Tag Archives: Events

pre-CONDe’s campaign to organize the 21th Ndesign

Mario Gesteira | 11 September 2011, 5:00 pm | 7 comments | tags: , , , ,

Ndesign is the national congress for design students and professionals in Brazil, it is the largest congress in this area in the country and one of the largest in Latin America. It is organized by a commission made of volunteer students which is elected in the end of each edition of Ndesign based on the proposals that they present, this…

What’s got the Greater Manchester Police all aTwitter today?

Isobel Gorman | 14 October 2010, 11:55 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Discard your police scanner, since 5am this morning and for 24 hours only, the Greater Manchester Police have been logging every incident live on Twitter. What’s got them all atwitter? According to their website they want to raise the public’s awareness of ‘the complexities of modern policing, which often aren’t fully appreciated.’ By publishing events real-time as they unfold they hope to give the general public insight into how social issues are increasingly taking up a large proportion of their duties and draining public funds.

Picnic10, Live

Ourania Dalalaki | 22 September 2010, 1:49 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

So here we go, enjoying the amazing picnic experience!

Below you can find some pictures from the activities you can access at the festival/ conference..

So far everything is amazing!

Why FIFI 2008?

Hannah Biemold | 19 November 2008, 1:21 pm | tags:

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 are three main themes, ‘toolbox for the future’, ’secured? let yourself hack’ and ‘privacy: secret or property?’ What’s the extended valulue if this event is compared to Picnic 08?

Mobile city conference – Stephen Graham on the politics of urban space

Tjerk Timan | 29 February 2008, 3:45 pm | 9 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Introduction by Ole Bouman:
At the NAI, values of architecture are defended that we are fond of to defend. Most architects and policy makers do belief that architecture is about shelter and enclosure, occupation and representation. Archiving architecture used to be at the core of the NAi, but it has to look at what is happening with architecture now…

Video Vortex: Dan Oki, ‘Cinema as Research Database’

Michael Stevenson | 20 January 2008, 8:28 pm | tags: , , ,

The final speaker for the session Cinema and Narrativity was visual artist Dan Oki. In contrast to Jan Simons and Thomas Elsaesser, who drew on ‘old media’ to analyze the Web, Oki’s talk focused on how the database can benefit future cinema research and production.

Video Vortex: Alternative platforms and software

Esther Weltevrede | 19 January 2008, 5:34 am | 4 comments | tags: , ,

This session is the most concrete session of today. The focus is on practical views on online video from the perspective of speakers’ practices. How do video artist, activists, programmers and curators deal with copyright issues, publishing and distributing videos? Main issue addressed in this session relates to the most ideal alternative platforms that can be created for online video. What are the differences and similarities compared to YouTube? How do these alternatives deal with open source software and p2p processes? And how do they deal with user agreemenst and proprietary software? Why not YouTube?