Matthijs van Boxsel
Lex van den Broek
David Dramm
Michael van Hoogenhuyze
Milica Ilić
Lauren Jetty
Johan van Kreij
Katinka Marač
Jeroen Meijer
Eduardo Mendes
Leandros Ntolas
Gabriel Paiuk
Katarina Petrović
Nenad Popov
Carl Rethmann
Sébastien Robert
Carolyn F. Strauss
Stephan Valk
Caro Verbeek
Dr. Valery Vermeulen
Marjolein Vogels
Hilt De Vos
Renske van Vroonhoven
Willem van Weelden
June Yu
Matthijs van Boxsel
Literary historian Matthijs van Boxsel (b. 1957) has been studying the topic of stupidity since 1980. In 1999 he published De encyclopedie van de domheid (The Encyclopedia of Stupidity), which was nominated for the prestigious Generale Bank Prize for Literature. In 2001 the sequel Morosofie (Morosophy) appeared, studying the 100 most stupid Dutch theories of the 20th century. This was followed in 2006 by a volume on stupidity as an art of living: Deskundologie of Domheid als levenskunst. Van Boxsel is now working on De topografie van de domheid (The Topography of Stupidity), in which he gathers all the cities and regions that are proverbially known for stupidity. De encyclopedie van de domheid has already been translated into more than 10 languages.
www.matthijsvanboxsel.nl
Lex van den Broek
Lex van den Broek finished his studies Electronic Engineering and Information Technology at the Hogeschool Rotterdam in 1993. After a couple of years designing sound amplifiers for active speaker systems, he started working as the head of the Electronics Workshop at the Royal Conservatoire in 1997. He gives courses to students of Sonology, The Art of Sound and ArtScience departments. He also guides students in realising their own projects involving electronics. In its long history, the Electronics Workshop at the KC has collaborated on many impressive interfaces and installations and is a center for developing musical interfaces and computer installations. Lex has been developing various interfaces and controllers that are available for students to assemble, such as the IpSonLab, Microlab and MTVlab.
www.koncon.nl/lex
David Dramm
Michael van Hoogenhuyze
Michael van Hoogenhuyze worked long time as an art historian and theoretician in art schools, the last years before his retirement as a teacher and coach at The Royal Academy and The Royal Conservatory in The Hague. After his retirement he gave lectures and wrote books about art and creativity.
Milica Ilić
Milica Ilić, born in 1985 is a is a pianist from Serbia, specialised in opera and chamber music. Her repertoire covers a wide range of musical styles and she performs in various types of chamber ensembles. She is full time employed as an repetiteur and vocal coach on the department of Solo Singing at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Serbia.
Next to her employments as a pianist, Milica works as a composer and librettist. Her latest works include Higher, for two pianos, baritone, actor, singer and choir of shouters, The Chamber Thriller Opera in Episodes (a)Mantis Religiosa performed both in Belgium and Serbia, Lego project series I for voice and piano as well as other song cycles. Exploring new possibilities and combinations in the classical musical repertoire, and connecting different styles, genres and forms in her creative work are the main characteristics of Milica’s artistic practice.
Lauren Jetty
Johan van Kreij
Johan van Kreij is a musician whose artistic output focuses primarily on improvisation and composition using electronics. He studied music at the Institute of Sonology from 1994 at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, graduating in 1998. Frequently he performs his music, both as a soloist and with other musicians.
Starting in 1998 van Kreij has participated in a long running and intensive collaboration with choreographer Ted Stoffer. This resulted in music composed to a great number of dance choreographies that were performed throughout Europe and the United States. And for more than a decade he has been active within the field of music theatre trough cooperations with Dick Raaijmakers and Paul Koek.
Another important aspect of his work is the development and realization of his own instruments. This development covers the fields of hardware—sensors and other electronics—used for gestural input, and software employing a wide range of sound synthesis models. In the role of developer, he has participated in many projects in the field of music, visual arts and architecture. Since 2001 he has been a permanent member of the teaching staff at Sonology.
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Katinka Marač
Katinka Marač studied theatre design at the Utrecht School for the Arts. Since 1997 she has worked both as a scenographer and lighting designer for contemporary dance performances and installations in the experimental circuit. Among others she has collaborated with Golden Palace, Sara Wookey, Lidy Six, Martin Nachbar, Sanja Mitrović, Seon-Ja Seo, Daniel AlmgrenRecen en Roser Lopez Espinosa.
