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  • Rosa Menkman rosa
  • Url: http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com
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  • About the user: I like to take photos, make movies and read about new media and art. Last year I graduated on internet art (wrote my master thesis on the internet collective Jodi). Now I am in the Research Master media studies. My blog my Flickr my Del.icio.us my Blip.tv

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Glitch Studies Manifesto

Rosa Menkman | 03 February 2010, 11:56 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

glitch studies manifesto Live ft Goto80A glitch is an unintended break of (one of) the many flows within a technological system. It is a wonderful and frightening interruption that shifts a technology away from its ordinary form and discourse. For a moment I am shocked, lost, in awe, asking myself what this other utterance is, how was it created. Is it perhaps …a glitch? But…

Media Playgrounds Program announced!

Rosa Menkman | 08 December 2009, 4:20 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Media Playgrounds presents creative ways of dealing with broadcast media by community media practitioners, professional and emergent artists. Media Playgrounds takes place in Amsterdam, London, Vienna, Budapest and Sofia. At each location, during two days, a variety of workshops and public events will elaborate and. This event is part of ‘Broadcast Media Sculpture’ program.

Compress Process

Rosa Menkman | 12 March 2009, 4:22 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

The whole video is created with one and the same skype video recording; its basically a selfportrait of me jumping around.

Creating this video made me think about a couple of things. First of all, the research I am doing is not about destroying the pixel. If we subscribe to wikipedia and agree that the pixel (or picture element) is the…

lost faces

Rosa Menkman | 06 March 2009, 11:45 pm | tags:

just a simple translation of a flyer that I found at the Network Cultures Winter Camp conference.
On the 28th of February 25 people went on hunger strike, because they have no other way to oppose the regime of detention while their only ‘crime’ is not having the right documents.
In 2005, 11 people got killed in a fire at the Schiphol…

From compression artifact to filter

Rosa Menkman | 19 February 2009, 6:50 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

An archeology of a compression filter.
A couple of months ago I was approached by a company that asked me for my knowledge on glitch and compression artifacts. They were especially interested in recreating bleeding pixels. I recognized their ideas in the work of Sven Konig and send them to his website (on which in 2005 already, Sven published a…

The Pirate Bay on trial

Rosa Menkman | 17 February 2009, 2:20 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Around 2 years ago, the investigations (which have been the longest ever in Sweden) into the Pirate Bay’s presumed copyright infringements began. The scale of the issues at stake in this trial is maybe best summed up by a quote from Peter Sunde: “We know that about 80% of all the traffic on the internet is torrent related. About half…

Chip music and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing

Rosa Menkman | 15 December 2008, 9:42 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Anders set up a Commodore to give us a nice blue and white powerpoint straight from the machines memory. I have been wondering if this was an act of maximum open source or not…powerpoints

Chipmusic and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing
Lecture by Goto80 aka Anders Carlsson
http://chipflip.wordpress.com/

demo•|ˈdemō|: noun
A demo is a linear, non-interactive audio-visual presentations that runs in…

Software Takes Command

Rosa Menkman | 27 November 2008, 12:11 am | 4 comments | tags: , , , , ,

6 days ago Lev Manovich released his softbook Software Takes Command. He described his book as a software, as it will have its patches in the same way as a new installments requires its bug (big?) -fixes:

One of the advantages of online distribution which I can control is that I don’t have to permanently fix the book’s contents. Like contemporary…

// Failing harddrive // Cimatics festival, Brussels, 2008 //

Rosa Menkman | 17 November 2008, 2:57 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Previous in series on ‘music video’

I made this video with the help of a collection of failing hard drive sounds, while the video is a combination of failed pdf screengrap videos (by me).
It is the first time I made a (kind of) music video-thing all on my own. For the music I didnt use ableton live or any other software…

Multiplication can produce powerful glitches

Rosa Menkman | 11 November 2008, 6:13 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

At Haip festival in Ljubljana I met the Piratbyrån, the bureau of piracy which is (one of the) the driving forces behind the Piratebay torrent site. The Pirate bureau came to Ljubljana in the S23X, a Swedish modified city bus that they drove all the way down from Stockholm to Bolzano Italy. Especially for Haip, Ollibolli drove the bus from Bolzano…