The concept of acquiring knowledge through practical engagement holds a pivotal role within the realm of media studies. In the pursuit of inquiry, the essence lies not in the mere transcription of knowledge onto paper, but in the active process of acquiring knowledge and the subsequent transformation of this knowledge into shareable and meaningful information….

    In this Meet the Makers session, theatre maker Ulrike Quade discusses her work in puppetry and technology theatre. Ulrike uses a unique mixture of visual theatre, dance, music, scenography, and literature, with the performance of puppets and objects as the main common denominator. Her approach to non-human performers builds on aspects of Asian…

    To argue for academic freedom, we must first consider what academia is for. What is the inherent value of intellectual work produced from within the humanities? Bruno Latour’s article “Why has critique run out of steam?” provides a point of departure for Professor Berteke Waaldijk in the first seminar of the 2023/2024 Transmission…

  by Kangning Li   The opening seminar for 2023-24 Transmission in Motion opened with a lecture from Dr.Berteke Waaldijk, who addressed the theme of this year’s series ‘Matter of Concern’ by using academic freedom as the entry point. The first part of the lecture began with the introduction of Latour’s concept on the Matter…

    “What do you love,” Prof. Dr. Waaldijk asked. We — the attendants of her lecture on Academic Freedom — discussed. During this short heart-to-heart, I loved hearing what my newly-met colleague loved. Yet, how can we secure space for our loves outside of Waaldijk’s careful lecture? Or, as someone during the Q&A asked:…

    A video documentary made by Chris Rijken about the ongoing research in the ELRAT Lab. ELRAT is an initiative of Bram Ellens, Rick van Dugteren (Creative Robotics), Ulrike Quade (Ulrike Quade Company) and Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University).  

9th International Conference on Movement and Computing in collaboration with the SPRING Performing Arts Festival MOCO’24 ‘Beyond Control’ conference at Utrecht University The 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing will be held at Utrecht University from Thursday, May 30th to Sunday, June 2nd, 2024. Early Bird conference rates apply until April 30th. The MOCO’24…

This seminar session has been rescheduled — see here   For the last seminar of this year’s series “Matters of Concern,” we shall be joined by Dr. Jaswina Elahi who will speak to us about Participatory Action Research, an approach which was introduced in 1944 by Kurt Lewin. This approach seeks transformative change through the…

This seminar session has been rescheduled — see here   Wake: the track left on the water’s surface by a ship; the disturbance caused by a body swimming or moved, in water; it is the air currents behind a body in flight; a region of disturbed flow. (Sharpe 2016: 3) Wake; the state of wakefulness;…

  What does it mean to commission? I found myself pondering this question some years back when I – in the context of a research project on The Danish Radio Archive – commissioned two contemporary artists to engage with the archive and produce artworks in relation to it. This practice-based research design made the act…