dr. M.I.D. (Miriam) van Rijsingen
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Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Kunstgeschiedenis
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Herengracht
286
1016 BX Amsterdam
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M.I.D.vanRijsingen@uva.nl
T: 0205253045
T: 0205253050
Background and fields of interest
Miriam van Rijsingen studied Art History, Philosophy and Film and Theater Studies at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, and graduated with a thesis on Eva Hesse and French Philosophy in 1984. She was appointed at the University of Amsterdam in 1985 as a specialist in Feminist Art History in the inter-department for Feminist Studies in the Humanities (untill 1992) as well as the Department of Art History. She received her PhD in 1999 with her dissertation Melancholische spiegels - Voorstellingen van gebrek en verlangen, vrouwelijkheid en kunstenaarschap in het werk van Anselm Feuerbach. Since then she developed several specialities, notabaly in the field of Contemporary Art and Art&Science.
Miriam is a specialist in Feminist Art History, Historiography and Art Theory, Art&Science, Representation(al) Theory, Spectatorship and Phenomenology, Representation of the Body, Contemporary Artistic Strategies and New Media.
Faculty functions
- Chairperson of the BA Exam Committee of the Department of Art History (since 2005).
- Delegate for the Art History Department of the Graduate School Exam Committee.
Boards and memberships
- Member of the Institute for Culture and History (ICG)
- Co-director of The Arts & Genomics Center (TA&GC) (since 2004)
- Boardmember Genootschap voor Esthetica (2002-2005)
- Advisory Board Niet Normaal/Difference on Display Foundation (2008-2010)
NWO Research Program
Miriam van Rijsingen was co-applicant and co-coordinator of the NWO research program New Representattional Spaces: Investigations into the interactions between and intersections of arts and genomics. The program ran from 2004 untill 2009 and consisted of two PhD projects, one senior project and a dissiminaton project which developed into The Arts & Genomics Center. It was a joint program of the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University.
As the senior researcher she developed the synthesizing project Signification and Experiment in Art and Genomics (now reworked into Art and Bioscience). Currently the results of this research are reworked into a book with the working title: What is the Matter in ArtScience?
For further info see website TAGC, pdf of the program and the tabs Publications as well as Lectures and Conferences
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2012
- M. van Rijsingen (2012). Data/Chair: médiation du corps comme matière et information. In E. Daubner & L. Poissant (Eds.), Bioart: transformations du vivant (Collection Esthétique) (pp. 333-346). Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec.
2009
- M. van Rijsingen (2009). Prolific encounters: towards a philosophy of mutability. In P. Sedlak (Ed.), Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences: conference proceedings. Praha: CIANT.[go to publisher's site]
- S. Blume, M. Bleeker, I. Gevers, A. M'charek & M. van Rijsingen (2009). Niet normaal: Diversiteit in Kunst, Wetenschap en Samenleving. Londong: NAI Publishers.
- S. Blume, M. Bleeker, I. Gevers, A. M'charek & M. van Rijsingen (2009). Difference on Display: Diversity in Art, Science and Society. London: NAI Publishers.
2009
- M. van Rijsingen (2009). Framing interiority: portraits in the age of genomics. In R. van de Vall & R. Zwijnenberg (Eds.), The body within: art, medicine and visualization (Brill's studies in intellectual history, 176) (pp. 187-205). Leiden [etc.]: Brill.
2011
- M. van Rijsingen (2011). Vitaliteit en recalcitrantie: over diepte en gewaarwording. In M. Gnyp & M. Schavemaker (Eds.), Étant donné: Frank Reijnders en zijn meesterzetten: een liber amicorum (pp. 37-46). Amsterdam: G&S.
2008
- M.I.D. van Rijsingen (2008). Seize the Space! The surveillance Camera Players. Simulacrum, 16 (3/4), 44-48.
2007
- M.I.D. van Rijsingen (2007). Science and art. Simulacrum, 15 (3/4), 3-7.
2013
- M.I.D. van Rijsingen (2013). Co-evolutie en partnerschap. Engelse editie: Co-evolution and partnership. In I. Gevers (Ed.), Ja Natuurlijk. Hoe kunst de wereld redt (pp. 215-226). Rotterdam: NAi010.
2009
- M.I.D. van Rijsingen (2009). Amzee Perera. In I. Gevers, M. Bleeker, S. Blume, A. M'Charek, M. van Rijsingen & J. Schoonheim (Eds.), Niet normaal: diversiteit in kunst, wetenschap & samenleving (pp. 61). Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers.
- M.I.D. van Rijsingen (2009). Ines Doujak. In I. Gevers, M. Bleeker, S. Blume, A. M'Charek, M. van Rijsingen & J. Schoonheim (Eds.), Niet normaal: diversiteit in kunst, wetenschap & samenleving (pp. 185). Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers.
- M.I.D. van Rijsingen (2009). Adam Brandejs. In I. Gevers, M. Bleeker, S. Blume, A. M'Charek, M. van Rijsingen & J. Schoonheim (Eds.), Niet normaal: diversiteit in kunst, wetenschap & samenleving (pp. 167). Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers.
- M.I.D. van Rijsingen (2009). Critical Art Ensemble. In I. Gevers, M. Bleeker, S. Blume, A. M'Charek, M. van Rijsingen & J. Schoonheim (Eds.), Niet normaal: diversiteit in kunst, wetenschap & samenleving (pp. 357). Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers.
- M.I.D. van Rijsingen (2009). Adam Zaretsky. In I. Gevers, M. Bleeker, S. Blume, A. M'Charek, M. van Rijsingen & J. Schoonheim (Eds.), Niet normaal: diversiteit in kunst, wetenschap & samenleving (pp. 223). Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers.
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