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  • Cendy Calis
  • Url: http://cendycalis.wordpress.com
  • Posts: 9
  • About the user: I recently finished a Media and Culture bachelor at the University of Amsterdam with a specialization in New Media and so it seemed a logical step to broaden my knowledge with a Master degree in New Media. During my time in Amsterdam I have actively participated in student life and organization. Being pretty much a dreamer myself my area of interests are always all over the place.

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The rebirth of data – between database and narrative

Cendy Calis | 06 March 2011, 11:12 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

In arts, it has always been customary that artists influence each other and build upon the work of their peers. However, in the 20th century, this tendency magnified even further. Art movements like pop art and Dada, with their ready-mades and collages, used existing material to create their artworks, instead of creating from scratch. The concept of sampling is often…

Follow up: Dutch Wikipedia strangely crueler than English Wikipedia

Cendy Calis | 28 October 2010, 3:21 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , ,

It is with great sadness that I announce the death of two Wikipedia articles. These were articles I introduced with parental pride a couple of weeks ago.

On beforehand we were told that the English Wikipedia would be the hardest one to contribute to, in my case it turned out that this is not always the case. While the…

Facebook cares about our heartbreak?

Cendy Calis | 26 October 2010, 9:55 am | 2 comments | tags: , ,

Facebook has declared that they will stop showing your ex’s in the Photo Memories box (occasionally on the top right box, where the adds usually are). In practice this means that they’ve created an algorithm which won’t show tagged pictures of friends you have previously been in a relationship with in the Photo Memories Box. That is of course…

Will our gadgets ever really converge?

Cendy Calis | 17 October 2010, 6:36 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Yo dawg, I heard you like e-mail, so we put e-mail on your Macbook, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, so you can e-mail while you e-mail! Substitute the word e-mail with, music, movies, chat, e-reading, calling and video recording, and the meme would still work in most cases. While right now the Ipad isn’t equiped with a camera, other tablets…

Twart: Twitter and art

Cendy Calis | 11 October 2010, 3:30 am | tags: , , , ,

Twitter offers many interesting opportunities for interactive artists. While in many projects and installations participation by interacters needs to be requested, Twitter acts as an enormous database of the human psyche that artists can rely on for their work. Some say Twitter is the perfect recording system for capturing our zeitgeist, others disagree. Fact is, what we tweet says a lot about…

A Wikipedia Experiment

Cendy Calis | 03 October 2010, 7:23 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

So while everyone was making an actual relevant addition to Wikipedia, I decided to try something silly. A while ago I was standing in line at a film festival when I heard two girls argue about whether they were wearing ‘jeggings’ or ‘treggings’. ” Um, does it matter?”, most people would undoubtedly say. But apparently for some people…

Cyberspace is haunted: friending dead people

Cendy Calis | 26 September 2010, 3:07 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

The dead are among us in ever growing numbers. They have inhabited a space without time and place where they exist and don’t exist at the same time. You can tag and poke them but be careful because  they can come back to haunt you.

Almost everyone has a profile on a social networking site. We upload…

Book review: Repair – Ready to pull the lifeline

Cendy Calis | 20 September 2010, 10:11 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Repair is an art and technology festival organized by ARS Electronica, an Austrian platform for digital art and media culture based in Linz. The festival was held this year from September 2 until September 11. The message of Repair is loud and clear. Up until now we homo sapiens have gone out of our way to slowly destroy the…

Bow down for your Google overlord

Cendy Calis | 12 September 2010, 3:17 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

The Church of Google worships their God as a female Goddess. She is all knowing, omnipresent, potentially immortal and infinite. The Church of Google has touched me, therefore I shall spread the word.