This is what I’m work­ing on now:

• Sched­uled for 2024 is a new upcom­ing sound art project on city bells and the mean­ing of sound in pre-indus­tri­al soci­eties. This project will take take the form of an inter­ac­tive, geoloca­tive sound walk in the medieval city cen­tre of Utrecht. These books inspired me a lot:
  • Vil­lage Bells — The Cul­ture of the Sens­es in the Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry French Coun­try­side by Alain Corbin
  • A Dis­tant Mir­ror: The Calami­tous 14th Cen­tu­ry by Bar­bara W. Tuch­man
  • Het ver­bor­gen rader­w­erk. Over tijd, machines en bewustz­i­jn by Douwe Draais­ma

• Although the project is cur­rent­ly on hia­tus, I am still doing ongo­ing research for my book project The super­nor­mal (launch date to be deter­mined), 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 still slow­ly expand­ing my busi­ness to include (online) tech­ni­cal and cross media coach­ing and con­sult­ing for artists and cre­atives. Last year, I have been 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, I’m still enjoy­ing teach­ing sev­er­al cours­es at my part time job at Utrecht Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts (HKU).

— Octo­ber 2023