INTERFACULTY - Key Persons
Alexander Johannes Heil is a multidisciplinary artist with a passion for architecture, architecture theory, history, and philosophy. Thinking about concepts of space and inventing new ones goes hand in hand with his creation of spatial experiences. He received his B.Sc. Architecture at the Technical University in Berlin in 2017 with a focus on architecture theory and design. 2020 he graduated with a M.Mus ArtScience from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he currently lives and works. His thesis project "Substanzraum, the space of substance", was nominated for the KABK Master Department Award. Alexander's work is a playful exploration of space, form, and the human within.
Anastasia Loginova is a cultural producer and part-time artist with a keen interest in holistic and spiritual practice. She is currently coordinator at the ArtScience Interfaculty and associate curator at ARTPORT_Making Waves, an international curatorial collective which focuses on climate action and sustainability. Her strengths lie in curating exhibitions and events and bringing people (and beings) together. Having lived in many different countries and with dual nationality, Anastasia is excellent at cross-cultural communication. She holds degrees in Art History, Art Business and ArtScience. In her artistic practice she likes to connect different worlds and communicate with other entities including plants, cabbages, cows and the Sea.
She also writes for contemporary art platform Jegens & Tevens.
Andrea Božić (HR/NL) is a choreographer based in Amsterdam with a degree in Comparative Literature and English Language from the University of Zagreb, the School For New Dance Development and the Amsterdam Masters of Choreography, both at the Academy for Theatre and Dance Amsterdam.
Andrea's work revolves around the choreography of attention, space and gaze. It is in-disciplinary and takes form of live performance, installation, attention exercise and collaborations with the weather and night sky. The work reorganizes perception combining conceptual with sensorial and physical, creates paradoxical situations and asks questions about the effects of attention and imagination, perception of presence, the politics of viewing, presentation of reality and distribution of authorship.
Her work was produced by the Frascati and she was artist-in-residence at the International Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam (ICK). She has collaborated with visual artist Julia Willms and sound artist Robert Pravda since 2005 with whom she founded in-disciplinary platform TILT in 2009, a platform that currently produces the work. Her work has been presented internationally in performing and visual arts field (Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Centre Pompidou Metz, Vooruit, Gent, ImpulsTanz, Vienna, the Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Frascati, Amsterdam, HAU, Berlin, a.o.).
Andrea is tutor at the DAS Theatre (formerly DasArts, master of theatre programme, Amsterdam), was mentor at the Amsterdam Master of Choreography 2012-2015 and has given workshops and lectures and mentored many artists internationally (ICK, Interrarium - the Banff Arts Centre, ArtEZ, a.o.). Andrea is co-initator and curator of the We Live Here - summer academy and the Come Together Festival in Amsterdam and is one of the co-founders of BAU - dance and performance Amsterdam.
Julia Willms (DE/NL) studied Visual Communications at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht (The Netherlands) and Media Art at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna (Austria). Her work deals with the nature of perception, the very act of viewing itself and the shifting position of the spectator within the proposed environment. It takes form of video installations (often site specific) for the borderlines of spaces and architectual environments, performances, photo collages as well as installations and paintings.
Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions (GAM | Obrist Gallery/Essen, MUSA/Vienna, De Appel/Amsterdam, BNKR/Munich, Altana Kulturstiftung/Bad Homburg, a.o.), as well as in media & video art and performance festivals internationally (EMAF/Osnabrück, Almost Cinema/International Filmfestival Ghent, Netaudio London a.o.).
Since 2003 she has collaborated closely with choreographer/director Andrea Božić (www.andreabozic.com) on in-disciplinary performance projects and installations. In 2009 she co-founded in-disciplinary platform TILT with Andrea Božić, and sound artist Robert Pravda.
Julia is one of the co-founders of BAU - space for performing arts Amsterdam and teacher at the Royal Academy of the Art The Hague and mentor at the Amsterdam Master of Film. Julia has given workshops internationally (Royal Academy of Art The Hague, ICK, SPRING Festival, Interrarium - The Banff Arts Centre, a.o.).
