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  • Cornelia Scripca
  • Url: http://expandedmindtricks.blogspot.com
  • Posts: 6
  • About the user: Currently a New Media Master student at Universiteit van Amsterdam. Graduated Film Faculty at the National University of Theater and Film in Bucharest, department of Audiovisual Communication.

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Locative Media as a Solution to the Crisis in Theatre

Cornelia Scripca | 02 September 2009, 10:57 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

A crisis often foreshadows a shift or indicates a need for change. In the theatre’s case, the crisis is a reflection of undergoing changes in its form. Perhaps the general categorization of theater, performance and art needs to be reinvented to accommodate new media technologies.
Technology offers practical and intuitive knowledge; I believe it also enables a deep exploration…

Twitter – A Solitude Wail?

Cornelia Scripca | 12 October 2008, 10:11 pm | 2 comments | tags: , ,

I follow you means I’m watching you and what you are pretending to be doing every second. Is that true? Or is it that I want everyone to watch me? In other words is Twitter a medium for creating and maintaining relationships – making social contacts through the Internet – or is it a way of showing off individualism?
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‘Hi5′: Among Social Network Sites

Cornelia Scripca | 05 October 2008, 10:54 pm | tags: , , ,

Every person on this planet needs a friend. But it seems that some people are more interested in social network sites than others. In South Korea for example the percent of adults that visit these ‘friend sites’ is overwhelming. Web surfers from the United States of America and the United Kingdom have started visiting more and more the SNS like…

Mediamatic at PICNIC 08

Cornelia Scripca | 29 September 2008, 12:46 am | 6 comments | tags: , ,

Mediamatic is a project partner of PICNIC.
Excellent coders, designers and physical computers participate in this heavy duty camp to explore recent technologies, RFID, interaction design and social processes. The goal of the Camp is to realize multiple interactive installations, wearables and spaces for the visitors of PICNIC to play with.

I went to PICNIC a few days…

Review of a Web 2.0 Application: ‘deviantART’

Cornelia Scripca | 21 September 2008, 11:00 pm | tags: , , ,

“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master.That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself.[...] Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” (Jonathan Lethem –…

Book review: ‘Sound Unbound.Sampling Digital Music and Culture’

Cornelia Scripca | 21 September 2008, 1:54 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is the pioneer artist of electronic and experimental hip-hop music. Combining jazz, electronica, reggae and various other musical genres, his work has been labeled illbient or trip-hop. From recording sounds made by melting ice in Antarctica to composing music and producing albums, from mastering the art of turn tabling to…