Monthly Archives: November 2010

Twitter brings New Media student on stage with Imogen Heap

Janice Wong | 25 November 2010, 12:42 am | 7 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Imogen Heap & Janice Wong (cello)Thanks to Twitter, I (Janice Wong – cellist and New Media student at the UvA) was given a great opportunity to perform on stage at Melkweg, Amsterdam last night with my idol: UK Grammy award winner Imogen Heap.


Funware _playing with software art

Rosa Menkman | 23 November 2010, 6:16 pm

November 12, 2010 until January 16, 2011 | Conference on saturday november 27

On saturday november 27 MU and Baltan Laboratories in collaboration with STRP Festival organise a Funware conference. Provocative views on humor, software, playing and art will be given by amongst others Olga Goriunova (RUS/UK), Wendy Chun (US), Matthew Fuller (UK) and

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Iranian Censorship of Women’s Online Magazines

Natalie Dixon | 15 November 2010, 7:37 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Although media censorship in Iran is a widely publicized fact, this research report seeks to establish a clearer picture of which women’s online consumer lifestyle titles Iranian web users are currently forbidden to view. This report was conducted using the University of Amsterdam Media Studies Department’s tool called Censorship Explorer. This tool allows users to input URLs and test them against known proxy servers around the world. For this research all available Iranian proxy servers listed in this tool were used although the number varied over the three days of testing in November 2010. The list of nineteen women’s consumer magazine URLs was compiled using Google.com as well as lists from international publishing houses and the researcher’s existing knowledge of the consumer lifestyle magazine market.


Michael Edson on the Smithsonian Commons

Emina Sendijarevic | 15 November 2010, 3:21 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

This is a blogpost originally posted on the Economy of the Commons Blog.

Michael Edson, director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution and Smithsonian Commons talks about how the Institute will make all Smithsonian resources available to the public. The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum complex and research organization composed of…


Simona Levi – “Power is always using the name of freedom to do the nasty thing”

Emina Sendijarevic | 15 November 2010, 3:06 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

This post was orginaly posted in the Economy of the Commons conference blog:

Last, but surely not least in the session of “Critique of the Free and Open” is Simona Levi, multidisciplinary artist, director of Conservas and arts festival INn MOTION. She is also co-founder of EXGAE and organiser of the Free Culture Forum…


Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard and the Cost Model for Digital Preservation project

Nicola Bozzi | 15 November 2010, 11:45 am | tags: , ,

by Nicola Bozzi

[This post was originally published on the Economies of the Commons 2 conference blog]

Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics, but she has been working for media archiving institutions involved in digital preservation – like the Aarhus University Library and the Royal…


Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Inge Angevaare and the costs of digital preservation

Nicola Bozzi | 15 November 2010, 11:37 am | 1 comment | tags: , ,

by Nicola Bozzi

[This post was originally published on the Economies of the Commons 2 conference blog]

With her 11-year long experience at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, Inge Angevaare knows a good deal about archiving. Her presentation pointed out a very important and often underestimated aspect of digital information:…


Economies of the Commons 2: Death Knell for Open Politics

Caroline Goralczyk | 14 November 2010, 7:21 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Open source, open government, open culture – as Nate Tkacz, PhD at the University of Melbourne points out in his talk at the Economies of the Commons Conference, the ubiquity of ‘openness’ as a master category of politics in network cultures turns into a multidimensional, and even more into a political term in the debate on the free and open. With referring to historical notions of openness, Tkacz makes some critical statements on the function of the open with particularly discussing it on the basis of Karl Popper’s work on ‘The Open Society and its Enemies”.


Economies of the Commons 2: Yann Moulier Boutang on Sustaining the Free and Open

Caroline Goralczyk | 14 November 2010, 2:43 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

In his talk at the Economies of the Commons Conference on November 12th at De Balie in Amsterdam, Yann Moulier-Boutang, editor of the Quarterly French Review MULTITUDES and professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, discussed the fate of digital commons by comparing them to the ancient commons of pre-colonial primitive accumulation, such as fishing, hunting and trade.


Jeff Ubois and Wishful Thinking: Thoughts on Cultural Institutions and Archival

Catalina Iorga | 14 November 2010, 11:44 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

[Originally published on the Economies of the Commons 2 conference blog]

Jeff Ubois, of archival.tv, gave the last talk of the Economies of Commons 2 conference at De Balie, Amsterdam and presented his thoughts on the imbalance of public/private institutions, and how libraries, museums and archives can meet the new…