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

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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