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Members research group Popular culture, Sustainability & Innovation
- dr. Michel van Dartel, curator V2_ (extern adviseur, NL)
- prof. dr. R.W. Boomkens, professor Philosophy, social philosophy and cultural philosophy (University Groningen, external advisor, NL)
- prof. dr. Linda Hartman, honorary professor Multimedial Interaction (University of Amsterdam, Centre for Mathematics & Informatics, NWO, external advisor, NL)
- dr. Bas van Heur, researcher (University Maastricht, external advisor, NL)
- dr. Martijn Stevens, assistant professor (Radboud University Nijmegen, external advisor)
- Kristina Andersen, researcher, artist and interaction designer (PhD candidate, external advisor, NL/DK)
- dr. Sher Doruff, researcher (Rietveld Academy of Art and Design and mentor in the Masters of Artistic Research University of Amsterdam, external advisor, NL)
- dr. Mary Flanagan, researcher and professor (Dartmouth College Department of Digital Humanities, external advisor, US)
Internal members research group:
- Thuur Caris, PhD candidate (University Groningen/Academy Minerva, School of Fine Arts, Design & Pop Culture)
- Bart Barnard, professor-researcher, course director Digital Arts (Academy Minerva)
- Fenny Lucker-de Boer, professor-researcher
- Andrea Stultiens, professor-researcher, professor of photography (Academy Minerva)
Michel van Dartel
Michel van Dartel is curator and project manager at V2_. As curator, Michel coordinates V2_ public events, in particular the event series Test_Lab, V2_’s bi-monthly event for the demonstration, testing, presentation, and discussion of developments in aRt&D. As project manager in the V2_Lab Michel is involved in a variety of artistic R&D (aRt&D) projects. Prior to his current appointments at V2_, Michel undertook research on knowledge representation in robot models of cognition on the basis of which he received a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and an MSc in Cognitive Psychology. Michel has taught various cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence courses in the past, and currently lectures and publishes on aRt&D.
Lynda Hardman
Prof. Lynda Hardman is head of the Information Systems department at CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) and professor by special appointment of Multimedia Interaction in the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1998. During several years of working in the software industry she was the development manager for Guide - the first hypertext authoring system for personal computers (1986). Since the development of the semantic web, she has worked on improving human access to the ever-expanding ‘open linked data cloud’. Her current research efforts are focused on improving design methods for human-based interfaces in relation to developing technology.
Bas van Heur
Bas van Heur is assistant professor of social geography at the Department of Geography of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He studied at the Faculty of Art of the University of Utrecht, after which he went to Germany where he studied Cultural History in which he graduated in 2004. He then went on to the Freie Universität Berlin where he received his PhD in Geography in 2008. From 2008-2011 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. Before this he was a lecturer at the University of London and at the University of Utrecht.
His main research interest is the politics of urban development and the role of research in engaging with and analysing urban development strategies and their effects. Most of his recent empirical research falls into two areas: (1) culture and the city – cultural/creative industries, heritage, quality of life, cultural policy; and (2) education and the city – built environment of universities, knowledge and learning cities, university-community interaction. Bas van Heur also has a strong interest in social theory and so far has contributed to debates on cultural political economy, urban laboratories and experimentation, and social ontology.
Thuur Caris
Thuur Caris is a media artist and master in Educational Sciences. As a researcher he works for the University of Groningen on the FWO project URBEX3 about diversity and plurality in an urban context. He is teacher of Arts and Popular Culture at the Hanze University Groningen and co-founder of a.o. Fablab Groningen and Pavlov Media lab.
His research subjects are a.o. informal learning and innovation processes, social and cultural interventions, situation-art and urbanisation. Thuur Caris received several awards for his work, such as the National Audiovisual Grand Prix (Sony Award, Netherlands), the Gold World Medal (New York non-broadcast Festivals), the VAP Innovation Award (Sam festivals Holland) and the Third prize Society and Environment (ICC in Biarritz).
For the Research Group PSI Thuur Caris is conducting PhD research into the artist as a catalyst of learning and innovation in an urban environment.
Bart Barnard
Bart Barnard (1970) studied philosophy at the University of Leiden. He worked in various organisations as a programmer and software analyst. From 2001 to 2009 he was a part-time teacher Interaction Design at the faculty Arts Media and Technology of the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) and later at the Professional School of the Arts Utrecht – a collaboration between the HKU and the University of Utrecht. He has been teaching at the Institute for Information and Communication Technology of the Hanze University Groningen since 2007. In 2011 he became a member of the research group Popular culture, Sustainability & Innovation of the Centre of Applied Research and Innovation Art & Society. He is interested in the similarities and differences between experiencing art and technology. Starting point for him is that modern technologies have brought about radical changes in the experience of everyday reality, a change comparable to experiencing an artwork as a result of the way it can be technologically reproduced.
 Andrea Stultiens
Andrea Stultiens’ work is aimed at telling relevant stories about the way we deal with the world, while it is also a continuing research into how we represent ourselves and that same world in photographs. Her current work focuses on urban areas in transition (US and Netherlands), and on the production of an alternative version of the representation of Ugandan history. Recently she was chosen as one of the finalists of the third GD4PhotoArt competition.
Andrea Stultiens studied photography at the Utrecht School of the Arts and completed her master degree in Photographic Studies at Leiden University.
Next to her photographic projects, Andrea Stultien also teaches at the BFA programs of Academy Minerva in Groningen, and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
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