Paleografische kennis van het Nederlands en Duits op wetenschappelijk niveau. Combinatie van doctoraal kunstgeschiedenis, archivistiek op wetenschappelijk niveau en kunstonderwijs op HBO-niveau.

Aesthetic Mechanical Capability
Artificial Intelligence
CG-art
Cinema
Creativity
De-animation of the organic
GAN
Inorganic Aesthetics
Machines
Pop
H.P. Lovecraft
Vampires

Vanessa Bakhuizen-van 't Hoogt is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research is part of the NWO-project Curious Hands. Moving Making to the Core of Education and focuses on the way in which making is learned and taught in educational workshops. She strives to answer the question how patterns of teaching and learning making can be made explicit, including embodied processes and material knowledge. 

Vanessa develops and teaches various object-based, hands-on and experiential courses at the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Groningen. 

In the BA1course Paint to Pixel, taught together with prof. dr. Ann-Sophie Lehmann, we introduce art history students to artists’ materials and techniques by the means of object- and practice-based pedagogy. The students experience materials and techniques hands-on during excursions to the workshops of Minerva Art academy, as well as in the seminars and the assignments (historical reconstructions).  

In the interdisciplinary elective course Under the Skin, which I developed together with pedagogue and educator Margreet Smit, we enhance the reflective potential of second year medical students by drawing on teaching methods from philosophy, psychology, (art) history and arts, and crafts. Making (e.g. materializing their ongoing explorations and reflections in an art-based form) was our main didactic method to create space for reflection. 

Together with visual artist and researcher Henrike Scholten I designed and taught the elective course Deconstructing Instructions that investigates and reflects critically on the art academy’s history. Using a historically informed, experimental and practice-based pedagogic approach, the 16-week course challenged 23 undergraduate art students to engage with the material and didactic heritage of the art academy.

E-library

cultural diplomacy, cultural entrepreneurship, cultural leadership

Imka Buurke is a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research is part of the NWO project Curious Hands. Moving Making to the Core of Education and focuses on education at the intersection of art, science and technology in an Educational Laboratory (E-lab) in which embodiment and materiality play a role. Together with a research team consisting of teachers from four different secondary schools, they design education in which artistic learning and research processes underline the importance of materiality and embodiment.

modern and contemporary art

Culture and Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Sociology of Art and Culture

Arts and Cognition, Empirical Aesthetics, Arts and Gender, Neuroaesthetics, Philosophy of Art. 

Julian Hanich is the author of three monographs: The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (Edinburgh UP), Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear (Routledge) and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: City Girl (Edition Text + Kritik). With Daniel Fairfax, he co-edited The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Munier: Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions (Amsterdam UP); and with Christian Ferencz-Flatz he was responsible for an issue of Studia Phaenomenologica on ‘Film and Phenomenology.’ Currently, he is co-editing, with Martin Rossouw, a volume entitled What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship (University of California Press, 2023) and, with Michael Wedel, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Edition Text + Kritik, 2023). His research focuses on film aesthetics, cinematic emotions, film and imagination, film phenomenology, the collective cinema experience, and the beautiful in film.

Theory of culture; culture and cognition; arts and cognition; arts  and culture education

Esther van der Hoorn is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research focuses on works of the seventeenth-century Dutch silversmiths, Paulus and Adam van Vianen. 

Esther was previously Junior Curator of Decorative Arts at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, where she researched and published on drawn designs for objects from c. 1500-1900 acquired through the museum’s Decorative Art Fund and worked on the preparations for the exhibition KWAB. Dutch Design in the Age of Rembrandt. She holds an MA (Distinction) in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she was Associate Researcher to the Courtauld Gallery and was awarded the Director’s Dissertation Prize for her thesis on drawings by Arent van Bolten in the British Museum. She has been the recipient of grants from the VSBfonds and the Courtauld Institute of Art. 

Cultural Narratology and Thanatology

Modern and Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Socially Engaged Art, Feminist Art, Sexually Explicit Art, Erotic Art, Art of Slovenia

Narrative and cognitive film theory
Digital Film Forensics / Videographic criticism 
Complex cinema, puzzle films

Modern and contemporary art, participatory art, socially engaged art, performance art, media art, Dutch art criticism, methods and theories of art history, participatory heritage.

Organisation and communication in the arts; cultural democracy

My research develops a process-based approach to art and visual material culture. In particular, I study how materials, tools, and practices partake in the meaning making of art; how images and texts represent and reflect creative practices; and how knowledge about making engenders material literacy. My approach is transhistorical and includes old and new media, ranging from oil paint and clay to aniline dyes and software. For an overview of academic activities and published work, see also: https://rug.academia.edu/AnnSophieLehmann

Interview for the Materialized Identies Project: https://www.materializedidentities.com/single-post/2017/08/02/Interview-with-Ann-Sophie-Lehmann

Critical theory, aesthetics, art criticism, philosophy of culture

Art History of China, prediominatly from the sixteenth century onwards; early and modern Chinese history; archaeology and material culture of China/East Asia; early and modern printing systems, including photography in China and Japan; classical (literary) Chinese texts and philology; ancient and modern Chinese literature

Film Theory, Aesthetics of Technology, Visual Media, Experimental Media Archaeology, Theory and History of the Grotesque.

Culture Commons, Culture Policy, Art Sociology, Art and Social Cohesion

The cultural history and musealisation of the country house, the castle and the estate
Demolition of historical architecture

For my publications,  see my CV

Modern and Contemporary art, Theory and Art criticism, Museum history.

Latin American Literature and Art
Gender Studies
Global Modernism
Literary Theory

Merel van Tilburg is an art historian, critic, art educator and curatorial advisor with an ongoing interest in the role of art in society and a deep commitment to de-hierarchising and critically broadening the discipline of art history from a global perspective, in particular the history and historiography of modern and contemporary art. Research interests include global modernisms; interculturality; gender studies; history and theory of craft; textile art; art theory; critical theory; philosophy of art; history of colonialism; theories of anti-colonialism; exhibition theory and practice; contemporary art and politics; environmental criticism; relationships between art and architecture; public art; cultural heritage; intermediality; performance art; art and psychology; affect theory; nineteenth-century art; symbolism; art criticism.

Interactive science exhibitions, digital media, PR & marketing communication

toxicity, ecocriticism, time studies, nuclear aesthetics, cultural analysis, the body

Artistic Cognition
Human Cognition
Reflective Imagination
Behavioral Adaptation
Ecological Humanities

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