Transmission in Motion

Seminar Sessions

[Recap] TiM Seminar 2022-23 “Janelle Monáe’s Black Utopias and the Afrofuturist Imagination” – Dan Hassler-Forest (UU)

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…

[Recap] TiM Seminar 2022-23 “Robotic Imaginaries” – Acting Like a Robot Research Project

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…

[Recap] TiM Seminar 2022-23 “Social Imaginaries of Ethics and AI” – Sonja Rebecca Rattay and Irina Shklovski (Copenhagen University) and Marco Rozendaal (TuDelft)

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…

[Recap] TiM Seminar 2022-23 “Collaboration and Dissensus in the Experimental Arts and Innovation Policy” – Michael Century (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

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…

[Recap] TiM Seminar 2022-23 “Media Imaginaries / Imaginary Media / Imaginations of Media” – Frank Kessler and Imar de Vries (UU)

“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…

“What Follows for Students & Society in the 2020s? 3 Speculative Futures for Education & Technology” (Recorded Session)

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”,…

TiM Recorded Session: “Post-Publishing and Performative Publications” – Dr. Janneke Adema

This is the 6th session of the TiM seminar which took place via Microsoft Teams In this talk, Janneke introduces the concept of post-publishing and explore it more in-depth through an exploration of a selection of publishing projects, which highlight how the mode in which we produce, disseminate and consume text, influences the content and…