New job: postdoc in Artful Participation

New job: postdoc in Artful Participation

Finally, I can announce a new job! As of today, I’m starting as a post-doc researcher in the three-year project Artful Participation. In this beautiful and super relevant project, we’ll be exploring new ways of artistically meaningful audience participation in…

Symposium March 20th: Doing Artistic Research: A Collaboratory

Symposium March 20th: Doing Artistic Research: A Collaboratory

At our Research Centre for Arts, Autonomy, and the Public Sphere we are organising an exciting symposium on practices of artistic research. See below for the flyer, program will be updated soon. Join us! Participation is free, register by sending…

Lezing op symposium "Homo Sapiens 3.0 & het Ethische Dilemma"

Lezing op symposium “Homo Sapiens 3.0 & het Ethische Dilemma”

Zaterdag 13 januari zal ik een lezing verzorgen op het symposium “Homo Sapiens 3.0 & Het Ethische Dilemma: ethische problematiek rondom technologie en het verbeteren van de mens”. Het symposium wordt georganiseerd door Quatuor Coronati “De Nieuwe Lantaarn” in samenwerking…

PhD submitted!

PhD submitted!

Yesterday, the deed was one: I finally submitted my PhD! The manuscript is titled ‘Practicing the Plastic Brain: valuing popular neuroscience across the lifespan’. I have worked on it for six years and one month, and I’m quite happy with…

Upcoming talk at Worlding the Brain conference (Amsterdam)

Upcoming talk at Worlding the Brain conference (Amsterdam)

After months and months of writing, I finally can go outside and play again! Next week, I’ll present at the wonderful Worlding the Brain conference, at the University of Amsterdam. Great interdisciplinary program, including art, tech & much more. Check…

Wiebe Bijker's Valedictory Lecture and Liber Amoricum

Wiebe Bijker’s Valedictory Lecture and Liber Amoricum

Yesterday, our colleague Wiebe Bijker gave his valedictory lecture, titled ‘Constructing Worlds: Reflections on science, technology and democracy”. Wiebe is not only one of the founding fathers of Science Technology and Society studies (STS), he’s also one our faculty’s most…

Sluit je aan bij We Are Public Brabant!

Sluit je aan bij We Are Public Brabant!

We Are Public is een nieuw initiatief om cultuur te ontdekken en financieren. Voor €15 per maand ben je lid, investeer je mee en kun je de beste voorstellingen, concerten, films en exposities bezoeken. Zo hopen we kunst en cultuur…

STRP Biënnale 2017

STRP Biënnale 2017

Deze week start STRP Biënnale 2017 in het Klokgebouw te Eindhoven. STRP is een spannend en toegankelijk technologisch kunstfestival, met performances, expo, DJ’s, workshops en conferenties. Het thema van STRP dit jaar is ‘Senses & Sensors’, en “verkent de high…

Conference: Participatory Practices in Arts and Heritage

Conference: Participatory Practices in Arts and Heritage

Together with Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) and Jan van Eyck Academie, our research centre at Zuyd organized an exciting conference on participation in the arts. This week, March 17th & 18th, there are plenty…