Transmission in Motion Seminar: “Experiment/Experience” ( 2018- 2019 )

Experiment/Experience

“Have we forgotten experience?” wonders Scott Lash (Experience, 2018). If this is so, we are currently witnessing a comeback with a vengeance. New forms of research and communication explore and experiment with various dimensions of experience. Art and science meet in experimental approaches that foreground sensation, substance and practice. Technological developments “expand the sensible” (Mark Hansen) beyond human experience, challenging the centrality of human experience and raising the question of the relationship between human experience, technological agents and data. Critical thinkers from a diversity of backgrounds (including media, archaeology, new materialism, post-phenomenology, radical empiricism, human geography and embodied cognition) unpack aspects of the intimate relationship between experience and knowing and point to meaning as material practice of experience.

TiM Seminar Program (2018-2019)

• 25 October 2018 (15-17h) – Parnassos Bar, Kruisstraat 201
  “Experience/experiment and atmospheric things” 
  Prof. dr. Derek McCormack (Oxford University)
• 22 November 2018 (15-17h) – Grote Zaal, Muntstraat 2a
  “Everybody’s Historiography: When Museums Play Digital Games”
  Prof. dr. Sarah Bay Cheng (Bowdoin College)
• 13 December 2018 (15-17h) – Grote Zaal, Muntstraat 2a
  “Multiplication as Experience: Whitehead, aesthetics and gesture-based, touchscreen technology”
  Prof. dr. Nathalie Sinclair (Simon Fraser University)
• 23 January 2019 (15-17h) – Grote Zaal, Muntstraat 2a
  “On doing undergoing: Experience, Imagination, and the Principle of Habit”
  Prof. dr. Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
• 28 February 2019 (15-17h) – Parnassos Bar, Kruisstraat 201
  “Designing the Dispositif: Between the Art and Reason of Government”
  Dr. Adam Nocek (Arizona State University)
  
• 28 March 2019 (15-17h) – Parnassos Bar, Kruisstraat 201
  “The Stratification of Cyberspace: from Experience to Waste”
  Dr. Arun Saldanha (University of Minnesota)
• 2 May 2019 (15-17h) – Parnassos Bar, Kruisstraat 201
  “The Sensory Moving Image”
  Dr. Eef Masson (University of Amsterdam)
• 5 June 2019 (15-17h) – Grote Zaal, Muntstraat 2a                                         “The Art of Performing Science”                                                                     Prof. dr. Roger Kneebone and Dusia Kneebone (Imperial College London)

The Transmission in Motion Seminar is a more-or-less monthly gathering of researchers and students from across disciplines. To participate, please send an email to tim@uu.nl to receive additional information and readings. RMA Students can acquire 3 EC if they attend all meetings and write blog posts after each meeting. Please register at tim@uu.nl. For more information, contact Maaike Bleeker at m.a.bleeker[a]uu.nl.