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Teacher
- Artist, Electrical Engineer
Arthur Elsenaar is an artist, electrical engineer and facial hacker. Since 1993, Elsenaar has investigated the computer-controlled human face as a site for artistic expression. He holds a Ph.D. in Art and Design from Nottingham Trent University in the UK for his thesis entitled "Facial Hacking: The Twisted Logic of Electro-Facial Choreography." Elsenaar's work has been shown at many internationally renowned conferences, festivals and institutes such as Ars Electronica, ISEA, DEAF, SIGGRAPH and MIT Media Lab. In 2008, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam acquired the algorithmic facial choreography work "Face Shift" for their permanent collection. He has been a core member of the Institute of Artificial Art in Amsterdam whose work received several awards; a Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention (1997), the Leonardo Award for Excellence (2003) for a paper on the history of electric performance art. For his most recent work, Elsenaar received the Technarte Best Speaker Award (2012) in Bilbao, Spain.
BJ Nilsen (Benny Nilsen) is a Swedish composer and sound artist based in Amsterdam. His work is primarily focused on the sound of nature and its effects on humans. His two latest solo albums released by Touch Eye Of The Microphone (2013) - a personal audio rendition based on the sound of London - and The Invisible City (2010), have explored the urban acoustic realm. He has collaborated with Chris Watson on Storm and Wind, released by Touch (2006, 2001).
His original scores and soundtracks have featured in theatre, dance, and film, including Microtopia and Test Site (2013, 2010, dir. Jesper Wachtmeister), Enter the Void (2010, dir. Gaspar Noé), and, in collaboration with Jóhann Jóhannsson, I am here (2014, dir. Anders Morgenthaler). In 2014, he co-edited the book+CD publication The Acoustic City (jovis) together with Matthew Gandy.
Caro Verbeek (1980) is an art historian specialized in art and the senses. She graduated at the University of Amsterdam on the topics of olfactory (MA) and tactile (MA) art. She writes and lectures on olfactory and tactile art accompanied and designs multi-sensory tours for museums. She is currently working on a PhD on the role of olfaction during the avant-garde, which consists both of theory and actual olfactory (re)constructions that will enable us to literally inhale history of art.
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- Coach
- Teacher
- Teacher, Coach )
- Writer
Carolyn F. Strauss (US/NL) is a curator, writer, and creative facilitator whose experience traverses the fields of contemporary art, architecture, emerging technologies, and a range of social and environmental activisms. Since 2003 she is director of Slow Research Lab, a multidisciplinary research and curatorial platform that centers ‘Slowness' not only as a velocity of engagement but as an expanded lens for knowing (and getting to know) the world: cultivating tools for sensing complexity, tuning into variant rhythms and temporalities, amplifying quieter voices and marginal positions, and encouraging greater accountability to the ecologies with which human lives and activities are entwined. In this work she has engaged a spectrum of thinkers and creative practitioners in local and international projects including exhibitions, workshops, publications, in-situ experiments, and immersive study experiences. Carolyn is the editor of Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection (2021) and Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice (2016), and she has contributed to publications including: The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration (2018) and I Read Where I Am: Exploring New Information Cultures (2011)-all published by Valiz. Since 2020, she is the host of the podcast AI Murmurings exploring (Slow) intersections of contemporary creative practice and artificial intelligence. Carolyn lives in Amsterdam.
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- Coach
- Teacher
- Artist
- Teacher, Coach )
Coralie Vogelaar is an interdisciplinary artist who combines social science such as behavioural studies with the artistic imagination. Vogelaar investigates the relationship between human and machine by applying machine logic to the human body. Her work manifest itself in the form of performances and video and multimedia installations, for which she works together with experts from various disciplines including data analysis, choreography, and sound design.
