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February 2018
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
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Dear reader,
In this newsletter we present an approach to knowledge sharing of composers and sound designers, a new publication of HKU’s Professorship Performative Processes, educational audio-game Otomori, and more.
Research
Impact on music streaming service Tidal
Impact on music streaming service Tidal
Tidal, a music streaming service, has adjusted the loudness of its music catalogue following recommendations made by HKU researcher Eelco Grimm. He analysed 4.2 million albums from the Tidal library and discovered large differences in loudness between tracks.
Read more [in Dutch]
Creative professionals learn to share knowledge
Creative professionals learn to share knowledge
Composers and sound designers often have limited time to share their knowledge and experience. The HKU Professorship Research in Creative Practices has developed an approach that assists these creative professionals to share their making processes and further develop their knowledge in practice.
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Otomori – SIA Take Off subsidy feasibility study
Otomori – SIA Take Off subsidy feasibility study
Otomori is an educational audio-game platform that activates children in a playful way to explore and learn with music and sound. This start-up and HKU received a SIA Take Off grant to investigate whether this concept can be developed into a product for the educational market. The designers will conduct a feasability study in collaboration with the HKU Expertise Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship.
Read more [in Dutch]
Book presentation: If You Are Not There, Where Are You?
Book presentation: If You Are Not There, Where Are You?
The HKU Professorship Performative Processes presents the latest publication If You Are Not There, Where Are You? Mapping the Experience of Absence Seizures Through Art. This book is the result of a project aimed at alternative communication through art about the experience that children have during an epileptic seizure. 27 February 2018, 17h00-19h00, Het Huis Utrecht.
Register here
Innovation
U CREATE office every Friday at IBB
U CREATE office every Friday at IBB
U CREATE, Centre of Expertise for Future Health Design, will hold an office on Fridays at the HKU location Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan (IBB) as of 12 January 2018. HKU is a partner of this initiative that facilitates health care and creative professionals to develop innovations in health.
Read more [in Dutch]
Education
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
HKU is co-organizer of this discourse-driven course that brings together those involved in arts, academia, and activisms to collectively think through, learn about, and imagine critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp and influence our dramatically changing times. Date: 16–20 July 2018, Utrecht.
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Networks
Newsletter Studio21CS platform
Newsletter Studio21CS platform
HKU is projectleader of Studio21CS, a national platform for research on 21st century skills. The aim of the platform is to improve the work of professionals - now and in the future. Studio21CS publishes a monthly 21st century skills newsletter in collaboration with ecbo.
Subscribe to the 21CS newsletter here
Healthy Urban Living in Utrecht
Healthy Urban Living in Utrecht
Participants of the Healthy Urban Living event in Utrecht visited HKU last year and experienced first-hand some of the HKU innovative projects. There were demonstrations of educational music software for visually impaired children and an instrument to diagnose children with autism. Healthy Urban Living Video reports are now available.
Watch the videos here
Publications
 
  • Book: If you are not there, where are you? Mapping the Experience of Absence Seizures Through Art, Henny Dörr, Falk Hübner (ed.), HKU Lecotraat Performatieve Maakprocessen and IT&FB (Euro 17,50)
    Order this bilingual English-Dutch book here

  • Book [in Dutch]: Ludodidactiek – ontwerpen voor didactici, Willem-Jan Renger en Evert Hoogendoorn, HKU Expertisecentrum Educatie (Euro 25,00)
    Order this book here

  • Publication [in Dutch]: Muziek als medium, Sebastiaan van de Water. New Scientist, 22 December 2017. Interview with Gerard van Wolferen, lecturer at HKU Music and Technology.
    Read this article here

  • Publication [in Dutch]: Meer maker worden, Bart van Rosmalen. In: Kunstzone 06, 2017, pp. 18.
    Read this article here

  • Proceedings: What is a Convention in Interactive Narrative Design?, Hartmut Koenitz et al. In: Nunes N., Oakley I., Nisi V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10690, pp. 295–298, Springer, Cham (Euro 30,19).
    Buy this article here

  • Proceedings: Who Are You? Voice-Over Perspective in Surround Video, Mirjam Vosmeer, Christian Roth and Hartmut Koenitz. In: Nunes N., Oakley I., Nisi V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10690, pp. 221-232. Springer, Cham (Euro 30,19).
    Buy this article here

  • Proceedings: Repetition, Reward and Mastery: The Value of Game Design Patterns for the Analysis of Narrative Game Mechanics, Teun Dubbelman. In: Nunes N., Oakley I., Nisi V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10690, pp. 286-289. Springer, Cham (Euro 30,19).
    Buy this article here
In this newsletter:
• Research
• Innovation
• Education
• Networks
• Publications
AGENDA
   
27 February Book launch If You Are Not There Where Are You?
7-8 March Save the date: Connect! Codarts Research Festival
12 April NXT Project Seminar - Making a Living from the Arts in 2025
16-20 July BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
21-24 November ELIA Biennial 2018: Resilience and the City. Art, Education, Urbanism
 
CONTACT
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