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Book review: Enfoldment and Infinity by Laura U. Marks

Stijnie Thuijs | 21 September 2011, 5:23 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

What are the parallels and relations between Islamic art and New Media art? That is the main question Laura U. Marks poses in her book ‘Enfoldment and Infinity. An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art’. The title of her book is just as alluring and bold as her topic. During the first two chapters her motivation of the…

6000 years of world conflicts online

Natalia Miszczak | 12 September 2011, 7:21 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Enjoy history and modern technology? Then prepare to get yourself time-sucked into the virtual world of wars and conflicts. Recently I have discover a website that clearly illustrates how isolated battles overlap and entwine into a never-ending strand of conflict.

Conflict History is a very interesting mash up that combines information from various different websites. Made in Flash, the site…

Book Review Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Marije Rooze | 18 October 2010, 10:25 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , ,

O’Reilly published this year a new updated edition of the book Hackers: Heroes of the Digital Revolution from Stevy Levin. The book tells the history of a subculture that arose in the late fifties. The book starts in Building 26 with a boy wandering down the corridors in the middle of the night. The boy is Peter Samson, who…

Back to the fairytale, to make science? Digital publishing a new revolution, what about the truth?

Layla Van Daalen | 18 October 2010, 9:19 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

While thinking of a new blog about digital publishing, I am a little bit confused. What about the impact of my writings? I can describe the influence of digital publishing with a non objective view, quote a lot of researchers, convert my blog to a pdf and publish it on the internet. The next time you are

Book Review: Inherend Vice, bootleg history of videotape and copyright. By Lucas Hilderbrand.

Lotte Woerde | 21 September 2010, 4:02 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Since I grew up in the eighties, the complete history of videotape which this book starts off with made me visit places I passed a long time ago. At moments the recognition was instantly. For instance I recollect a Monday morning in the early nineties, when I was about ten years old. We were sitting in a circle in classroom.…

Book review- Digital Folklore Reader

Stefania Bercu | 20 September 2010, 9:24 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Reading Digital Folklore is like taking down that shoe-box of old photos from the top shelve and treating yourself to a night of reminiscing. You grimace at how goofy your hairdo looked 15 years ago and laugh at how you used to match pink leggings with animal print and secretly wish you would still lack the self consciousness that…

Book review: Rethinking Curating – Art after New Media by Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook

Jidi Guo | 20 September 2010, 2:49 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially engaged art, and performance art. The book offers curators a route through the hype around platforms and autonomous zones by following the lead of current artists’ practice

Book Review: “Engineering Play – A Cultural History of Children’s Software” – By Mizuko Ito

Isobel Gorman | 19 September 2010, 12:51 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Ito weaves a compelling tale of the dynamic and rapidly changing face of the children’s software industry from the pioneering days of the early 1980s to the late 1990s when she completed her case studies.

Information Visualization and Conflict

Thomas Wielemaker | 25 May 2010, 10:41 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

The visualization of information has long been a tool for generals and historians alike to go over military strategy and to materialize the concomitants of battle. As military operations continue within an increasingly data-rich environment, we must ask if more can’t be done to implement and improve upon the tools that may have the power to aid in…

Rethinking Googlization

Harro Heijboer | 21 December 2009, 1:53 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

In current search engine research the importance of Google as object of study seems to be inevitable. Google seems to be indexing parts of the physical and digital world, which we first thought to be unsearchable. Googlization, the term that is used to describe this, points out how Google is at the core of this research. “It is…