Places where her work has been shown include HeK Basel, ZKM - Karlsruhe, Veem House for Performance, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Kunstverein Kassel, Photographers' Gallery London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Science gallery Dublin, Noorderlicht Festival, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, MU Artspace, FOMU - Antwerp and Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen. Her performance Emotion Recognition from an Algorithmic Point of View was featured in The Most Iconic Works of 40 years V2 - Lab for the Unstable Media. in 2021 she was nominated for the Prix de Rome.
is an artist who explores the technology from the past to create new instruments, often with a form of sculptural value and craftsmanship. He is one of the persons behind "Macular", a collective which focus is mainly on the synaesthetic relation and interaction between moving image and sound.
Drawing from his diverse backgrounds in music, informatics and interactive architecture, he is currently occupied with the development and performance of spatial, immersive audiovisual instruments with a strong focus on the embodied aspect of performance.
Eric Kluitenberg is a theorist, writer, curator, educator, and advisor working at the intersection of culture, media, and technology. He was head of the media and technology program of De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam (1999 - 2011). He taught theory of interactive media and technological culture for a variety of academic institutions, including the University of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam, Academy Minerva Postgraduate Studies in Groningen, and he was a scientific staff member of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He teaches media and cultural theory at the ArtScience Interfaculty, University of the Arts, The Hague, and the Interactive / Media / Design program of the Royal Aacademy of Arts, The Hague.
Recent publications include The Book of Imaginary Media (2006), Delusive Spaces (2008) and the theme issues of Open, Journal for Art and the Public Domain, "Hybrid Space" (2006), and "(Im)Mobility" (2011), Legacies of Tactical Media (2011), Techno Ecologies (2012), (Re-)Designing Affect Space (2017).
Next to an extensive series of festivals and public events he was project leader for the practice based research trajectory "The Living Archive" at De Balie (2004 - 2010). In 2013 he was a research fellow at the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Currently he is Editor in Chief of the Tactical Media Files, an on-line documentation resource for Tactical Media, and is co-editing together with David Garcia a substantive anthology of Tactical Media to be published by MIT Press.
is an interdisciplinary artist. His work lives at the intersection of art, science, and technology and investigates transdisciplinary topics such as augmented reality, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence while being strongly rooted in the histories of experimental film, composition, and live performance.
Esther Polak is a visual artist active in new media. She is most well-known for her locative media projects. Polak studied at the Royal Academy for Visual Arts in The Hague from 1981 till 1986, and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam from 1986 till 1989. With a consistent interest in landscape and in contemporary ways of visualizing space and geography, Polak turned to visualization and mapping as artistic tools, and an integral part of the basic concept of her work. In several of her long-term projects such as Amsterdam Realtime, the MILK project and NomadicMILK, Polak makes mobility, routes and trajectories visible from the perspective of participants, in an intuitive and personal manner.
With the MILK project, Esther Polak won the Gada Balva Prix (Riga, Latvia) in 2004. In 2005, she was awarded the Golden Nica for Interactive Art at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. Since the beginning of 2010, Polak collaborates full-time with Ivar van Bekkum. Both live and work in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Coach
- Teacher
- Teacher, Coach )
Genevieve Murphy has a fascination for psychology and disability, integrating this into her compositions and performances. Coming from a musical background consisting of piano, bagpipes and composition, Murphy has been including performative elements in her compositions for as long as she can remember. Her research is focused on the physical and sonic link between sound and performance in a way that one cannot exist without the other. She has assigned musicians to speak, asked them to read concentration tests as scores, given durational performances, built installations and played intimate recordings of her family. The composer's musical influences cross between contemporary classical, electronic pop, punk and free improvisation. Increasingly performing solo and composing herself into the live concert as a performer, musician and writer, her work is often autobiographical, and performed between concert halls, galleries and theatre spaces.
Job Titles:
- Professional Belgian Director
Hilt De Vos is a professional Belgian director and actress that has worked extensively in theatre, for television and film. Hilt is also a dancer and teaches yoga and pilates.
Ine Poppe is writer, teacher, journalist and artist. She did art school in Utrecht, was an intern in Hamburg and studied Dutch literature in Amsterdam. Became internationally renownded for her project Mothermilk cheese, in the 80-ties. Poppe wrote the tv-script for Necrocam: death online, directed by Dana Nechustan (award for best dramascript European Broadcasting Union -EBU- 2002). She made tv-programs and wrote scenario's for computergames. Ine Poppe directed the documentary Hippies From Hell, about the group of hackers and activists that introduced the internet in the Nederlands and Them Fucking Robots about the Canadian robot artist Norman White.
