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…
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…
New publication: A Pragmatist Approach to Audience Participation in Symphonic Music
Harvest time! An article I wrote together with former colleagues Peter Peters and Imogen Eve, is finally published! The very cool edited volume, Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage: Learning Through and from Collaboration is super interesting for those…
Interview in Flow Magazine
Flow Magazine interviewde me (samen met mensen die er echt verstand van hebben) over geluk, en welke rol tegenslag in ons leven speelt. Het artikel ‘Tegenslag als Levensles’ staat in de januari-editie van het populaire tijdschrift. Geluk kan niet zonder…
New publication: Artful innovation: How to experiment in symphonic music practice
Aaaaand another publication of our exciting project Artful Participation! Together with Ruth Benschop, Peter Peters and Imogen Eve, we published a chapter in the edited volume Tuning Up – Innovative Potentials of Musikvermittlung, edited by Sarah Chaker & Axel Petri-Preis,…
Launch website artfulparticipation.nl
My postdoc has officially ended with a bang. On Wednesday October 20, during a final dissemination meeting, we launched the website artfulparticipation.nl. The website is the outcome of four years of experimenting with audience participation in the practice of a…
New publication: Unboxed: Instruments for science and technology in Centre Céramique
Together with (former) colleagues from the Maastricht STS-group (MUSTS), we created a booklet about instruments and artefacts from the collection of Centre Céramique, a public library and cultural heritage centre in Maastricht. Everyone adopted an object, which varied from forgotten…
