Monthly Archives: March 2009

How to Pave a Digital Silk Road

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 31 March 2009, 10:17 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

If somebody would have told me 1 year ago that as a result of my New Media Master’s thesis research on the Internet industry in China I would be moving to Beijing, I would have reacted: ‘Right, and I am the father of Steve Jobs!’ Now, as I am writing this I have been…


Join Hap-poken-ing020!

Bas Bisseling | 29 March 2009, 12:58 pm | 5 comments

Subscribe and join this Happening

This year, for the first time, the Digital Hippies will initiate a Happening. What is the plan? ‘Hap-poken-ing020′ is set to be a spectacular and spontaneous event that will harmlessly disturb the public domain of Amsterdam’s Dam square. It’s interesting to (1) mobilize people, to (2) bring New Media to the attention and to (3) connect to interesting…


iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, still room for innovation though…

Bas Bisseling | 17 March 2009, 10:54 pm

After the introduction of the iPhone, Apple’s main focus is pointed towards its software. But, their is still room for innovation on its hardware. The virtual keyboard as a concept is really innovative and intuitive, but tapping my fingers on a hard surface isn’t, it’s a brutal business. My fingertips are already forming some hard skin, which in some time…


Compress Process

Rosa Menkman | 12 March 2009, 4:22 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

The whole video is created with one and the same skype video recording; its basically a selfportrait of me jumping around.

Creating this video made me think about a couple of things. First of all, the research I am doing is not about destroying the pixel. If we subscribe to wikipedia and agree that the pixel (or…


New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog

Stephan Barmentloo | 11 March 2009, 2:59 am

Rachel O’Reilly explores concepts of virtuality and (post-) modern machinic perception that emerge in Lauren Berlant’s article, ‘The Intuitionists’: History and the Affective Event.’ Vi Nguyen investigates the meaning of the Baroque by analyzing Gilles Deleuze’s ‘The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque.’ Stephan Barmentloo examines aspects of visuality pertaining to the video game camera.


Call for Applications Fall ‘09 Admissions UvA New Media MA

Edward Shanken | 10 March 2009, 1:58 pm | 1 comment

The New Media International MA program at UvA has issued a call for applications for students who would like to begin study in Fall 2009.  We already have an impressive pool of applicants and encourage additional applications in order to recruit the best incoming class.  Please feel free to share with colleagues and friends who may be interested and…


Institute of Network Cultures’ Winter Camp

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 08 March 2009, 12:06 pm

This week was Winter Camp week, an event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (INC). The event brought together different networks that had been around for at least two years, to see what happens at this stage of settling down, when they are no longer fresh and new. Often the activity

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lost faces

Rosa Menkman | 06 March 2009, 11:45 pm | tags:

just a simple translation of a flyer that I found at the Network Cultures Winter Camp conference.
On the 28th of February 25 people went on hunger strike, because they have no other way to oppose the regime of detention while their only ‘crime’ is not having the right documents.
In 2005, 11 people got killed in a…


The Merger of Existence

Inge Ploum | 06 March 2009, 8:36 pm | tags: , , ,

Many challenges of new media theory are of such broad relevance to human concerns, and are so complex in their placement, that they have an enduring presence. Though new media studies has a relatively short history as a science, it addresses fundamental philosophical issues on how to approach and understand new media’s impact on every day life. Critical new media studies is not only concerned with the hows of mediated life, but also with the whys.


IWAGU

Bas Bisseling | 06 March 2009, 5:48 pm

IWAGU is pronounced as: ‘I Wag You’ and stands for Identification by Webcam And Gesture Utilization. Not to be confused with ‘I kill you’. Lawrence Lessig mentions in his ‘Code V2′ the ‘architectures of identification’. He (Lessig 2006 p.42) states that we constantly are negotiating processes of authentication in real life, and in this process, better technologies and better credentials…