hometown 4.6.8+hometown-1.3.0Center for Multimodal and Audio-Visual Methods | Leiden University (Leiden/The Hague, Netherlands)
Join us for a screening of x 3 short films by designer and researcher Simone Niquille, of Amsterdam-based technoflesh Studio. The screening will be followed by a Q&A & discussion moderated by Dr. Rodrigo Ochigame.
More info here: https://recntr.nl/2024/11/household-robots-training-datasets-the-politics-of-categories-film-screening-qa-26-november-2024-1515-leiden-university/
#technofleshstudios
We are happy to announce the publication of a new zine emerging from the five-day Lorentz Workshop Unlocking the Imagination: Art-Science for Radical Transformation, held in January this year.
TWIG is a zine designed by Ekaterina Volkova that captures insights from the Lorentz workshop organized by Lisette van Beek (Lund University), Johannes Stripple (Lund University), Mark Westmoreland (Leiden University, ReCNTR), Josephine Chambers (Utrecht University) and Ekaterina Volkova (independent).
The What If Garden (TWIG) invites you on a journey into radical imagination. Take a walk. Be inspired. Wander, and let your imagination unfold in movement. Question what is—and what could be. We invite you to download the zine here : https://works.hcommons.org/records/jn9xc-9gh16,
Enjoy a stroll through The What If Garden!
!!Open Call!!
We are excited to announce a new opportunity for Netherlands-based researchers interested in multimodal research methodologies: a one-year research workshop.
Through a concrete project, participants will work on the development, experimentation, production, and distribution of their multimodal research. The workshop will also bring ReCNTR researchers and mentors to discuss the specific stages of the life of the projects.
If this sounds exciting to you, head here to apply:
https://www.recntr.nl/2025/03/open-call-recntr-lab-2025-edition-deadline-21-april-2025/
We are excited to announce the recipients of our first SIMMR Initiative supporting student activities with a focus on multimodal approaches. Congratulations to Yun-Pei Hsiung (Future Zoo Making) & Xinrong Hu (How to (Un)Name a Tree) on their innovative proposals.
We look forward to seeing their proposals come to life this semester.
📷Zoo Game prototype testing, developed by Yun-Pei Hsiung and Ming-Yi Jin
📷 Andong Zheng, Unnamed Tree 010, 2023
More info here:
https://www.recntr.nl/2025/03/simmr-student-initiative-recipients-announced/
Open invitation to all Leiden University graduate students (resMA, MA, and PhD), thinkers, tinkerers, and anyone curious about exploring new ways of engaging with research to join our multimodal remix workshop.
Bring an artefact from your research (image, idea, text etc) and re-mix it in collaboration with fellow participants.
Places are limited (max 12), so if you're keen, please drop us an email at recntr@fsw.leidenuniv.nl no later than April 2nd. Participation is first-come, first served.
The workshop will be followed by drinks at a nearby venue.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
More info can be found here: https://www.recntr.nl/2025/03/recntr-graduate-student-remix-10-april-2025-1400-living-lab-1b-01-leiden/
Open call for our next 1646-ReCNTR residency is out. The call is open to both artists/researchers interested in investigating relevant social and political issues through multimodal and artists methods.
For more info on how to apply: https://1646.nl/1646-recntr/
We are excited to kick-off the first round of applications for SIMMR (Student Initiative for Multimodal Methods in Research) – a funding initiative for Leiden Univeristy students interested in multimodal, audiovisual, and artistic research methods.
Head over to our website to apply:
https://www.recntr.nl/2024/12/open-call-funding-student-projects-through-simmr-deadline-20-february-2025/
Join us for this Lorentz Public lecture: Climate Confessional: how can we talk differently about the climate crisis?
The public lecture is part of a week-long Lorentz workshops Art-Science for Radical Transformation, which brings together diverse artists, humanities scholars, and social scientists to reimagine the joint role of art and science to collectively respond to the climate crisis.
Join us for the final event of artist-researcher Inas Halabi‘s residency. The two-month residency was a collaboration between ReCNTR and 1646. During this final event Inas will share aspects from her ongoing research and work for her film The Right of Return.
