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…