“Cultural Dreams of Datafied Bodies in Contemporary Performance” – Laura Karreman (UU)
In her book Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology (2018), science historian Adrienne Mayor narrates how ancient Greek mythology already imagined robot-like automata and other forms of artificial life. She writes that such myths can be considered as ‘cultural dreams, ancient thought experiments, “what-if” scenarios set in an alternate world of possibilities,
“Notes on the Political Imaginary and Exhibitions” – Nick Aikens and Ohad Ben Shimon
**This seminar takes place at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, from 14:30 to 17:00. Access to the exhibition ‘Rewinding Internationalism. Scenes for the 1990s Today’ is included in the seminar. The notion of the imaginary has circulated within the humanities since Cornelius Castioiardis’ ‘Imaginary Institution of Society’ first published in 1975. It has appeared in
“Janelle Monáe’s Black Utopias and the Afrofuturist Imagination” – Dan Hassler-Forest (UU)
Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer. Janelle Monáe is all these things and more, making her one of the most fascinating artists to emerge in the twenty-first century. Dan Hassler-Forest’s new book Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism explores how her work has connected different
**ONLINE** “Social Imaginaries of Ethics and AI” – Sonja Rebecca Rattay and Irina Shklovski (Copenhagen University) and Marco Rozendaal (TuDelft)
** This event has been swtiched online due to COVID-related issues. Please join us on Microsoft Teams! AI systems are increasingly part of everyday products, and designers take part in shaping how they are being integrated in our daily life. As a technology, AI is facing more unknowns about consequences and ethical use
“Robotic Imaginaries” – Acting Like a Robot Research Project
**This session takes place at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam In the Acting Like a Robot research project we investigate how theatre may contribute to new approaches to the design of robot behavior and the interaction between humans and robots. The big challenge for such design lies in what Lucie Suchman describes as the “deep
“Media Imaginaries / Imaginary Media / Imaginations of Media” – Frank Kessler and Imar de Vries (UU)
A medium never simply “is”. It carries with it not only a history but also a future. Its future is imagined as a perfection of its – sometimes imaginary – potentials, just as there are imaginations of future media, which may also be or remain imaginary media. Moreover, there is always an imaginary of
TiM Seminar & Meet the Makers – See you in 2022-2023!
Thank you for your participation in 2021-2022 Transmission in Motion Seminars & Meet the Makers. Details for the sessions in the upcoming season (2022-2023) will be updated in September 2022. In the meanwhile, you can read about TiM Seminar 2021-2022, and past Meet the Makers events. Also, feel free to read student blog posts
Meet the Makers
The Meet the Makers programme facilitates meetings and conversations between students, teachers and researchers at UU, and makers – i.e., artists, curators, dramaturges, designers or other creative practitioners and professionals within the wider field of arts and culture. We usually organise a Meet the Makers event every block during the academic year, but sometimes
Transmission in Motion Seminar (2020-2021): “Knowledge in Making – Design by Doing”
This year’s Transmission in Motion seminar finds itself inspired by approaches to knowing that zoom in on experimental practices of ‘making’. Making, here, is understood as a form of ‘design by doing’. Such practices of designing a technological device, an artistic concept or a didactic plan embrace unpredictability and contingency by refraining from adhering to
“Disciplining the Future” – Chris Julien
Our relationships to those times called the future are fraught with presents. As Felicitas Macgilchrist, Heidrun Allert & Anne Bruch’s paper and presentation on scenario-building for education point out, our futures are entangled with “indeterminate sociotechnical configurations” (Macgilchrist et al. 2020, 76). Yet, their interesting and nuanced exploration of scenario building helps to point out