Event | Transmission in Motion 2021-22: “Practices of Translation”
Dates: October 20th, November 18th, November 25th, December 16th (2021); January 20th, February 16th, March 16th, May 4th, June 9th (2022)
Coordinators: Maaike Bleeker ( m.a.bleeker@uu.nl)
Location: Online
Registration: tim@uu.nl
Credits: 3 ECTS
This year’s Transmission in Motion seminar is about radical translation: not in the sense of (linguistic) translation from source to target, but in the sense of relational and transversal practices. In this latter sense, practices of translation affect all parties and perspectives that emerge from and participate in the process. Translation, then, happens in-between media, spaces, and disciplines that emerge anew in each translatory practice and that come out of the practice trans-formed. Radical translation, then, is non-linear (but causal, nonetheless) and requires both criticality and creativity on part of the researcher/translator. Such an analytical stance often necessitates collaborative methods and didactics. The seminar sessions feature projects of researchers who switched disciplines and did not forget where they came from, who study translation between thinking and making projects as a two-way street, and/or who work on the new concepts, methods, and fields that emerge from such endeavors.
This seminar is partly organized in collaboration with the SIG AI in Cultural Inquiry and Art
Program
- Wednesday 20 October 2021
“Shifting Grounds: Translating Academic Research on Affect to User Experience Research at Google”
Marta Zarzycka - Thursday 18 November 2021 [Extra Session]
“Book launch Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (2021, Rowman & Littlefield International)”
Iris van der Tuin (UU) and Nanna Verhoeff (UU) - Thursday 25 November 2021
“Irrationalizing the rationalist – Making Plato German”
Paul Ziche (UU) and Mauro Bonazzi (UU)
[Organized in collaboration with the colloquium History of Philosophy] - Thursday 16 December 2021
“Translations: Media Archaeology and Artistic Practice”
Frank Kessler (UU) and Zalan Szakacs - Thursday 20 January 2022
“Dramaturgy for Devices”
Maaike Bleeker (UU) and Marco Roozendaal (TU Delft) - Wednesday 16 February 2022
“Translational Skills and Interdisciplinary Education”
SILT (UU) - Wednesday 16 March 2022
“Practicing Odin Teatret’s Archive: Training Transmission, Interaction and Creativity”
Adriana La Selva (UGent) and Laura Karreman (UU) - Wednesday 4 May 2022
“Radical Translation? Machines, Logocentrism and Music as (Already) Writing”
Claire McGinn (UU) - Thursday 9 June 2022
“From Scenograpy to Landscape Design and back again”
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink (UU) and Anne Karin ten Bosch
The Transmission in Motion Seminar is a more-or-less monthly gathering of researchers and students from across disciplines. To participate, please send an email to tim@uu.nl to receive additional information and readings. RMA Students can acquire 3 EC if they attend all meetings and write blog posts after each meeting. Please register at tim@uu.nl. For more information, contact Maaike Bleeker at m.a.bleeker@uu.nl.
This seminar will take place online, for the time being. If circumstances allow, it might become hybrid in the future.