by Kangning Li   The opening seminar for 2023-24 Transmission in Motion opened with a lecture from Dr.Berteke Waaldijk, who addressed the theme of this year’s series ‘Matter of Concern’ by using academic freedom as the entry point. The first part of the lecture began with the introduction of Latour’s concept on the Matter…

  by Chris van der Vegt     The last Transmission in Motion seminar of 2022-2023 was organised by the Feminist Economies Collective, consisting of Ania Molenda (Amateur Cities) and Inte Gloerich (HvA and UU) in the theatre space of the muntstraat/kromme nieuwegracht. In their highly interactive workshop, they gave the participants tools to imagine…

  by Pauline Munnich     In the session “The Medium is a Medium” Evelyn Wan explored the intersection between technology and spirituality, reflecting on how intertwined the more-than-human world and technology have been throughout history.   Dali Wan started by showing a video about an AI experience created by the Salvador Dali Museum in…

  by Pauline Munnich   In the session “Cultural Dreams of Datafied Bodies in Contemporary Performance” Laura Karreman discusses recent artworks arising from the cultural imagination of bodies in movement and motion capture. She does this by focusing on dance, illustrating the link between movement and the motion capture imaginary, drawing on her book Embodied…

  by Chris van der Vegt   On January 16, 2023, dr. Dan Hassler-Forest presented a guest lecture for the Transmission in Motion seminars on the work of musician, actress and activist Janelle Monáe. The structure of the seminar was based on the structure of Hassler-Forest’s book Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label. The…

  by Jingzhe Zhang Basic Information of the Session Title: Robotic Imaginaries Date: 23 November, 2022 Location: De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (Nes 45, 1012 KD) Format of the session: the official part of the session lasts two hours and consists of four presentations. Q&A are left to accompany drinks afterwards. Content of the Session Irene…

  by Jakob Henselmans   1. Note on the online environment Everybody should join the MIRO-board. There will be an interactive session at the end.   2.Very short introduction by Maaike Bleeker.   3. Sonja Rebecca Rattay – introduction to research: Design practices, ethics and praxis; how social imaginaries provide frames for how AI’s are…

  by Job Santé   During the second seminar of the Transmission in motion seminar programme Michael Century presented his recently published book Northern Sparks:  Innovation, Technology Policy and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age, In doing so he illustrated the ways in which Canadian policy-making had shaped the ways…

“Imaginary Media and the Pursuit of the Impossible Dreams” by Olga Efremova     The first in 2022-23 Transmission in Motion seminar series opened with a welcome from Dr. Maaike Bleeker, who introduced media history researchers from Utrecht University Dr. Frank Kessler and Dr. Imar de Vries. The first part of the seminar consisted of…

This is the 7th and last session of the TiM seminar which took place via Microsoft Teams. This session begins with a conversation between Felicitas Macgilchrist and Rianne van Lambalgen about three possible futures for education and technology, especially in light of the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Their conversation will draw on a “social science fiction”,…