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New Media = New Education

Yesterday the graduation of the Sandberg Institute was held at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam. Together with the presentations of the graduates it was also the launch of the book ‘Masters of Rietveld: Dutch Design in the 21st Century',...

By Minke Kampman on 10/28/07 Comments Off

Debord as Programmer: Alexander Galloway on the Game of War

On Thursday night Alexander Galloway, NYU assistant professor and founding member of the Radical Software Group, gave us a peak at his latest project,...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/27/07 7

PICNIC07 – Cory Doctorow Q&A at the European Bloggers (Un)Conference

Thursday and Friday the European Bloggers (Un)Conference was held at the PICNIC conference and festival. Cory Doctorow attended for an hour to answer questions from the audience about Boing Boing. A lot of these questions concerned the business model...

By Anne Helmond on 09/29/07 1

New Network Theory – Review

For three executive sunny days last week, the humanity studies faculty of the University of Amsterdam hosted the New Network Theory conference. This four party collaborative initiative – consisting of Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Institute of Network cultures,...

By Roman Tol on 07/09/07 5

Photos New Network Theory Conference

View the whole New Network Theory set at Flickr (more to come the next two days).

By Anne Helmond on 06/29/07 Comments Off

Masters of Media at Versgeperst

Twan did a great job presenting our blog at the first edition of Vers Geperst at Club 11 in Amsterdam. A New Media student from Utrecht from the audience contacted us afterwards to talk about the blog and New...

By Anne Helmond on 05/31/07 3

Second Open-Search Workshop

For your info: What: Second Open-Search Workshop When: Saturday April 28, 2007, 13.00h CET, 11.00h GMT, 06.00h EST, 4.00h EET, 01.00h HST, 04.00h MSTDuration: official program will be 4 hours Where (physical): CREA, room 204, Turfdraagsterpad 17, 1012 XT...

By Anne Helmond on 04/18/07 Comments Off

Event: UPGRADE! AMSTERDAM: [TAG & TRACK}

When: wed. March 21st 2007 || start 20.30 hrs. / doors: 20.00 hrs. Where: Melkweg, Theater, Lijnbaansgracht 234 A, Amsterdam | free entrance | LIVE webcast: www.fabchannel.com www.melkweg.nl/upgrade ‘Locative media’ are hot: from cell phones to GPS, to other...

By Anne Helmond on 03/14/07 3

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 5

The Innovation Lab 2006 winner of the 10.000 euro price for further development is Blendid. Chairman of the jury, Frank Alsema, presented the price to David Kousemaker and Tim Olden, with their project ‘Sound World: Audio-Augmented Experiences’. This Innovation...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/25/06 3

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 4

Day 4 is the last day before the big pitch on Friday. Frank Boyd introduces the day with a session on what to think about in the presentation. Today is about pitching. Pitching is about inner preparation, outer preparation,...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/25/06 Comments Off

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 3

During day 3 and 4 the teams work on their own project. The experts visit the teams during the day to give personal feedback. On day 3 a special guest accompanies the expert group: chairman of the jury Frank...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/25/06 Comments Off

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 2

Day 2 is about users. More specifically today is about understanding and applying user centered design methods. Tracy Currer is leading today’s session. Tracy Currer is an interaction design consultant and is an experienced guide in innovative processes. The...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/24/06 Comments Off

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 1

Day 1 is introduction day. What projects are participating in Innovation Lab? Who are the teams? Why are they participating? What are the goals of the projects? And how are they going to achieve these goals? Expert in innovative...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/22/06 Comments Off

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – introduction

This week the Innovation Lab workshop ‘Broadband/HD’ takes place. Media Guild initiated this workshop week for ICTRegie in collaboration with EuroLAB and Unexpected Media. The focus is on generation and development of innovative cross-platform applications for optimum use of...

By Esther Weltevrede on 11/21/06 Comments Off

October 10th: Computers, Wars, and Computergames

The Department Of Media Studies is proud to present Dr. Patrick Crogan

By Roman Tol on 10/03/06 2

Masters of Media at PICNIC06

We raised our voices at the crossmedia conference PICNIC06 We raised questions at the conference such as: Gestural interfaces sound swell, but what if you are disabled? (John Underkoffer about G-speak) Aren’t brainwaves more practical and less tiring for...

By Anne Helmond on 09/27/06 2

Final T-shirt design

Print templates: T-shirt front (Set printer to landscape! Acrobat: File – Printsetup. Choose landscape/liggend) T-shirt back : good for 2 t-shirts (Set printer to landscape! Acrobat: File – Printsetup. Choose landscape/liggend) And of course we need some business cards:...

By Anne Helmond on 09/25/06 3

PICNIC 06

There’s an article about the upcoming crossmedia event & the multimedia climate of Amsterdam in today’s “PS van de week/Parool”. Unfortunately it has not been published online, but I’ll bring it to class on Monday for those who are...

By Anne Helmond on 09/23/06 1

T-shirts

Hi all, I started working on our t-shirts, here are my first two suggestions: T-shirt 01: Tetris style (t-shirt_mom01.pdf) T-shirt 02: Floppy style (t-shirt_mom02.pdf) Comments? Suggestions? (Black and white & vector-based) PS: Too bad we don’t have our own...

By Anne Helmond on 09/23/06 8