[urban interfaces] Blogs

Agonistic Interfaces: A critical exploration of StalkShow through politics and curation
— This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — During the course of the Urban Friction seminars, we discovered the potential socio-political and cultural repercussions of frictional interventions and engagements in urban life. As the etymology of the word suggests, friction means “rubbing” or “breaking”, which underlines physical connotations. However, in…
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Welcome To Think Much. Cry Much. A Performance Piece That Will Not Change Your Life
— This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — During SPRING festival in May 2018, I visited the performance piece Think Much. Cry Much. by Rima Najdi, which took place within the URBAN HEAT project initiated by the Festival in Transition network. Rima Najdi’s piece came forth from her travels though…
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Graffiti ARtwork: Bypassing Current Legislation
Critical Making: An Inspiring Workshop — This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — The Urban Friction 2017-2018 seminar series, organized by the [urban interfaces] research group, existed of four sessions. In one of those sessions, participants were invited to partake in a two-day pressure cooker revolving around the idea of…
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Visiting guest: Helen Pritchard
As an artist and geographer, my interdisciplinary work brings together the fields of Computational Aesthetics, Geography, Design and Feminist TechnoScience. My practice is both one of writing and making and these two modes mutually inform each other in order to consider the impact of computational practices on our engagement with environments. Central to my work…
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Visiting guest: Saskia Freeke
I’m an artist, creative coder, interaction designer, visual designer and educator. My work focuses on structure, geometry and playfulness. A big part of my artistic practice is my ongoing daily art project that I started January 2015. Here I explore and experiment with generative patterns and animations daily. You can follow my daily art on…
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