{"id":40802294388,"date":"2026-04-24T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802294388"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:23:49","slug":"prof-konings-animations-included-in-currents-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-konings-animations-included-in-currents-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Koning&#8217;s Animations included in Currents 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the second year in a row, animation professor Wobbe F. Koning will be presenting work at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/currentsnewmedia.org\/festivals\/currents-2026-art-technology-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Currents New Media annual Art + Technology Festival.<\/a> His series of 3D printed stop motion animations, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/vicious-cycles\/\">Vicious Cycles<\/a>,&#8221; has been selected for CURRENTS 2026, and will be on display from June 12-June 21 in El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about the animations is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/vicious-cycles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ideePIX.nl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT CURRENTS NEW MEDIA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CURRENTS New Media is an annual festival produced by Parallel Studios Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Frank Ragano and Mariannah Amster. For over 23 years, it has been a leading platform for new media art, presenting innovative work at the intersection of art and technology. Showcasing artists from around the world, CURRENTS provides a space for experimentation, public engagement, and collaborations. The annual festival is the result of a collaboration between Parallel Studios, its partners throughout the city, and the many volunteers who invest their time to support this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsnewmedia.org\/artist\/wobbe-f-koning\/\">Koning&#8217;s CURRENTS biography page is available online<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Boom_Bust_4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Boom -&gt; Bust\" class=\"wp-image-40802270940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Boom_Bust_4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Boom_Bust_4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Boom_Bust_4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Boom_Bust_4-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Boom_Bust_4-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Boom_Bust_4-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Boom_Bust_4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Still from Boom -&gt; Bust by Wobbe F. Koning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, animation professor Wobbe F. Koning will be presenting work at the\u00a0Currents New Media annual Art + Technology Festival. His series of 3D printed stop motion animations, &#8220;Vicious Cycles,&#8221; has been selected for CURRENTS 2026, and will be on display from June 12-June 21 in El Museo Cultural de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1055,"featured_media":40802294405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1851,423],"tags":[6861,1475,432],"person":[914],"audience":[8,29],"school":[92,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802294388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-3d","tag-art","tag-newsletter","person-wobbe-f-koning","audience-faculty","audience-media","school-art-and-design","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":{"id":40802280595,"rendered":"<img width=\"360\" height=\"360\" style=\"object-position: 48.675% 54.22%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/WobbeKoning.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Black and white headshot of Prof. Wobbe Koning\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/WobbeKoning.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/WobbeKoning-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/WobbeKoning-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/WobbeKoning-280x280.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/WobbeKoning-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/WobbeKoning.jpg","width":360,"height":360}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802294388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802294388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802294388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802294442,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802294388\/revisions\/40802294442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802294405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802294388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802294388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802294388"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802294388"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802294388"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802294388"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802294388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}