a blog, articles, and open source webdesign
After highschool Marten couldn’t decide what to study and decided to live in Canada for a year instead, as an exchange student. It was there that he got interested in computers and webdesign. Back in Holland he studied Multimedia Design & Technology at Saxion College in Enschede. After that he decided to do a masters course in Interactive Multimedia at the HKU in Hilversum. He finished his masters course with his project Simuze and a thesis about Open Content and the music industry.
After his graduation he further developed Simuze together with a few enthousiastic people and got funding for the project. He is also the chairman of the Open Media Foundation which supports the creativity within a wide range of media and the sharing of the knowledge thereof. As a freelance webdeveloper, Open Source and Open Content have become an important factor in Marten’s online and offline activities.
He is also active as a bassplayer with the Dutch band We vs Death. The band has already toured Belgium, France, England, Denmark, Germany , Poland, Russia and Canada and is about to release its first full length album soon. Making music has always been an important part of his life, as it will always remain. Marten also loves to travel, design, and program. He is a pragmatic idealist and couldn’t live without music.