Poppe nowadays leads the Hacking department at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, makes documentaires and contributes to transmedial projects. Ine just finished ‘Teeth‘ a documentary about her obsession with teeth in the broadest sense of the word. She wrote for Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad for more than ten years and recently wrote the scenario for The Modular Body, a trans medial project with Dutch artist Floris Kaayk that was released in April 2016. This project was awarded with a ‘Gouden Kalf' -the Dutch equivalent of an Emmy award- for the best interactive project of 2016.
is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher working in multimedia installations examining different perceptions of time, memory and environment. He explores in his works hybrids of nature and (technological) culture creating new forms of communication between humans and other living organisms.
Jan Robert Leegte is among the first artists who were involved in the 90s net art movement. Since 1997, he creates art in the form of websites, which he connects to art historical movements such as minimalism, land art and conceptualism. Leegte also translates the themes of his work to offline media such as print, sculpture and projections. A reoccurring theme in his work is the sculptural materiality of interfaces of computer programs. Like the early graphic design of cursors, selection boxes and menu bars that were to give the user the impression of actually physically pressing the buttons with graphic shadows. Leegte often uses these components and by placing them in a new context, giving them their own, sculptural legitimacy.
Jan Robert Leegte (1973, the Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam. He recently participated in seminal exhibitions such as Electronic Superhighway at Whitechapel Gallery in London, and Open Codes at ZKM Karlsruhe. His work has been exhibited in venues such as MAAT Lisbon, MOTI Breda, iMal Brussels, Nomade Art Space in Hangzhou, and Upstream Amsterdam.
Jan Kees van Kampen studied Electronic Music (composition) and ArtScience. He likes plants, water, light, sound, and (dark-) chocolate. Having applied much uncertainty to his morning rituals, he now feels that application of chance & probabilistic machine learning algorithms as well as deterministic complexity (eg. chaos, fractals) can be equally instructive if not inspiring for life and so almost any artistic practice.
Job Titles:
- Independent Creative Technologist, Trainer
Jeroen Meijer is an independent creative technologist, trainer and filmmaker who bridges the disciplines of art, science and technology. His background in Artificial Intelligence reflects his broad and interdisciplinary thinking. He is an experienced software architect, specialized in developing tools for scientific research, simulation and realtime 3D visualisation and is proficient in a multitude of programming languages, frameworks and design patterns. Hardware and electronics also have his interest and create a rich toolset when working on (art)projects. As a passionate and sociable trainer he specifically focuses on teaching foundational and conceptual technical knowledge to fascilitate self-learning. Ethics and critial thinking currently motivate him to research the social, ethical and political implications of the growing asymmetry of knowledge and control in a society that has grown fully dependent on deeply intrusive information technology, hardly understood by it's users. Jeroen is a promotor of free (libre) software and it's philosofy and advocates critical and conservative usage of information technology.
Joan Heemskerk has a background in ornithology, physics, photography, digital.art
since 1995 she is part of the art collective JODI >>>
Johan van Kreij is a musician whose artistic output focuses primarily on improvisation and composition using electronics. He studied music at the Institute of Sonology from 1994 at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, graduating in 1998. Frequently he performs his music, both as a soloist and with other musicians.
Starting in 1998 van Kreij has participated in a long running and intensive collaboration with choreographer Ted Stoffer. This resulted in music composed to a great number of dance choreographies that were performed throughout Europe and the United States. And for more than a decade he has been active within the field of music theatre trough cooperations with Dick Raaijmakers and Paul Koek.
Another important aspect of his work is the development and realization of his own instruments. This development covers the fields of hardware-sensors and other electronics-used for gestural input, and software employing a wide range of sound synthesis models. In the role of developer, he has participated in many projects in the field of music, visual arts and architecture. Since 2001 he has been a permanent member of the teaching staff at Sonology.
