Authors of ArtEZ Press

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  Jorn Konijn

  Jorn Konijn is architecture curator and writer from Amsterdam. He is director of the Van Eesteren Museum in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. Konijn was previously chief programmer of the Dutch Design Week and international curator of various architecture and design biennales in China, India and Brazil. He also teaches at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. He published several books at ArtEZ Press; Composing the new Carpet (2018) and Designing for Precarious Citizens (2020).

  
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  Gaby Allard

  Gaby Allard was the director of the Academy of Theatre and Dance at ArtEZ from 2006 until 2019. She trained as a classical dancer at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and subsequently worked for fifteen seasons at Dance Works Rotterdam, where she held various positions. After her dance career, she became the coordinator of the Masters of Art program in choreography at Codarts Rotterdam. Allard has extensive experience in dance research and was the lead researcher for various projects. Since September 2019, she has been a member of the board of ROC Amsterdam Flevoland, focusing on educational development and innovation. In collaboration with ArtEZ Press she published Unpacking Performativity (2016) and Inventing Futures (2013).

  
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  Mieke Bal

  Mieke Bal is a cultural theorist, critic, and video artist known for her work in visual arts, literature, and cultural theory. She has written extensively on narrative theory, feminist theory, and semiotics. Bal’s interdisciplinary approach has made significant contributions to the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies. She worked at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005-2011.
  And is based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam.
  In 2020 she published Kunst uit Noodzaak with ArtEZ Press.

  
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  Gert Biesta

  Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. From January 2023 onwards he started a four-year term as member of the Education Council of the Netherlands (Onderwijsraad), the advisory body of the Dutch government and parliament on educational matters.

  In collaboration with ArtEZ Press he published in 2021 Letting Art Teach.

  
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  Jeroen Boomgaard

  Jeroen Boomgaard is an art historian and art critic who lives and works in Amsterdam. He is currently Professor of Art and Public Space at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and head of the Master Artistic Research at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Boomgaard also directs the research group Art & Public Space (Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte), a partnership between the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the Sandberg Instituut, the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and the Virtueel Museum Zuidas (or VMZ), which stimulates research and theoretical reflection on the role of art and design in the public domain. He regularly writes articles about art and public space for publications such as Open.Cahier on Art and the Public Domain.Together with ArtEZ Press he published Een vierkantje laten lachen (2012) and collaborated on The City as Anthology (2023).
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  Marc Boumeester

  Marc Boumeester is a researcher, educator, and practitioner in the field of media arts and design. His work focuses on the intersections of media, technology, and society, exploring how digital tools can be used to create meaningful experiences. Boumeester is also involved in education, where he teaches and mentors students in media design and related fields. Together with ArtEZ Press he published The Desire of the Medium (2017).

  
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  Derrick Brown

  Derrick is a dance and performance science researcher specializing in cognitive psychology and human motor behavior. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Radboud University (Netherlands) and an M.Sc. in Dance Science from the University of Wolverhampton (U.K.).
  Derrick has held key roles in academia, including co-programme manager and scientific coordinator for the Master of Advanced Studies in Dance Science at the University of Bern (2014-2023). He has supervised over 60 master’s theses and published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles. A former chair of the Research Committee for the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS), he now leads its Intersectionality Taskforce.
  With 35 years of professional dance experience, Derrick performed with companies like Peridance, Ballet Manhattan, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. He has taught extensively across Europe, including at the Finnish National Ballet and Les Ballet de Monte-Carlo. Together with ArtEZ Press he published Ballet, why and how? (2014).
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  Daniëlle Bruggeman

  Daniëlle Bruggeman is a cultural theorist and Professor of Fashion at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem. She teaches on the M.A. Critical Fashion Practices at ArtEZ. Bruggeman holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, which was part of the first large-scale interdisciplinary research project on fashion in the Netherlands, ‘Dutch Fashion Identity in a Globalised World’ (2010-2014) at Radboud University in Nijmegen. She has been a visiting scholar at Parsons New School for Design (NYC) and at the London College of Fashion. She has published on topics like the fluid, performative and embodied dimensions of identity, (Dutch) fashion photography, and fashion as a new materialist aesthetics. Her publication Dissolving the Ego of Fashion: Engaging with Human Matters (ArtEZ Press, 2018) presents the main research themes of the Fashion Professorship.

