Projects
Critical Media Literacy Through Making Media (MMM): A Key to Participation Among Migrant Youth
The project ‘Critical media literacy through making media (MMM) A key to participation among migrant youth’, funded by the Dutch National Research Agenda and coordinated by Koen Leurs and Sanne Sprenger, has now evolved into a second stage in which we research the possibilities of a tailor-made literacy program for young migrants, by teaching the…
Read morePerceiving the Invisible: Speculation as Interface at Sonic Acts Academy 2018
This blog post has been written by Paul Schmidt. Find the original piece on his website. The small hand-held device Limenia picks up electromagnetic radiation from the surrounding and turns it into sound. In transposing this “electrosphere” into the spectrum of human perception, the device serves as an interface, allowing us to undertake speculations about…
Read moreReport workshop “Critical Making of Frictional Urban Interfaces”
On March 6 and 7 2018, the workshop “Critical Making of Frictional Urban Interfaces” took place. The workshop was a collaboration between Utrecht University’s Media & Culture Studies department (research group [urban interfaces] + research master program Media, Arts & Performance), and Creative Coding Utrecht, artists Ruben van de Ven (https://rubenvandeven.com) & Cristina Cochior (http://randomiser.info), in…
Read moreNews about MiT@UU
The organizing team (Karin van Es, Judith Keilbach, Nina Köll, Hanna Surma and Nanna Verhoeff) is happy to announce that the conference Media in Transition@UU (June 26 at Het Huis, Utrecht) will receive financial support from Co.Laborations, EYE, and Mediawijzer – Het Nederlands Netwerk voor Mediawijsheid. We are also excited that representatives from EYE and Mediawijzer will be joining us for round…
Read moreCADEAH: A New Collaboration Around Heritage
European research grant awarded for research into Europe’s Audiovisual Heritage Online, coordinated by prof. dr. E. Müller, Utrecht University. European History Reloaded: Curation and Appropriation of Digital Audiovisual Heritage (CADEAH) is the title of a programme that is awarded a three-year research grant by the EC Horizon 2020 programme JPICH Digital Heritage. The programme has…
Read moreCollaboration MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy and MA Scenography HKU
From January 8 till 12, right after the Christmas break a group of 14 students from the MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy (UU) and 11 students from the MA Scenography (HKU) worked together in small teams during an intensive studio week. This week was the fourth edition of a yearly UU-HKU exchange project in…
Read moreMCW collaborates with partners in new research project about responsible smart cities
MCW is partnering in a new NWO-funded research project called ”Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities”. The mid-sized and centrally located municipality of Amersfoort is building a new Internet of Things infrastructure. A consortium of public and private partners will develop a government+citizen+academic+industry collaboration (a so-called ’quadruple helix’) that allows a wide range of…
Read moreLancering CLARIAH MediaSuite – Versie 2
In december 2017 is de nieuwe versie van de CLARIAH MediaSuite gelanceerd: mediasuite.clariah.nl. Met de MediaSuite kan je naast de volledige catalogus van het Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, ook de Jean Desmet collectie van het EYE Filminstituut, de volledige krantencollectie van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek en een aantal Oral History collecties doorzoeken. Uniek is dat de MediaSuite…
Read moreKikker Kijkers
Kikker Kijkers is een samenwerkingsproject tussen Theaterwetenschap Utrecht (departement Media- en Cultuutwetenschappen) en Theater Kikker, een vlakke vloer theater in Utrecht, dat vooral een podium biedt aan jonge, talentvolle theatermakers. Ieder seizoen biedt Theater Kikker plek aan gemotiveerde studenten om een seizoen lang de programmering van Theater Kikker te volgen. De geselecteerde deelnemers kijken een…
Read morePlatform-Scenography: Live Action Research
Platform-Scenography (P-S) is een netwerk dat de tijd neemt en hardop kijkt, denkt en spreekt over scenografie om zo het vakgebied te onderzoeken. Het biedt een platform waar ontwerpers uit het theater (ruimte, licht, geluid, video, kostuum) en aanverwante domeinen (architectuur, openbare ruimte, mode, tentoonstellingen), dramaturgen en kunst- en cultuurwetenschappers met een interesse in ruimtelijke…
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