Once every few months, I hide in a garage witih my friend Joep to make some noise. Joep is a marvellous song writer and singer, able to combine super catchy melodies with a clear vision on how it should sound….
In 2011 startte ik samen met Dorien van den Hurk het social design-collectief Tante Netty, in de Eindhovense wijk Woensel-West. Dat was een spannende tijd! Nu, zo’n 11 jaar later, verschijnt er een boek over de vele projecten die de…
It’s been five years after I defended my PhD-dissertation, ‘Practicing the Plastic Brain’ at Maastricht University. Now, one of my case studies appears as a chapter in the new volume ‘Worlding the Brain: Neurocentrism, Cognition and the Challenge of the…
It’s finally out! A few years ago, colleagues Veerle Spronck, Imogen Eve and me (of our Artful Participation project) wrote a chapter for a new Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology, edited by Chris Dromey. The book shows the richness and…
Super honored and happy to finally share that on September 1st I will start as lector (professor UAS) in artistic research, at the research center What Art Knows at the Maastricht Institute of Arts at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences!…
I was interviewed on the meaning of AI for artists and art, for the podcast ‘Brain & Butter’, made by masters students of Brain and Cognition in Society at the University of Amsterdam. They initially wanted to probe me about…
The new year starts with a fresh publication! For the edited volume Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle: Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research (2023), edited by Karin Bijsterveld and Aagje Swinnen and published by Palgrave, I…
My yearly course at the University of Amsterdam – titled The Eternal Pursuit of Happiness: philosophy, science, and technology of wellbeing – has started! Until February, some 100 students will follow a weekly lecture, explore happiness from all kinds of…
Speulu! Vrijdag 11 november spelen we met The Mariños in Molenbeersel in Belgïe, in café De Graasj. Dat wordt een dampend avondje surfrollen! Meer info: https://www.instagram.com/degraasj/
