gives Symmetry its grand weight, while the setting of the LHC, the ALICE heavy-ion detector, and the laboratories of CERN ground the narrative in these mechanical tools we have constructed to reach into the limits of understanding.”

VICE

“The performance featured an orchestra playing Moore's music, while a VR performer, Esther Mugambi, explored 3D generative point-clouds of the sacred sites, which were projected on a screen for the audience to follow live.”

 

Glamcult

“Opening up the festival this year is an introduction to the man himself’s digital ritual, ‘I Know…’ performance which has been created alongside Ruben Van Leer and the public. After reflecting on these ‘Fragmented times’ Bill T. Jones searches for the ‘we’ within the world.”

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Alliances:

“Using the power of their imagination, artists can critically VISUALISE the ethical dilemmas that are now hidden from view in the theory of natural scientists.”

— Robert Zwijnenberg, professor Art & Science Interactions at Leiden University