  
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  Clare Butcher

  Clare Butcher is an educator and curator from Zimbabwe who cooks and collaborates as part of her practice. Clare is committed to working within curricular and archival structures to unlearn their logics and redistribute their resources within other times and bodies.
  Clare was Curator of Public Programming and Learning for the Toronto Biennial of Art from 2019 to 2021, before which she co-led the program unsettling Rietveld Sandberg with Judith Leysner, and was an education coordinator for documenta14.
  Clare is currently working with learning communities in various contexts such as BEAR, ArtEZ and the Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town.
  In collaboration with ArtEZ Press and BEAR Fine Art ArtEZ Arnhem she published We Contain Multitudes (2024).
  
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  Fabiola Camuti

  Dr. Fabiola Camuti is senior researcher at ArtEZ University of the Arts (the Netherlands) and Research Affiliate with the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA). She has worked as a lecturer at the departments of Theatre Studies (University of Amsterdam) and Media & Culture (Utrecht University).
  She is currently a SIA postdoctoral fellow within the Professorship Art education as Critical Tactics (AeCT) at ArtEZ, working on systems on hierarchy in higher education.
  In 2024 she will, together with ArtEZ Press, publish the book The Trained Experience.
  
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  David Chipperfield

  David Chipperfield studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He worked for Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster before founding his own practice in 1985 and establishing a design methodology that is now used across five offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai and Santiago de Compostela. David Chipperfield is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary fellow of both the American Institute of Architects and the Bund Deutscher Architekten. In 2016 he made together with Bernard Colenbrander & Christian Rapp the book The Embedded Nomad with ArtEZ Press.

  
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  Joep Christenhusz

  Joep Christenhusz (1983) studied musicology at Utrecht University as well as music theory and composition at the Conservatory of Antwerp. He lectured in music history and analysis at ArtEZ University of the Arts for several years and is still a member of their Theory in the Arts Professorship. As a music journalist, Joep writes about music for the national newspaper NRC Handelsblad and for De Groene Amsterdammer.

  In 2016, ArtEZ Press published his essay collection Componisten van Babel on the work of ten Dutch and Belgian composers of his own generation.

  
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  Edward Clydesdale Thomson

  Edward Clydesdale Thomson (1982) is a Scottish/Danish artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His practice addresses contemporary conflicts of time by rethinking and reshaping the space and conditions of his artistic production along durational lines. His work is often concerned with the places and objects on the margins – physically, socially or symbolically – of outside and inside, of wild and tamed landscapes, of decoration or function. Be that a patterned fabric, a window blind, a gate, a washing line, a garden, or a sense of identity. He has exhibited at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and the Malmo Konstmuseum, Malmo.  Together with Priscilla Fernandes he is the Head of Department of the Bachelor of Fine Arts BEAR (Base for Experiment Art and Research) at ArtEZ, Arnhem.

  In collaboration with ArtEZ Press and BEAR Fine Art ArtEZ Arnhem he published We Contain Multitudes (2023).

  
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  Leonardo Dellanoce

  Leonardo Dellanoce is an arthistorian and curator. He is an art historian who explores technological realities using art and design as navigational tools. Collaboration is at the core of his practice, as he works with artists, spatial designers and theorists on a variety of projects. He was editor of Vertical Atlas (2022) and co-leading the research project.

  
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  Annette Duburg

  Annette Duburg studied fashion at the Vogue Studio in Amsterdam and Esmod in Paris, where she studied modeling and fashion drawing. She was a freelance fashion designer for various brands and companies. Over the years she has been a teacher at a number of fashion schools. She co-wrote Draping: Art and Craftmanship in Fashion Design (2017). There are only a limited number of people who can still learn the art of draping, which makes this manual absolutely indispensable. Moulage is now in its 5th edition.

   
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  Priscila Fernandes

  Priscila Fernandes (1981, Portugal) is a visual artist and educator living and working in the Netherlands. Together with Edward Clydesdale Thomson, she is the Head of Department of the Bachelor of Fine Arts BEAR (Base for Experiment Art and Research) at ArtEZ, Arnhem.

  Priscila Fernandes’ work – installations, painting, photography, books – is rooted in an ongoing research into education, play, and the dialectics of work and leisure. Through a speculative and fictional approach, her work raises concrete questions about the idea of individual and collective freedom, especially in the context of the widespread precariousness of work in our society.

