Stijn Bannier

Stijn
  • Researcher
  • T: +32 2 629 16 36
  • M: +32 476 070 355
  • E: stijn.bannier@vub.ac.be



Stijn Bannier graduated in 2005 as Bachelor for the courses Dutch, History and ICT/ Informatics at the teacher's department of the Leuven University College (BE). Subsequently he graduated cum laude as Master of Arts in New Media and Digital Culture at Utrecht University (NL). During his studies, Stijn Bannier did an internship at Veronica Medialab, where research was carried out into the music industry combined with Web 2.0 and 3.0 concepts.

In his Master’s thesis he wrote a theoretical and philosophical reflection on transcendental musical experiences in a digital context. With this thesis "The gamer as a hybrid performer”, Stijn won the Dutch Music Thesis Prize 2008. The same year, Stijn joined IBBT-SMIT, VUB as a researcher. Currently, Stijn is working on several e-culture research projects, varying from digital libraries and music video games to cultural profiling and multi-touch interfaces. His main research interest is digital music culture, video games, virtual worlds and hybrid spaces of new media.