Sergio Martínez Luna holds a PhD in Humanities from Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (UC3M). His dissertation explores the articulations between theories of image and vision and the concept of culture in the fields of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies. He works as a professor in Visual Rhetoric at the Department of Philosophy,…

Boekman 111 is a special issue on art, media and performance in (urban) public spaces, for which Karin van Es and Nanna Verhoeff wrote an essay on urban data visualisation (in relation to the recent elections), and Sigrid Merx contributed an essay on performance in the city. See this link for more information.

One of our RMA students, Jessica Scarpati, worked as an intern for New American Public Art, and in that capacity wrote a blog about critical reflections on public art and location-based media. The name is Footings.

Originally from the planet-like metropolis of Berlin and now confronted with life in the (not so) tiny and (very) clean cities of The Netherlands, RMA student Paul Schmidt blogs on a quest to find the moments, ideas, and places where the city is more than it looks like. Follow him on (re)mystify!

Nanna Verhoeff has (co)edited a special issue for Television and New Media on Urban Cartographies: Mapping Mobility and Presence. This special issue takes up new media in situ, addressing how new media technologies have the potential to re-orient us and, by extension, radically intervene in our understandings of place—specifically the public spaces of the city—and our place…