  In collaboration with ArtEZ Press and BEAR Fine Art ArtEZ Arnhem she published We Contain Multitudes (2023).

  
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  Maya Indira Ganesh

  Maya Indira Ganesh is a researcher, writer, and activist working at the intersection of technology, society, and ethics. Her work explores the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence, big data, and digital technologies. Ganesh is involved in various international initiatives that address the challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies. In collaboration with ArtEZ Press she published AUTO-CORRECT AI Failures, Ethics, and the Future of the Driverless Car.

  
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  Avi Gilboa

  Avi Gilboa received his BA in Psychology and Music from Bar-Ilan University, Israel and then his diploma in Music Therapy and his PhD in Cognitive Psychology. He has been a music therapist since 2001 in various settings and with different clinical populations. He is an associate professor and head of the Music Therapy Program at Bar-Ilan University. He supervises many music therapy PhD students and supervises music therapy students and graduates. He co-edited Breaking Strings: Explorations of Mistakes in Music Therapy (2022).
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  Marijke Goeting

  Marijke Goeting studied Graphic Design at ArtEZ. She graduated cum laude for her master’s degree in Art and Visual Culture at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Goeting teaches design and media theory to students of Graphic Design and Design Art Technology at ArtEZ. She obtained her PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen with her dissertation Fast, Fluid, Fragmented: Art and Design in the Digital Age (2021).
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  Marijke Groothuis

  Marijke Groothuis is an associate professor at ArtEZ, Enschede. She also works in special education, teaching music therapy and music education to children ages 4-18 with physical and mental disabilities and chronic illnesses. Groothuis is co-author of Navigating Music Technology (2022).

  
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  Laurien Hakvoort

  Laurien Hakvoort obtained her PhD in Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University. A music therapist since 1994, she has worked as a music therapist in forensic psychiatry for 17 years and currently has her own practice, Muzis.net. She teaches music therapy in the bachelor’s and (pre-)master’s programs at ArtEZ Enschede and is a freelance researcher. She has written Cognitive Behavorial Music Therapy in Forensic Psychiatry (2014) and co-edited Breaking Strings: Explorations of Mistakes in Music Therapy (2022).

  
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  Artur Jaschke

  Artur Jaschke is professor of music-based therapies and interventions at the Department of Music Therapy at ArtEZ Enschede. Jaschke is co-author of Navigating Music Technology (2022).

  
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  Charles Jencks

  Charles Jencks was a renowned cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. Jencks first studied English literature at Harvard University, later earning a master’s degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Design in 1965. He also has a PhD in architectural history from University College London. In 2012 he published Can Architecture Affect your Health with ArtEZ Press.

  
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  Narayan Khandekar

  Dr. Narayan Khandekar is a distinguished scientist in the field of conservation and colour. Khandekar is the director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, and head of the Analytical Laboratory of the Harvard Art Museums. His interests lie in the technical study of paintings and painting materials. He has more than sixty publications to his name. In 2017 he published together with ArtEZ Press the book Collecting Colour.
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  Jan-Richard Kikkert

  Jan-Richard Kikkert is an architect and educator known for his work in architectural design and theory. He has contributed to various projects that explore innovative design solutions and sustainable architecture. Kikkert is also involved in teaching, where he shares his knowledge with students in the field of architecture. With ArtEZ Press he published Lautner A-Z:An Exploration of the Complete Built Works (2018).

  
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  Klaas Kuitenbrouwer

  Klaas Kuitenbrouwer is senior researcher at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and teaches theory at the Gerrit Rietveld and other academies.

  Since the late 1990s, he has worked at the intersections of art, design, technology and ecology. He researches, curates and lectures in themes at the touch points of these fields. In the early 2000’s he set up and curated the Mediamatic research workshops on the cultural significance of new digital technologies. He co-curated the Transnatural festivals (2010 – 2013) and worked in the field of cultural policy of digital culture at Virtueel Platform (2009 – 2013).

  A consistent element in his work is the intersection of different knowledge practices: technological, artistic, legal, organisational, scientific, and more-than-human.Together with ArtEZ Press he published Vertical Atlas (2022).

  
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  Serena Lee

  Serena Lee’s practice stems from a fascination with polyphony as a way of mapping how things come together and apart. She plays with movement, language, cinema, voice, and space to understand the continuities of embodied knowing through aesthetic, martial, and sonic practices. A PhD candidate at the Akademie der bildenden künste Wien (AT), Serena holds an Associate Diploma in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music (CA). Born and raised in Tkaronto/Toronto, Serena is currently based in Vienna, practising and collaborating close to home and internationally.

