PICNIC 08 – De Variegata Setup
When I was walking through the Picnic event area where the only free access tent (the E-Art Dome) was situated, there was nothing going there yet. So I walked through this big white tent and saw, between all the...
Why is Africa Surprising You? Surprising Africa @ Picnic ’08
Picnic is Amsterdam’s new media event of the year. This is one of the few times when people come together to discuss developments, innovations and changes in the industry on this scale. As a result, this is also one...
PICNIC 08 – The Future of Business Creation
Werner Vogels: CTO amazon The future of business creation Yesterday at 16.15, the last lecture of a three day picnic was given. Dr.Werner Vogels, now CTO of Amazon.com, took the mic and started talking on how to start a...
PICNIC 08 – Paint the World Orange
Marcel Wanders (our very famous dutch designer) has been appointed as chairman of a committee that is going to decide which one of us (all creatives) can promote the dutch identity across the border. If you can make it...
PICNIC 08 – What will Google do?
On the last day of Picnic 2008, on Friday at Zuiveringshal West Gisel Hiscock, the Google’s EMEA business development director appeared with the company’s newest initiatives and strategies.
Gisel Hiscock outlined company’s scheme of acting opposing the traditional approach –the...
PICNIC 08 – E-Art & the 1st Captured Impressions
Short presentations, few both clickable art visualizations and physical artistic prototypes from presenters, and conglomerated art projects without neither explicitly separating lines nor accessible explications for the few curious ones is the best way to describe the first impressions...
PICNIC 08 – Just a Photocollage
For those who don’t have €1200 in the pocket and so aren’t able to get inside the Picnic sites that really matter, Picnic offered some free activities. I was enjoying the sun and a coffee, watching some homeless people fighting nearby, joining the...
PICNIC 08 – The Long Here, The Big Now, and Other Tales of the Networked City
Adam Greenfield talked at Picnic about how new technologies changes our perception and experience of cities. According to Greenfield the networked city is no science fiction anymore, it is becoming reality. We live in ubiquitous cities where information systems...
PICNIC 08 – All Media
Today’s themes in the E-Art Dome, presented by Virtueel Platform, are ecology, online life/social networking and mobility. The second presentation of the day is All Media, by Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort, which definitely fits those descriptions. ...
PICNIC 08 – YOUNG Seminar: Virtual Spaces
Amsterdam
25 September
http://picnicyoung.nl/
The motto of this seminar is that bringing computer simulations and games into the classroom will have a positive effect on the learning abilities of students. For a new media academic this can’t be very shocking news. Modern...
PICNIC 08 – Secrets and Lies
Genevieve Bell: on Secrets and Lies After the Clay Shirky speech there is no time for questions because it is time for Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist working for Intel (apology accepted), to talk about secrets and lies. She wants...
PICNIC 08 – The Sheep Market by Aaron Koblin
On friday afternoon at Picnic 08 Aaron Koblin talked about the visualisation of collected data in his art projects. The main project was the drawing of 10.000 sheep all done by collaborating volunteers. Koblin is not the only one...
PICNIC 08 – Introduction
This is the first post in a series where the Masters will blog some lectures given at the Picnic 08 conference which is held the next three days at the Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam.
Amsterdam New Media Summer Talks: Networked Content
Warren Sack, Alexander Galloway, Greg Elmer and Anat Ben-David explore the contents of networks. The Summer Talks are hosted by Richard Rogers. The program is part of the 10-year Jubilee of Govcom.org, the group responsible for the Issue Crawler...
The state of the Internet: For all you stat-lovers out there!
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...
Cultuur 3.0 report: “het internet is nog niet af”
Verslag van Cultuur 3.0 conferentie,
8 april, Club 11, amsterdam.
Virtueel Platvorm. 
New Media Festival “Victorian Circus”
Victorian Circus, one of the most prominent new media festivals, thinks it is high time to explore THE FUTURE. Besides interesting lectures, brainstorms and debates you will be surprised by futuristic installations and films. As the cherry on the...
The Diorama Revisited: Erkki Huhtamo at Sonic Acts
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,...
Video Vortex: Participatory Culture
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...
Video Vortex: Dan Oki, ‘Cinema as Research Database’
The final speaker for the session Cinema and Narrativity was visual artist Dan Oki. In contrast to Jan Simons and Thomas Elsaesser, who drew on 'old media' to analyze the Web, Oki's talk focused on how the database...
Video Vortex: Thomas Elsaesser on ‘Constructive Instability’
'Constructive instability' is how Condoleeza Rice described the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in the summer of 2006. It's a term that brings to mind tropes of globalization - maybe a synonym of precarity, or the state that produces a desire for...
Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18
Introduction Yesterday the workshop, this morning the start of the two-day “Video Vortex – responses to YouTube”, an international conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures at PostCS11, Amsterdam. A good crowd fills the hall at the 11th...
The Mobile City Conference 27 & 28 February 2008 @ NAI, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
The Mobile City conference 27 & 28 February 2008 NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands Announcement & Call for Participation www.themobilecity.nl “The Mobile City” is a two-day conference about locative & mobile technologies, urban culture and identity. The...