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  • Twan Eikelenboom twan
  • Url: http://newmw.wordpress.com
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  • About the user: One of the first Masters of Media to crawl upon this blog (2006/2007)! Still following (and at times contributing) to this great project. Working at Dutch sectorinstitute for e-culture Virtueel Platform. Special interest in stories resulting from new media product use (think: sat nav gone wrong) and independent gaming. Also blogging at http://newmw.wordpress.com

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The state of the Internet: For all you stat-lovers out there!

Twan Eikelenboom | 01 July 2008, 12:05 pm | 4 comments

Background statistics for the internet are kind of hard to come by, mostly, they are kept in the iron vaults of the upperclass Internet companies, but Akamai (responsible for 20 procent of internet traffic) put out a very worthwhile report that brings together loads of interesting and usable data. Akamai sees that in the first quarter of 2008 (the period…

Mobile City Conference: Tim Creswell on Politics of Movement (… Standing Still)

Twan Eikelenboom | 04 March 2008, 5:13 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Tim Creswell talks from within a framework of ‘twenty years of thinking about place and mobility.’ His talk at the The Mobile City 2008 conference therefore is less about new technology, but more about political issues and the role power. For this, he outlines three ideas, being the “dromology”, the “social kinetics” and the “kinetic elite”.

The dromology, as discussed by…

Mobile City Conference: Autopsy on Locative Media with Christian Nold

Twan Eikelenboom | 04 March 2008, 5:06 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Christian Nold’s talk on Locative Media Autopsy at the 2008 The Mobile City conference dealt primarily with the question what Locative Media really is. Is it just a techno-fetishistic vision of gadget lovers, or should we perhaps take it more seriously to uncover its hidden uses?

Starting off, Nold talks about an interesting vision: ‘Locative Media is perhaps regarded as a strange…

The Defeat of Time at Sonic Acts: Pitch Police says “Respect the Hertz!”

Twan Eikelenboom | 26 February 2008, 12:51 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

The drone. An unmanned aircraft, flying over enemy territory by itself. Secretly photographing enemy targets. Session moderator Mike Harding vividly explains to the audience at De Balie, during Sonic Acts XII, the properties of the drone, which is, in the first place, this information based weapon system. The drone now has numerous references in modern culture, of which drone music is…

The Diorama Revisited: Erkki Huhtamo at Sonic Acts

Twan Eikelenboom | 25 February 2008, 8:56 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Erkki Huhtamo’s recent work deals with media archeology, an emerging approach he, according to his website, ‘has pioneered (together with others, like Siegfried Zielinski) since the early 1990’s’. At this edition of Sonic Acts, Huhtamo, together with the audience, revisited the concept of the Diorama. The keynote proved to be a valuable trip down memory lane with Huhtamo showing many examples…

Remixing Cinema Discussion Streams: Sean Cubitt and Lev Manovich

Twan Eikelenboom | 24 January 2008, 12:54 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Danube Telelectures

For the Danube Telelecture series, Sean Cubitt ( “Immersion, Connectivity, Conviviality”) and Lev Manovich (”After Effects, or Invisible Revolution”) gave lectures and discussed the topic of Remixing Cinema: The Future and Past of the Moving Image. Cinema as a visual phenomenon has accelerated increasingly over the last decades. Technical achievements at the material level like new participatory models driven by…

Video Vortex: Participatory Culture

Twan Eikelenboom | 20 January 2008, 11:55 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,
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Do you think Participatory Culture is all about friendly cooperation? Fans flocking to Star Wars conventions or squad based play in the latest MMORPG? The Participatory Culture session at the international Video Vortex conference in Amsterdam, proved that practices such as “cutthroat capitalism” also belong in this category. And how can,…

Reporting from Recalling RFID

Twan Eikelenboom | 24 October 2007, 11:46 am | tags: , , , , ,

On the morning of the Recalling RFID public program at Amsterdam’s De Balie, I passed one of the newly installed OV chipcard terminals at the metro station. It proved to be the beginning of a day that aimed to recall Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID). And through heated debate, recalling seemed to be two-fold: regain awareness of the topic to build on…

The Spinplant Continues: Legal Questions at Google?

Twan Eikelenboom | 18 October 2007, 5:19 pm | 9 comments | tags: , ,
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Although I’m not really sure what this is all about, on page 3 of the Google search query on the spinplant I got the following: In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request…

(Un)common Ground Video Presentations: For everyone who is into New Media, Culture and Design

Twan Eikelenboom | 11 October 2007, 1:18 pm | tags: , , ,

For everyone who is into New Media, Culture and Design (or just one or two of these…) there are videos online of Virtueel Platform and HKU’s previous (Un)common Ground expert meeting which was held during Picnic ‘07. Topics range from Brazilian government computer recycling in a very original way in the MetaReclicagem project, to the Home Health Horoscope where a…