  In collaboration with ArtEZ Press and BEAR Fine Art ArtEZ Arnhem she published We Contain Multitudes (2023).
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  Jeroen Lutters

  Jeroen Lutters is professor of Art education as Critical Tactics (AeCT) at ArtEZ University of the Arts. Lutters obtained his PhD on Art Based Learning (ABL) as a method under art and culture analyst Mieke Bal. He took part in the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA).He is the author of (a.o): Studies in Art-Based Learning (2019), No University. A Creative Turn in Higher Education (2020).

  
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  Marga van Mechelen

  Marga van Mechelen is an art historian and academic with a focus on contemporary art and theory. She has written extensively on modern art movements, particularly in relation to conceptual art and its impact on society. Van Mechelen’s scientific work is respected for its depth and insight into the connections between art, culture and politics. Together with ArtEZ Press she published Art at Large: Through Performance and Installation Art (2013).

  
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  Anushka Nair

  Anushka Nair is a performance artist, facilitator and writer. Her work explores the intersection of new materialism, phenomenology, ecology and feminism. Using objects ranging from beetroots to everyday items, she performs the interconnectedness of the self and the world. She investigates sensuous relationships, everyday labour, and the multiplicity of identities in collaboration with more-than-human entities. Through care, inclusivity and deep intimacy, she examines the material, political, socio-cultural, and symbolic aspects of matter to explore agency, affect, and transformation.

  Anushka graduated cum laude with an M.A. in Home of Performance Practices from ArtEZ University of Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Originally from India, she is currently based in the Netherlands. In collaboration with ArtEZ Press she published as part of the ArtEZ Press Essay Issues Roo(u)ting (2024).

  
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  Nanjala Nyabola

  Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer, political analyst, and activist known for her work on issues related to politics, migration, and technology in Africa. She is the author of several thought-provoking essays and books that explore the intersections of power, technology, and human rights. Nyabola is a prominent voice in contemporary discussions on African politics and global justice. Together with ArtEZ Press she published Vertical Atlas (2022).

  
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  Mariken Overdijk

  Mariken Overdijk is a visual artist, mime artist and works as an artist and teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Based on her expertise as an artist and researcher, she wrote The City as Anthology. A book in which it becomes clear that a work of art is not a one-off, but creates an opportunity, however minimal, to change lives. Mariken Overdijk graduated from the ArtEZ Master Home of Performance Practices. She is coordinator and teacher at the audiovisual department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

  In collaboration with the LAPS professorship of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and ArtEZ Press, she published The City as Anthology (2023).

  
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  Monique Peperkamp

  Monique Peperkamp is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She is trained as a visual artist at the Rietveld Academy and as an art historian at the University of Amsterdam. With over ten years of experience as a coach, teacher, and art theory lecturer, Peperkamp’s work explores the intersections between art, culture, and theory. Her essay will soon be published in the ArtEZ Press essay series.

  
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  Silvia Perea

  Silvia Perea is an architect (M.Arch), Ph.D., and Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection at the AD&A Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a Doctorate in Architecture with Honors from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and a Certificate in Museum Studies from Harvard University. Throughout her career, Dr. Perea has combined teaching and publishing with organizing exhibitions. In collaboration with ArtEZ Press, she published From Within: The Architecture of Helena Arahuete.(2023)

  
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  Annouk Post

  Annouk Post is a creative professional known for her work in design and Fashion. She is involved in projects that intersect with social issues, often exploring the role of Fashion in addressing societal challenges. Post’s work is characterized by a commitment to using creativity as a tool for positive change. Together with ArtEZ Press she published Ontdekkingsreis naar een duurzame wereld (2016).

  
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  Tycho Saariste

  Tycho Saariste is an architect and designer known for his work in both practical architecture and theoretical exploration. His projects often merge traditional architectural practices with modern design techniques, focusing on creating spaces that improve human life. He specializes in complex non-residential construction projects with a focus on healthcare. Saariste also engages in academic work, contributing to the discourse on architecture and design. Together with ArtEZ Press he published the book Lautner A-Z: An Exploration of the Complete Built Works (2018).

