“Critical Making in Collaboration with Nature”, discusses the outcomes of the Making Sustainability Work project from Fall 2020. With support of CoECI Zaaigelden scheme, the Critical Making learning community put together a group of makers from research, education and industry to explore the implications …

The Material Sample Management Tool is a label generator and database to support creative communities in documenting and sharing material experiments. It was designed around the idea of collaboratively building an archive of alternative design materials with an emphasis on materials that are easily renewable, …

Mapping Microplastics was a first exploratory workshop (part of the Entrepreneurship Program at HvA) with researchers and entrepreneurs to map how the public discourse on microplastics develops on Twitter. The preparation of this workshop followed a hybrid approach in three steps: preliminary mapping, …

This contribution is based on a transcript of the podcast series Voiceblind, by Morgane Billuart at ARIAS during covid lockdowns. In preparation, we - Carlo De Gaetano, Andy Dockett and Sabine Niederer of the Visual Methodologies Collective- were provided with a list of questions and a piece of hardware …

Aan de basis van die wedergeboorte stond de vraag centraal hoe het werk relevant kon worden gemaakt. Gerrit: ‘De technologie heeft sinds 2015 niet stilgestaan en het oorspronkelijke idee om de pilaren tweets te laten uitspreken vonden we al wat achterhaald. Toen zijn we gaan nadenken over het gebruik …

This article interrogates platform-specific bias in the contemporary algorithmic media landscape through a comparative study of the representation of pregnancy on the Web and social media. Online visual materials such as social media content related to pregnancy are not void of bias, nor are they very …

Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories. Disinformation, or the willful introduction of false information for the purposes of causing harm, recalls infamous foreign interference operations in national media systems. Outcries over fake news, or dubious stories …

The exhibition In the Presence of Absence – Proposals for the Museum Collection is curated by Fadwa Naamna (freelance curator) and Britte Sloothaak (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam). In this Curatorial Conversation they discuss different aspects of the exhibition and how it came about, interviewed by Gwen …