Events
TiM Public Launch!
On April 25 we will celebrate the launch of our Transmission in Motion research initiative!
Please RSVP for this event here or by sending an e-mail to tim@uu.nl
Our event on April 25 will start with a lecture by Norah Zunigah Shaw (Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design, Ohio State University). Norah was one of the driving forces behind Synchronous Objects a project that pushed the boundaries of our understanding of the relationships between thinking, movement and technology via the creation of a unique set of digital objects. In her lecture, Norah will speak about the Humane Technologies project, a network of artists, scholars & researchers creating games, virtual reality experiences, interactive installations, data visualizations, objects, & live performances that explore the interplay between physical and virtual experience and seek to intervene directly in creating better futures. Norah’s lecture will be followed by the (long overdue) presentation of the Transmission in Motion book (Routledge 2017). To conclude the event, there will be complimentary drinks. We hope to see you on April 25! Transmission in Motion is a research initiative that brings researchers from across disciplines together with artists and other partners from outside the academy. Moving images, motion capture, virtual mobility, mobile media, haptic interfaces, intelligent objects and robotics foreground the performativity of practices of transmission and the materiality of mediation. Technological developments reconfigure our senses, turn archives into ‘dynarchives,’ and set knowledge cultures in motion. Movement, motion, gesture and embodied interaction are also at the crux of new insights into practices of teaching and learning, health, and embodied cognition. This centrality of movement, motion and gesture opens up a transdisciplinary terrain for research and development, and new possibilities for cross-sector collaborations between the humanities, sciences and the arts, as well as with partners from within the industry of care and education. This is the terrain of Transmission in Motion.