  
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  Karin Schacknat

  Karin Schacknat studied fashion design at ArtEZ Arnhem and Dutch language and literature at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. She worked for many years as a lecturer in theory and history of fashion at ArtEZ. Now, she is an independent publicist, focusing on fashion, clothing behavior, and garden culture. Additionally, she serves as an editor for the magazine Onze Eigen Tuin. Karin also occasionally gives lectures, including at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf and the Design Academy Eindhoven. She lives and works in Arnhem, where she combines her passions for fashion, language, and gardens in her diverse career. She published In and Out of Fashion (2018) at ArtEZ Press and collaborated on different publications with ArtEZ Press such as Fong Leng (2010), Draping (2008), Mode en Verbeelding (2009), Beyond Green (2008), Mode en Accessoires (2007).

  
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  Nishant Shah

  Dr. Nishant Shah is a feminist, humanist, technologist working in digital cultures. He wears many hats as an academic, researcher, educator and annotator, interested in translating research for public discourse and being informed by public discourse to orient his research.

  He is Professor of Global Media and Director of the Digital Narratives Studio at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Communication and Journalism (Hong Kong),

  Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (USA) Knowledge Partner to Point of View (Mumbai) and the Digital Asia Hub (Hong Kong/ Singapore).

  His work is at the intersections of body, identity, digital technologies, digital governance, artistic practice, and activism. His current interest is in thinking through questions digital narrative practices towards building inclusive, diverse, resilient, and equitable societies.

  With ArtEZ Press he (co-)published Small Books for Big Platforms (2022) and Formulating Fake Futures (2023).

  
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  Peter Sonderen

  Peter Sonderen is (lector) of Theory in the Arts at ArtEZ University of the Arts. Sonderen received his PhD in art history and aesthetics at the University of Amsterdam, in 2000, for his research on the origin of the idea of modern art. His current research circles around the basics of artistic research, the theories of making (in the arts), performativity in the arts and finally the question of materialism in the arts. He developed the ArtEZ Honours LAB theory and research for bachelor students and is also head of the programme. In 2012 he edited Denken in kunst (Leiden University Press, 2012, in 2014 he edited The Non-Urban Garden, AFDH Uitgevers,In 2016 he edited Unpacking Performativity (ArtEZ Press). In 2019 he edited and contributed to The Entanglement of Theory and Practices in the Arts (ArtEZ Press).

  
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  Arthur Steiner

  Arthur Steiner is an art historian working at the crossroads of contemporary arts, technology, and social justice. Through his work, Arthur has helped establish various creative hubs in old medinas and industrial zones along the routes connecting Asia and Africa. Currently, he manages the Hivos R.O.O.M. program which supports content creators on the African continent and Digital Earth, a social justice initiative with the aim to imagine a more humane digital future. He is editor of the publication Vertical Atlas (2022) in collaboration with ArtEZ Press and initiator of the ‘Force of Art program’ with the Prince Claus Fund.

  
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  José Teunissen

  José Teunissen is Director of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She holds a Visiting Professorship in Fashion Theory and Research at ArtEZ and works as an independent fashion curator. In 2002 at ArtEZ, Teunissen was one of the first professors in the Netherlands to conduct research and develop theory in the field of fashion. Teunissen has co-edited many books including three books in collaboration with ArtEZ Press:  Fashion and Imagination (2009), Fashion Odyssey (2013), Everything but Clothes (2015) and Koos van den Akker (2016).

  
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  Rixt van der Tol

  Rixt van der Tol has been teacher at ArtEZ University of the Arts, one of the most renowned fashion schools in Europe for 35 years. She has co-written Draping: Art and Craftmanship in Fashion Design (2017). There are only a limited number of people who are still able to teach the art of draping, which makes this manual decidedly indispensable. Draping is now in the 5th edition.
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  Merlijn Twaalfhoven

  Merlijn Twaalfhoven is a Dutch composer and artist, known for creating immersive, participatory experiences that combine music, art and social engagement. His projects often involve large groups of people and unconventional environments, with the aim of bridging cultural boundaries and inspiring collective creativity. Twaalfhoven’s work is deeply rooted in the idea of ​​connecting people through the arts. Together with ArtEZ Press he published Kunst in de wereld (2009).