Development over time connects the formally different outputs of Joost's art practice. Shared experiences and the meeting of the other have an important place. His work has a process-based approach that results often in performances and installations.
works in the fields of expanded (live) cinema, audio performances and kinetic-light-installations. He is one of the persons behind "Macular", a collective which focus is mainly on the synaesthetic relation and interaction between moving image and sound.
Job Titles:
- Producer
- Teacher
- Artist and Researcher
- Producer, Teacher )
June Yu is a Rotterdam-based Chinese artist and researcher who practices the blurring and dissolving of boundaries on different accounts. From disciplinary boundaries between social science, natural science, liberal arts, fine arts and performance arts, quotidian boundaries between professional/public space and private space, to conceptual boundaries between the East and West, she experiments and utilises a research/making method constantly in development to reflect on the necessity and consequences of boundary (dissolving). She has a background in academic physics training and abundant (seems unnecessarily much) medical knowledge from her upbringing. In her spare time, she consumes in-bulk detective stories and contemplates the know-how of "perfect crimes" to process the many strands of undercurrents the world today has subjected everyone to. For years, she struggles with the idea and forms of (publicly) presenting the things she accidentally produces beyond the essential biological processes of the body she temporarily occupies. Recently she has resorted to building and living with an exhibition in her house as a way to test her commitment to the breakdown of private and public life. Babysteps and (returning to) infancy are her obsessions, as the violence and open potential of a (re-)birth entail endless possibilities of self-experimentation and failing and living otherwise.
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- Coach
- Teacher
- Teacher, Coach )
Kasper van der Horst studied photography at the School of Photography in The Hague. During his studies he developed an interest in video, computer animation and computer graphics and started his own studio, Sparks.
In 1988 he was invited to teach video at CAM, and a year later to become a teacher at the Interfaculty Image & Sound, where he first taught analogue video and, since 1993, digital imagery. During his classes at the Interfaculty students started to develop moving digital graphics, resulting in some of the earliest VJs and visual musicians who created visuals and moving images that accompanied DJ acts, shown during the Sonic Acts Festival in 1994. During the collective research projects he often works with a small group of students on special visual effects that relate in delicate ways to the general theme of the project. In 1998 his research on dynamic video projections resulted in an astounding contribution to the closing night of the Holland Festival in Paradiso. For the ArtScience curriculum he developed many introductory courses on the subjects: Freestyle Video, Image & Sound (with Robert Pravda) and MetaMedia (with Taco Stolk). Next to these courses van der Horst organised many video workshops and collaborated on almost all of the large-scale projects at the Interfaculty. The resarch project "Structet : Building Music" in 2006 was one of the most successful performances in the Todaysart festival that year and it is the only project in the festival ́s history that was invited again, in 2011.
Since 2010 van der Horst has been directing multi screen installations for Rockheim, the museum for Norwegian pop music in Trondheim. He also designed 3d avatars for the interactive part of the museum. His work engagements range from established art institutes to broadcast and commercial media production. He directs and produces audiovisual projects. As a multidisciplinary art and technology advisor Kasper works with students, art-collectives and media-companies.
Katarina Petrović is an artist and researcher working with language, software and sound. Intersecting art and technology with science and humanities, she focuses on creative processes and investigates fundamental concepts such as zero, void, origin and infinity, In her research she looks at the problems of organization of knowledge, the perception and representation of complex systems and notably the representations of the world (cosmograms). She designs processes and modular structures and makes open-ended systems that take the form of installations, generative texts, websites and performance.
Katarina holds a MMus degree from ArtScience Interfaculty and an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She's an affiliated researcher at the transdiscplinary Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit in Brussels and an instructor at the post-graduate School of Thinking, VUB. She co-initiated the ArtScience Forum and the art podcast and art/media project Femkanje. She is currently the chair of an artist run space Trixie The Hague and a member of Stroom Den Haag. In 2019 she was the winner of Young Visual Artist Award for Serbia and has recently done two residencies, in New York and Vienna, where she developed new research to be presented in a solo exhibition at the Cultural Center of Belgrade in 2022.
