[urban interfaces] research group at Utrecht University

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New visiting scholar: Sergio Martínez Luna

Sergio Martínez Luna holds a PhD in Humanities from Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (UC3M). His dissertation explores the articulations between theories of image and vision and the concept of culture in the fields of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies. He works as a professor in Visual Rhetoric at the Department of Philosophy,…

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Boekman 111

Boekman 111 is a special issue on art, media and performance in (urban) public spaces, for which Karin van Es and Nanna Verhoeff wrote an essay on urban data visualisation (in relation to the recent elections), and Sigrid Merx contributed an essay on performance in the city. See this link for more information.

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Special issue Television and New Media

Nanna Verhoeff has (co)edited a special issue for Television and New Media on Urban Cartographies: Mapping Mobility and Presence. This special issue takes up new media in situ, addressing how new media technologies have the potential to re-orient us and, by extension, radically intervene in our understandings of place—specifically the public spaces of the city—and our place…

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New blogpost by Paul Schmidt

Paul Schmidt wrote a new post for his blog remystify. It is connected to the workshop proposal he handed in for his course Urban Interfaces and starts off from the workshop he visited at Sonic Acts Festival in the beginning of that course. You can find it here.

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