  
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  Jeroen van den Eijnde

  Dr. Jeroen van den Eijnde was trained as product designer at ArtEZ University of the Arts and as a design historian at Leiden University. He holds a PhD on theory and ideology in Dutch design education. He has published articles and books related to the historical and current aspects of design education. Since 2016, he has been responsible for the professorship Product Design & Interior Architecture at ArtEZ. In cooperation with the ArtEZ Fashion Professorship, he runs the expertise centre ArtEZ Future Makers, which initiates design-driven innovation and research projects that contribute to a sustainable society. Together with ArtEZ Press he published Escape (2016), De Vijf Pijlers van Design (2018) and Designing for Precarious Citizens (2020).

   

   

   

  
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  Hanka van der Voet

  Hanka van der Voet works as a researcher, writer, publisher and educator in the field of fashion. Her main focus is fashion media and fashion language, and the power structures involved. Van der Voet is senior lecturer on the M.A. Fashion Strategy at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, and a researcher at the ArtEZ Fashion Professorship.

  Hanka collaborates with Artez Press for many years now and is (co)-author of Mode en Verbeelding (2009), Spijkers en Spijkers (2011), A Fashion Odyssey (2013), Piet Paris (2013), Mode Design Hotel Modez Arnhem (2013), Koos van den Akker (2016), Dissolving the Ego of Fashion (2018).

  
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  Pauline van Dongen

  Pauline van Dongen is a Dutch fashion designer specialised in smart textiles and smart clothing. As a creator intrigued by the notion of interactivity in fashion, she researches the human body in relation to its surroundings. She is fascinated by concepts of change, movement, energy and perception, as she believes the future of fashion lies in its premise to be dynamic and changing.

   

  She established her design studio in 2010, which since then has received international recognition and is consistently involved in a diverse array of projects that span various disciplines, locations and collaborators. Immersed in the dynamic intersection of fashion and technology, the studio is dedicated to collaborative, cross-disciplinary work that enables innovation and experimentation to take the form in a truly wearable and desirable product and tactile experience. In collaboration with ArtEZ Press she published her book A Designer’s Material-Aesthetics Reflections on Fashion and Technology (2019).

  
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  Ineke van Doorn

  Ineke van Doorn is a Dutch vocalist, composer, and educator at e.g. ArtEZ School of Fine and Performing Arts, specializing in jazz and improvisational music. She has a rich career as a performer and has contributed to numerous recordings and educational materials. Van Doorn is also known for her efforts in music education, where she shares her expertise with the next generation of musicians. Together with ArtEZ Press she published Singing from the Inside Out (2016).

  
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  Eef Veldkamp

  Eef Veldkamp (1993) is an artist, researcher and a lecturer at ArtEZ University of the Arts. In his work he researches the systems and structures that dictate life.

  At ArtEZ, he researches questions around engaged practices. By intermingling artistic and philosophical research methods, he brings about subversive textual interventions that function as the point of departure for his artistic practice, in which he develops what he calls ‘counter-systems’. These are organizations erected to engage with a specific bottleneck in society, which they do through a multiplicity of forms that he terms ‘art on batteries’.

  Between 2018-2020 he concluded a research project resulting in a series of thirteen essays called Notes towards engaged arts (2020-2021) for the Professorship for Art education as Critical Tactics (AeCT) published by ArtEZ Press (2023).

  
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  Carola Werger

  Carola Werger is a music therapist, music pedagogist, senior lecturer and head of the Music Therapy course at ArtEZ in Enschede. With an additional master’s degree in Learning and Innovation (MLI), her main interest lies in renewing curricular educational concepts. Werger is co-author of Navigating Music Technology (2022).

  
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  Mi You

  Mi You is a curator and professor of Art and Economics at the University of Kassel / documenta Institut. Her academic interests are in the field of new and historical materialism. performance philosophy and the history, political theory and philosophy of Eurasia. She also leads research into alternative value systems, the social value of art and ideological realignments in art and culture. Previously, she was a research associate at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2014-2021), where she investigated Silk Roads as a figuration for anti-nationalist, decentralized and nomadic images. Together with ArtEZ Press she published Vertical Atlas (2022).
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  Onno Zijlstra

  Onno Zijlstra is filosoof en voormalig docent filosofie aan ArtEZ in Zwolle. Hij heeft gepubliceerd over kunst, perceptie en esthetiek, waaronder Wat doet die rode vlek daar linksboven?, Inleiding in de esthetica (2007) en Verbeelding. Over waarneming en kunst (2020) and Kunst en de zin van het bestaan (2022).