Curator

Patricia Pisters

Patricia Pisters (Netherlands) is professor of media culture and film studies and chair of the department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. In her forthcoming book ‘The Neuro-Image', she explores the relationships between cinema in the digital age, neuroscience and Deleuzian philosophy. She organized the Third International Deleuze Studies Conference in Amsterdam on the connections between art, science and philosophy, including an exhibition and international public debate on this topic. For this program Patricia Pisters has invited:

Guests

Krien Clevis

(Netherlands) is an artist and photographer. As curator/organizer and participant she was involved in CO-OPs. Exploring new territories in art and science. Currently she is working on a PhD at the Academy of Arts of Leiden University.

Fernando Flores

(Mexico) is a hypnotist and mentalist who is known for his amazing demonstrations of the hidden powers of the mind.

Gert de Graaff

(Netherlands) is a filmmaker who won the Joris Ivens Award for his film The Sea that Thinks, a film in which he investigates the nature of perception and reality.

Jay Hetrick

(UK) is a philosopher currently working on a PhD at the University of Amsterdam on the aesthetics of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the artistic works of Henry Michaux.

Bregt Lameris

(Netherlands) is a researcher and a teacher of media studies, who is currently investigating scientific applications of optical technologies in the research of mental disorders.

Abel Minnée

(Netherlands) is a photographer and student at Rietveld Academie who is interested in experimenting in his work with the borders between (fashion) photography and spiritualism.

Warren Neidich

(USA) is an artist and street philosopher. He utilizes multiple mediums to express a wealth of ideas within a variety of practices. He investigates how the history of art sculpts the material and immaterial conditions of the Brain and the Mind.

Jennifer Kanary Nikolova

(UK) is an artistic researcher, PhD Candidate with the Planetary Collegium of Plymouth University, who investigates how installation art could contribute to a better understanding of the subjective experience of psychosis.

Sarah de Rijcke

(Netherlands) holds a post-doctoral position at the Virtual Knowledge Studio in Amsterdam. She wrote her PhD on different visual ways of knowing the brain, and was visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the University of California, San Diego.

Joachim Rotteveel

(Netherlands) is an artist who utilizes techno-scientific methods to represent ideas about contemporary culture. His recent artistic research focuses on subjectivity of perception.

Niels Tubbing

(Netherlands) is a film scholar interested in neurocinematics and the relations between visual culture, music and the unconscious.

Frans Verstraten

(Netherlands) is a neuropsychologist and acting chairman Chairman of the Board of the Helmholtz Institute of the University of Utrecht. He is a frequent guest in scientific programs on national TV and writes columns for national newspapers and journals.