IE6 is my grandmother on her deathbed and she just won't die. Her skin is obviously wrinkled and dated, she doesn't have any recollection of the past, and she...
6 days ago Lev Manovich released his softbook Software Takes Command. He described his book as a software, as it will have its patches in the same way as a new installments requires its bug (big?) -fixes: One of...
The BBC recently broadcasted ‘James May’s Big Ideas’. In this sequence of documentaries May, probably best known as anti superhero in ‘Top Gear’, explores in the episode ‘Man-machine‘ some projects on cyborgs, avatars, artificial intelligence and robots. Unfortunately, the episode isn’t...
By Arno de Natris
on 11/24/08 Comments Off on Man and/or machine
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 on Why FIFI 2008?
Monday the 24th of November, Mark Meadows will be visiting the University of Amsterdam for a discussion on 'The Authority Of Robots: How Automated Systems Are Automating Us'. The discussion will be held at the Media Studies building on...
I made this video with the help of a collection of failing hard drive sounds, while the video is a combination of failed pdf screengrap videos (by me). It is the first time I made a (kind of) music...
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...
Sherry Turkle talks in ‘Video Games and Computer Holding Power’ (1984) about Jimmy, a fourteen year old. Jimmy isn’t gaming (with the game Space Invaders) and thinking of winning and losing. He wants to see how long he can...
By Arno de Natris
on 11/15/08 Comments Off on When virtual life mixes with real life
At Haip festival in Ljubljana I met the Piratbyrån, the bureau of piracy which is (one of the) the driving forces behind the Piratebay torrent site. The Pirate bureau came to Ljubljana in the S23X, a Swedish modified city...
How, why, where and when do traditional press write about new media and how can we critically look at those articles? This week a great new blog called metareporter has launched, made just to answer those questions. The blog...
I would like to continue a story I’ve started more then a month ago, my story of the Wikipedia entry. It was not long ago after my beloved Wikipedia entry was removed from the face of the interface that...
The silence on this blog was just because we were holding our breath the last couple of days. We are a new media blog and not a political one. But we cannot let this pass without mentioning. Now Obama...
By Minke Kampman
on 11/06/08 Comments Off on I tweet you this: “Obama wins, but …”
Yesterday at the Balie in Amsterdam, Erik Kluitenberg and David Garcia launched The Tactical Media Files. The Tactical Media Files is a new archive that stores mainly material gathered from the Next 5 Minutes festivals organized in Amsterdam between...
By Paulien Dresscher
on 11/01/08 Comments Off on The Tactical Media Files
Introduction Friday October 31 the –free- Moving Movie Industry Conference organized by the Stifo@Sandberg took place at the theater in the Public Library in Amsterdam. It was a full days program with different speakers around the theme of how...
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...
Over the past decade, distant lovers have been offered an array of new ways to connect: email, SMS, live video chat and even through ambient intimacy (the idea of staying attuned to someone else's life through frequent status updating)....
Twitter What are you doing? Twitter allows us to broadcast (“Tweet”) the answer to this question for the rest of the world to view. Using 140 characters or less, twitter users can communicate their thoughts, ideas, links to external...
I've also noticed the uncomfortable "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" phenomena in which Nicholas Carr explains how the web's immediate access culture is causing many of us to loose our deep reading skills. I believe that simplicity can be...
Because both television and micro-blogging can be explained according to the concept of secondary orality, does this also mean that the effects of micro-blogging, such as reading and writing short messages on Twitter for instance, are similar to the...
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...
Superdudes.nl and Sugababes.nl, two related websites, together form one of the biggest social networking sites in the Netherlands. Almost 60% of all the youngsters between 13 and 18 have created a profile at least once. Superdudes, not very surprisingly,...
When beginning to make a Wikipedia entry about 'camping Bakkum' Wikipedia said that there was already an entry about camping Bakkum, but it was removed. The reason for that is that Wikpedia doesn't want to be a camping...
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 on Lecture on Spimes at the TU/e