Glitch Studies Manifesto

Rosa Menkman | 03 February 2010, 11:56 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

glitch studies manifesto Live ft Goto80A glitch is an unintended break of (one of) the many flows within a technological system. It is a wonderful and frightening interruption that shifts a technology away from its ordinary form and discourse. For a moment I am shocked, lost, in awe, asking myself what this other utterance is, how was it created. Is it perhaps …a glitch? But…

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Professional networking sites and social-economic status comparison

Maarten Hoogvliet | 23 January 2010, 1:28 am | 8 comments

“Dan was apparent fifty plus, a little paunchy and stubbled. He had raccoon-mask bags under his eyes and he slumped listlessly. As I approached, I pinged his Whuffie and was startled to see that it had dropped to nearly zero. “Jesus,” I said, as I sat down next to him. “You look like hell, Dan.” […] Lil was waiting on the sofa, a…

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Future Reflections: An interview with Bruce Sterling

John Haltiwanger | 12 January 2010, 2:02 pm | 2 comments

Today I have the pleasure of presenting you with a short interview with Bruce Sterling. Bruce was kind enough to say “we’ll give it a shot” to an e-mail interview when I cornered him at the bar after the ‘You, Me, and Everyone We Know is a Curator’ symposium where he gave his recent speech. I’ve taken this opportunity to ask him a few questions about, among other things, commons-based peer production, the Internet of Things, the bifurcation of psyches across actual and virtual space, and the extent to which there is hope left for the Internet.

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Useful Materials to Consult When Critically Investigating the Concept of Smart House in Media and Cultural Studies

Liliana Bounegru | 06 January 2010, 2:54 pm

In doing research for my master thesis on smart houses as technologies of government ‘at a distance’ last year (which you can read here), I found it very difficult to find materials which treated this topic from a media and cultural studies perspective, as well as historically, which is what determined me to share this list with you. Most of…

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Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray

morgancurrie | 05 January 2010, 12:59 am | 4 comments

One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents – many of them highly treasured theoretical classics, others obscure anarchic tomes and legal texts – presented in a simple, sleek alphabetized index of .pdfs.

The idea from the beginning was…

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The elitist in Andrew Keen, the elitist in me

hania piotrowska | 04 January 2010, 5:19 am | 1 comment

Who doesn’t like to listen to Andrew Keen talk? Perhaps his most famous appearance was made on the Colbert Report, where he had an interesting exchange of opinions with Colbert about whether or not the Internet is worse than the Nazis. Keen is known for his “elitist” approach to the Internet and claims that the democratization of means of expression is…

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“I know culture, and You certainly don’t!”

ThomasFonville | 25 December 2009, 10:44 pm

Last Saturday,  19th of December,  the venue of Paradiso was dedicated to the symposium of  “Me you and everyone we know is a curator.” This symposium addresses questions about quality in an age of visual overload. With an impressive line up of speakers, this symposium set their aim high. In one day time the focus was upon the problematics of web…

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Call for Applications for UvA New Media Int’l MA 2010-2011

rotorelief | 23 December 2009, 11:20 am

The International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture (NMMA) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is accepting applications for 2010-2011 academic year. The NMMA is a one-year residence program undertaken in English at UvA in the heart of Amsterdam. Students become actively engaged in critical Internet culture, with an emphasis on new media theory and aesthetics, including theoretical materialist traditions and practical information visualization trends. Our permanent faculty are recognized experts in their fields, who are committed to their students. The program admits approximately forty students per year, classes are no larger than 20 and often smaller, and the faculty-to-student ratio is 1:8.

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Quality and Cultural Artifacts in the Digital Stream

morgancurrie | 23 December 2009, 12:06 am | 1 comment

You Me and Everyone We Know is a Curator was a one-day conference on December 19 about curatorial standards in the digital age. The clunky title, a nod to Miranda July’s similarly named feature film, gets to the core questions of the day: if bloggers are archivists, journalists are designers, and everyone’s a photographer – in short everyone’s already a curator…

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Andrew Keen – video snippets of the lecture he gave at the “me, you and everyone we know is a curator” conference

tjerk timan | 22 December 2009, 7:01 pm | 1 comment

Although video is crappy and not all was recorded, I managed to save some stuff of the lecture by Andrew Keen. Following his words, I should not be doing this, because archiving something digitally is not archiving something at all and due the fact that this is un-edited material, I am only adding to the cloud of crap online. Still,…

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Bruce Sterling: Gothic Chic in the Future Favela

morgancurrie | 21 December 2009, 11:38 pm | 11 comments

Bruce Sterling delivered the futurist goods at this weekend’s lean but excellent conference You Me and Everyone We Know is a Curator. Here’s a transcription of the entire delivery typed up as best I could, but it still doesn’t transmit Sterling’s oratorical flare. This seductive and prophetic keynote speech – refreshingly without powerpoint - set an urgent framework for the rest of…

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