Lev’s lecture (2)
Lev Manovich’s lecture on May 17 in Paradiso, Amsterdam had at least one unmistakeable feature of a good lecture: it rose controversy. Already immediately after concluding his presentation, Lev was accused during the Q&A of endangering the humanities by reducing culture to numbers and erasing human intentionality and creativity, those long cherished but already for quite some…
Dispatches from Second Life
A series of minifilms entirely shot on location in Second Life. The series can be found at www.molotovalva.com. A preview is, of course, available at YouTube. The series is produced by the Dutch new media production company Submarine. 
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In 2007 the French will elect a new president. The French newspaper Libération offers a practical guide to net politics. |
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Rhizome News December 22, 2006 Artists Give Community Something To Talk About The People Speak is a London-based collection utilizing and ‘updating’ various communication techniques to facilitate exchange among residents of the city. They first gained widespread attention, online, for |
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Cyberkoelies Floris-Jan van Luyn en Edwin Verstegen, VPRO A documentary about the contradictions and tensions of modernisation and globalisation in China. Young people leave the country side and wind up as low wage substitute World of Warcraft players for their more wealthy counterparts in Western countries who have either no time |
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By Lev Grossman
The “Great Man” theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” He believed that it is the few, the…
En 1998, l’iMac d’Apple met de la couleur dans le monde gris de l’informatique.
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(10) L’iMac
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Last Wednesday December 13th BBC’s Newnight had an item about personalized advertizing on mobile tv. You can find it here
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In addition to Heleen’s list of interesting locative media websites: you might have come across the article in De Volkskrant of December 7th that reported how easy it is to search for webcams through Google. Many webcams are, of course, mounted for the global public display of locations through the Internet. But there are also quite a lot…
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Gerard Goggin. Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. |
