From sep­tem­ber 2017 — feb­ru­ary 2018, i have been work­ing at NIAS (Nether­lands Insti­tute of Advanced Study in the Human­i­ties and Social Sci­ences) as part of a fel­low­ship offered by the KNAW and the Akademie van Kun­sten. I worked on my upcom­ing project The super­nor­mal, a more the­o­ret­i­cal fol­low-up of my inter­dis­ci­pli­nary art project De meeuwen van Tin­ber­gen.

Besides doing more research on the effects of Niko Tin­ber­gen’s con­cept of the super­nor­mal stim­u­lus on human behav­iour in gen­er­al,  I focused on the impli­ca­tions of this kind of sci­en­tif­ic knowl­edge on art, art the­o­ry and art edu­ca­tion.

The out­come of all research will hope­ful­ly be pub­lished in an illus­trat­ed book (by Jap Sam Books).