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  • Maarten Jansen
  • Url: http://www.devijfdewand.nl
  • Posts: 6
  • About the user: After studying Multi Media Design I followed a bachelor for Theatre Technician with a specialization in Light Design and the use of Video in theatre. After that my interests shifted a bit to the question of ‘Why do we use new media in art and theatre’. And that’s were my interests are still are, after finishing the BA Media & Cultuur at the UvA last year. My first thesis was about the use of video in art & theatre. The second one was about the shift that sometimes artists are using new technologies that later on are used on daily bases by everyone, like augmented reality and locative media. Now at the New Media Master course I’d like to go a bit deeper into the theoretical aspects and apply it to interactive (new media) installations and theatre.

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Interview with Annelie Grob: New Media at the Children’s Book Museum

Maarten Jansen | 31 October 2011, 11:59 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,


In The Hague there is the Dutch Children’s Books Museum (Kinderboekenmuseum). On the 8th of December 2010 was the opening of the new exhibition called Papiria. Within the new exhibition children with the age of three trough thirteen, learn about the way stories are written, what is important for telling a scary story or a love story. They discover…

Finally it comes together

Maarten Jansen | 24 October 2011, 9:50 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

When I was writing my thesis at the Theatre School back in 2008, I was really excited in doing research and reading more theoretical and academic work about the theories behind the use of video in art and theatre. I liked it so much, that I chose to follow the BA course of Media & Culture and the MA New…

App review: Hoccer

Maarten Jansen | 09 October 2011, 11:55 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

I’ve got an iPhone 3G (yes that’s a really old one, and it is really slow as well!). Maybe that’s the main reason that I don’t use apps very often nowadays, except for some built-in apps and a Dutch news app. But there are some wonderful apps on my phone. When I was scanning trough my phone in search for…

Social Media: My concerns and why I quit Facebook

Maarten Jansen | 04 October 2011, 2:03 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

When I was just a little boy, there wasn’t yet a personal computer. Although we had a game computer (a Commodor 64), my brothers and I preferred to play with LEGO or Playmobile and we went very often outside playing with other kids living in our neighborhood on the streets.
But then, when I was about 8 years old…

Book Review: ‘Cyber War’ by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake

Maarten Jansen | 21 September 2011, 3:12 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Richard A. Clarke has worked for the U.S. government for 30 years. In the White House he served Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W.H. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Under Clinton and W. Bush, he worked as National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism. He ended his career at the government as the Special Advisor to George W.…

Media art to teach the unaware people

Maarten Jansen | 15 September 2011, 10:59 am | tags: , , , ,

My first blogpost on the Masters of Media blog should be about a topic I’m interested in., but that’s not as easy as it looks, because my interests are very wide spread. The reason why I’m following the master program of New Media at the University of Amsterdam is my interest in the use of new media in theatre and…