Katinka Marač studied theatre design at the Utrecht School for the Arts. Since 1997 she has worked both as a scenographer and lighting designer for contemporary dance performances and installations in the experimental circuit. Among others she has collaborated with Golden Palace, Sara Wookey, Lidy Six, Martin Nachbar, Sanja Mitrović, Seon-Ja Seo, Daniel AlmgrenRecen en Roser Lopez Espinosa.
Katinka writes regularly on lighting design and scenography in Zichtlijnen, the Dutch technical journal for stage technology. She also advises students at the School for New Dance Development and at the master Choreography at the AHK Amsterdam. Katinka's preference for experimental works is based on the significant role played by space and spatial experiences, and as co-maker in multi-disciplinary productions in which space and light exist as partners. Her lighting designs possess a particularly physical quality and encourage and generate movement. In addition to her work as a designer, she has made short video films, so-called audio- visual choreographies, which bring together her fascinations for the body, movement, space and rhythm.
Leandros Ntolas is an interdisciplinary artist from Greece, currently based in the Netherlands. He has graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts and is a recent graduate from the master course of the ArtScience Interfaculty. With a background in sculpture and spatial studies, his practice spans many different mediums; having in its core a specific interest in the use of light as an artistic medium. Ntolas has been researching light through the study of optics, atmospheric optics, and the study of visual perception. He is as well involved in theoretical research around the topics of history and philosophy of science-with a specific focus in astronomy and archaeoastronomy-and the field of philosophy of perception.
Lex van den Broek finished his studies Electronic Engineering and Information Technology at the Hogeschool Rotterdam in 1993. After a couple of years designing sound amplifiers for active speaker systems, he started working as the head of the Electronics Workshop at the Royal Conservatoire in 1997. He gives courses to students of Sonology, The Art of Sound and ArtScience departments. He also guides students in realising their own projects involving electronics. In its long history, the Electronics Workshop at the KC has collaborated on many impressive interfaces and installations and is a center for developing musical interfaces and computer installations. Lex has been developing various interfaces and controllers that are available for students to assemble, such as the IpSonLab, Microlab and MTVlab.
Job Titles:
- Teacher
- Artist and Designer
- Taconis Stolk - Head of Department
Marion Tränkle is an artist and designer based in Amsterdam. Her work engages systems thinking, cross-disciplinary perspectives, and experimentation. She preferences live-performance as her artistic environment and to constantly negotiate between the carefully constructed and generative processes, between risk and responsibility, and between autonomous performance and human intervention.
She studied architecture at the TU Berlin, hold degrees in Contemporary Dance from the Amsterdam School of the Arts and from the Media Technology program at Leiden University, and was awarded her PhD from the School of Arts, Brunel University London in 2012. Last year she spent focussing on software engineering.
Her stage scenarios and installations have been shown internationally including Thessaloniki Biennale at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, OK Centre for Contemporary Art in Linz, Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam, University of Michigan, Bavarian State Opera Munich, State Theatre Saarbrücken, and the Artefactfestival for Art and Media.
Marion has taught at Universities and Art Institutions in the Netherlands, Canada, and her native Germany. Currently she is associated with the Department of Industrial Design at TU Eindhoven.
Job Titles:
- Coordinator
- Coordinator, Study Coach, Teacher
Marisa Manck studied Cultural work at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and proceeded to work as a project-manager at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam where she managed in-house production for big festivals like the Drum Rhythm festival and put effort in professionalizing cultural entrepreneurship on this unique site of industrial heritage. In the following years she produced several exhibitions and events at W139. As senior project manager at the Dutch Theatre Institute and Museum, Marisa produced several exhibitions and programs. After the Theatre Institute had to close its doors due to government budget cuts, she started studying at the Master of Education department at the HvA. Besides attending classes, she continued working for several smaller projects.
Focusing on the potential of listening to establish new connections between people, places and objects, Matteo Marangoni's performances and installations employ field recordings, sound archives, computer programming and DIY electronics.
is a new media artist whose work consists of performances and installations, that often play with the perception of the visitor.
