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ElasticMapping: a locative media project

Jan Bajec | 12 October 2009, 12:03 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

On Tuesday October 6th, in the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst in Amsterdam, there was an interesting and envisioning lecture and performance by Amsterdam visual artist Esther Polak (http://realtime.waag.org/). Her main interest in the field of locative media is to trace the actions of the subject in the world, to create new visualizations of these…

Alex Galloway on Protocol @ UvA

Esther Weltevrede | 08 November 2007, 12:33 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

After the talk Alex Galloway gave on The Game of War Rosie asked him to give us an introduction to Protocol, which is key literature for one of our courses. This is the first spontaneously organized event by Geeks for World Domination aka g4wd. Anne has made a great post related to her thesis topic…

New Media = New Education

Minke Kampman | 28 October 2007, 4:59 pm | tags: , , ,

Yesterday the graduation of the Sandberg Institute was held at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam. Together with the presentations of the graduates it was also the launch of the book ‘Masters of Rietveld: Dutch Design in the 21st Century’, made by Coralie Vogelaar to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Sandberg Institute. The book is 388 pages and contains 2500 pictures. It shows the work of designers that graduated from Sandberg.

Debord as Programmer: Alexander Galloway on the Game of War

Michael Stevenson | 27 October 2007, 11:33 pm | 7 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

The Game of WarOn Thursday night Alexander Galloway, NYU assistant professor and founding member of the Radical Software Group, gave us a peak at his latest project, an online version of the Game of War.

Games as tools @ cinekid

Tjerk Timan | 18 October 2007, 4:31 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

The lecture was meant as an introduction to the workshop given by Mediamatic on games as tools, but also as an inspirational talk to all involved/ interested in film making and new media.
First to talk was Friedrich Kirschner (zeitbrand.net and moviesandbox.org), with an introduction to his framework of comparing game-play.

The Artist Moving (through) the Web @ Video Vortex

Esther Weltevrede | 07 October 2007, 8:31 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Ruschmeyer @ Video Vortex

German video maker Simon Ruschmeyer explores the borderline areas between traditional audiovisual narration and the new possibilities given by interactivity and networked communication. He explores this interface between classical moving media (film/video) and new interactive forms (web/media art) both in theory and in practice. Ruschmeyer has realized many video projects and has recently finished his paper “The moving…

LivingLabs recap – what exactly is a creative city?

Tjerk Timan | 07 October 2007, 2:39 pm | tags: , , , ,

With every major city in Europe calling itself ‘creative capitol’ these days, the question raises how creative these cities really are and in what way they distinct themselves from others. In a ‘creative race’ between Asia, the US and Europe in mobile services and locative media, the latter seems to be a step behind.
Without going focusing too much…

Picnic Creative China

Qilan Zhao | 03 October 2007, 11:56 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Last Friday, I attended Creative China, a partner event at Picnic 2007. One of the main topics of this seminar was the use of Internet versus government regulations and Internet restrictions in China. The Internet is by no means a tool for self-expression, if it was up to the Chinese government to decide, but in reality, Chinese users are vehemently…

recap: mediamatic / tag event on Processing.

Tjerk Timan | 21 September 2007, 5:27 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

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In a series of events organized around the theme information aesthetics, a collaborative effort between Mediamatic and TAG produced a Salon on Processing.
For those who are not familiar with this phenomenon: Processing is an open-source software platform created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. What it basically comes down to is…

New Network Theory – Katy Börner

Michael Stevenson | 29 June 2007, 3:49 pm | tags: , , ,

nnt-0207Katy Börner, with her presentation Global Brain Pressures: Towards Scholarly Marketplaces, asks what the relationship is between knowledge and the individual, and knowledge and networks. Over a long enough timeline, one sees increasing specialization, and thus a changing perception of how knowledge is produced.