This piece of small writing forms the fourth part in a series covering different methods on current perspectives for measuring transmissions in motions. The writings specifically draw on references and inspiration shared from the seminar of the same title hosted by the University of Utrecht during the first half of 2020. Throughout the writings, the…

In the sixth session of Transmissions in Motion, Dr. Janneke Adema discussed new and experimental approaches in the world of academic publishing, arguing in favor of a reevaluation of concepts such as “book” and “author” in order to better suit what she defines as the “post-humanities.” Adema explains that thanks to the rise of digital…

Janneke Adema’s notion of “post-publishing,” as discussed in her recent TiM webinar, arrives at the intersection of two notable trends in Western academia. On one hand, the increasing significance of posthumanist and post-anthropocentric thought across the Humanities, which are now said to be transforming into a “posthumanities” (e.g. Braidotti 2013). On the other hand, the…

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…

Data Echoes What can our hearing teach us about the entanglements of intelligence with our physical bodies, and, by extension, about the intelligence of other systems – living and algorithmic? Dr. Thomas Hermann and his Ambient intelligence Group work with data sonifications to access human capacities in unexpected yet familiar ways. In a world where…

This writing is the third part in a series covering different methods on current perspectives for measuring transmissions in motions. The writings specifically draw on references and inspiration shared from the seminar of the same title hosted by the University of Utrecht during the first half of 2020. Throughout the written reflections the intention is…

In his lecture on sonification titled Sonification for Sharing Auditory Perspectives on Data (2020), dr. Thomas Hermann reminded us of the complexity of our human listening system.   According to Hermann, “the benefits of using the auditory system as a primary interface for data transmission are derived from its complexity, power, and flexibility.” (Hermann, Hunt and…

In the opening of his lecture ,“Sonification for Sharing Auditory Perspectives on Data”, dr. Thomas Hermann described sounds as a tool to understand “what is hidden behind the numbers.” While data and statistics have traditionally been represented through visual renditions (such as graphs), Hermann argued that there are a variety of situations in which sound…

A medium does not mean, but is. Following McLuhan’s cliché aphorism, let’s not take media for it’s ablative function; that of media-as-vessle “by means of which” a *thing* is mediated. Instead of understanding media as about the world, the proposition, following McLuhan, is to consider media as the world itself. The rain is the falling,…

In this fourth Transmission in Motion seminar, Dr. Thomas Hermann presented us with the potential of auditory representation of data (see also (Hermann, Hunt, and Neuhoff 2011)). Hermann discussed for example how it might be easier, for those who have trouble expressing emotions or to express certain feelings, to do so through sounds. Or how…