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  Grain: Mediator Between East and West (2025) author(s): Kateryna Tykhonenko published in: Research Catalogue
  "Grain: Mediator Between East and West" is an image-led, cross-temporal exploration of bread wheat as both a commodity and a metaphor. Drawing on its historical and practical ubiquity as a staple grain in agrarian (Eastern) Europe, wheat emerges as the focal medium through which cultural and geopolitical narratives are revealed. What narratives does bread wheat carry, and what is entangled within localised perspectives? To what extent does the cultural history of grain intersect with modern grain infrastructures, whereby wheat transforms from an elemental medium into a mediator between East and West? Through thinking with and about grain, this work interrogates the gaps, overlaps and resonances between East and West, the post-war Soviet 1940s and the present day, repositioning wheat as a cultural mediator. This Master's project was conducted within the European Media Studies program at the University of Potsdam and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, August 2025.
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  It’s Natural (and Other Frictions) (2025) author(s): Cecilia Carvalhal Braga de Andrade published in: Research Catalogue
  This exposition explores how performance-based artistic research can expose the constructedness of gender identity by placing the body in tension with resistant materials and wearable prosthetics. Working with spray foam insulation as both sculptural surface and choreographic partner, I investigated how its artificiality, rigidity, and eventual fracture could function as metaphors for the instability of normative embodiment. What began as a struggle to inhabit a rigid foam body evolved into experiments with prosthetic extensions, where the material was reimagined as a collaborator that displaced gestures, layered images, and generated hybrid presences. Drawing on Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, drag performance practices, Hélio Oiticica’s parangolés, and Rebecca Horn’s prosthetic sculptures, the research stages a dialogue between body, material, and viewer. Documentation through video and photography further expanded the work, creating layered choreographies where prosthetics multiplied into digital traces. In this process, the foam bodies became what Lauren Elkin calls “art monsters”: excessive, disruptive forms that refuse coherence, insisting instead on incompleteness, transformation, and the possibility of imagining bodies otherwise.
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• Splickshh (2025) author(s): Luca Carlevarino published in: Research Catalogue
  Splickshh è un innaffiatoio per tastiere. Una provocazione tangibile, un prodotto speculativo che mette in discussione il ruolo stesso della tecnologia. Ci invita a ripensare la tastiera non più come interfaccia di scrittura ma come spazio botanico, in ottica di un'economia più circolare.
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• Welke digitale middelen kunnen ingezet worden om aan te zetten tot actieve muziekbeleving? (2025) author(s): Raf Brouns published in: Research Catalogue
  Met de komst van teamteach op verschillende scholen en de vernieuwde eindtermen, is kunsteducatie in de 1ste graad van het secundair onderwijs geweldig achteruit gegaan. Dit is een aanname die meerdere van mijn vakcollega's delen. Dit weet ik vanuit informele gesprekken. De vakspecialist kan zijn vak niet meer geven met de passie en beleving zoals men dat gewend is. Deze verdwijnt zelfs op een aantal scholen en wordt dan vervangen door leerkrachten zonder kunstachtergrond. Dit is bijvoorbeeld bij ons op school gebeurt. Om dit gebrek aan kennis op te vangen, vraag ik me af of we dit gat niet kunnen verkleinen door gebruik te maken van digitale middelen en zo de muziekleerkrachten toch hun stem kunnen laten behouden in de klas. Ook al zou deze virtueel zijn. Let op: ik wil zeker niet de vakleerkracht vervangen door digitale middelen. Ik blijf van mening dat we vakspecialisten voor de klas nodig hebben!
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  Calling Songs (2025) author(s): Johannes Westendorp published in: Research Catalogue
  Calling Songs is a research into the possibilities of using the sounds created by insect and frog choirs in a musical composition/soundscape. An 8-channel speaker system was developed for this purpose, able to stand outside conditions and fitting into a natural environment. The voices of crickets and frogs have characteristics that make them sound almost electronic and therefore blend surprisingly well with the sounds that the muiscians of Zwerm can produce using effectpedals, loop-feedback, modular synthesizers and occasionally a guitar. The listener is invited to question the idea of culture versus nature. For the performers, the central question is how to give non-human life a voice in our artistic practice. Calling Songs is a collaboration between Johannes Westendorp, Zwerm and Pieter Verhees
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  The Sonic Atelier #4 – A Conversation with Iosonouncane (2025) author(s): Francesca Guccione published in: Research Catalogue
  This exposition is part of the series The Sonic Atelier – Conversations with Contemporary Composers and Producers, dedicated to exploring the evolving role of the composer in the twenty-first century. Through a Q&A format, the project investigates how contemporary creators inhabit hybrid identities at the intersection of composition, production, performance, and technology. This interview features Iosonouncane (Jacopo Incani), who reflects on the influences that shaped his formation, the balance between composition, production, and mixing, and the challenges of navigating today’s algorithm-driven music industry. He also discusses his approach to film scoring, the role of spatialization as a compositional parameter, and his views on new technologies such as artificial intelligence and immersive formats. His insights highlight the tensions between experimentation and market logic, as well as the need to preserve complexity and diversity as essential values in contemporary music-making.
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