Seminars
“Transmission in Motion Seminar” (2017-2018)
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, and haptic interfaces are some of the technologies which exemplify the way in which movement, embodiment and performativity are increasingly part of both what is captured and communicated by media, and how media afford interaction Movement, motion and gesture are also at the crux of new insights into practices of teaching and learning, health, and embodied cognition. This new 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 industry, care and education. This is the terrain of Transmission in Motion.
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- 1 November 2017 (15-17h) – Parnassos, Kruisstraat 201
“How to get a Wall to Dance: Transmission Media from a New Materialist Angle”
Nicolas Salazar Sutil (University of Leeds)
- 13 December 2017 (15-17h) – Janskerkhof 15a, 001
“Media and the Reconfiguration of the Senses”
Frank Kessler (Utrecht University) 17 January 2018 (15-17h) –This event was cancelled
“Image Classification Using Deep Neural Networks: Some Thoughts from the Point of View of Operative Images and Embodied Perception”
Aud Sissel Hoel (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
- 21 February 2018 (15-17h) – Parnassos, Kruisstraat 201
“Using Neural Networks to Study Conceptual Shifts in Text and Image”
Melvin Wevers (Digital Humanities Group KNAW HUC) - 28 March 2018 (15-17h) – Parnassos, Kruisstraat 201
“Expressive Movement as Universal Language between Humans & Social Robots”
Emilia Barakova (TU Eindhoven, Designed Intelligence) & Roos van Berkel (CMA)
- 25 April 2018 (15-17h) – Parnassos, Kruisstraat 201
“Corporeal Literacy as Perspective on Human-Technology Interaction”
Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University) - 23 May 2018 (15-17h) – Parnassos, Kruisstraat 201
“Thought-Action Figures”- Jon McKenzie & Aneta Stojnic
Jon McKenzie (Cornell University) & Aneta Stojnic
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To participate and receive additional information & readings, please send an email to tim@uu.nl. RMA Students can acquire 3 EC if they attend all meetings and write blogposts after each meeting. Please register for the course via email to: tim@uu.nl and include your name, student number, master’s programme, and research school. For more information, contact Maaike Bleeker at m.a.bleeker[at]uu.nl.