Tag Archives: art

An interview with Jerom Fischer

Sebastiaan Smink | 25 October 2011, 1:46 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Some say this is the best time for artist and creative entrepreneurs. Others think the creative industries are coming to an end thanks to the negative impact of the Internet on industries like the music industry. Since I’m interested in writing my Master-thesis about the future of the cultural industries, I wanted to find out more about how today’s young…

Phone fun — Phone art

Urszula Jurgiel | 10 October 2011, 1:53 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

With the help of Internet and what follows it, with the help of social media and mobile phones development, today many people percieve themselves as artists. What we can easily observe is that the form of artistic creativity which became very popular last years is photography. Every month around 2,5 bilion pictures are uploaded on Facebook. There is no chance…

Representing complexity: data visualization & Fredric Jameson’s notion of cognitive mapping

Daniel de Zeeuw | 06 October 2011, 7:00 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“There is nothing the beautiful world finds as intolerable as explanations. I, too, find it terrible when somebody begins to explain, for when worst comes to worst I understand everything myself.” (Hegel, 1808)

In this post I want to try and point towards a possible alternative to the research methods of ‘data visualization,’ increasingly conceived as being the…

What Juliet Didn’t Ask

Kendall Grady | 02 October 2011, 7:22 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Deepening the Motivations and Consequences of Facebook Aliases

I was a freshman in college when Facebook was fresh off the server. The social network’s inaugural class has since grown up, and so has its Facebook identity. An established social networking presence is now taken for granted, and you’re free to be more playful and less encyclopedic in filling out your…

Thank You, Louis!

Daniel de Zeeuw | 30 September 2011, 2:49 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Instead of writing about my Wikipedia entry, which was quickly accepted, as it was about such a marginal and unimportant topic that it could not be ‘biased,’ i.e. nobody cared, I would rather ventilate my frustrations caused by a lecture I witnessed today at the conference “Media Squares” in de Balie by Nadia Plesner about…

Book Review: opaque presence: manual of latent invisibilities ed. Andreas Broeckmann and knowbotic research

Kendall Grady | 25 September 2011, 3:33 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

opaque presence instructs toward a mythology of suspended origin. Such a creation myth is necessarily one of destruction. Fully actualized, opaque presence could deposit the naked and the clothed in the Garden of Eden as a garden, an unbroken sanctuary, not a place, but a nothingness. However, the world turns more like a city. opaque…

Book Review: ‘Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media’ by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson and Theo van Leeuwen (Editors)

Liam Voice | 20 September 2011, 1:00 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. I am trying to find my voice. (Maybe I should just steal it).

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.” (Polonius’ advice Laertes in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)

Our voice is important. Implicit in this quote is the knowledge that our voice communicates…

Masters thesis: Virtualized Subjectivity in Contemporary Art Practice

Ashiq Khondker | 19 September 2011, 2:48 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

thesis word cloud 1

A few weeks ago I completed and submitted my Masters thesis, ending my yearlong study at the University of Amsterdam’s New Media MA program. Our cohort will officially graduate this Tuesday, 20 Sept, 2011.

Here it is, if anybody’s interested…

Ashiq Khondker – Virtualized Subjectivity in Contemporary Art Practice (PDF)

Abstract:

This paper will attempt to address issues of

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Book Review: The Book of Ice, by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)

Autumn Hand | 18 September 2011, 11:55 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

In December 2007, composer and artist and writer Paul D. Miller a.ka. DJ Spooky a.k.a That Subliminal Kid boarded a decommissioned naval ship and traveled to Antarctica. The book that resulted from this journey is The Book of Ice, but the book is not about that journey.

BOOK REVIEW The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude: Global Art, Memory and Post-Fordism

Daniel de Zeeuw | 18 September 2011, 4:08 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,
BOOK REVIEW
Title: The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude: Global Art, Memory and Post-Fordism
Author: Pascal Gielen
Year: 2009
Publisher: Valiz

In The Murmuring of the Artistic multitude, art-sociologist Pascal Gielen reflects on the increasing co-incidence of, and structural similarities between, the mode of production and work ethos essential…