The following is an interview with the founder of dutchdamage, Matthijs van der Meulen, currently head of the digital media department at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Q: How did Dutchdamage come into being?
A: In 1996 I started taking pictures with an analog compact camera of my…
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The Hype Machine is a website that keeps track of what music bloggers post on their blogs. A selection of blogs are selected by the makers of the website. The careful selection of the blogs is what makes the quality of the website: official labels, Dj blogs with their own…
When the new media law for Hungary was passed on 21st of December 2010, many people were outraged at how much of a setback it was for press freedom in Hungary. A Facebook page named “One million people for the freedom of the Hungarian press” gained huge attention when it organized its first protest on 14th of January 2011…
In her 2010 TED speech Jane McGonigal states that on average we invest 3 billion hours weekly playing online games. Also, Nick Yee (2006, 70) estimates that the MMORPG player spends on average 22 hours a week playing the game. Considering that this player has an average of 26, it can be argued that they have…
In The Hague there is the Dutch Children’s Books Museum (Kinderboekenmuseum). On the 8th of December 2010 was the opening of the new exhibition called Papiria. Within the new exhibition children with the age of three trough thirteen, learn about the way stories are written, what is important for telling a scary story or a love story. They discover…
Which role does Search Engine Optimization play nowadays? Different methods, techniques and tools are being used to increase traffic and popularity of websites on the well-known search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. What is behind all this? Which impacts does Social Media have in this field? Julius Parisius, who finished his master studies in industrial engineering and…
I first encountered the work of Tasmanian performance artist and media researcher Nancy Mauro-Flude during The Art of Hacking exhibition opening at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) on September 9, 2011. Mauro-Flude’s Error_in_Time(V.T_3), a poetic coding performance featuring sister0 (Mauro-Flude), ko66 (Sara Platon), and netwurker_Mez (Mez Breeze aka Mary-Anne Breeze), inspired questions on the…
This month 27th Warsaw Film Festival took place. It’s organised since 1985 which makes it the second oldest film festival in Poland after Gdynia Polish Film Festival. This year 370 movies were displayed, 152 filmmakers from 39 countries presented their projects in person and the festival audience amounted to 111 000 people.
WFF is an A category festival which…
Many people are familiar with TED talks and the TED slogan, ‘ideas worth spreading’. It has gained immense success and so has led to independent TED events being organized under the title TEDx in which the ‘x’ stands for independently organized. These independent TED events have become so widespread across the globe that there are…
BM&FBOVESPA is the Brazilian stock exchange, and one of the largest in the world.
Headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, it has offices in Rio de Janeiro, New York, Shanghai and London.
João Magalhães Lima is the Web Projects Coordinator for the Communications Department of BM&FBOVESPA, and responsible for managing projects ranging from social media strategy to mobile applications development.…