The following graduation report will focus on the student 's research regarding the animation of 3D characters in a feature animated movie. The objective is to achieve a stylized yet believable movement that seamlessly integrates with 2D background in a film, animated at a frame rate of 12fps. The topic …

In deze lezing vertelt Jan van Boeckel over zijn antropologisch onderzoek naar het vermeende conflict in 1986 tussen de Hopi en Navajo-volkeren over een gedeeld stuk grond en dan vooral hoe de media omgingen met dit probleem. Progressieve journalisten en filmmakers schoten de traditionele bevolking te …

Bij blended hulpverlening wordt zowel online als face-to-face ondersteuning geboden aan inwoners. De Werkplaats Sociaal Domein Noord-Holland onderzoekt hoe sociaal professionals tot de blend komen, hoe de blends eruit zien en hoe organisaties het implementeren van blended ondersteuning kunnen bevorderen. …

Leipzig-based German media theorist Annekatherin Kohout has written a ‚cultural studies’ history of the nerd figure. Nerds, Eine Popkulturgeschichte was published in 2022 by C.H. Beck in Munich. I was drawn to this study as I’ve been surrounded by nerds, geeks and programmers that have been building …

[ENG] Water Nation is an artistic research project and short film exploring archival footage of the Institute of Sound & Vision of flooding in The Netherlands. Told from the artist’s perspective it is a reflection on how to connect and make climate change and the Dutch history around water and flooding …

Op 29 december 2022 overleed modeontwerper Vivienne Westwood op 81-jarige leeftijd. Ze was nauw betrokken bij de punkbeweging in Londen in de jaren zeventig, en haar partner was de manager van de Sex Pistols. Haar doe-het-zelf creaties waren subversief bedoeld en poogden met taboes en tradities te breken. …

Failure is a popular topic of research. It has long been a source of study in fields such as sociology and anthropology, science and technology studies, privacy and surveillance, cultural, feminist and media studies, art, theatre, film, and political science. When things go awry, breakdown, or rupture …

This chapter takes a closer look at the case of Amsterdam as a particular manifestation of a film festival city. Drawing from a new dataset on festivals in the Netherlands, the data supports the view of film festivals as a highly dynamic cultural sector: Internationally acclaimed film festivals exist …

Background: Sexual deviance is regarded as an important risk factor for sexual offending. However, little is known about the development of deviant sexual interests. The transfer of arousal between emotions, i.e., excitation transfer, could attribute sexual salience to stimuli that would otherwise not …