Literary historian Matthijs van Boxsel (b. 1957) has been studying the topic of stupidity since 1980. In 1999 he published De encyclopedie van de domheid (The Encyclopedia of Stupidity), which was nominated for the prestigious Generale Bank Prize for Literature. In 2001 the sequel Morosofie (Morosophy) appeared, studying the 100 most stupid Dutch theories of the 20th century. This was followed in 2006 by a volume on stupidity as an art of living: Deskundologie of Domheid als levenskunst. Van Boxsel is now working on De topografie van de domheid (The Topography of Stupidity), in which he gathers all the cities and regions that are proverbially known for stupidity. De encyclopedie van de domheid has already been translated into more than 10 languages.
Maya Rasker (b. 1965) wrote articles and essays for the daily newspaper Trouw and other publications before debuting in 2000 with the novel Met onbekende bestemming (Unknown Destination). The book won her the Gouden Ezelsoor (Golden Dog-Ear), the prize for the year's best-selling literary debut. She has further published the novels Rekwisieten (Props, 2003) and Xenia (2005). Her work has been translated into English, German, Spanish and Hungarian.
Merel Boers (that is Frau Dr. Boers to you) has a background in history, argumentation theory, journalism, public speaking… She likes her sherry bone dry and her risotto all'onda, please. She collects historical cookbooks and is still mourning Iain M. Banks. At the ArtScience department, she is a thesis coach.
Milica Ilić, born in 1985 is a is a pianist from Serbia, specialised in opera and chamber music. Her repertoire covers a wide range of musical styles and she performs in various types of chamber ensembles. She is full time employed as an repetiteur and vocal coach on the department of Solo Singing at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Serbia.
Next to her employments as a pianist, Milica works as a composer and librettist. Her latest works include Higher, for two pianos, baritone, actor, singer and choir of shouters, The Chamber Thriller Opera in Episodes (a)Mantis Religiosa performed both in Belgium and Serbia, Lego project series I for voice and piano as well as other song cycles. Exploring new possibilities and combinations in the classical musical repertoire, and connecting different styles, genres and forms in her creative work are the main characteristics of Milica's artistic practice.
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- Coordinator
- Teacher
- Artist, Writer and Researcher
- Coordinator, Teacher )
Nele Brökelmann is an artist, writer and researcher. Deeply intrigued by the human need for structures of meaning, the perpetual search for and fabrication of meaning are recurring themes in her practice. These human made structures, and mental and worldly concepts create (physical) borders and either/or thinking which Brökelmann continuously seeks to challenge by playing with the experiences and concepts of distance, repetition and parallelity. This finds its form in diverse media such as performative installations, situations and actions, writing and video. Brökelmann exercises creating space for ambiguity, wandering in thought, and approaching the beings in and of our environments otherwise.
This research finds another playful outlet in Brökelmann's collaboration with June Yu: waterybeings. Together they research and speculate on how an understanding of ourselves as watery beings would challenge us to live with our environment, rather than engineering it to selected human benefits.
Apart from her artistic practice, Brökelmann writes for the contemporary art magazine Metropolis M, curates and moderates the filmscreening series Matters of Being at the artist initiative iii in the Hague, and is working together with the writer's platform and artist in residence Witte Rook (Breda, NL) on a research project into artistic processes.
Brökelmann holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from St. Joost in Breda (NL) and a Master of Music from the ArtScience Interfaculty in the Hague (NL).
Nenad Popov is a media anarchist whose interests lie in, or better, between art and plain research. The output of these processes are live cinema pieces, sound installations, film installations, weird sound making contraptions, impossible collaborations and occasional parasitism on public cultural funds.
explores in her work how the body relates to objects and spaces and refers to scientific and natural phenomena. The skin, both visible as invisible is a recurring metaphor in her work and is extended into the space. This phenomenological approach results in the use of different media, like wearable technology (embodied instruments & objects), performance and more recently kinetic light installations.
Since 2013 Renske Maria works as independent architect and artistic-researcher. In February 2017 she started her doctoral research at KU Leuven.
