Meet the Makers: Daniela Tenenbaum and “In Touch”

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 Amsterdam-based researcher and curator. She works as a curator and programme coordinator at IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] and has previously worked at the Netherlands Film Festival and the Research Centre for Material Culture. Her research focuses on the intersection of societal engagement and cultural work and the complex histories and futures of Western cultural institutions. Tenenbaum completed her BA in art history and communication at the Freie Universität, Berlin and received her MA from Utrecht University in Arts and Society in 2020.

In Touch is an exhibition about our relationships with and through technology. Steering away from exploring interpersonal relationships, the exhibition focuses on our relationships with non-human entities, our surroundings and technology itself. Seeing how devices have shifted our attention from our surroundings to the screen, the apparatus has developed from a tool that communicates the world to us, to the world itself. These developments call for an updated relational landscape. In this sense, it is important to explore how our relationship with technology rewrites our ways of connecting and forms alternate, networked subjectivities.

During the tour of the exhibition, Tenenbaum will expand on the presented works and the theme of the exhibition and reflect on how curation and exhibition-making
produce knowledge.

Meet the Makers will cover the entrance fee to IMPAKT. Please RSVP via tim@uu.nl or online registration.

This session is a part of Meet the Makers, a series by Transmission in Motion which aims to facilitate conversations between researchers, students and makers – such as artists, curators, dramaturges, designers, or other creative practitioners within the wider field of arts and culture.