Dr. Imar de Vries

Faculty Council Member 
Muntstraat 2-2a
Muntstraat 2-2A
Kamer 1.06
3512 EV Utrecht

Dr. Imar de Vries

Assistant Professor
Media and Performance Studies
Faculty Council Member
Faculty Council
+31 30 253 9601
i.o.devries@uu.nl

After a brief yet insightful foray into Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University in 1993, Imar de Vries decided to switch to Theatre-, Film- and Television Studies in 1997.

He specialised in New Media and Digital Culture, successfully completing his graduation thesis on the communicative affordances of virtual 3D worlds and mobile telephony in 2002. He obtained his PhD in 2008 with a media-archaeological study into communicative desires, which has since been published as Tantalisingly Close at Amsterdam University Press.

Imar is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at the University of Utrecht, where he studies historical and contemporary innovation discourses of wireless technologies, digital media, and virtual and augmented reality. He chairs the staff echelon of the Humanities Faculty Board, is a fellow of media lab SETUP, and sits on the supervisory board of media lab Impakt.


Tantalisingly Close: An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media