Katinka writes regularly on lighting design and scenography in Zichtlijnen, the Dutch technical journal for stage technology. She also advises students at the School for New Dance Development and at the master Choreography at the AHK Amsterdam. Katinka’s preference for experimental works is based on the significant role played by space and spatial experiences, and as co-maker in multi-disciplinary productions in which space and light exist as partners. Her lighting designs possess a particularly physical quality and encourage and generate movement. In addition to her work as a designer, she has made short video films, so-called audio- visual choreographies, which bring together her fascinations for the body, movement, space and rhythm.
www.katinkamarac.com
Jeroen Meijer
Jeroen Meijer is an independent creative technologist, trainer and filmmaker who bridges the disciplines of art, science and technology. His background in Artificial Intelligence reflects his broad and interdisciplinary thinking. He is an experienced software architect, specialized in developing tools for scientific research, simulation and realtime 3D visualisation and is proficient in a multitude of programming languages, frameworks and design patterns. Hardware and electronics also have his interest and create a rich toolset when working on (art)projects. As a passionate and sociable trainer he specifically focuses on teaching foundational and conceptual technical knowledge to fascilitate self-learning. Ethics and critial thinking currently motivate him to research the social, ethical and political implications of the growing asymmetry of knowledge and control in a society that has grown fully dependent on deeply intrusive information technology, hardly understood by it’s users. Jeroen is a promotor of free (libre) software and it’s philosofy and advocates critical and conservative usage of information technology.
Eduardo Mendes
Leandros Ntolas
Leandros Ntolas is an interdisciplinary artist from Greece, currently based in the Netherlands. He has graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts and is a recent graduate from the master course of the ArtScience Interfaculty. With a background in sculpture and spatial studies, his practice spans many different mediums; having in its core a specific interest in the use of light as an artistic medium. Ntolas has been researching light through the study of optics, atmospheric optics, and the study of visual perception. He is as well involved in theoretical research around the topics of history and philosophy of science–with a specific focus in astronomy and archaeoastronomy–and the field of philosophy of perception.
www.leandrosntolas.com
Gabriel Paiuk
Gabriel Paiuk (*1975) is a composer and sound artist whose work interrogates
the way material, technical and collective infrastructures inform the ways we
listen. Operating at the threshold of music practices and the wider context of
sound in the arts, his work takes the form of sound installations, compositions
for instruments and electronics and collaborations with other disciplines.
His chamber works have been commissioned and performed by the
Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, New European Ensemble, ASKO
ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and Slagwerk Den Haag,
among others. His work has been presented Gallery W139, LI-MA, Sonic Acts
Festival (Amsterdam), Festival Dag in de Branding (Den Haag), Universität
Mozarteum (Salzburg), November Music Festival (Den Bosch) and Warsaw
Autumn (Warsaw).
In 2006 his work Res Extensa was the first sound installation to be awarded
the Gaudeamus International Composition Prize (NL). He teaches at the
Institute of Sonology in the Royal Conservatoire (Den Haag, NL) and works as
policy advisor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts in Leiden
University. His research has been published in Organised Sound (Cambridge
University Press), Orpheus Institute Research Series (Leuven University
Press), Kunstlicht (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Reflexiones Marginales
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
Katarina Petrović
Katarina Petrović is an artist and researcher working with language, software and sound. Intersecting art and technology with science and humanities, she focuses on creative processes and investigates fundamental concepts such as zero, void, origin and infinity, In her research she looks at the problems of organization of knowledge, the perception and representation of complex systems and notably the representations of the world (cosmograms). She designs processes and modular structures and makes open-ended systems that take the form of installations, generative texts, websites and performance.
Katarina holds a MMus degree from ArtScience Interfaculty and an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She’s an affiliated researcher at the transdiscplinary Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit in Brussels and an instructor at the post-graduate School of Thinking, VUB. She co-initiated the ArtScience Forum and the art podcast and art/media project Femkanje. She is currently the chair of an artist run space Trixie The Hague and a member of Stroom Den Haag. In 2019 she was the winner of Young Visual Artist Award for Serbia and has recently done two residencies, in New York and Vienna, where she developed new research to be presented in a solo exhibition at the Cultural Center of Belgrade in 2022.
www.katarinapetrovic.net
www.negativepoetry.com
www.artscienceforum.nl
Nenad Popov
Nenad Popov is a media anarchist whose interests lie in, or better, between art and plain research. The output of these processes are live cinema pieces, sound installations, film installations, weird sound making contraptions, impossible collaborations and occasional parasitism on public cultural funds.
