Tag Archives: creativity

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 musician I’m constantly looking for new music, pieces of art or interesting stories that can give me a new and fresh…

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.

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 to explore and develop imaginative ways of making the technology work best for them. If we put Twitter in…

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 working on data visualization and other examples are given here, all about anonymous people working together to create something or make a difference.

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 of an act never experienced. Invention does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” (Jonathan Lethem –…

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 recall Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID). And through heated debate, recalling seemed to be two-fold: regain awareness of the topic to…