For this Meet the Makers session, freelance curator Ward Janssen will discuss how curators—as artworkers—are always striking a balance in creating possibilities to present exciting art to audiences. While working closely with artists, networks of other artworkers, and partners in the cultural field, curators must also be able to manoeuvre within institutional policies, financial…

  In this Meet the Makers session, we will meet with  Dutch screenwriters Susan Stam (screenwriter/assistant director) and Helen Dalessi (screenwriter/actress/assistant director). The session is organized in collaboration with the foundation Vrouwenin Beeld (English: Women in the Picture), which earlier this year commissioned a quantitative content analysis of the representation of female characters in Dutch fiction films and TV

  The allure of adventure is all around us. Who would not prefer an adventurous life over a mundane one? Whether it is thrilling experiences, travels to faraway lands, or passionate love affairs, adventurous existence is something many people look for. Even those of us who do not necessarily want to experience adventures directly, often…

What does it mean to live among the collapse of Holocene climate and ecosystems – whose stable state enabled the emergence of life as we know it over the past 10.000 years? We are witnessing dramatic, material shifts in the Earth]s system, but these are also a fundamental “vibe shift” for modern societies that challenge

As museums, archives and other cultural institutions make their colonial collections available online—giving contested materials a digital afterlife—unresolved histories and new ethical matters are bound to emerge. What can be traced, remembered and imagined through archives rife with omission and harm? How do we care for the presences and absences they conjure? And is it…

Transmission in Motion Seminar (2024-2025): “Implicatedness”   “We are implicated in the worlds that we critique; being critical does not suspend any such implication,” observes Sarah Ahmed. She is not the only one addressing the complexities of what it means to be implicated. Media theorist Mark Hansen argues for a phenomenology of implicatedness to account

For this special Halloween edition of Meet the Makers we will be joined by Roos Groothuizen, a media artist who cares about digital human rights. She is based in Rotterdam, where she co-founded .zip, an art space and media lab. In her own practice, and in collaboration with the art collective Telemagic, she researches the human

The first Meet the Makers event of the 2024-25 academic year is a collaboration with Nederlands Film Festival (NFF) at the Theaterzaal Neude in Utrecht: Storyspace Sessions: Fellows, Performers, and Poets Unite. Framed by questions around the societal role of art and the impact of technology on society, the three NFF digital fellows, the collective…

As the first Transmission in Motion event of the 2024/25 academic year will be a special seminar Double-Bill with Anika Marschall and Jaswina Elahi who will each present their rescheduled sessions from the previous 2023/24 series ‘Matters of Concern.’  “Researching performance in the wake: Commitment to a healing labour” – Anika Marschall (UU) Anika Marschall’s seminar…

  Meet the Makers: Daniela Tenenbaum and In Touch The final Meet the Makers event before the summer break takes place at IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], where curator Daniela Tenenbaum will give a guided tour of the exhibition In Touch – How to Connect in the Age of Digital Humanity? Daniela Tenenbaum is an…