Monthly Archives: December 2009

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

Thomas Fonville | 25 December 2009, 10:44 pm | tags: , , , , ,

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…


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

Edward Shanken | 23 December 2009, 11:20 am | 1 comment

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.


Quality and Cultural Artifacts in the Digital Stream

Morgan Currie | 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…


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 | tags: , , ,

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,…


Bruce Sterling: Gothic Chic in the Future Favela

Morgan Currie | 21 December 2009, 11:38 pm | 17 comments | tags:

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…


Rethinking Googlization

Harro Heijboer | 21 December 2009, 1:53 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

In current search engine research the importance of Google as object of study seems to be inevitable. Google seems to be indexing parts of the physical and digital world, which we first thought to be unsearchable. Googlization, the term that is used to describe this, points out how Google is at the core of this research. “It is…


Consumentenbond goes Twitter (and hopefully learns from it)

Sjoerd Tuinema | 13 December 2009, 1:47 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

The Dutch consumers union, the ‘Consumentenbond’, wants to reach new audiences. With their monthly magazine, readers can figure out which broom or coffee machine is the best buy, often leaving out impurities of production methods (well, not always). This time, noticed by a friend, they announced a debate to be held on Twitter. The topic would be

Augmented Reality: A new way of learning?

Denise Pires | 11 December 2009, 11:19 am | 12 comments | tags:

Augmented Reality (AR) is no longer science fiction. The usage of AR is rising in our society. What is AR aiming on? On the enrichment of physical spaces with computer generated images and the availability of location based content. AR can be a strong potential for traditional ways of learning. But what does AR do with the withdrawal of knowledge…


Nanna Verhoeff at Urban Screens: Mobile Digital Cartography from Representation to Performance of Space

Liliana Bounegru | 10 December 2009, 6:36 pm | tags: , , , ,

Nanna Verhoeff, associate professor in the department of Media and Culture studies at Utrecht University, had one of the very few yet very welcomed theoretical presentations at the Urban Screens conference which took place on the 4th of December this year in Amsterdam.


Martijn de Waal, Improving Cultural Public Space

Chris Castiglione | 10 December 2009, 1:17 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

What is Urban Culture? How do we shape and express our own identify in the city? How do we relate to others? At the Institute of Network Culture’s Urban Screens conference Martijn de Waal discussed these issues as well as how to improve cultural public spaces.