23-25 May 2019, Utrecht (the Netherlands) Organized by Transmission in Motion (Utrecht University) and SPRING Performing Arts Festival Registration open Robots are increasingly present both in our daily life and on stage. Theatre makers explore the possibilities of these new technological performers and investigate the possibilities and implications of a future of living with them….

“Experience and Experimentation in the Sensory Moving Image Archive Project” – Dr. Eef Masson (University of Amsterdam) While increasing numbers of archival moving images are becoming digitally available, our methods and tools for accessing them are remarkably unchanged. Users of archival repositories tend to approach digital records in much the same way as analogue ones:…

“The Stratification of Cyberspace: from Experience to Waste” – Dr. Arun Saldanha (University of Minnesota) Taking cue from Félix Guattari’s writings on the schizoid role of computerization in consumer and finance capitalism, Arun will make some inroads into thinking how ever-more immersive and intrusive information technology becomes reterritorialized onto the familiar axes of differences of…

“Designing the Dispositif: Between the Art and Reason of Government” This talk situates Michel Foucault’s reflections on the dispositif, often translated into English as “apparatus,” in terms of the design of human practices in the rapidly emerging discourse of design philosophy. The lecture explores how the notion of design is implicit in Foucault’s characterization of…

Performing Robots Conference: Dialogues Between Theatre and Robotics 23-25 May 2019, Utrecht (the Netherlands) Organized by Transmission in Motion (Utrecht University) and SPRING Performing Arts Festival Call for Proposals Robots are increasingly present, both in our daily life and on stage. Theatre makers explore the possibilities of these new technological performers and investigate the opportunities…

In this presentation, Nathalie Sinclair will introduce a new multi-touch app called TouchTimes, which aims to put multiplication in motion, primarily through gesture-based interactions. Instead of demanding that children memorise multiplication facts, or resorting to a sequential logic of repeated addition, TouchTimes mobilises simultaneity, hapticity and relationality. Using Whitehead’s concept of prehension, Sinclair shows how…

As museums seek to broaden and diversify their audiences, many are turning to new digitally enhanced displays and interactive exhibits. One prominent effect of the influx of digital technologies is that historical exhibitions now often function as performances or games, dynamically changing in response to different visitors and capable of responding to new contexts as…

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…

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.  …

  “All the world’s a stage”, Shakespeare famously claimed, “and all the men and women merely players”. Today, we witness new species of players entering the world-stage as social robots are becoming increasingly part of the performance of everyday life and work. Social robots are robots that perform in situations with humans and often in…