This is what I’m working on now:

• I recently had a first great meeting on a new upcoming project on the history and future of the ‘Groene Hart’ area, a green and open central area surrounded by a ring of cities in the Dutch Randstad (Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht).

• I am still doing ongoing research for my book project The supernormal, on ‘the art instinct’ and how more knowledge on this subject could influence future art and art education. These books stood out to me the most lately:
  • The age of insight by Eric R. Kandel
  • The Seductions of Darwin – Art, Evolution, Neuroscience by Matthew Rampley.

• I’m also preparing a new upcoming sound art project on city bells and the meaning of sound in pre-industrial societies. This book inspired me a lot:
  • Village Bells – The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside by Alain Corbin

• I’m slowly expanding my business to include technical and cross media coaching and consulting for artists and creatives. I just started coaching two artists in the fields of Fine Arts and Graphic Design. If you’re interested as well: get in touch and we’ll drink a cup of coffee first!

• And finally, here’s what the final weeks of this academic year of my job at Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU)  will entail:
  • I will be supervising the first group of students graduating from the Associate Degree Digital Media at Utrecht University of The Arts (HKU).

• • I will be lecturing a new course on Creative Technologies at the BSc Crossover Creativity, also at Utrecht University of The Arts (HKU).

• • I will be working on the final part of a didactics course for teachers at Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU), which I hope to complete before the coming summer.

— August 2020