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Rosa Menkman

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.

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Julien Maire – Digit

░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ In the foyer of the Balie, Julien Maire performed his live piece “Digit”; the writer sits at his desk with a glass of wine and a pile of paper. There are no writing tools, no pen, no typewriter,...

Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube

Friday January 18 and Saturday 19th, PostCS11, Amsterdam. ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░▒░▒▒▓▓▓▒▒░▒░░▒░▒▒▓▓▓▒▒▒▓ In response to the increasing potential for video to become a significant form of personal media on the Internet, this conference examines the key issues that are emerging around the...

Strong girls glitch too

While traveling through networks she discovered she existed. Then one day somebody committed burglary into her brain. Her shell was cracked and she became one of those people with hacked souls. She thought she had seen it all, but...

Granularity 1.0: načechrané obláčky and Flebb

načechrané obláčky and Flebb is the kick-off video for my new ‘one video a week’-project, that I started together with Extraboy. načechrané obláčky and Flebb is a response to the Video Vortex conference MOM attended last month, in Brussels....

Washmountain AKA together in my freezer

Washmountain AKA together in my freezer. Music made by Extraboy. Video by Rosa Menkman. This video was made the night before we went to The Video Vortex conference in Brussels. Click To see the video! but it only works...

Truth, meaning and Peter Horvath @ Video Vortex

This weekend Masters of Media visited Video Vortex in Brussels. Video Vortex is a recurring conference, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and mainly focuses on the independent production and distribution of online video content. This time, the...

Alternative realities presented by Google

The preceding couple of days, it has become extra clear that Google has become a very important source for defining our Truths. Not only Laura’s Spin-Plant (first Nettime post here) but also the 911truth.org issue, which Erik wrote about...

Salam Pax’ The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi.

This summer I was part of the Digital Methods Initiative, a summer school program that aims to contribute to doing research into the “natively digital”. One of the projects I participated in was: Diagnosing the Condition of Iraq: The...

“44422435 to nowhere”

In response to last weeks admittance of their work “44422435 to nowhere” to the Rhizome ArtBase, Entter told me that finally it seems “we are artists and not fucking nerd losers”. Since 2002, Entter’s fields of research and development...

Der Lauf der Remediation

Peter Fischli and David Weiss made a kinetic artwork in 1987, called Der Lauf der Dinge. My mother was very sensitive and would show this to me and my brother instead of Bambi. I still have...