Monthly Archives: November 2009

Food Blogs as a Surrogate for Action

Allison Guy | 03 November 2009, 11:04 am | 2 comments

Well-known champion of sustainable food and a commonsense approach to eating Michael Pollan recently ran a piece in the New York Times called Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch.  In this article, he argues that cooking shows, with a particular eye those aired on the Food Network, have…


Kick off: True Underground Project!

Ramses Petronia | 02 November 2009, 7:00 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

TRUE UNDERGROUND PROJECT

In True Underground we (filmmakers Ram and Kencho) travel from city to city in Europe, to give bands a music video. Bunny manages the website and social network communication with the bands and viewers from home…


(Accelerated) World at Work

Jan Bajec | 02 November 2009, 3:12 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

The Accelerated Living was a theme of the 20th edition of the Impakt Festival (Utrecht 2009) that was focused on changing notions of time. It explored the ways in which we experience time and speed, and the ways in which this experience is affected by social and technological developments.

Paul Virilio says that the speed at which something…


Locative media: mapping movement trough the city

Radmila Radojevic | 02 November 2009, 1:31 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Locative media genre can evoke uneasy feelings due to its military origin and ties to corporate power trough funding. There is a significant difference between subversive appropriation of the locative media tools such as in art practices and their military or corporate applications of control and management.

This ‘uneasiness’ was strongly felt around CITYWARE – a platform developed for…


Digital Preservation and Online Journals

Gwen Keupe | 02 November 2009, 12:51 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

Paper documents can be neglected for long periods of time, digital documents on the other hand, cannot. Digital documents have to be transferred to new storage media or software environments in order to keep the document accessible. Storage media and software expire rapidly. This problem is called digital preservation and revolves around the question; how can we keep…


BEACON and the use of datasets in media art

Sjoerd Tuinema | 01 November 2009, 11:50 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

When I attended at the ‘Accelerated Living’ conference as a part of the Impakt Festival (Utrecht), it once more appeared there’s plenty of academic prospect on the subjects of time and space. As the works often build on theory coming from (or at least involve) Paul Virilio or Manuel Castells, it showed that many new routes…


Medium specificity: the difference between analogue literature and electronic literature

Suzanne Schram | 01 November 2009, 11:12 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , ,

Medium specificity is a principle in aesthetics and art criticism. Clement Greenberg believed that “the unique and proper area of competence” for a form of art corresponds with the ability of an artist to manipulate those features that are “unique to the nature” of a particular medium. So according to him the artist should use techniques which manipulate materials to…


“iWATCH my neighbor, because iTHINK he is up to no good.”

Thomas Fonville | 01 November 2009, 10:55 pm

Last week I came across an internet posting about the new commercial for a new campaign by the Los Angeles Police Department. This commercial shows different kinds of American people all promising to do their best in order to keep America safe. In order to reach such a kind of safety, these Americans all promise to…


Ask The Readers: Hey YOU. Let’s talk!

Joery Bruijntjes | 01 November 2009, 8:27 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,
Arguably the title of this post is a bit direct, but I thought it was a sure way to get your attention. And if you’re reading this, it means I’m right. The thing is this; there’s a lot of information about us (Master of Media students or alumni) on this blog. But we know so little about you!

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Weerwoord.nl as a Digital Public Sphere

Gwen Keupe | 01 November 2009, 7:03 pm

Weerwoord.nl is a Dutch website that functions as a political en social forum where people can deliberate. The subjects that people deliberate on are various and their viewpoints are often contradictory, making Weerwoord.nl a divers and interesting website to visit.

Critical discourse surrounding the Internet as a place for political debate is two folded. On the one hand people see…