Transmission Lexicon

5 Octo­ber 2017
Rafael Roozen­daal: The Inter­net as a Canvas

12 Octo­ber 2017
Tijs Gold­schmidt: Com­mu­ni­ca­tion with Peo­ple and oth­er Animals

26 Octo­ber 2017
Maria Bar­nas: The plan­et O

2 Novem­ber 2017
Joachim Naudts: Mul­ti ‑Pho­tog­ra­phy and oth­er world­ly matters

9 Novem­ber 2017
Cyril van Sterken­burg: Whats in a name

16 Novem­ber 2017
David Ben­newith: If-You-Really-Love-Me-You-ll-Choose-a-Better-Font-To-Get-Me-Back

23 Novem­ber 2017
Hans Hoeken: Tall tales

30 Novem­ber 2017
Bep­pie van de Bogaerde: Bimodal Bilingualism

7 Decem­ber 2017
Izabel­la Finch: The Pussy Tutorials

8 Feb­ru­ary 2018
Hans Aars­man: Zoom­ing in Zoom­ing out

9 Feb­ru­ary 2018
Marisya Lewandows­ka: Dis­tri­b­u­tion of Ethics: Archive as Lexicon

15 Feb­ru­ary 2018
Wilco Tuine­brei­jer: Beau­ti­ful Distress

22 Feb­ru­ary 2018
Mar­cel Feil: Alter­na­tive Facts

15 March 2018
Paulien Oltheten: Synopsis

22 march 2018
Lau­rens ten Kate: Impos­si­ble Truth

29 March 2018
Leen­dert van der Valk: Voodoo Music
Ella John Spe­cial Act

5 April 2018
Grace Schwindt: The­atre and sculpture

12 April 2018
Yvonne Droge Wen­del: Rela­tion­al things

19 April 2018 J
Jan­neke Stege­man: The Bible as a Book of Con­flict. How to Learn to Fight Gracefully.

17 May 2018
Rico Sneller: Talk­ing Gib­ber­ish? Socrates’ Daimonion

24 May 2018
Kata­ri­na Zdje­lar: Chore­og­ra­phy of Language

31 May 2018
Bas kosters: My life in Fashion

Intro­duc­tion:

​“A com­mon say­ing goes that in times of war the truth is the first casu­al­ty” opens Mar­cel Feil’s arti­cle in Foam Mag­a­zine #47 on Alter­na­tive Facts. Feil goes on to turn this state­ment around and won­ders whether sac­ri­fic­ing the truth puts us into a state of war (yes, pos­si­bly a media war).
What is the truth, actu­al­ly? Accord­ing to Van Dale it is the real, the faith­ful, the agree­ment with an over­ar­ch­ing notion, a sto­ry or a mes­sage and the case in as it is. But how do we know that the case in point real­ly is as it is?

In 2016 ​‘post truth’ was named word of the year and entered into the Oxford Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary, as being relat­ing to cir­cum­stances in which objec­tive facts are less influ­en­tial than appeals to emo­tion and per­son­al beliefs.

This Studi­um Gen­erale inves­ti­gates how we com­mu­ni­cate with one anoth­er, of which the con­cept of ​‘truth’ is an unavoid­able part. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion is an activ­i­ty through which we exchange mean­ing by respond­ing to each other’s sig­nals. The Latin word ​‘com­mu­ni­care’ refers to mak­ing some­thing shared. Still, this does not always lead to mutu­al under­stand­ing. How do we com­mu­ni­cate with each oth­er? With words but also with ges­tures, with our faces and with hid­den sig­nals. How is it that such wild­ly dif­fer­ing inter­pre­ta­tions of a shared expe­ri­ence can some­times come to exist? 

Or need we con­sult Fou­cault, who says: you must speak the truth and choose the sto­ries of truth that the sub­ject can speak of itself, sole­ly our own sub­jec­tive truth. Typ­i­cal forms of this include the con­fes­sion, the admis­sion, soulsearch­ing and diaries.

We inves­ti­gate oth­er forms of com­mu­ni­ca­tion:

How does sign lan­guage work and how then exact­ly can you express your­self?
Pro­pa­gan­da, what is it and how does it work? Per­son­al con­vic­tions, not objec­tive facts, are in the dri­ving seat.
What is fram­ing exact­ly and how can you pre­vent your­self from becom­ing a vic­tim? Gos­sip. How do ani­mals com­mu­ni­cate with one anoth­er and what can we learn from this?
Hans Aars­man explains that if you zoom out and look at a sit­u­a­tion from a dis­tance, then there is much more space for inter­pre­ta­tion. Because that is ulti­mate­ly the goal — to make the world big­ger, to offer our lives as much space as possible. 

This Studi­um Gen­erale will inves­ti­gate the broad ter­rain of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, not only in how we con­vey some­thing but also in the ​‘what’, with all of its mis­un­der­stand­ings and limitations. 

Sign lan­guage, how, alter­na­tive facts, pro­pa­gan­da, fram­ing, sto­ry telling, argu­ments, can words be trust­ed, inter­pre­ta­tion, ver­bal/non-ver­bal com­mu­ni­ca­tion, lan­guage sys­tems, rules of lan­guage, who can speak the unspeak­able, cod­ing and decod­ing lan­guage, non-human lan­guages, meth­ods of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, voice, body lan­guage, media train­ing, advertising.

Cura­tor: Hanne Hage­naars
Coor­di­na­tor: Jean­nette Slüt­ter
Posters: Day­na Casey