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  • Arno de Natris
  • Url: http://www.arnodenatris.nl
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  • About the user: Finished the Master in New Media in august 2009. See for mor details about me on http://www.arnodenatris.nl

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Cybernetics in the Lowlands

Arno de Natris | 04 October 2008, 8:55 pm | tags: , , ,

Although the place to be for technological dreams is, or was, Silicon Valley in the United States, the Lowlands have their own valley: Eindhoven. In the seventies and the eighties a museum called the Evoluon exposed modern technology that might change the world. Some say that UFO-like building looks like a boob, including the nipple. With silicones!

Hyves: Social Network Site?

Arno de Natris | 02 October 2008, 5:02 pm | 3 comments | tags: , ,

Social networksite Hyves is declared ‘website of the year’ by internet users in The Netherlands. About fifty percent of the Dutch own a profile on this fast growing social network site. But what is Hyves and how to study it?

Wikipedia’s Criterion: Google

Arno de Natris | 27 September 2008, 6:11 pm | 7 comments | tags: ,

Creating a hoax on Wikipedia isn’t that difficult. Just write it down and save it. But it won’t take long before the Wiki-officials will delete it. This afternoon, I created a fake ’legend’ and wrote a Wiki about it. Four hours later, the Wiki was removed. Why? ‘Nonsense: there’s nothing about it on Google and there are no sources.’…

PICNIC 08 – Just a Photocollage

Arno de Natris | 26 September 2008, 6:17 pm | tags:

For those who don’t have €1200 in the pocket and so aren’t able to get inside the Picnic sites that really matter, Picnic offered some free activities. I was enjoying the sun and a coffee, watching some homeless people fighting nearby, joining the free activities and jealously spotting ‘all acces’-keycords. During this all I made some photo’s and put in a collage. Check it here, it’s for free!

‘Worth1000′: Artists 2.0

Arno de Natris | 21 September 2008, 11:30 pm | tags: , , , ,

Products of post modernity, made by volunteers are gathered in a big online commercial community: Worth1000. Mash-ups, parodies, manipulations made by Photoshop are submitted in contests and are rated in this digital musuem of amateur art. With Photoshop, everybody is an artist and with Worth1000, everybody has a place in the 2.0 gallery of post modern art.…

I Reviewed this: _New Cultural Networks

Arno de Natris | 14 September 2008, 9:21 pm | tags: , , , ,

At the Stifo@Sandberg masterclass professionals from all kind of disciplines, from film and art to radio and internet, come together for exchanging thoughts and working on several (cross)media products. It’s a joint project of the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund (Stifo) and the Sandberg Institute. Goal of the masterclass is to set up new…