Orson Everaert

I am a Belgian visual artist working with images, interactive systems and computational tools. I explore how digital technologies shape what we notice, how we classify the world and how knowledge becomes accessible to others.

Through image-making, mapping, prototyping and experimentation with algorithms, I investigate how a practical or technical question can generate an artistic form. Archives and interfaces become spaces for testing relationships between images, places and the people who contribute to them.

My background in breadmaking, permaculture and cooperative work grounds this digital practice in questions of material processes, interdependence and shared knowledge. I treat public usefulness as part of the artistic enquiry, asking how a digital work can function as both an experiment and a resource, and how its value is shared between its maker and its users.

A new project often begins with a simple question: What if?

Works

Open Azulejos: What if Lisbon’s tiles were catalogued by the people who walk past them?

Open Azulejos2026, ongoingParticipatory map and open archive, Lisbon

A public map of Lisbon’s ceramic surface, built from the street. Anyone with a phone photographs a single tile, straight on, and places it in a three-metre cell of the city. Each picture becomes a credited, openly licensed record, catalogued with the standards museums use.

Read together, the tiles form a mosaic, and a record of wear and repair over time. The archive belongs to the people who walk past it: most of these photographs were taken by someone other than me.

Where the work can be seen:
openazulejos.com

Supported by:

  • Arts²
  • MAPA — Azulejo em risco!

ADHD Tools: What if a catalogue of tools helped people with ADHD discover the range of solutions available to them?

A white tracing of the original ADHD Tools drawing: a figure at the centre of three loose rings, with categories A to I.

ADHD Tools2026, ongoingOnline catalogue

A catalogue of 124 tools, habits, objects and places that reduce friction in daily life with ADHD. Nine categories widen in rings around a body: brain, body and mind, then home and work, then neighbourhood, city and other people.

A medication, a pocket notebook and a familiar walking route end up in one system. A timer in the corner counts your minutes on the page.

Where the work can be seen:
adhdtools.io

A mill in Brussels: What if a flour mill in the centre of Brussels made the journey from grain to bread visible to everyone?

Axonometric cutaway of an Astrié mill. Grain drains from a full hopper through a small crater and trickles off a knocked shoe into the eye of the granite stones. Between them it spreads outwards as ever finer, dustier meal. In the cabinet, an inclined rotating sieve lets flour fall onto white dunes while bran flakes tumble to the far end and flutter into a bin.

Drag to turn the mill, or use the arrow keys. Home resets the view. Space pauses or plays the animation. The near halves of the casing, the turning upper stone and the cabinet are cut away. Grain drains from the hopper through a small crater and falls kernel by kernel from a knocked shoe into the eye of the stones. Between the stones it breaks into meal that grows finer and dustier towards the edge. In the rotating sieve, flour falls through the cloth onto the dunes below, while bran flakes tumble along it to a separate outlet.

A mill in Brussels2025Public flour mill, Mazette cooperative

The first flour mill in Brussels installed in public view, at the Mazette cooperative I co-managed from 2022 to 2025. It turns the usually hidden chain from grain to bread into something anyone passing through can watch.

It closes a long route: sourdough, wood-fired ovens and milling in Cucugnan, a village of 139 people; rare wheats in Alsace, each with its own grammar of gestures; Tsiteli Doli, an old Georgian wheat, a few kilos of which I carried back to Belgium and which farmers near Brussels now grow.

Where the work can be seen:
Mazette, 50 Place du Jeu de Balle, 1000 Bruxelles

Partner:

  • mazette.brussels
  • Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
  • BIJ — Bureau International Jeunesse

Contact

orson@posteo.netCharleroi, Belgium