NETWORK

Network

RR wishes to create a network of artists, curators, scientists, academics and writers to exchange ideas, work together and make current (practice-based) research public. In this section you will find people we currently work with or worked with on past projects.
people

Adam Loughnane


[person_type] participant | [person_role] researcher

Adam Loughnane is lecturer in Philosophy at University College Cork and co-director of the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies. His research and teaching centre on the phenomenological and aesthetic traditions of Europe and Asia.

Alena Alexandrova

Alena Alexandrova,

Alena Alexandrova


[person_type] participant | [person_role] researcher

Alena Alexandrova is a cultural theorist and an independent curator based in Amsterdam. She teaches at the Fine Arts and the Photography departments of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.

Ali Shobeiri

Ali Shobeiri,

Ali Shobeiri


[person_type] participant | [person_role] researcher

Ali Shobeiri (b. 1984) is a visual culture theorist. He is currently Assistant Professor of Photography at Leiden University and lecturer of Cultural Studies at Radboud University of Nijmegen.

Anouk De ClerqJohan Jacobs2018

Anouk De Clerq, Johan Jacobs, 2018

Anouk De Clercq


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Anouk De Clercq explores the potential of audiovisual language to create possible worlds. Her recent work is based on the utopian idea of 'radical empathy'. 

August StrindbergRobert Roesler1881

August Strindberg, Robert Roesler, 1881

August Strindberg


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912, Sweden) was a Swedish play wright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.

Basje Boer

Basje Boer,

Basje Boer


[person_type] participant | [person_role] writer

Basje Boer (b. 1980) is a writer and journalist. Having been educated as a photographer, she currently focuses mainly on writing. She has published a collection of short stories, Kiestoon (De Arbeiderspers, 2006) and a novel, Bermuda (Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2016).

Benjamin MarchFreer/ Sackler Gallery of Art Archives1924

Benjamin March, Freer/ Sackler Gallery of Art Archives, 1924

Benjamin March


[person_type] participant | [person_role] writer, curator, professor

Benjamin Franklin March Jr. (1899-1934) was a writer, curator, and professor who studied, lectured and wrote in the United States and in China. Through his works he became one of the foremost authorities on Chinese art during the 1920s and 1930s. 

Boele Weemhoff


[person_type] participant | [person_role] musician

Boele Weemhoff is a producer, composer and keyboard player. 

Bram Roza


[person_type] participant | [person_role] speaker, filmmaker

Bram Roza is a graphic designer, UFO researcher and filmmaker. 

Doina KraalGuido Beekman

Doina Kraal, Guido Beekman,

Doina Kraal


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Doina Kraal works through installation and performance, and investigates how intimate and multisensory encounters imprint between object and viewer.

El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky,

El Lissitzky


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky, made a career of utilizing art for social change. In fact, he made the very first abstract work with a political message. 

Frank Bloem


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. 

George Shiras III

George Shiras III,

George Shiras III


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

George Shiras III (January 1, 1859 – March 24, 1942) was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania and nature photographer who pioneered the use of nighttime flash photography.

Gwenneth BoelensRingel Goslinga

Gwenneth Boelens, Ringel Goslinga,

Gwenneth Boelens


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

The work of Gwenneth Boelens revolves around the analysis of the gaze. That which can be perceived or remembered, is detached from its common context and translated into spatial, photographic and filmic installations.

Hans Gremmen

Hans Gremmen,

Hans Gremmen


[person_type] participant | [person_role] graphic designer

Graphic designer, publisher and artist Hans Gremmen (1976, NL) has a special interest in the grandeur of the American landscape.

Henk Oosterling

Henk Oosterling,

Henk Oosterling


[person_type] participant | [person_role] philosopher

Henk Oosterling (b. 1952) is a philosopher and a strategic advisor. He studied philosophy, linguistics and Japanese in Leiden and Rotterdam.

Hiryczuk / Van Oevelen


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artists

Hiryczuk / Van Oevelen is a collaboration between artists/ researchers Elodie Hiryczuk (1977, Avignon) and Sjoerd van Oevelen (1974, Steenbergen). They are interested in the workings of perception in humankind's relationship to nature and the landscape.

Ilse van Rijn

Ilse van Rijn,

Ilse Van Rijn


[person_type] participant | [person_role] researcher, writer

Ilse van Rijn is a researcher and art historian. She holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), in collaboration with the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (GRA) and the Jan van Eyck Academy (JvE), in which she developed a so-called poetics of the artists’ text. 

Julian Ross

Julian Ross,

Julian Ross


[person_type] participant | [person_role] researcher, curator, writer

Julian Ross is a researcher, curator and writer based in Amsterdam.

Juuso NoronkoskiJuuso Noronkoski2021

Juuso Noronkoski, Juuso Noronkoski, 2021

Juuso Noronkoski


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Juuso Noronkoski (1983, FI) works with mixed-media installations combining photographs, video, sculpture and text. His installations focus on the demarcation between images, objects and written language

Marjolijn Dijkman

Marjolijn Dijkman,

Marjolijn Dijkman


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Marjolijn Dijkman’s (1978, NL) works are tied together by a quest to interlink science, technology, speculation, art and spiritualism.

