What does it mean to live among the collapse of Holocene climate and ecosystems – whose stable state enabled the emergence of life as we know it over the past 10.000 years? We are witnessing dramatic, material shifts in the Earth’s system, but these are also a fundamental “vibe shift” for modern societies that challenge…

As museums, archives and other cultural institutions make their colonial collections available online—giving contested materials a digital afterlife—unresolved histories and new ethical matters are bound to emerge. What can be traced, remembered and imagined through archives rife with omission and harm? How do we care for the presences and absences they conjure? And is it…

Transmission in Motion Seminar (2024-2025): “Implicatedness”   “We are implicated in the worlds that we critique; being critical does not suspend any such implication,” observes Sarah Ahmed. She is not the only one addressing the complexities of what it means to be implicated. Media theorist Mark Hansen argues for a phenomenology of implicatedness to account

For this special Halloween edition of Meet the Makers we will be joined by Roos Groothuizen, a media artist who cares about digital human rights. She is based in Rotterdam, where she co-founded .zip, an art space and media lab. In her own practice, and in collaboration with the art collective Telemagic, she researches the human…

The first Meet the Makers event of the 2024-25 academic year is a collaboration with Nederlands Film Festival (NFF) at the Theaterzaal Neude in Utrecht: Storyspace Sessions: Fellows, Performers, and Poets Unite. Framed by questions around the societal role of art and the impact of technology on society, the three NFF digital fellows, the collective…

As the first Transmission in Motion event of the 2024/25 academic year will be a special seminar Double-Bill with Anika Marschall and Jaswina Elahi who will each present their rescheduled sessions from the previous 2023/24 series ‘Matters of Concern.’  “Researching performance in the wake: Commitment to a healing labour” – Anika Marschall (UU) Anika Marschall’s seminar…

  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…

For this Meet the Makers event, we will be joined by freelance dramaturg Maarten Bos. Bos collaborates with a variety of companies such as Werkplaats van de Woestijne, De Jonge Honden and Troupe Courage en Tryater. He teaches dramaturgy at Amsterdam Theater and Kleinkunst Academy and is also a writer of short stories which have…

“Commissioning responds to a need and hinges on the presumption that the commissioned artwork can satisfy this need.” (Sørensen, TiM Lecture 21 Feb 2024) Trine Friis Sørensen’s lecture “Inquiring & Caring with the Act of Commissioning” centered around how commissioning can be debunked as a caring and inquiring process. Thus, the result of creation should…

  In a thought-provoking seminar led by Trine Friis Sørensen, the nuanced role of the curator within contemporary art and archival practices was explored, shedding light on the evolving responsibilities that extend far beyond traditional collection management. Sørensen’s insights, drawn from her own rich experience, position the curator not just as a guardian of art…