Before discussing the movement in cave art, I will address briefly movement in another art form, namely dance: “In watching a collective dance – say, artistically successful ballet – one does not see people running around; one sees the dance driving this way, drawn that way, gathering here, spreading there – fleeing, resting, rising, and…

Nicolas Salazar Sutil’s engaging lecture gave fascinating insights into prehistoric artworks, through an analytical approach reminiscent of an archaeologist or even geologist. Through his discussion of caves, limestones, sedimentary rocks and the impact of darkness on artists, he showed us how the principles of artistic practices can be recognized and interpreted in centuries-old rock paintings. The key…

During this first lecture, in the frame of the Transmission in Motion Seminar, Nicolas Salazar developed certain ideas about how rocks, and especially limestones in caves, can transmit as much as any digital media nowadays. The main idea that I got from this session could be summarised as it follows: transmission is not something confined…

In his presentation, Nicolas Salazar Sutil offers a new beginning, reaching back to pre-historic knowledge. This opening, that he is mapping out in his forthcoming book Matter in Transmission (Bloomsbury), overcomes the idea that transmission is only possible in conventional telecommunicational forms, such as electricity, radio-waves, microwave and infra-red. Instead, he invites elements – water,…

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…