Monthly Archives: February 2011

Interacticipation: Ten Artworks Reflecting the Status of Contemporary Participation in New Media Art

Lotte Woerde | 24 February 2011, 9:34 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Interactive art is a genre of art in which the viewers participate in a way by providing an input in order to determine the outcome (Wikipedia, 2011a). In other words, it allows a dialogue between the artwork and the viewer. Although the history of interactive art goes back to the fifth century B.C. according to the new media artist and…


Technion Society of the Future

Elias van Hees | 20 February 2011, 5:04 pm | tags:

A nation that fascinates me enormous in many aspects is one of the smallest countries in the world. Despite that, this nation has four climatic zones and is the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel – that’s the country I’m referring to – also proportionally has the highest rate of R&D workers in the entire world. As I mentioned earlier in The Ultimate Boycott of Brains, lots of Israeli inventions are being developed during defense research. As prof. Albert Einstein stated..


ERROR: The Art of the G/itch

Jidi Guo | 20 February 2011, 2:58 pm | tags: , ,

With the advent of new technologies come new possibilities and applications that hitherto had been unthinkable. New technologies can also affect existing forms of production and presentation. These changes can lead to the emergence of new styles and ideologies, eventually claiming a space of their own in society. The creative industry is no exception to this.

This mini exhibition has…


TOP: Egypt, Twitter, and Activism.

Kimberley Spreeuwenberg | 19 February 2011, 11:13 am | tags: , , , , ,

Activism and social network platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are mentioned together more often than ever. The 2009 Iranian election protest was nicknamed the ‘Twitter Revolution,’ and the more recent protests in Egypt are depicted similarly. The platforms are said to enable and generate activism, but at the same time this assumed importance for activism is disputed. The use of social network platforms for (online) activism clearly asks how we should understand and characterise recent forms of protest.


Call for Applications: International M.A. in New Media ­University of Amsterdam

Anne Helmond | 15 February 2011, 11:00 am | 2 comments

International M.A. in New Media ­University of Amsterdam.
Call for Applications ­Fall 2011 admission deadline: 1 April 2011

Overview

The International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture (NMMA) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is accepting applications for 2011-2012 academic year. The NMMA is a one-year residence program undertaken in English at UvA in the heart of Amsterdam.…


26 Days of Peace – a collection of tactical media projects

Stefania Bercu | 13 February 2011, 1:51 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , ,

Since the end of the Second World War, the world has only known twenty-six cumulated days of peace. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Gulf War gave rise to a hope that we could blissfully live in a global capitalist democracy, but this changed with the attacks of September 11, 2001. Slavoj Zizek calls the…


FOSDEM 2011: MilkyMist Open VJ Platform

John Haltiwanger | 05 February 2011, 5:51 pm | 1 comment

The field of VJ (visual jockey) is an increasingly prominent aspect of live performance, especially in the relatively “quiet” physical performance of electronic music. Clubs such as Winston Kingdom in Amsterdam run commercial Windows based VJ software in undynamic loops resembling a software demo as seen in a store.

Today at FOSDEM in Brussels the Fabricatorz libre design…