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Institute of Network Cultures’ Winter Camp

This week was Winter Camp week, an event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (INC). The event brought together different networks that had been around for at least two years, to see what happens at this stage of settling down,...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 03/08/09 Comments Off on Institute of Network Cultures’ Winter Camp

lost faces

just a simple translation of a flyer that I found at the Network Cultures Winter Camp conference. On the 28th of February 25 people went on hunger strike, because they have no other way to oppose the regime of...
By Rosa Menkman on 03/06/09 Comments Off on lost faces

The Merger of Existence

Many challenges of new media theory are of such broad relevance to human concerns, and are so complex in their placement, that they have an enduring presence. Though new media studies has a relatively short history as a science,...
By Inge Ploum on 03/06/09 Comments Off on The Merger of Existence

IWAGU

IWAGU is pronounced as: ‘I Wag You’ and stands for Identification by Webcam And Gesture Utilization. Not to be confused with ‘I kill you’. Lawrence Lessig mentions in his ‘Code V2’ the ‘architectures of identification’. He (Lessig 2006 p.42)...
By Bas Bisseling on 03/06/09 Comments Off on IWAGU

New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog

Andrea Fiore discusses mutual relationships and reciprocal interplays between space, time and money in virtual worlds.  Saskia Korsten addresses melancholy and folding in Baroque and Postmodern art. Inge Ploum explores a dynamic concept of embodiment joining Mark Hansen’s understanding of...
By Edward Shanken on 03/04/09 Comments Off on New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog
Learning from Hardware: ‘imaging’ this…

Learning from Hardware: ‘imaging’ this…

I just stumbled upon this definition: “An image (from Latin imago) is an artifact, usually two-dimensional (a picture), that has a similar appearance to some subject, usually a physical object or a person.” (wikipedia) and it triggered this analogy…
By Bas Bisseling on 02/26/09 Comments Off on Learning from Hardware: ‘imaging’ this…
Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic

Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic

As digital audio files continue to flow freely on the Internet, music itself mimics certain inherent characteristics of the web best understood through Gilles Deleuze...
By Chris Castiglione on 02/26/09 Comments Off on Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic

Can African reporters equipped with smart phones help improve accountability and transparency in development aid?

Tomorrow Africa Interactive and the International Resource Center for Water and Sanitation will compete for the WeMedia GameChangers award. Here is an outline of my presentation. All comments, thoughts and ideas are welcome ! Africa Interactive is working to...
By Ben White on 02/25/09 1
Research Project: ICT 4 Uganda

Research Project: ICT 4 Uganda

New media is coming to Africa. With the fastest growth rate of mobile telephony on the planet and huge investments in fiber optic cables competing with satellite technologies, investors are bringing broadband connections to the continent. Africa is on...
By Ben White on 02/25/09 3

Follow and Connect on Twitter

On a lot of social network sites a friend has to be approved and this only works if both users add each other. This also means that one of the two can break up and the other one loses...
By Hannah Biemold on 02/20/09 3
A decline in P2P-sharing

A decline in P2P-sharing

I just read an article on Tweakers that Ipoque, a German company that sells ‘deep packet inspection-hardware’, has published a study on the distribution of protocol classes. This chart is a representation of their findings.
By Bas Bisseling on 02/20/09 1

From compression artifact to filter

An archeology of a compression filter. A couple of months ago I was approached by a company that asked me for my knowledge on glitch and compression artifacts. They were especially interested in recreating bleeding pixels. I recognized their...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/19/09 2

Online video in China leading the way

An interesting video report by The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) on online video and TV in China and the way that it will influence the West in the near future
By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 02/19/09 1
The Pirate Bay on trial

The Pirate Bay on trial

Around 2 years ago, the investigations (which have been the longest ever in Sweden) into the Pirate Bay’s presumed copyright infringements began. The scale of the issues at stake in this trial is maybe best summed up by a...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/17/09 2

Using Twitter for book summaries

Every university- or college student has to deal with books to build a foundation of knowledge within a field of expertise. My learning method is no different than method other students use (I Think). This is my method; the...
By Bas Bisseling on 02/17/09 5

Latent Remixability

In the early days, photography was solely predestined for the photographer. This skilled worker governed both the analogue camera as the development of its negatives. The dawn of the digital age introduced a less labor intensive way to produce...
By Bas Bisseling on 02/09/09 3

What will 2009 mean for Negroponte’s OLPC?

For the second year the One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) has run a ‘Give 1 Get 1 Free’ program (otherwise termed G1G1). In lead to the holiday season consumers in North America (this year they included Europe) could...
By Ben White on 01/19/09 3

The digital Grim Reaper

Isn’t it remarkable that a profile on a social network site is almost always linked to a person that exists in real life? Most profiles are related to someone, some group or something that is palpable. Of course, some...
By Arno de Natris on 12/18/08 3

Chip music and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing

Anders set up a Commodore to give us a nice blue and white powerpoint straight from the machines memory. I have been wondering if this was an act of maximum open source or not… Chipmusic and the 8bit demoscene...
By Rosa Menkman on 12/15/08 Comments Off on Chip music and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing
Gun vs. OLPC Computer

Gun vs. OLPC Computer

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has once again put itself into the eye of the storm. The organization recently released a commercial where we see a child polishing a shoe, a little girl standing on a street corner and...
By Ben White on 12/13/08 Comments Off on Gun vs. OLPC Computer

Censorship Online: ISPs Block Wikipedia Article

Last week an controversial article on the English Wikipedia has been censored by British ISPs. The UK-based IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) blacklisted the article 'Virgin Killer' and the related image as potentially illegal in the United Kingdom. Also the...
By Hannah Biemold on 12/09/08 2
Convergence of Social Networks and Games

Convergence of Social Networks and Games

A PICNIC Special this year was called ‘Games go Social’ which was about the future of gaming and social networks. An upcoming trend as both industries are evolving is that both can learn a lot from each other and...
By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 12/07/08 1
Facebook Connect Vs. OpenID: The Format War for Your Identity

Facebook Connect Vs. OpenID: The Format War for Your Identity

Facebook Connect vs. OpenIDIt seems now that it may be Facebook Connect, and not OpenID, that will lead the data portability movement. Do we trust our online...
By Chris Castiglione on 12/06/08 4