Not just that: huge amount of written code, public and private, interfacing this with that, embodied algorithms, alleged bar fights, organizing workshops and giving classes.
He has collaborated with many artists working in similar fields, such as Daan Brinkmann, Electronic Opera, Thomas Köner and Lillevan/Rechenzentrum. Solo performances include Dis- Patch, TodaysArt, E-Pulse and Share.
His latest research topics are possibilities of collaborating with non-human entities.
morphogenesis.eu
Carl Rethmann
Carl Rethmann is an artist, designer, researcher, programmer, and part-time realtor. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Design Academy Eindhoven and a Master’s degree from the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague. He is also a former resident of Fabrica in northern Italy.
Since 2022, Carl has been collaborating with artists Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann, working on synthetic identities, algorithmic editing, and generative image-making. He works in R&D at Earth.net and serves as technical director at Home0001.
Once a year, he has the pleasure of teaching the course “Bootstrapping Computational Art” alongside Arthur Elsenaar at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.
Sébastien Robert
Sébastien Robert (1993, FR) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who recently graduated with honours from the ArtScience (MA) at the Royal Conservatory (KC) of The Hague. He develops a practice at the intersection of visual and sound art, technology, scientific and ethnographic research. Most of his projects revolve around a research cycle ‘You’re no Bird of Paradise’, through which he explores endangered indigenous rituals, music and cosmologies.
www.sebastienrobert.nl
Carolyn F. Strauss
Carolyn F. Strauss (US/NL) is a curator, writer, and creative facilitator whose experience traverses the fields of contemporary art, architecture, emerging technologies, and a range of social and environmental activisms. Since 2003 she is director of Slow Research Lab, a multidisciplinary research and curatorial platform that centers ‘Slowness’ not only as a velocity of engagement but as an expanded lens for knowing (and getting to know) the world: cultivating tools for sensing complexity, tuning into variant rhythms and temporalities, amplifying quieter voices and marginal positions, and encouraging greater accountability to the ecologies with which human lives and activities are entwined. In this work she has engaged a spectrum of thinkers and creative practitioners in local and international projects including exhibitions, workshops, publications, in-situ experiments, and immersive study experiences. Carolyn is the editor of Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection (2021) and Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice (2016), and she has contributed to publications including: The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration (2018) and I Read Where I Am: Exploring New Information Cultures (2011)—all published by Valiz. Since 2020, she is the host of the podcast AI Murmurings exploring (Slow) intersections of contemporary creative practice and artificial intelligence. Carolyn lives in Amsterdam.
www.slowlab.net
Stephan Valk
Caro Verbeek
Caro Verbeek (1980) is an art historian specialized in art and the senses. She graduated at the University of Amsterdam on the topics of olfactory (MA) and tactile (MA) art. She writes and lectures on olfactory and tactile art accompanied and designs multi-sensory tours for museums. She is currently working on a PhD on the role of olfaction during the avant-garde, which consists both of theory and actual olfactory (re)constructions that will enable us to literally inhale history of art.
www.caroverbeek.nl
Dr. Valery Vermeulen
Dr. Valery Vermeulen is a Belgian electronic musician, mathematician, visiting professor at KASK & Conservatorium Ghent (BE), guest lecturer at Master ArtScience Interfaculty KABK Den Hague (NL) and researcher at Antwerp University (BE). He holds a Phd in Mathematics and MA Music
Composition. In his practice Vermeulen focuses on the intersection between music, math and physics. Topics in his work cover a broad range of disciplines including algorithmic music composition, (generative) sound synthesis, A.I., biofeedback, astrophysics, theoretical physics, econometrics, data sonification and visualisation.
His work has been featured extensively in international news outlets and magazines such as Music Radar (US), Tech Radar (US), BBC6 (UK), The Wire UK, Electronic Sound Magazine (UK), Neural (IT), New Scientist (NL), DJMag (US), Mixmag (US), Traxx Magazine (FR), FazeMag (DE), on national radio channels Deutschland Funk (DE), Radio Eins (DE), Yle Radio1 (FI), Radio Canada (CA), VRT Radio 1 & 2 (BE) and on VRT Max (BE).
