Welcome to my personal website.
I am very happy to announce that today, 1st of July 2021, I start a position as assistant professor (universitair docent) at the Faculty of Humanities of the Open University, the Netherlands. For more info on my teaching and research…
In September 2019, I will start as post-doctoral researcher within the project “Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory” (DEMA). The project is funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and is hosted by the Centre for Contemporary and…
Together with Susan Aasman I was interviewed about Home Movie Day and our research on the cultural and historical value of home movies and amateur film and video for the Dutch newspaper Trouw. The newspaper article (written in Dutch) is called…
Home Movie Day at Eye Filmmuseum is an international tribute to the amateur film. This year, Home Movie Day highlights the history of amateur film which spans more than 100 years: from film strips to selfies. How has the making and…
Home movie project members Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers and Joseph Wachelder have edited the book Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs, published by Bloomsbury Academics. About Materializing Memories “A multitude of devices and technological tools now exist to make, share, and store memories and…
Last week, I was interviewed by journalist Clemens Panagl for the Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten about the current ‘retor-trend’, in which Vinyl, cassette tapes, photo filter-apps with ‘nostalgic’ 1970s look have become increasingly popular. You can read the interview (in German) here: https://www.sn.at/kultur/allgemein/ein-trend-spult-die-zeit-zurueck-28301230
Project members Tim van der Heijden and Tom Slootweg recently published a blog post on the EUscreen blog. In the post, they explore how their recently finished dissertations provide a complementary perspective on studying and historicizing home movies as family memory…
Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies, 1895–2005 Date: Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00h Venue: Aula of Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, Maastricht Promoters: Prof.dr. Maaike Meijer, Prof.dr. Andreas Fickers, Dr. Jo Wachelder On Thursday 18…
Today, 31 July 2017, I have officially submitted my PhD dissertation! My dissertation is entitled Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies, 1895-2005. It is one of the outcomes of the NWO-funded research project “Changing Platforms of…
