*The photos: courtesy of Anna van Kooij and Irene Alcubilla Troughton

In her talk on the occasion of the celebration of the launch of Transmission in Motion, Norah Zuniga Shaw advocated for an “ethics of care,” not only in the face of the ubiquity of technology but also in view of the intimacy with it. Until now, when I was thinking about intimate and affective relationships with…

Maaike Bleeker’s lecture offered an expanded understanding of the notion of literacy which approaches corporeality as a source of knowledge. What I particularly enjoyed from the lecture was that, instead of presenting the results of her research, she guided us through the process of shaping the concept of corporeal literacy. Her lecture exemplified how the…

Please register with NICA Masterclass with Jon McKenzie, Iris van der Tuin, and Maaike Bleeker offered by the Centre for the Humanities and the Transmission in Motion research group (UU), in collaboration with NICA and SPRING Festival. In this masterclass, we take Lyotard’s report on knowledge as a historical point of reference for a closer look at the performance…

We are very happy to share with you that our own TiM Community Member Iris van der Tuin, has been appointed Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry at the Faculty of Humanities! The chair is part of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and is part of the Research Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON)…

In mainstream culture, emotions almost always seem to be connected to an object, image, or speech act – that is, to an ‘other’ – which makes the subject feel a certain way. So, for example, ‘it makes me feel sad to see images of suffering’, or ‘it makes me feel happy that my friends threw…

Technological developments inform the ways information travels through media, turn archives into ‘dynarchives,’ and set knowledge cultures in motion. Such developments foreground the performativity of practices of transmission and the materiality of mediation; moreover, they point to movement and embodiment as key to both transmission and mediation. Moving images, motion capture, virtual mobility, mobile media,…

We proudly inaugurate a series of events organized by the research community Transmission in Motion! For its first event, Transmission in Motion invited four renowned researchers to Utrecht to share their knowledge about the “possible” influence of the arts in the development of social robots. Ruairi Glynn, (Associate professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London), Elizabeth Jochum (Associate at…