New Publication: chapter in Worlding the Brain (Brill)
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…
New publication: chapter in Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology
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…
New job: lector What Art Knows!
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!…
Interview for podcast about AI and art
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…
New publication: Doing Collaborative Research on Symphonic Orchestra Audiences: Interventionist Ethnography of Music Practices
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…
The Eternal Pursuit of Happiness has started – at University of Amsterdam
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…
Upcoming gig with The Mariños: November, 11th in Molenbeersel (Belgium)
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/
My First Interdisciplinary Art: student work
Last week, my first-year students of the interdisciplinary art bachelor iArts, finalized the project we worked on for 10 weeks. It was their first course, and their first introduction to interdisciplinary arts. They worked on theme of the journey: where…
Art course on de- & post-colonization
Last week, my second-year students of the interdisciplinary art bachelor iArts, finalized the project we worked on for 10 weeks. Together with theatre and performativity teacher Diederik, we explored what role artists can play in the complex debate around de-…
