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  • Esther Weltevrede
  • Url: http://weltevrede.wordpress.com/
  • Posts: 25
  • About the user: Esther Weltevrede is a second year Media Studies Research Master student at the University of Amsterdam. Before studying New Media she attended the School of Arts in Breda where she received a Bachelor degree in Graphic Design. She is involved as researcher and coordinator in the recently founded Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam. DMI is dedicated to developing tools and methods for researching the ‘natively digital.’ Since this summer she is a member of GovComOrg, a foundation dedicated to creating and hosting political tools on the Web. Currently she is a part-time teacher Information Visualization at Master Editorial Design, Utrecht School of Art, and part-time teacher Public Design at Interactive Media, Hogeschool van Amsterdam.

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Amsterdam New Media Summer Talks: Networked Content

Esther Weltevrede | 22 July 2008, 3:03 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Warren Sack, Alexander Galloway, Greg Elmer and Anat Ben-David explore the contents of networks. The Summer Talks are hosted by Richard Rogers. The program is part of the 10-year Jubilee of Govcom.org, the group responsible for the Issue Crawler and other info-political tools for the Web. It is also part of the Digital Methods Summer School as well…

On Spheres and Media Theory

Esther Weltevrede | 06 April 2008, 9:24 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,
In a tutorial by Geert Lovink on German Media Theory we read German uncontemporary media theorists. Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies Volume I and Male Fantasies Volume II, Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power and Friedrich Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter was the shared basis we started with. I read Spheres I: Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk and gave

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Lecture: The Widgetized Self and the MacBook Reading Club

Esther Weltevrede | 25 March 2008, 4:17 pm | tags: , , , , ,

This Thursday Anne Helmond will be giving a lecture on ‘The Widgetized Self‘ a term coined by Nancy Baym. Blogs are increasingly connected to search engines such as Google and Technorati through the blog software. This leads to practices that focus on identity building through the engines. What does the increasing popularity…

Video Vortex: Alternative platforms and software

Esther Weltevrede | 19 January 2008, 5:34 am | 4 comments | tags: , ,

This session is the most concrete session of today. The focus is on practical views on online video from the perspective of speakers’ practices. How do video artist, activists, programmers and curators deal with copyright issues, publishing and distributing videos? Main issue addressed in this session relates to the most ideal alternative platforms that can be created for online video. What are the differences and similarities compared to YouTube? How do these alternatives deal with open source software and p2p processes? And how do they deal with user agreemenst and proprietary software? Why not YouTube?

Web 2.0 note conversation

Esther Weltevrede | 12 November 2007, 12:56 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

A few moths back @ PICNIC hackerscamp Timo Arnall told me he was working on super secret technology he couldn’t tell specifics about. A few weeks back @ recalling RFID he still was very mysterious about his super secret technology and I got really curious. I told him I set a Google Alert for “Timo super secret technology’ so that I would find out as soon as he made his technology public. This initiated a conversation 2.0 style publicly on the Web via tags, notes and alerts.

Alex Galloway on Protocol @ UvA

Esther Weltevrede | 08 November 2007, 12:33 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

After the talk Alex Galloway gave on The Game of War Rosie asked him to give us an introduction to Protocol, which is key literature for one of our courses. This is the first spontaneously organized event by Geeks for World Domination aka g4wd. Anne has made a great post related to her thesis topic…

Announcement: new Masters of Media blog!

Esther Weltevrede | 12 October 2007, 1:55 am | 10 comments | tags: , , , ,

new new gif
The masters of media blog is redesigned and updated! Since the beginning of this semester the masters of media v 2.0 have been posting on this blog. A new group of masters also needs a fresh new look. In this post you can read about the new features, as well as an evaluation of the collaborative process during the…

Nietzsche – “Evil men have no songs”

Esther Weltevrede | 08 October 2007, 11:40 am | tags: , , , ,

Nietzsche: “Evil men have no songs”

The Artist Moving (through) the Web @ Video Vortex

Esther Weltevrede | 07 October 2007, 8:31 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Ruschmeyer @ Video Vortex

German video maker Simon Ruschmeyer explores the borderline areas between traditional audiovisual narration and the new possibilities given by interactivity and networked communication. He explores this interface between classical moving media (film/video) and new interactive forms (web/media art) both in theory and in practice. Ruschmeyer has realized many video projects and has recently finished his paper “The moving…