Film plan “Shadow of the Machine” selected for open call Imagine Film Festival / Sound & Vision

For an open call of the Imagine Film Festival and the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, I created a plan for a short sci-fi animation film “Schaduw van de Machine” (Shadow of the Machine). In my film, I will combine archive footage from Sound & Vision with animation. In March 2021, this plan was …

Featured in RTL Z program

January 2021, I was briefly featured in a TV program of Dutch broadcaster RTL Z. I was interviewed about the Virtual Interiors project and could demonstrate some of the 2D and 3D interfaces we are working on.

PhD defense: Supporting the Complex Dynamics of the Information Seeking Process

On April 18th at 10:00, I will defend my PhD thesis at the Agnietenkapel (University of Amsterdam). You are cordially invited to attend the ceremony. On the day of the defense, from 15:00-17:00, there is also a free SIKS mini-symposium entitled “Beyond the Simple Search Box? SIKS Mini-Symposium on Process Support in Information Seeking” (info …

Winning team HackaLOD challenge

In February 2018, I joined the DH Lab KNAW team at the fourth HackaLOD challenge. This challenge involves using and connecting digital heritage datasets, including sets from the National Library of the Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum and other institutions. During the hackathon, we developed an application based on historical recipes from historical newspapers, and linked open …