Ourania Dalalaki, Ashiq Khondker, Maritje Onjering, Hans Terpstra
mini-exhibition curated for the Critical Media Art seminar.
Disengage from the fear of technology, engage living forms through technicity, transform life, choose life.
Living, Semi-living, bio-creations that tactically aim to shape life.
(A blogpost on Florian Cramer’s presentation, originally published @ Video Vortex #6 website. The original text can be found here )
Florian Cramer (media theorist, director of the Piet Zwart Institute) participated in the first day of Video Vortex to provide the audience with an insightful overview of the Bokeh Porn concept. In his presentation he
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The importance of subtitles is an undeniable fact for Holmes Wilson, co-founder of the Participatory Culture Foundation. Through the foundation’s latest open source, software-based project
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Thoughts and funny incidents on… contemporary ways to lose your job
( via Blogspot/ Wordpress, Facebook, Twitter)
There are many valid reasons for an employee to lose his job: the pretense of economic crisis, the company closing down, the employee’s lack of punctuality or failure to keep up with deadlines; to be more precise, there…
Alternative title: How can the eBook be the future?
Only a few days ago I came across this video, produced by IDEO, narrating this particular organization’s vision on the future of the book. By presenting three different designed interfaces on e-book, each one serving a distinguished purpose, IDEO portrays the…
From ambient awareness to addiction to the virtual world of tomorrow
When your social life is only one Tweet away
“What are you doing?” or in more recent words “What is happening?” is a question that can be answered in 140 characters or even less. A question that can be your only link to people you used to know, people…
The Chronicle of a Wikipedia Entry
Three attempts to find a topic. Four days of research. One plain article that is still online on the greek Wikipedia. And one Greek lady never eating moussaka again.
Let me explain myself: in the beginning, as we were introduced to the “Wiki Workshop”…
(Untrustworthy) Online Identities in Web 2.0
The example of Facebook
As new media history is being written at present time, the discourse keeps revolving around the notion of online identity and “personal privacy” issues that are connected to the usage of social networking sites. It is a highly debated issue whether the…
So here we go, enjoying the amazing picnic experience!
Below you can find some pictures from the activities you can access at the festival/ conference..
So far everything is amazing!
“New information technologies have become ubiquitous and thoroughly established in our everyday life. This marks the end of a period of intense experimentations and speculations related to the introduction of global communication systems more than a decade ago. Artists and cultural workers were the first to explore the liberatory dimensions and to apply emancipatory potentials. These early…