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#Picnic09: STEIM, Music, and Training Our Intuition

“Say goodbye to control. Say hello to improvisation,” these were a few of the opening remarks made by STEIM director Dick Rijken. He stressed that in a world of less control we need to concentrate on training our intuition.

By Chris Castiglione on 10/01/09 Comments Off

Pecking in the Picnic #2

There were a lot of interactive experiences during the PICNIC, the virtual sightseeing scenic viewer by Ydreams was one of them. Even though this unit at a first look resembles like a kiosk, when you start swinging its screen...

By Margarida Fonseca on 09/29/09 Comments Off

PICNIC Interior Design

I know many blog posts about the PICNIC conference from this weekend have been floating around the web the past few days. Most of them discussing the topics covered by the speakers and the future of new media. I...

By Sarah Moore on 09/28/09 Comments Off

Pecking in the Picnic

Yesterday was the last day of the PICNIC event, and even though the "main course" was only acessible to conference ticket owners, there were still plenty of activities to be...

By Margarida Fonseca on 09/26/09 2

MA students present projects ‘Visualizing our World of Data’

Students from the MA New Media (UvA), MA Information Science (UvA) and MA Editorial Design (MaHKU) presented their interactive visualization projects at Crea. The Visualizing our World of Data program contained eight presentations (not all of them are described...

By Anne Helmond on 05/15/09 5

Development Cooperation 2.0 with the 1%CLUB

Exciting new challenges and opportunities are emerging fast for organizations within the development cooperation sector. A paradigm shift is taking place in which web 2.0 concepts and technologies prove to play a vibrant and fruitful role in providing capacities...

By Kai Henriquez on 04/28/09 Comments Off

Book Launch “Digital Material”

Our appreciated colleagues, the Department of New Media and Digital Culture of Utrecht University to be exact, have their 10th anniversary May 15. And you are cordially invited! On this day UU’s New media folks want to reflect on...

By David Nieborg on 04/20/09 Comments Off

Why FIFI 2008?

On November 28 the event FIFI 2008 is taking place and is being organized by the ISP XS4ALL who celibrates its 15th birthday this year. The event consists about workshops on open-source creativity, FABLAB, Web 3.0 and more. There...

By Hannah Biemold on 11/19/08 Comments Off

Event: Now is the Time, Globalisation. How To Resist Through Art

On Tuesday November 11 the third lecture in the series ‘Now is the Time’ was held in Amsterdam. The topic is Globalisation and the effect on art itself. Questions addressed are: Do increased mobility and intercultural exchange...

By saskia korsten on 11/16/08 4

Stifo@Sandberg – The Moving Movie Industry

Where: Theater van ’t Woord Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam Oosterdokskade 143 1011 DL Amsterdam Time: 9.30 hours – 17.00 hours Entreance: Free Reservations via conference@sandberg.nl (obligated due to limited amount of seats) Program: 09.30 – Registration & coffee 09.50 –...

By Anne Helmond on 10/28/08 Comments Off

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 Comments Off

Twitter: ‘resistance is futile’

First of all I have to define twitter for myself, I have no clue where this...

By Wouter Dijkstra on 10/13/08 3

MoM discussion: Should we pay for events?

Trying to provoke a discussion here. Why do conferences and other events costs so much money? All access to PICNIC would have costed you more than €1200, getting involved in BlOG08 conference €195, with a discount still €95. ‘Ridiculous’, says MoM...

By Arno de Natris on 10/07/08 9

Event: Now is the Time, Media. Digital Elements In Analogue Artworks.

What is the status of the medium in art production and the discourse in art, in this situation referred to by Rosalind Kraus as the ‘postmedium condition’? How can an artist act critically in this complex cultural field now...

By saskia korsten on 10/06/08 Comments Off

Typing Social Links: Modeling Relations In On-Line Networks

There is a good chance that most addicts to Mark Zuckerberg’s social gossip platform will easily recognize the modal window depicted down here. It’s what users are asked for when they click the option details accessible from the friends...

By Andrea Fiore on 10/06/08 Comments Off

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

PICNIC ’08 – Itay Talgam Interview

This is an excerpt of an interview with Israeli conductor Itay Talgam done by Markus Huendgen during Picnic ‘08. Talgam illustrates how conducting an orchestra can be a metaphor for the collaboration of people in general.

By marie-anne soyez on 09/29/08 4

PICNIC 08 – Locative Lab on Education

What: Locative Lab on Education and GPS-based programme 7scenes Organised by: Waag Society When: 24 Sept 08 14:00 - 18:00 Where: PICNIC Club (Gashouder)

By Sarah van der Land on 09/29/08 Comments Off

Picnic 2008 report: Surprising Africa

Citizen journalism in Africa ‘Bring the world to Africa and bring Africa to the world.’ (Gisel Hiscock, talking at Surprising Africa) Hiscock, one of speakers at the Surprising Africa conference, held a lecture about Google’s interest in giving information-access...

By Guido van Diepen on 09/29/08 2

Mediamatic at PICNIC 08

Mediamatic is a project partner of PICNIC. Excellent coders, designers and physical computers participate in this heavy duty camp to explore recent technologies, RFID, interaction design and social processes. The goal of the Camp is to realize multiple interactive...

By Cornelia Scripca on 09/29/08 6

PICNIC 08 – Outside of the Lectures and the Dome, a Critical Note

Inside the E-art dome were some interesting lectures too and ways of art meeting new technologies. Too bad we could not see all in there but outside were also activities we joined in after the lecture on nature versus...

By Hannah Biemold on 09/28/08 Comments Off

PICNIC 08 – Nike’s Michael Tchao and “Connecting Shoes”

Michael Tchao is the General Manager of Nike Techlab, a sports technology innovation group within Nike. Today at Picnic he presented Nike+ to show a few examples of how social and commercial networks interact. You may have heard of...

By Chris Castiglione on 09/28/08 3