Murat YildizMurat Yildiz2021

Murat Yildiz, Murat Yildiz, 2021

Murat Yildiz


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Murat Yildiz is an artist living and working in Istanbul and the founder of Dream News and the co-founder of HAH Kolektif based Istanbul. (1984, Giresun/Turkey)

Mustapha AzeroualPauline Gouablin & Nicolas Melemis2017

Mustapha Azeroual, Pauline Gouablin & Nicolas Melemis, 2017

Mustapha Azeroual


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

A scientist by training, his work is based on observation and experimentation experimentation, confronting the historical techniques of shooting and printing to the contemporary with the contemporary issues of photography.

Nicolas Sassoon

Nicolas Sassoon,

Nicolas Sassoon


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Nicolas Sassoon’s work has long been concerned with the tensions between the pixel and the screen,reflecting on their entanglement and materiality by constraining himself to experiment with pixelated patterns and figures ashissole visual language.

Peter Bogers

Peter Bogers,

Peter Bogers


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

In Bogers' work sound and image are equivalent elements which always determine form and content in a dynamic interplay. Many of his installations seem to examine the breaking points between music-sound and sound-speech, often with the help of electronics and the human voice.

Peter Delpeut

Peter Delpeut,

Peter Delpeut


[person_type] participant | [person_role] writer

Peter Delpeut is a writer and cinematographer. His film Felice... Felice... (1998) came out in the same year as his eponymous debut novella; his mosaic film Diva Dolorosa (1999), about Italian film divas between 1913 and 1920, was accompanied by an essayistic travel book of the same name. 

Philippe Ailleris


[person_type] participant | [person_role] speaker

Philippe Ailleris is a project controller at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) and the founder of the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP) Reporting Scheme and The UFODATA Project.

Rick Silva

Rick Silva,

Rick Silva


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Rick Silva (1977, São Paulo, Brazil) is an artist whose recent videos, websites and images explore notions of landscape and wilderness in the 21st century. He received an MFA from The University of Colorado in 2007, and has since shown extensively nationally and internationally.

Roger Cremers


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Roger Cremers works with historical images, such as archival imagery, magazines, and more recently the representation of images in social media, which emphasize a collective striving towards progress.

Sema Bekirovic

Sema Bekirovic,

Sema Bekirovic


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Sema Bekirovic is a visual artist whose work could be described as playful conceptualism. She uses different media, mainly video, photography and installations.

Spiros HadjidjanosSpiros Hadjidjanos2021

Spiros Hadjidjanos, Spiros Hadjidjanos, 2021

Spiros Hadjidjanos


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Spiros Hadjidjanos is a Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1978. Their work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the K20, Kunstsammlung NRW and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

Stephan Keppel

Stephan Keppel,

Stephan Keppel


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Keppel’s ongoing research on the public space, urban structures and reproduction, and is combining his own photographs with re-photographed archival material and other (online and offline) found footage.

Steven Humblet

Steven Humblet,

Steven Humblet


[person_type] participant | [person_role] writer

Steven Humblet (b. 1970) is a writer and art critic with a focus on photography. He studied philosophy and Social and Cultural Anthropology at the KU Leuven (BE).

Sylvian Kloens


[person_type] participant | [person_role] musician

Sylvian Kloens is a musical and artistic centipede, a singer songwriter, bass player, occultist, gnostic, and researcher.

Taede A. Smedes


[person_type] participant | [person_role] speaker

Dr. Taede A. Smedes is a philosopher of religion, theologian, journalist, writer, and musician.

Taisuke Koyama

Taisuke Koyama,

Taisuke Koyama


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Taisuke Koyama (b. 1978, Japan) approaches the medium of photography inline with his studies in Biology and Environmental Sciences. He investigatesthe relationship between organic processes and phenomena, and the man-made objects that facilitate their visual capture.

Terike HaapojaTerike Haapoja2021

Terike Haapoja, Terike Haapoja, 2021

Terike Haapoja


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Terike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York.

Tom CalleminTom Callemin

Tom Callemin, Tom Callemin,

Tom Callemin


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Tom Callemin, born in 1991 in Ostend, Belgium, lives and works in Ghent. He studied photography and fine arts and works as a visual artist in photography and video. His work has been awarded and shown in solo exhibitions and has been included in several international group shows.

Toril Johannessen2019

Toril Johannessen, 2019

Toril Johannessen


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Toril Johannessen (b.1978, Norway), living in Tromsø, Norway. Perception and representation as historical and technological constructs are recurring themes in her artistic practice.

Tuula Närhinen

Tuula Närhinen,

Tuula Närhinen


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist, researcher

Tuula Närhinen (b. 1967), Helsinki (FI) holds a Doctorate of Fine Arts (DFA) from the University of the Arts Helsinki. She is a graduate of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (MFA), and the Helsinki University of Technology (M. Sc. in Architecture).

Yoichi Kamimura

Yoichi Kamimura,

Yoichi Kamimura


[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Born in 1982 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Drawing chiefly upon his field recordings, Kamimura experiments with methods that draw upon sight, hearing, and other senses to perceive different scenes.