Juliette Huygen is a thinker-maker with an interest in materiality and making/cræft, (popular) visual and material culture, rituals, the non-binary, and the agency of objects.
Juliette has a BA in Product Design from the ArtEZ art academy in Arnhem and continued their studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a (pre)master Comparative Arts and Media Studies and a research master Critical Studies in Art and Culture. During their studies they developed an interest in the agency of objects and the alternative narratives they can convey, focusing on the medium of film in particular. Juliette’s research congregates around the transdiciplinary connections between making, design, material culture, narratology, anthropology, philosophy, material religion and media studies.
Juliette joined the Datamanagement department in 2023 and will be working on project processes, creating overview, internal communication and the Werk aan Uitvoering project. They previously worked as a freelancer for the KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival, Droog Design and Metropolis M Magazine amongst others. Between 2018 – 2023 they worked at the Research Center for Material Culture of the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen. Juliette was the research assistant of Prof. dr. Wayne Modest, they managed the RCMC communications and worked on the production of events and publications.
Publications
Modest, Wayne, Robin Lelijveld, Juliette Huygen, Getuige in Steen, Witness in Stone, Het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, een gebouw als koloniale erfenis, (KIT Royal Tropical Institute) 2021.
Huygen, Juliette, “Voorbij Verfraaiing – Het Sieraad als Pamflet.” Metropolis M, dec 2020.
Huygen, Juliette, “The Machinic Seer. Cinematic Focalization Beyond the Meat-Eye” in: Kunstlicht 40 (4) 2020.
Huygen, Juliette, “On Shine, Shine on, the affect and agency of the reflective surface” at: The Relevance of Crafts. Symposium on the Occasion of the Françoise van den Bosch Award, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 10 Nov 2019.
Huygen, Juliette, “Objects remediating Film. On the Spatialised Narratives and Object Agency in the Work of Noam Toran” at: Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital Times Network for European Cinema Studies, 15 Jun 2019.
Betsky, Aaron, Juliette Huygen, Renny Ramakers, Rethinking Design, Curator of Change, (Lars Müller Publishers) 2019.
Huygen, Juliette, “Spheres of Perception : On Machine Vision and Object Agency.” Network for European Cinema Studies. 29 Jun 2018.
