On April 25, I talked at The Hmm about calm places on the internet, titled ‘about: blank’. Do you remember the legendary both welcoming and useless website Zombo.com? I showed the silent works of artists as Ingrid Burrington, Jonathan Harris and Julia Weist. And examples of ASMR videos*, for instance by Lisa Gliederpuppe.
Category Archives: Art & Design
Sonic Acts Critical Writing Workshop
The Sonic Acts Critical Writing Workshop focuses on specific aspects – language, style, and focus – of writing as a craft. Following the editions in 2016 and 2017, the writing team is led by writer and researcher Jennifer Lucy Allan and me. Read the closing notes of the 2017 edition: Anyway, everything is on fire
talk on modern love at Felix Meritis
A conversation with Rebekka de Wit, Jan Geurtz and Margriet van Heesch about love and modern relationships, following from Het Nieuwe Instituut’s exhibition The Life Fair, curated by Agata Jaworska and Giovanni Inella.
As We Read
As We Read is a website with a growing collection of reading lists about art and design, ranging from essays to graphic novels, and from lecture transcripts to manifestos. I contributed with a reading list of books in the library of Het Nieuwe Instituut that deal with the ever-expanding universe of materials.
exhibition Souvenirs at Felix Meritis
The exhibition Souvenirs. De dingen en de verhalen at Felix Meritis presented an assembly of objects and the stories of their owners. The photography by Sophie Wright was presented as a new collection of souvenirs in the exhibition. Curated with Tessel Dekker, co-founder of Gevonden Voorwerpen.
article on the subterranean
Following FIBER Festival‘s theme exploring the Subterranean, I wrote an article for Simulacrum about the artists that help us navigate in the algorithmic and digital landscapes underneath the surfaces of our screens.
Het Nieuwe Instituut
From January 6, I’ll be working as researcher for Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Design Column for Boijmans
For Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen I edited and curated the website Design Column (2013-2014), in parallel with the Design Column exhibition series.
INC Society of the Query #2
For Society of the Query #2, I wrote about Siva Vaidhyanathan (author of The Googlization of Everything) and glitch artist Rosa Menkman.
Media Interventions in the City
For The Mobile City, I wrote the blogpost Media Interventions in the City: Assembling New Publics of Strangers. The article is an excerpt of my MA thesis Urban Dialogues. Media Interventions as Assembling Devices.
recap Coded Matter(s) #1
A recap on Coded Matter(s) #1 for Fiber Festival.