In 2021 Vermeulen released the black hole album Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001 on Ash International, a sublabel of the renowned Touch label. Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001 was picked up internationally and received an Honorary Mention for the S+T+Arts Prize – Ars Electronica in 2022.
Marjolein Vogels
Marjolein Vogels is a dancer, performer, choreographer and artistic director of dance and performance platform WhyNot. She has a background in dance and performance with various Dutch as well as international dance companies and works as a freelance choreographer, often in collaboration with artists such as Jennifer Tee and Coralie Vogelaar.
As the founder of WhyNot, Marjolein programs interdisciplinary evenings, including dance and performance, at the Bimhuis, Julidans and the Tolhuistuin, among others. She produces performances, with partners such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Bostheater and Korzo. In addition, Marjolein worked as a freelance programmer at Theater Frascati and as an advisor and coordinator of residencies for performance artists at BAU. Because of her interdisciplinary approach, she has a large network in, and knowledge of, dance, performance art, visual art, music, film and architecture.
Marjolein regularly teaches at dance and art academies such as ArtEZ, Fontys and the Academy for Theater and Dance Amsterdam.
Hilt De Vos
Hilt De Vos is a professional Belgian director and actress that has worked extensively in theatre, for television and film. Hilt is also a dancer and teaches yoga and pilates.
www.hiltdevos.com
Renske van Vroonhoven
Renske van Vroonhoven has worked in experimental perfumery for the past decade, as a teacher, perfumer, artist and researcher. Renske originally has a background in the arts, she studied both Fine Arts and Photographic Design. After discovering her passion for fragrance, she decided to pursue perfumery in 2014. Since then she has worked on numerous interdisciplinary projects, both in the arts, academics and policy making. Two of these projects have been nominated for an Art and Olfaction Award, both in 2020, and 2022.
In 2021 she received the prestigious Talent Development Grant from Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industry, and decided to formalise her knowledge at the University of Cambridge. She completed both the Undergraduate Diploma Creativity Theory, History and Philosophy and the Advanced Undergraduate Diploma in Research Theory and Practice with First Honours – and is now in her final year of the research program.
She is a guest teacher and facilitator at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, and with several other art institution in the Netherlands. She has taught at the Institute for Art and Olfaction, both in Los Angeles and Amsterdam.
Willem van Weelden
Willem van Weelden (1960), has a background in social philosophy and visual art. As a former visual artist he never stopped linking media theory to the dilemmas and intrinsic ‘problems’ within the tradition of the visual arts, and probes network culture from the vantage point of trying to open new vistas and habitats for the arts and social emancipation. He is committed to new media culture from 1990 onwards and has published on this topic in various magazines and catalogues. He was involved in numerous new media projects as a creative director and coach. In the summer of 2018, as a research fellow, he completed a research Master at the Sandberg Institute (department Critical Studies) with a project on Jean-François Lyotard’s media theory and his will to develop a way ‘to do philosophy by other means’. Currently his main focus is on research, writing and teaching.
June Yu
June Yu is a Rotterdam-based Chinese artist and researcher who practices the blurring and dissolving of boundaries on different accounts. From disciplinary boundaries between social science, natural science, liberal arts, fine arts and performance arts, quotidian boundaries between professional/public space and private space, to conceptual boundaries between the East and West, she experiments and utilises a research/making method constantly in development to reflect on the necessity and consequences of boundary (dissolving). She has a background in academic physics training and abundant (seems unnecessarily much) medical knowledge from her upbringing. In her spare time, she consumes in-bulk detective stories and contemplates the know-how of “perfect crimes” to process the many strands of undercurrents the world today has subjected everyone to. For years, she struggles with the idea and forms of (publicly) presenting the things she accidentally produces beyond the essential biological processes of the body she temporarily occupies. Recently she has resorted to building and living with an exhibition in her house as a way to test her commitment to the breakdown of private and public life. Babysteps and (returning to) infancy are her obsessions, as the violence and open potential of a (re-)birth entail endless possibilities of self-experimentation and failing and living otherwise.
www.tstfelli.com
