Meet the Makers: Samah Hijawi

In this Meet the Makers conversation, we will engage in conversation with multi-media artist, astrologer and dramaturg Samah Hijawi. Hijawi has been involved as a dramaturg in the creation process of Khadija El Kharraz Alami’s SHRINE, an immersive performance about grief, rage, and radical resistance, presented at Spring Festival 2026. We will talk about the

A Neurodiverse Fabulation: Techniques for Neurodiverse Futurities

Guided by the question “What can neurodiversity do?”, the collective shy*play (Aion Arribas and antje nestel) will story their art and pedagogical practice of Doing Neurodiversity. Aion and antje will tell one of the many stories that make up the ever-evolving world of shy*play, foregrounding its urgency, emergence, desires, and techniques of improvisation. These techniques

Meet the Makers: Eloise Pasmore O’Pray

In this Meet the Makers event, Eloise Pasmore O’Pray will present the story of how a unique research collection formed and travelled from Britain to the Netherlands. We will learn about the obstacles that arise when trying to catalogue and make accessible a research collection and AI’s role in finding solutions. Physical objects, specifically those

“Relating, Sensing, Being: Conversations on Arts x Science x AI”

On May 27, the UU Special Interest Group “AI in Cultural Inquiry and Art” presents a conversation with the Holistic Technology Salon (HTS). HTS is an artists’ collective led by Annika Kappner, Ginevra Petrozzi and Sieta van Horck, and has been co-produced by V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. Through incorporating different types of knowledge with artistic practice, from corporeal and

Meet the Makers: Ren Loren Britton

In this talk Ren will share their ongoing artistic indexing project called “Indexing for Disability Justice.” They will share an essay they are writing that works on tracing agency, via a few stories and hir-stories from the index. These artifacts speak of technical trans*crip pasts that enable other interdependencies and priorities for community connection and technical making today. They

Meet the Makers: Jessica Sligter

What, exactly, do we think of when we hear the term ‘experimental’ in relation to music? This Meet the Makers Conversation features Jessica Sligter, an experimental musician and composer who works at the interface of different genres and disciplines via the materials of voice, electronics, space, text and concept. Sligter is originally from Utrecht but has spent much of her

Meet the Makers: Ira Brand

  In this Meet the Makers Conversation, Ira Brand will discuss her experience in making live, inter-disciplinary performances: from solo stage shows to one-to-one pieces, from duets to participatory work. Her process is one of using personal starting points to speak to wider social, political, and formal concerns. In recent years Ira has been exploring power,

Book Launch—Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code with Daniel Temkin

In his new book, Forty-Four Esolangs (MIT Press), Daniel Temkin challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art. The languages in this volume ask programmers to write code in the form of prayer to the Greek gods, or as a pattern of empty folders,

Title and speakers to be announced

More information will be available closer to the date of the session. This session is part of the Transmission in Motion seminar (2025-2026): “Navigating Entanglements.” To stay updated with more seminar sessions, please subscribe to our newsletter.