More details here:https://www.recntr.nl/2024/12/inas-halabi-open-studio-residency-12-december-2024-1900-1646-den-haag/
We are excited to host our first collaborative event on June 7th with
@FilmacademieNL for the screening of Evangelia Kranioti’s film Obscuro Barroco(2018).
This will be followed by a Q&A with @cyan@post.lurk.org Bae and Diana Toucedo. Join us!
More info can be found at:
https://recntr.nl/2024/05/obscuro-barroco-film-screening-qa-7-june-2024-1900-netherlands-film-academy-amsterdam/
#obscurobarroco #filmscreening #EvangeliaKranioti
#visualstorytelling #artfilm
On the second day of our two-day mini series of events around the work of filmmaker Marta Popivoda, we invite you to join us in Leiden for a conversation around her work, on the theme of "Choreographies of Power and Counter-Power: The Socialist Body in Yugoslavia".
Very happy to announce a new two-day mini series of events around the work of filmmaker Marta Popivoda , in collaboration with film critic Neil Young and the Netherlands Film Academy's Masters of Film.
We begin with a screening of two fantastic films: Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved our Collective Body (2013, 62 min) + Slet 1998 (2025, 22 min). The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with film critic Neil Young.
We are delighted to host a screening of this film by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner in conjunction with Filmhuis Den Haag. The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A moderated by filmmaker and researcher Bo Wang.
The film interrogates digestion as the fundamental condition for being in the world, a process of physiological, psychological, spiritual, literary and political dimensions. Multiple storylines trace the poetics of incorporation as a matter of metamorphosis and decay, the philosophy of matter and imperial conquest, industrialisation and annihilation, poetry and parenting, love and citation.
The film was awarded the Jury Special Mention New: Vision Competition, CPH:DOX.
Get your tickets here: https://filmhuisdenhaag.nl/films/my-want-of-you-partakes-of-me-en-subs-met-qa
Join us on 27 and 28 June, for a two-day symposium 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯/𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳. The symposium features talks and discussions that explore the transformations induced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the interplay of power, knowledge and images. Includes talks by a number of artists participating in the Framer Framed exhibition 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺? 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴.
𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯/𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 focuses on the unprecedented possibilities of AI in generating ‘synthetic vision’ (the ability to “see” algorithmically) and ‘synthetic image generation’ (the ability to create new images through prompts). These transformations affect three key dimensions of the image – ‘image-truth’, ‘image-evidence’ and ‘image-labour’.
𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯/𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 brings together scholars working with artistic or multimodal methods and artists whose work is approached from a research perspective.
▪️ Sign up for the symposium here: https://framerframed.nl/en/projecten/synthetic-vision-images-of-power-truth-evidence-labour-knowledge-in-the-age-of-ai/
𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯/𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 is co-convened by Francesco Ragazzi, Donatella della Ratta, Rocco Bellanova and Rebecca Stein.
Supported by ReCNTR @securityvision@post.lurk.org, @DataUnion
@dukeu@mastodon.social @Framerframed
📷 Graphic design by Yeon Sung
Join us for the final event of the Young Academy Leiden (YAL) and Jong Universiteit Leiden (JUL)’s Spring of Art and Science!
In collaboration with LIACS Mediatechnology and ReCNTR, this exhibition aims to highlight works that employ multimodal approaches which challenge conventional notions of knowledge production and artist expression.
The exhibition provides an opportunity to explore examples of multimodality in practice and a chance to interact with artists and researchers at Leiden university working at this intersection.
More info here:https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/yal/events/2024/06/yal-and-jul-science-meets-arts-exposition
Join us for a series of conversations as part of a symposium presented by The Networked Audience @ MA Photography & Society // Royal Academy of Art, in collaboration with Nederlands Fotomusem and us.
These conversations will take place within the exhibition ‘I wish there was color, I wish there was sound’, which displays long term collaborative archive activations initiated by Andrea Stultiens.
Register here: https://tickets.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/nl/symposium/tickets
