Researching across intersections of visual language and digital media environments with a specific interest in critical narratives and alternative learnings on today's means of communication, information, and distribution.
Continuously learning – currently becoming a doctress as a PhD student at the London School of Film, Media and Design, UWL (UK). Creatively co-directing fanfare – artistic research collective for broken channels of interlinked communications (NL). Passionately teaching – currently as a lector in Visual Design and Interaction at the Royal Danish Academy (DK). Actively contributing to stanza – project space & studio for critical publishing (DK).
- Video presentation: The Platform Imagination: Encountering InfrastructuresDASTS, The Techno-Anthropology Lab, Aalborg University (DK)Video presentation for DASTS 2026 Conference: Encountering Infrastructures
- Anecdotes of platform imagination #1Binational Artistic PhD Program at the University of the Arts Bremen, Presented at Bremen University(DE)Lecture Performance as part of Ways of Practicing: Imaginaries
- Demystifying tech imaginariesSofter Digital Futures: Conference 2026, Rødvig (DK)Workshop and lecture
- Sister display System (姐妹系统)fanfare, abC team, Open M Art Fair in Chengdu (CN)Display system and publication manual for the Open M Artfair
- Misplaced, disrupted, dysfunctionaltransmediale (DE), Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University (DK), Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University (UK)Research presentation and writing contribution
- Unlearn, Display, ConnectTokyo Art Bookfair (JP)Curatiorial concept and artistic direction for country section
- Glitchy, Caring, TacticalA Relational Study Between Artistic Tactics and Minor TechPaper for APRJA
- Between Dog & WolfAmsterdam (NL), Copenhagen (DK), Milano (IT)Film and research of online conspirational climate imaginaries
- Making it workfanfare (NL)Conversation series on drives and struggles across creative collective practices
- Broken ChannelsAnnual research festival (2023–2025) on dependence of efficient navigation and communication technologiesfanfare (NL)
- Overgaden identityOvergaden (DK)Visual identity and concept for contemporary art institution
- Wat nu, Koetsier?Museum of Communication (NL)Curatorial concept, creative direction and research of misused advertisement spaces
- Landscape with Bearde Appel Amsterdam (NL)Creative direction and visual identity for group exhibition
- Playground of the In-BetweenGraphic Days (IT)Concept, creative direction and visual identity for exhibition audioguide
- Parasite Dinerfanfare, When Site Lost the Plot (NL)Curatorial concept and artistic direction for dine-in duo shows
- fanfare inc. TransportationGraphic Design Biennial (FR)Research series on creative working conditions
- fanfare inc. ToolsManifesta 12 (IT), Its a Book (DE), Libros Mutantes (ES) , fanfare (NL)Research series on creative working conditions
- awɪ sɔː ðə saʊndGerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)Workshop on relations between space, sound, and design
- GlossyKrabbesholm (DK)Workshop on collective typography
- Designing DetourEindhoven Design Academy (NL)Workshop on mapping and neighbourhood encounters
- Nomadic B(oo)ksIED (ES)Workshop on space, books, and displays
- The Live ArchiveALT_CPH (DK)Sound experiement for instant archiving at art fair
- Art of Documenting Artfanfare (NL)Art direction and curation for research series on documentation
- From Elite to the StreetVan Gogh Museum (NL)Concept, curation, creative direction for exhibition intervention
- fanfare displayTallinn (EE), Chaumont (FR), Leipzig (DE), Amsterdam (NL)Concept and construction of modular display system
- Flag dialogueCouncil of the European Union , Amsterdam (NL)Creative direction and writing for conversational flags
- Lunch BytesAmsterdam (NL), Zürich (CH), Washington, D. C. (US)Creative direction and visual identity
- Display(ing)Text contribution to First, Then… Repeat. by Hackers & Designers, led by Anja Grootenfanfare, Hackers & Designers, Anja Grooten
Broken Channelswas a public research programme running from 2023 to 2025, initiated, curated, and designed by fanfare. Bridging communication design with artistic research, media studies, and infrastructural research, it engaged critically with how large-scale automated infrastructures have come to direct everyday life, most prominently through the Big Tech services that detect and direct our ways of communicating, gaining knowledge, and navigating.
Unlike what the name might suggest, broken channels are not examples of broken, glitchy, or malfunctioning systems. Rather, broken channels are thought of as the exact opposite – they are the efficient, shiny, “free,” accessible, and smooth reality that most of us live with and through. They are the opaque infrastructures thought up by the tech elite and constructed by thousands of engineers so that you and I and everyone we know forget they exist. They are the smoothly accessible knowledge and entertainment resources, always available and continuously maintained by a growing invisible workforce. They are a power that indexes our lives – from cities and traffic to crops and windmills, across oceans and mountains, to nearly every single human household in the world. In the well-maintained system of broken channels, everything happens for a reason, a reason driven by capitalist and neoliberal values. Broken channels are outside our windows, on our tablets, and inside our dreams.
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Curation, design and concept by the fanfare team:
Freja Kir, Agustina Woodgate, Andrea González, César Rogers, Charlie Clemoes
Website programmed and designed by: Bram van den Berg
Documentation by Guus Kaandorp
Broken Channels 1 contributions: Andoni Zamora, Anna Celda, Ben Cerveny, Chiara di Leone, Gemma Luz Bosch, Jack Bardwell, Jasna Veličković, Jürg Lehni, Kian van der Enden, Le Bateau, Lukas Engelhardt, Mariagrazia Iuliano, Raphäel Bastide, Shannon Mattern, Wouter Stroet
fanfare is a platform and design studio for cross-disciplinary collaboration and visual communication. Through an active programme, fanfare generates, explores, and curates environments for visual interactions.
Broken Channels was made possible by the kind support of Amsterdam Fonds Voor De Kunst.