How to Pave a Digital Silk Road
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...
Join Hap-poken-ing020!
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...
iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, still room for innovation though…
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...
Compress Process
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...
New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog
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...
Call for Applications Fall ’09 Admissions UvA New Media MA
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...
Institute of Network Cultures’ Winter Camp
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,...
lost faces
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...
The Merger of Existence
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,...
IWAGU
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)...
New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog
Andrea Fiore discusses mutual relationships and reciprocal interplays between space, time and money in virtual worlds. Saskia Korsten addresses melancholy and folding in Baroque and Postmodern art. Inge Ploum explores a dynamic concept of embodiment joining Mark Hansen’s understanding of...