The Reading Room

The Reading Room is a series of reading groups revolving around short texts provided by invited guests – contemporary artists, cultural theorists, philosophers and researchers – who join us to provide insight, context and perspective on the topics at hand. The Reading Room is a joint cooperation between the artist-initiatives Platform for Thoughts in Motion and iii. It is curated by Sissel Marie Tonn, Jonathan Reus and Flora Reznik. It was hosted at GEMAK in 2015 and is hosted at Stroom Den Haag since 2016.

Editions:

Reading Room #1: On the Archaeology of Imaginary Media
Guest reader: Eric Kluitenberg
Gemak, March 30 2015

Reading Room #2: What Is the Measure of Nothingness?
Guest readers: Sher Doruff & Toni Pape
Gemak, April 20th 2015

Reading Room #3: Every Painter Recapitulates the History of Painting in His or Her Own Way
Guest reader Rick Dolphijn
Gemak, May 21st 2015

Reading Room #4: Feeling and Form
Guest reader: Iris van der Tuin
Gemak, December 3rd 2015

Reading Room #5: Natural-Born Cyborgs
Guest reader: Wybo Houkes
Gemak, November 18th 2015

Reading Room #6: Noise as Pure Potential
Guest readers: Jamie Allen & Will Schrimshaw
Stroom Den Haag, January 10th 2016

Reading Room #7: Subtraction and Differentiation
Guest readers: Jamie Allen & Will Schrimshaw
Stroom Den Haag, January 14th 2016

Reading Room #8 – We Have Decided Not To Die 
Guest readers Charlotte Farrell & Toni Pape
Stroom Den Haag, March 24th 2016

Reading Room #9 – We Have Decided Not To Die
Guest readers Charlotte Farrell & Toni Pape
Architecture walk Rotterdam, March 31st 2016

Reading Room #10-11 – Failure in Art – Cruel Optimism, Irony and Potentiality
Guest reader Thijs Witty
Stroom Den Haag, June 4th and August 4th 2016

Reading Room #12 – Tactical Media
Guest Reader:  Eric Kluitenberg
Stroom Den Haag, September 4th 2016

Reading Room #13 – Becoming Monstrous
Guest Readers:  Maciej Ozog & Marco Donnarumma
Stroom Den Haag, October 6th 2016

Reading Room #14 – Becoming Monstrous
Guest Readers:  Maciej Ozog & Marco Donnarumma
Stroom Den Haag, October 14th 2016

Reading Room #15 – Ecologies of Existence (part 1)
Guest Readers: Christoff Brunner & Yvonne Volkart
Stroom Den Haag, March 29th 2017

Reading Room #16 – Ecologies of Existence (part 2)
Guest Readers: Christoff Brunner & Julia Bee
Stroom Den Haag, April 29th 2017

Reading Room #17 – Anarchival Practices – Lived Histories of Dance, Cinema, and Social Practice (part 1)
Guest Readers: Alanna Thain, Christoph Brunner
Stroom Den Haag, June 2nd 2017

Reading Room #18 – Anarchival Practices – Lived Histories of Dance, Cinema, and Social Practice (part 2)
Guest Reader: Alanna Thain
Stroom Den Haag, June 16th 2017

Reading Room #19 – Technologies of Survival (part 1)
Guest Reader: Nishant Shah
Stroom Den Haag, September 3rd 2017

Reading Room #20 – Technologies of Survival (part 2)
Guest Reader: Nishant Shah
Stroom Den Haag, September 14th 2017

Reading Room #21 – In the Thick of Things – untangling the spatial processes of improvisation (part 1)
Guest Readers: Lila Athanasiadou, Marcel Cobussen, Andrej Radman
Stroom Den Haag, October 22nd 2017

Reading Room #22 – In the Thick of Things – untangling the spatial processes of improvisation (part 2)
Guest Readers: Lila Athanasiadou, Marcel Cobussen, Andrej Radman
Stroom Den Haag, November 12th 2017

Reading Room #23 – Time in the Age of Algorithms (part 1)
Guest Readers: Yvonne Förster, Jaime del Val
Stroom Den Haag, March 4th 2018

Reading Room #24 – Time in the Age of Algorithms (part 2)
Guest Readers: Yvonne Förster, Warrick Roseboom, Joel Ryan
Stroom Den Haag, May 22nd 2018

Reading Room #25 – Radiant Matter (part 1)
Guest Reader: Raviv Ganchrow
Stroom Den Haag, June 14th 2018

Reading Room #26 – Radiant Matter (part 2)
Guest Readers: Douglas Kahn & Raviv Ganchrow
Stroom Den Haag, June 21st 2018

Reading Room #27 – Post-digital Publishing (part 1)
Guest Readers: Florian Cramer, Rebekka Kiesewetter, Alessandro Ludovico
Stroom Den Haag, September 10th 2018

Reading Room #28 – Post-digital Publishing Workshop
Guests: Rebekka Kiesewetter and Joana Chicau
Stroom Den Haag, September 11th 2018

Reading Room #29 – The Edges of the Voice (part 1) 
Guest readers: Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Amelia Groom
Stroom Den Haag, December 8th 2018

Thinking With String Figures
iii workspace, November 17th 2019

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‘In the Reading Room I was able to discuss in person some topics I am very interested in but had no possibility to in my academic environment. It’s a real privilege to be able to talk with acclaimed authors in the field, to ask questions directly. The selection of guests has been great and the small group format allows for intimate discussions. Reading Room platform filled in a gap I felt studying at a music school, that is to be able to discuss contemporary cultural, philosophical theory. It has also served as a platform for building a social network in the city, discussions carried on outside the Reading Room itself.’

Donatas Tubutis
Sonology student, Royal Conservatoire The Hague