Biographies

Sissel Marie Tonn (DK) is an artist based in The Hague. In her practice she explores the complex ways humans perceive, act upon and are entangled with our environments. She is particularly fascinated by how our senses affect our ability to perceive change within an environment, affecting our capacity to act upon them. She documents and transfers certain lived experiences, where being in the midst of a changing ecology might expose the psychological, social and perceptual/sensory challenges we all face in a present of volatile environmental change. She makes wearable, sculptural or performative ‘props’, that challenge and question the body’s preconfigured modes of perception and attention, and invite audience to engage directly with them. These ‘props’ are meant to shed light on how our biology, as well as our cultural conditions – be it artifacts, forms of knowledge, and architecture - influence the ways in which we perceive and act upon our environments. She completed a master in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2015. In 2016 she was the recipient of the Theodora Niemeijer prize for emerging female artists and was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in 2017. Together with Jonathan Reus and Flora Reznik she runs the initiative Platform for Thought in Motion, which has until recently hosted the Reading Room series at Stroom Den Haag.

Andrej Radman (HR) has been teaching theory courses and design studios at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment since 2004. In 2008 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture and joined the Architecture Theory Chair. As a graduate of the Zagreb School of Architecture in Croatia, Radman received a Master’s Degree cum laude and a Doctoral Degree from Delft University of Technology. His current research focuses on New Materialism in general and Ecologies of Architecture in particular. Radman is a production editor and member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed architecture theory journal Footprint. He is also a licensed architect with a portfolio of built and competitionwinning projects. In 2002 Radman won the Croatian Association of Architects annual award for housing architecture in Croatia. His latest publication, coedited with Heidi Sohn, is Critical and Clinical Cartographies: Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

Bert Looper (NL) studied medieval history in Groningen and attended the Rijks Archiefschool in The Hague. Since 2007 he has been the director of Tresoar, Frisian historical and literary centre. He has published on archivists, city history, Hanze, twentieth-century design and Frisian history. In 2017 he published Here lies the sea (Hier ligt de zee): report of a lifelong search on the relationship between

language, landscape, art, memory and identity spread in twenty essays. Against the background of the tension in Europe between modern state contexts and regions with its own history, Bert Looper takes the reader along to an area that questions identity for centuries.

Theun Karelse (NL) studied fine-arts at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam before joining FoAM, a transdisciplinary laboratory at the interstices of art, science, nature and everyday life. His interests and experimental practice explores edges between art, environment, technology and archaeology. Lately he has been creating research programmes that consist of fieldwork and critical reflection. For this diverse teams are established to adress specific topics in specific locations by in-situ prototyping, experimentation and direct perception.

Masha Ru (RU) is a creative with a background in science. Masha’s projects combine scientific research with a personal approach and cultural practices. In 2011 Ru obtained a PhD in Mathematics and graduated with honors from Photo Academy Amsterdam. In 2013-2014 she participated in the art-in-residency programme at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam. In 2018 she was an artist fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW). Her artistic as well as scientific work has been exhibited, screened and published in various countries, including Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Suriname, Ukraine, UK and USA in such venues and events as African Artists’ Foundation in Lagos, Spanish Cultural Centre in Guatemala City, World Design Event in Eindhoven, ReadyTex Gallery in Paramaribo, 4th Jakarta ContemporaryCeramics Biennale in Jakarta, European Ceramic Workcentre in Oisterwijk, Sustainica in Dusseldorf,6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts in Moscow and Museo Maritimo in Bilbao.

Flora Reznik (AR) was born in Buenos Aires, where among other things she received a Diploma in Philosophy (Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2013) and cofounded the Contemporary Arts magazine CIA, directed by Roberto Jacoby. In Berlin, she started working professionally as a video artist. She is currently based in The Hague, Netherlands, where she received a degree at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art (2016). She is active as an artist and continues to develop her work through video, performance, installation and text, which she compliments with theoretical research. Until recently she coorganized The Reading Room, a series of events engaging artists with scholars in a mutual exchange of knowledge.