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…