International M.A. in New Media University of Amsterdam.
Call for Applications Fall 2011 admission deadline: 1 April 2011
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.…
Tuesday the 22nd of September was a big day for both graduating New Media MA students and New Media studies itself. The first official graduation ceremony (which were previously held together with Film and Television studies in Mediastudies) marked the beginning of a new era for New Media within Mediastudies. New Media has grown in both quality and quantity…
Students from the MA New Media (UvA), MA Information Science (UvA) and MA Editorial Design (MaHKU) presented their interactive visualization projects at Crea.
Introduction by Yuri Engelhardt
The Visualizing our World of Data program contained eight presentations (not all of them are described here), many of which were based on Flickr. One of the…
Where: Theater van ’t Woord
Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam
Oosterdokskade 143
1011 DL Amsterdam
Time: 9.30 hours – 17.00 hours
Entreance: Free
Reservations via conference@sandberg.nl
(obligated due to limited amount of seats)
Program:
09.30 – Registration & coffee
09.50 – Welcome by Mieke Gerritzen & Hans Maarten van den Brink
10.00 – Bruce Sterling (USA )…
Would you like to attend the PICNIC conference, but your university refuses to finance your ticket unless you are the keynote speaker? If you are an academic researcher, scientist, or all-round investigator we have exactly 25 passe partout tickets (value 1245 Euro) available for those with an enquiring mind.
What do you need to do to qualify for a completely…
Victorian Circus, one of the most prominent new media festivals, thinks it is high time to explore THE FUTURE. Besides interesting lectures, brainstorms and debates you will be surprised by futuristic installations and films. As the cherry on the cake there will be an exclusive Dutch première of the documentary/film TechnoCalyps by Frank Theys. Come, the future is yours! But…
The Mobile City conference
27 & 28 February 2008
NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Announcement & Call for Participation
www.themobilecity.nl
“The Mobile City” is a two-day conference about locative & mobile technologies, urban culture and identity. The Mobile City brings academics, architects, urban professionals and media designers together…
I am proud to announce that I have joined the Blog Herald. The Blog Herald has been blogging about the blogosphere since 2003 and has since become an established source in the blogosphere. I have been reading the Blog Herald for a while now and was absolutely thrilled when they asked me to write for them. I…
The following post is a combination of a transcription of Manovich’s keynote and my own notes and commentary.
Introduction by Geert Lovink
Online video is renegotiating its (problematic) relationship with cinema. It deals with cinematographic principles versus the principles of the online age. We cannot directly transfer the cinematographic principles into the online age as new media has its own…
As you might have heard Radiohead dropped its major label and put its new album online for download. This is not a new strategy but what is interesting is that they don’t sell their music through iTunes for $0.99 per song or $10-12 per album but through their site only. They are moving the legal download music industry into a…