Always motivated to think and do Renske Maria initially started her studies in Fine Art and Philosophy, but finished her BSc and MSc in Architecture at the Technical University Delft. During her architecture studies she also followed courses in urban anthropology and worked for architectuurstudio Herman Hertzberger, Amsterdam and Atelier Li Xiaodong, Beijing.
From 2009 to 2011 she was part of Vision included; a co-initiated, pro-active design practice and discussion platform. From 2013 to 2016 she was part of ALEPH; a co-initiated artistic-research laboratory for the exploration of progressive heuristics focusing on philosophy as creative practice in its own right. If you feel inspired please feel free to contact us about possible collaborations.
Robert Pravda studied engineering from 1987 through 1991 at the Technical University of Novi Sad (former Yugoslavia), after which he dedicated himself to making music in experimental underground circles. His interest in the interdisciplinary arts brought him to the Interfaculty Image & Sound, where he earned his degree in 2002. In 2001 he started WEIM, a workshop for his fellow students on electro-instrumental music. When he became a teacher at the Interfaculty, this workshop was transformed into the electronica improvisation ensemble RecPlay. During his studies he concentrated on building instruments for multimedia performances and making algorithmic compositions for spatial sound and light installations. His examination project, the sound-light installation 5x5x5, was awarded with the visitor's prize of Shell's Young Artist Award.
Recently he has been developing new musical and light instruments, performing in many formations and contexts, and he worked as composer and sound designer for several theatre productions.
Sébastien Robert (1993, FR) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who recently graduated with honours from the ArtScience (MA) at the Royal Conservatory (KC) of The Hague. He develops a practice at the intersection of visual and sound art, technology, scientific and ethnographic research. Most of his projects revolve around a research cycle ‘You're no Bird of Paradise', through which he explores endangered indigenous rituals, music and cosmologies.
Job Titles:
- Head of Department
- Teacher
Taconis Stolk is a conceptualist and metamodernist. He is the initiator of WLFR, studio for conceptualism in Amsterdam. Since the mid-nineties WLFR has been developing metamedia projects and theory concerning the aesthetics of concepts and contextual technology, often at the intersection of art and science.
WLFR projects have been exhibited, performed and published in Europe, the Americas and Asia. They deploy a wide range of media and disciplines. Examples through the years are P.I.A (interactive audio performance for magnetic card readers, 1994), fZone (website generating audio compositions based on weather conditions in the world's time zones, 1995) PARR (research project on nano-aesthetics resulting in computer generated books and animations, 2000), BuBL Space (pocket device to disable mobile phones, 2002, with Arthur Elsenaar), Gradually Zero (experimental theatre on the beauty of numbers, 2003, with Sanne van Rijn), Genetic Design (media project on art education in genetic modification, 2004), o-o-o-o (project on intention hacking the game of chess, 2010, with ConceptsAssociated), Wf-- (nanotechnology project on creating magnetic fragrances, 2011, with Radboud University Nijmegen) and WLFRGB (video series exploring ‘impossible colours' by hacking stereoscopic technologies, 2013).
Stolk earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the ArtScience Interfaculty. He lectures at the Interfaculty since 1998. Current other lecturing and consulting activities include MediaTechnology MSc programme of Leiden University (since 2001), STEIM Amsterdam and the Dutch Arts Council. He is a regular speaker and writer on topics related to his practice.
Willem van Weelden (1960), has a background in social philosophy and visual art. As a former visual artist he never stopped linking media theory to the dilemmas and intrinsic ‘problems' within the tradition of the visual arts, and probes network culture from the vantage point of trying to open new vistas and habitats for the arts and social emancipation. He is committed to new media culture from 1990 onwards and has published on this topic in various magazines and catalogues. He was involved in numerous new media projects as a creative director and coach. In the summer of 2018, as a research fellow, he completed a research Master at the Sandberg Institute (department Critical Studies) with a project on Jean-François Lyotard's media theory and his will to develop a way ‘to do philosophy by other means'. Currently his main focus is on research, writing and teaching.