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Andrew Keen – video snippets of the lecture he gave at the “me, you and everyone we know is a curator” conference

Although video is crappy and not all was recorded, I managed to save some stuff of the lecture by Andrew Keen. Following his words, I should not be doing this, because archiving something digitally is not archiving something at...

By Tjerk Timan on 12/22/09 1

Internet of things book presentation at the Waag

Internet of things book presentation by Rob van Kranenburg. 28th of october, Theatrum Anatomicum, the Waag, Amsterdam intro by Geert Lovink (INC). The full publication can be found here (thanks jaromil for bringing this to my attention) (a camera...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/28/08 9

Dutch Design Week – a visual impression

Here is a visual impression on some of the projects seen at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. The projects shown have in common that they touch upon possible futures of media , in one way or another (and the...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/21/08 1

Lecture on Spimes at the TU/e

Bruce Sterling lectured at the Technical University of Eindhoven this afternoon about the status of and internet of things. The introduction is given by Koert van Mensvoort. Koert starts by wondering what it means to live in an information...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/17/08 0

Objects that blog

In his ‘manifesto for networked objects’ Bleecker argues another view on an internet of things. The conceptual framework of an internet of things is about understanding how physical objects, once networked and capable of information sharing, will behave and...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/07/08 0

Superpowerpointcinema

Conference SuperPowerPointCinema a project by Re;visie, All Media ism. Het Nederlands Film Festival keynote speakers Bruce Sterling (science fiction writer, blogger) Eboman (DJ, kunstenaar) Anne Helmond (Docent UvA & Blogger) Moderator: Koert van Mensvoort Koert van Mensvoort gives the...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/01/08 6

Dingpolitik and an internet of things

The relevancy of performing research into the topic of an Internet of Things lies in the fact that, although seemingly the concept has faded into the background, reality might be catching up. Where the web 2.0 bubble keeps on...

By Tjerk Timan on 09/11/08 1

Visualizing the network

As a result of the course information visualization, a public screening was organized where all project teams involved got a chance to present their work at the Waag Society venue. Within a tight 6 minutes, concept explanation and implementation...

By Tjerk Timan on 05/22/08 9

Cultuur 3.0 report: “het internet is nog niet af”

Verslag van Cultuur 3.0 conferentie, 8 april, Club 11, amsterdam. Virtueel Platvorm.

By Tjerk Timan on 04/10/08 0

Mobile city conference – Panel discussion

An interesting panel discussion was held during the mobile city conference “Designing for Mobile Media & Urban Spaces: between Theory and Practice”. The goal is to pose different perspectives on locative media – from practical to theory. Get some...

By Tjerk Timan on 03/01/08 2

Mobile city conference – Stephen Graham on the politics of urban space

Introduction by Ole Bouman: At the NAI, values of architecture are defended that we are fond of to defend. Most architects and policy makers do belief that architecture is about shelter and enclosure, occupation and representation. Archiving architecture used...

By Tjerk Timan on 02/29/08 9

Chun and Galloway on Freedom

Both authors contribute strongly towards the definition of freedom, and misconceptions of freedom within a networked society. Galloway argues that the founding principal of the net is control, not freedom. But it is a different kind of...

By Tjerk Timan on 02/04/08 0

Video vortex; video slamming

The closing session of the conference was named video slamming and consisted of screening famous youTube favorites, interviews with video performers Emile Zile Sam Nemeth, Tatiana de la O, and Rosa Menkman and the actual video performances. All this...

By Tjerk Timan on 01/21/08 2

Video Vortex: Jan Simons on the narrative of tagging

The presentation given by Jan Simons is called Weddings, Cities and Colors via tagging. Simons has performed a short study into user generated content and user generated indexing. With a background in cinema and narrative, Simons is interested in...

By Tjerk Timan on 01/19/08 1

Light post on post-light

In a series of attempts to shorten posts, a ‘light’ post: In my quest to investigate into alternative interfaces and other ways (than traditional pc setup red.) of representation and manipulation of data, one aspect to look at is...

By Tjerk Timan on 11/16/07 1

Eight minutes of truth-editing

This link is very interesting; an (almost) real time geo-locater of anonymous Wikipedia entries. During a workshop on Recalling RFID, I got interested in where the actual story (in this case wikipedia entries) was being made on RFID. In...

By Tjerk Timan on 11/09/07 4

Future of Google @ Club of Amsterdam

In a series of ‘future of’ events, the Club Of Amsterdam organized a future on Google symposium on the 25th of October at the Industrieele Groote Club. Four lecturers were invited to give their views on the history, status,...

By Tjerk Timan on 11/01/07 4

Online collaboration scales

In talking about collaboration on the web, the first thing I did was running the term ‘collaboration’ through the WikiScanner, in order to find out to what extent online collaboration was used to create the article on collaboration on...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/22/07 0

Games as tools @ cinekid

The lecture was meant as an introduction to the workshop given by Mediamatic on games as tools, but also as an inspirational talk to all involved/ interested in film making and new media. First to talk was Friedrich Kirschner (zeitbrand.net...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/18/07 1

New Media Nietzsche

In an attempt to grasp and theorize all that is happening in the new media landscape, one method can be to project a philosophers’ philosophy onto a new media phenomenon and see what happens. Amongst the many theories and...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/11/07 0

LivingLabs recap – what exactly is a creative city?

With every major city in Europe calling itself ‘creative capitol’ these days, the question raises how creative these cities really are and in what way they distinct themselves from others. In a ‘creative race’ between Asia, the US and...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/07/07 0

WikiThings

This link and here is another one, on the dutch Wikipedia is part of a larger research assignment for the masters of media course in amsterdam, where new (and old) media are critically researched, viewed and responded on. Besides...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/03/07 2

recap: mediamatic / tag event on Processing.

In a series of events organized around the theme information aesthetics, a collaborative effort between Mediamatic and TAG produced a Salon on Processing. For those who are not familiar with this phenomenon: Processing is an open-source software platform created...

By Tjerk Timan on 09/21/07 2