[urban interfaces] research group at Utrecht University

Author Archive: Michiel de Lange

Michiel de Lange (1976) is an Assistant Professor in New Media Studies, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University; co-founder of The Mobile City, a platform for the study of new media and urbanism; and works as a researcher in the field of (mobile) media, urban culture, identity and play.

Guest blogpost: Verena Kämpken – Hauntological Architecture, Frankfurt’s newly built oldtown ensemble and spectral city politics. (Conversation between a Ghost and a Living)

For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for seminar session #3, written by Verena Kämpken. With a background of a BA in Sociology and Human Geography from Goethe-University in…

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Guest Contribution Jackson Moffatt – “In Touch But Not Together”: Exploring Urban Interfaces Through Electronic Dance Music Performance

The [urban interfaces] research group (ir)regularly accepts guest blog contributions. This contribution – written by Jackson Moffatt –  is an edited version of a paper produced as part of the level 3 course at Utrecht University, called ‘Spaces and Screens’ in the BA Media and Culture; advanced trajectory Film & Media Culture and Comparative Media Studies….

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guest blogpost: Sara Brunello – What magic can do

For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for week 1, written by Sara Brunello Sara Brunello is a Media, Art and Performance student at Utrecht University. Her research centres…

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