Nanna Verhoeff is Professor of Screen Cultures & Society at the Department of Media and Culture Studies. She specialises in the analysis of emerging screen media, with a key interest in contemporary transformations in screen and interface cultures. She has published on (early) cinema, mobile screens and location-based media, interactive installations, urban media art, and media architecture.

 

Michiel de Lange is an Associate Professor in New Media Studies, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University; co-founder of The Mobile City, a platform for the study of new media and urbanism; and works as a researcher in the field of (mobile) media, urban culture, identity and play. Currently, Michiel is the co-lead of a NWO-funded Smart Culture – Creative Cities project called “Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities“, a collaboration with UTwente and a large consortium of societal partners.

 

Sigrid Merx is an Associate Professor Theatre Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies where she teaches in the BA Media and Culture, and in the MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy and MA Arts and Society. She is currently the Director of Education of the Department. Her current research focuses on the dramaturgy of contemporary socially engaged theatre and performance practices, in particular performative interventions in public space.

 

Elle Zwinkels is a Junior Researcher for the project “Geefcultuur” in the Department of Media and Culture Studies. Holding an MA in Gender Studies and an RMA in Media, Art and Performance Studies, her research interests include debates on normativity, affect studies, popular media and performance studies, sensory studies, and trans* feminisms. Next to research, she works as an assistant to the research group [urban interfaces] and the IOS Platform for Open Cities.