What does attention to atmospheres tell us about the relations between experience and experiment? In this seminar, Derek Mc Cormack considers how the process of making atmospheres explicit – in both an affective and meteorological sense – also involves the elaboration of particular forms of experiential experimentalism. Central to this experimentalism is the allure of envelopment…

Kom naar het tweede Digital Humanities Community Event van de Universiteit Utrecht. Dit netwerkevenement staat open voor alle medewerkers van de UU die geïnteresseerd zijn in interdisciplinair onderzoek op het snijvlak van geesteswetenschappen, sociale wetenschappen en informatie- en computerwetenschappen – in wat vaak bekend staat als digital humanities of humanities data science. Ook (onderzoeks)masterstudenten zijn van harte welkom. Programma…

On Wednesday 17 October the next edition of the Utrecht Colloquia in the Musicologies 2018-2019 will take place. Emilio Audissino (University of Southampton) will talk about the importance of composer John Williams.  There are many John Williamses. One is the “Jedi Maestro”, a figure idolised by a multitude of filmmusic fans, grateful to him for having…

GRACE: Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe (www.graceproject.eu ) is an ‘Innovative Training Network’ within the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Programme. The GRACE project inquires into the ways cultures of equality are made and remade within and at the borders of Europe. In the largest cross-European collaboration of its kind, involving…

The re-opening of Studio T, aka the theatre at KNG 20, offers welcome opportunities for hosting guests and speakers from the professional field, and benefit from the interaction. In October we will be welcoming two guests @ KNG 20 that speak to the interests of the Media Industries research group (in the making). You all…

The exhibition “Robots love Music” of Museum Speelklok shows how music-playing robots have evolved from a long tradition of self-moving machines. They are sophisticated performers that enable new ways of creating and enjoying music. On September 21 (17.00-18.30h), Transmission in Motion and Museum Speelklok organize the symposium Robotic Musicianship with Gil Weinberg and David Abbink.  …

Why Theatre!? XL is een gespreksavond waarin de ontmoeting tussen podiumkunst, maatschappij en politiek centraal staat. Deze editie draagt het thema: autonomie, artistieke vrijheid en verantwoordelijkheid. Hoe reflecteren kunstenaars op de wereld om hen heen en hoe wordt de kunst zelf door de maatschappelijke realiteit beïnvloed? De vrijheid van meningsuiting is de laatste jaren doorlopend…

Marjolijn van Heemstra is a Dutch poet, novelist, theatre maker, program maker and occasionally journalist, and preferably all of those things at the same time. She is also a big fan of horses and astronauts. Her work for the theatre might be best described as a fruitful mix of journalism, poetry and activism. She brings real…

On 26 June 2018 the international conference Media in Transition (MiT)  – in the past hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, organized by media scholars from Utrecht University (UU). The day before, on June 25, we will also run several exciting pre-conference workshops at University College Utrecht. The…

On Wednesday, April 25, the study associations AKT and Hucbald, and the student-advisor of MCW department, Ivana Cerovecki, hosted the first departmental event about stress and the pressure to perform. As Ivana Cerovecki and Sanne Sprenger – Coordinator of Internships, Alumni Relations & Labour Market – noticed an increasing number of students suffer from depression,…