Creative Technology

HKU's Creative Technology programme explores new technologies and their applications in arts education.

Creative Technology

Technology helps to innovate art. Technological developments create new possibilities for creating and experiencing art. Take virtual reality, for example, or motion capture, robots and 3D printers. These developments are going incredibly fast. HKU wants to lead the way and quickly apply all this new technology in its art education.

Our Creative Technology programme enables us to do so, by conducting research, giving advice and sharing knowledge. We do this together with the schools, locations workshops and IT services. In this way, we can ensure that HKU remains leading in terms of modern facilities, workshops and know-how.

Take a look at our state-of-the-art workshops!

Our core tasks

The Creative Technology Programme studies technological developments, sketches possibilities and shares knowledge and experience about technology in relation to the arts and general creativity. In this way, we stimulate multidisciplinary work formations and show how technology can make the arts better and more beautiful.
Well-equipped workshops, studios and rooms are very important to HKU’s education and research. We offer advice to workshop assistants and managers on the purchase of material and technical equipment.
Creative Technology Programme brings employees of HKU together, fostering cooperation and learning from each other about how to use and maintain new and existing technology and equipment. We ensure that knowledge is shared within the organisation and that we use new technology sustainably.

Highlighted

Workshop assistant Manon took the training course Didactics for Creative Technology.

Interview'Our students are going to have a huge head start'Manon Egging

Projects and explorations

Below you see some projects and learning tracks by Creative Technology.

Didactics for Creative Technology

What we organise

We organise interesting events throughout the year. Be there!

NewsEnhanced research and education through HKU’s newly announced professorship10 Oct 2023

You can follow your research via multiple online platforms.

Crea Tech-Mailing
Read all about ones, zeros and art in the biweekly mailing from Creative Technology. Please note that the mailing is in Dutch.

Blog
In this blog, staff share results, findings, tips, experiments and other interesting information.

Instagram
On Instagram, we share what our experiments, work sessions and labs look like and what's going on behind the scenes.

GitHub
Via GitHub, the centre provides open-source software to staff and students.

Who we are

Our team members

The following team members are working at Creatieve Technologie, ofr are affiliated via of the schools of HKU aan:

Marinka Copier (Programme manager)
Martijn van Gessel
Mikal van Leeuwen
Arnaud Loonstra
Shirley Niemans
Anneke Nieuwdorp
Job van Nuenen
Aaron Oostdijk
Maarten Overdijk
Machiel Veltkamp

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