A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of Learning
The magic lantern was the most important visual entertainment and means of instruction across nineteenth-century Europe. However, despite its pervasiveness across multiple scientific, educational and popular contexts, magic lantern slides remain under-researched. Although many libraries and museums across Europe hold tens of thousands of lantern slides in their collections, a lack of standards for documentation
Research as Embodied Practice – Sebastian Kann
Sebastian Kann’s project for Transmission in Motion revolves around the notion of the embodied researcher. What does it mean to understand research as an embodied practice? To begin to answer this question, Kann spent three months in Berlin at SMASH, an independent experimental dance intensive. The (pedagogical, performative, and theoretical) practices proposed by the artists
Performance Studies Space Programme
The Performance Studies Space Programme (PSSP) seeks to articulate the interplay between astronomical and cosmological disciplines with performance and media theory and practice. Convened by Maaike Bleeker and Felipe Cervera, the Programme enables interdisciplinary encounters between these seemingly divergent disciplines with the objective of debating variable onto-epistemologies of time and space vis-à-vis the materiality of
Ethics of Coding: A Report on the Algorithmic Condition
This project responds to the ICT-35-2016 Enabling responsible ICT-related research and innovation, topic B, and will “reflect and challenge the way ICT-related research and innovation is currently approached.” The computerization of society in the late 1970s has now reached a point where the global economy works through an algorithmic networked environment. This situation is addressed in this research