Author: Katrien Jacobs

  I presented “Algorithmic Bellyfat and How to Get Rid of It” for a conference at University of Ghent organised by ECREA Gender & Communication: Abstract: This presentation discusses social media algorithms and imagery for ageing women’s sexuality and hormonal or bodily changes during menopause. It examines a collection of archived visuals and animated ads… Continue reading Algorithmic Bellyfat and How to Get Rid of it?

This course studies contemporary art systems and institutions as cultural forms within the broader ‘cultural ecology’ of modern cities. It considers the development of post-formalist art forms and time-based media such as installation art, digital media art, video art and performance art and how these art forms are employed within traditional art spaces, public spaces,… Continue reading Contemporary Arts and Cultural Interactivity

From 2011 tot 2021 I was director of the MA in Visual Culture Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong. It was a unique theory/practice curriculum around analytical knowledge and audio-visual media production and offered courses in Contemporary Art, Photography, Digital Media, Immersive Media and Film/Documentary Media.  Some student videos produced within the different courses… Continue reading Visual Culture Studies

After visiting the revamped Africa museum in Tervuren, Brussels, which commemorates our colonial heritage in a supposedly introspective and decolonizing fashion, I was asked by one of the “friendly museum guides” on the scenic ride of tram 44 what I really thought about it, I told him that I did not like it all. He… Continue reading The Non-Sorrow of the Belgians: Africa Museum, Tervuren

I exit my apartment in Aalmoezenierstraat, Sint-Andries, Antwerp, and cross the road to the Salvation Army, where I buy myself a used red duffelcoat for 7,50 euro. It is a nostalgic choice as I have already owned and discarded many a red coat. My mother Annette Van Dijck gave me hers on one of my… Continue reading Salvation, Antwerpen. December 2019.

Louise Bak of the radio program Sex City (Toronto) has been one of the most attentive readers of my books. Here is a long interview with musical interludes about The Afterglow of women’s Pornography in Post-Digital China

I launched my new book The Afterglow of Women’s Pornography in Post-Digital China in the ACO book store in Hong Kong. It was a cathartic kind of event, as the launch can be for the author who finally exits a space of desolation and mental exhaustion while trying to communicate with the outer world. Egret Chow… Continue reading Slightly Bent