Written by Guido Jansen – part 1 of a series of blogposts Whether they use gaming as an inspiration, or they work with games hands on, theatre-makers are developing ‘new forms’ of engagement in the theatre space (and outside). Rimini Protokoll is a performance collective that has been doing just this. On November 10 and 11 2016…

1. About the collaboration In September 2016 the Master program New Media and Digital Culture based at Utrecht University’s Media and Culture Studies department started a new collaboration with HistoryIT, a US based technology and services company working in the field of digital heritage, and Impakt Festival. The collaboration took shape in the new Master’s…

Cinekid Festival collaborates with MCW Expertise Centre by having BA students (MEC, CIW and TCS) produce short audio-visual interview items, as part of the course Practical Film and Media Culture. During the festival week, they interviewed several makers of international productions in film programming. Directors, producers, screenwriters and young actors are interviewed about their work and followed during their…

We are proud to welcome the renowned theatre collective Rimini Protokoll as guests of our new edition Why Theatre XL! Taking Rimini Protokoll’s artistic work as starting point, we will discuss the relation between theatre and games, the way ludic elements and structures can be deployed in theatre to engage the audience and to address…

On 27 October at 15:00 students in one of MCW’s Master’s programmes (New Media & Digital Culture) will publicly present the preliminary results of their quest to create engaging stories and interfaces that open up cartographic archives to a general audience. The event is developed in close association with the 2016 IMPAKT Festival, themed “authenticity”. Ten teams will briefly present their…

This is the website of Utrecht University’s Media and Culture Studies Expertise Centre, a new initiative of the department of Media and Culture Studies to build partnerships between academia and practitioners. The Expertise Centre aims to develops new research and educational projects together with partners in the field of media and culture. For now, the website is still under construction and…