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  • Alejandro Ortega Lozano
  • Url: http://www.alejandrortega.nl
  • Posts: 5
  • About the user: Alejandro Ortega Lozano studied two years of Cinematography in Mexico City. At the age of twenty he moved to The Netherlands where he started a career at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a Bachelor degree in Media & Culture and a Master degree in New Media.

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Micro-blogging: Towards Temporal Micro-economics

Alejandro Ortega Lozano | 15 October 2008, 9:30 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

‘As Oliver Selfridge puts it, an intimate, interactive conversation is, in some sense, the lack of it’. (Nicholas Negroponte) [1]

See also complete analysis HERE

Launched in October 2006 and taking off worldwide in March 2007 by…

SNS: Between Diversity & Online Cultural Schizophrenia

Alejandro Ortega Lozano | 05 October 2008, 11:00 pm | tags: , , , , ,

See also the complete ‘SNS: Between Diversity & On-line Cultural Schizophrenia’ Reflexion Here

‘The accident of where one is born is just that, an accident; any human being might have been born in any nation.’1

With these words Martha Nussbaum emphasized back in 1994 the importance of replacing notions…

PICNIC 08 – E-Art & the 1st Captured Impressions

Alejandro Ortega Lozano | 26 September 2008, 8:07 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

Short presentations, few both clickable art visualizations and physical artistic prototypes from presenters, and conglomerated art projects without neither explicitly separating lines nor accessible explications for the few curious ones is the best way to describe the first impressions of Picnic’s 2008 e-Art virtual platform. At least from the very first hours.

‘TinEye’: Searching for the DifferAnce

Alejandro Ortega Lozano | 22 September 2008, 12:32 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , ,

‘Language depends on difference, as Saussure showed … the structure of distinctive propositions which make up its basic economy. Where Derrida breaks new ground… is in the extent to which ‘differ’ shades into ‘defer’ … the idea that meaning is always deferred, perhaps to this point of an endless supplementarity, by the play of signification.’

13 Positions (Book review)

Alejandro Ortega Lozano | 14 September 2008, 8:49 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Also see the complete 13 Positions’ review here

“Hi! This is the autonomous Opera Telephone of the City of Zurich. For your pleasure and entertainment, we have placed a bug in the Zurich Opera House. In a few seconds you will be connected live to the Opera House. You can lay back and listen to today’s performance of «Der Rosenkavalier» by Richard Strauss from the comfort of your living room.” Between March and May 2007, thousands of Zurich’s residents were randomly selected and called as part of the Opera Calling (2007) project realised by !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Sven König which, by experimentally using the telephone as its medium, shows the artistic potential of “hacking” a complex system to generate surprising new situations.