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– Great song, who’s that? – AI.

– Great song, who’s that? – AI.

“Music that listens to you” (AI music) ‚ “We’re developing musical artificial intelligence to build tools for creative people” (Jukedeck). „AI music composer – create the prefect soundtrack for your VR game” (Amper). These are different start-ups’ slogans, but...
By Maria Swierblewska on 09/24/18 Comments Off on – Great song, who’s that? – AI.

Users become producers at Urban Screens 2011: Screening the city

New media, urban culture, personal data and creative ideas: it all came together at the Urban Screens 2011 event last December in Amsterdam. This years subject was ‘Screening the city’, which focused on how cities can be brought to...
By Charlotte on 09/12/12 Comments Off on Users become producers at Urban Screens 2011: Screening the city
Video art-a different view of new media

Video art-a different view of new media

  Most of you will be probably familiar with the term of video art, the new emerging movement of art that fascinates people of different background, age and interests worldwide. However, a brief-though concise definition,as given in Wikipedia is...
By Eva Anagnostaki on 09/08/12 2

Inspiration

Inspiration is the basis to a lot of creative processes. If it’s writing, composing music, painting, blogging or even finding a good subject for your thesis. Inspiration is needed for getting new and innovative ideas. So, as an electronic...
By Sebastiaan Smink on 09/13/11 Comments Off on Inspiration

Why artists (should) support piracy

Considering the severely limiting effects of current copyright and the culture industries, artists are better off supporting piracy - financially, artistically and morally.
By Joep Hegger on 09/11/11 1

In search for universal language

Umberto Eco, a cultural critic, semiotician, and a writer said that we live in an age where the “diminutive, the brief and the simple are highly prized in communication” (Thurlow & Brown). New communication technologies can empower young people...
By Jan Bajec on 10/05/09 Comments Off on In search for universal language

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...
By Hannah Biemold on 09/25/08 3
Review of a Web 2.0 Application: ‘deviantART’

Review of a Web 2.0 Application: ‘deviantART’

“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master.That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory...
By Cornelia Scripca on 09/21/08 Comments Off on Review of a Web 2.0 Application: ‘deviantART’
Reporting from Recalling RFID

Reporting from Recalling RFID

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...
By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/24/07 Comments Off on Reporting from Recalling RFID