Twitter brings New Media student on stage with Imogen Heap
Thanks to Twitter, I (Janice Wong - cellist and New Media student at the UvA) was given a great opportunity...
Thanks to Twitter, I (Janice Wong - cellist and New Media student at the UvA) was given a great opportunity... 
Funware _playing with software art
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...
Iranian Censorship of Women’s Online Magazines
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...
Michael Edson on the Smithsonian Commons
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...
Simona Levi – “Power is always using the name of freedom to do the nasty thing”
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...
Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard and the Cost Model for Digital Preservation project
by Nicola Bozzi Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics, but she has been working for media archiving institutions involved in digital preservation...
Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Inge Angevaare and the costs of digital preservation
by Nicola Bozzi With her 11-year long experience at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, Inge Angevaare knows a good deal about...
Economies of the Commons 2: Death Knell for Open Politics
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...
Economies of the Commons 2: Yann Moulier Boutang on Sustaining the Free and Open
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...
Jeff Ubois and Wishful Thinking: Thoughts on Cultural Institutions and Archival
Jeff Ubois, of archival.tv, gave the last talk of the Economies of Commons 2 conference at De Balie, Amsterdam and presented his...
Revenue Models – Jaromil and Marco Sachy tell us about Cyclos and their own dyndy.net
by Nicola Bozzi As a part of the Revenue Models panel at the Ecommons conference, the presentation by Jaromil and Marco Sachy focused on the...
(Pro) – Active Archives: Celluloid Remix – Annelies Termeer
Annelies Termeer presents the Celluloid Remix online video contest organized by EYE Film Institute Netherlands and Images for the Future. In this 7 years during project four public archive institutes digitize, save, preserve and share the Dutch audiovisual heritage...
Michael Dale Explains the Benefits of Open Video Platforms
Michael Dale is an advocate for open standard and free video formats for the web. The past two years he has lead...
Eelco Ferwerda Talks About Open Access in Academic Publishing
Eelco Ferwerda, the president of the recently established Association of European University Presses, has been involved in electronic publishing...
Government Works in the Public Domain – All Your Tax-paid Content are Belong to Us
The Free Culture Research Conference last month 8-10 October (2010) devoted one of its panels to the notion that governments should explicitly release public materials – data, photographs, film – to the public domain. The moderator was Mathias Schindler...
Geert Lovink: ‘Critique of the Free and Open’ Keynote
Here’s my long-due report on Geert Lovink‘s keynote speech at the Free Culture Research Conference that took place in Berlin 8-10 October (2010). You can also read more on the conference website. As Lovink described it in his keynote,...
Resistance to Locative Media: Google Germany
The Germans proof that castles in the skies can be actualized. A real act of resistance to power has been put . More than 244.000 German internet users requested Google not to photograph their houses for Google Street View. The...
#You’re fired
Thoughts and funny incidents on… contemporary ways to lose your job ( via Blogspot/ WordPress, Facebook, Twitter) There are many valid reasons for an employee to lose his job: the pretense of economic crisis, the company closing down, the...
Flash Drive In The Wall?
Check out the newest project of Aram Bartholl, a creative artist and writer on new media, who in his works blends urban landscapes, art, technology and media. He is building a series of USB dead drops in New York City....
What are the trends in e-learning?
While I was wondering about the right topic of my master thesis, I was thinking of technologies that might have the biggest impact on e-learning in the future. That means, that I don’t want to write about Second Life...
Exploring the Zone of Alienation
Please, allow me to indulge myself. Let me tell you a tale about a book, a film, a series of video games and what is perhaps the world’s eeriest man made disaster area. I’ll even throw in a bit...