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    Studium Generale - Geloof je ogen niet

    Posted on: March 26th, 2009

    Bestaat er zoiets als visuele geletterdheid?

    Wat maakt Vermeers schilderijen mooi? Dat is een klassieke vraag uit de kunstgeschiedenis. Maar is een hersenscan mooi? En kan een arts er dan nog objectief naar kijken? Wetenschappers produceren steeds meer beeldmateriaal. Krachtige microscopen en computers genereren prachtige plaatjes in kleur en 3D. Maar eigenlijk leren we nooit hoe we moeten kijken naar beeld. We hebben geen woorden geleerd om elkaar uit te leggen waar we op moeten letten. Toch kunnen beelden ons veel makkelijker verleiden (of misleiden) dan teksten. Kunnen we ons daartegen wapenen?

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    BLIK 2.0, now available!

    Posted on: March 23rd, 2009

    All the contributions in the latest edition of BLIK (the academic student magazine on audiovisual culture from the department of Media and Culture Studies) balance between media theory and practice. In the editorial it is discussed how scientific theories can serve as a searchlight in the quest for greater insight and for posing new questions. That light seems to literally shine through our feature image on the cover, which is intentionally out of focus. This because posing new question requires more than an absent-minded gaze, but the attentive vision of the critical observer.

    Interviews with Dieter Mersch and Michal Kobialka, essays by Asher Boersma, Shirley Niemans, Mirko Tobias Schaefer, and Nora Wellhausen.

    On the website you can read the full content overview. You can order your own copy of BLIK 2.1 by sending an email to blik.tijdschrift[at]gmail.com


    March 2009: UU participates in two research projects with RAAK-Publiek subsidy

    Posted on: March 18th, 2009

    Utrecht University acts as a consortium partner in two research projects that were recently honoured with a RAAK-Publiek subsidy. These projects are titled ‘Arts-professionals in transdisciplinary art projects’ and ‘Inside movement knowledge’. The Utrecht University Theatre Studies department acted as co-applicant and initiator in both of these research projects that are supported by a number of knowledge and educational institutions and art organisations within the regions of Utrecht and Amsterdam.

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