A few weeks ago I completed and submitted my Masters thesis, ending my yearlong study at the University of Amsterdam’s New Media MA program. Our cohort will officially graduate this Tuesday, 20 Sept, 2011.
Here it is, if anybody’s interested…
Ashiq Khondker – Virtualized Subjectivity in Contemporary Art Practice (PDF)
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Amsterdam Dance Event 2010 is in full force this week, with clubs across the city hosting talented DJs and performers from around the world. The ADE-related Music & Bits pre-conference last Wednesday (October 20) was an insight into the underlying world of entrepreneurial activity that helps propagatefund such a tourist-frenzied club music-business networking-fest.
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I’ve never fully gotten the hang of Twitter. As soon as I first checked out what it was, I felt the need to “do something” on it, so I tweeted about “What’s on [my] mind,” which was, well, that I was looking at the tweet box for the first time, so I’ll join the millions of Twitter noobs in writing a perfectly reflexive statement.
A couple of weeks ago, during my routine deletion of facebook notices and invitations (“fpam”?), I fortunately bothered to open one headlined, “The Groundbreaking Last Movie from Eugene Kotlyarenko.” Okay, I thought, a movie-release by an acquaintance is special enough to warrant more than a cursory look, so although I’m in Amsterdam, quite far away from Los Angeles or New York (where most of the events I’m still invited to take place), it wouldn’t hurt to be in the know. Fortunately (again), it turned out that the movie was being released on the internet, and not as a full-length feature, but in ten easy-to-digest-in-our-attention-deficit-internet-culture episodes — perfectly matching my spacetime needs.
In The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft (2006, MIT Press), (the late) Anne Friedberg traces the history of the relationship between the window and the human experience, from the physical to metaphorical. She draws analogies between the figure of the framed window and the metaphysical framing of experience to provide an historical exegesis detailing the developments of (primarily Western) spectatorial experience in relation to how our perceptions of the world are structured.
Every good scholar and samaritan comes across a new word throughout their life, so we’ve relied on dictionaries to aid us. Our lexical resources have evolved with our languages, and even in my life I’ve come to rely on the internet more often than the good old fat little paper dictionaries with their years-old dictionary smells you could flip through…
Technologies have always appeared that have served to progressively make the world smaller — from ships, rail and air travel to electricity, the telegraph, telephone, etc. At the same time, they have made worlds larger, for individuals could explore areas new to them, regardless of whether in the realm of spatial, temporal or psychic experience. The very fact that I’m…