Tag Archives: manovich

Graphical Primitives versus Direct Visualization

Marije Rooze | 22 April 2011, 8:30 am | tags: , , , , , ,

A rectangle walks in a bar and orders a drink. An attractive circle sits on a bar stool next to the rectangle. ‘Hey Circle, want to get primitive?’ The Circle looks the rectangle slowly up and down and says: ‘Sorry, you’re not my type.’

Is micro blogging the future for writers?

Chris Hoogeveen | 06 October 2010, 5:32 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Micro blogging gained a lot of success over the past few years. With the arrival of web 2.0 there was a need for a new form of writing. Long articles and ongoing features were not what people wanted anymore. There was a need for shorter form of writing. Online publications of papers became brief summaries about news events. There…

BEACON and the use of datasets in media art

Sjoerd Tuinema | 01 November 2009, 11:50 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

When I attended at the ‘Accelerated Living’ conference as a part of the Impakt Festival (Utrecht), it once more appeared there’s plenty of academic prospect on the subjects of time and space. As the works often build on theory coming from (or at least involve) Paul Virilio or Manuel Castells, it showed that many new routes…

Bringing media back to space

Ramses Petronia | 22 October 2009, 6:28 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Every day our lives seem to require more and more ‘new media’ to keep up the pace. GPS on cellphones, possibility of instant communication either online or via phone, a wii to make sure we do some sports, and so on. We are often less aware of the space we travel through, or live in. At the same time this…

Google Takes Command: Shaping the Web

Harro Heijboer | 14 October 2009, 4:29 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Even though the web doesn’t have a central point, sometimes Google, or search engines in general, seem to form the center of this universe. Bringing together all these different websites into one database, ready to be searched. Google’s software, the algorithm, seems to be a aggregator, carrying out contextual analysis and grouping similar websites together. But Google’s search results are…

Software Takes Command

Rosa Menkman | 27 November 2008, 12:11 am | 4 comments | tags: , , , , ,

6 days ago Lev Manovich released his softbook Software Takes Command. He described his book as a software, as it will have its patches in the same way as a new installments requires its bug (big?) -fixes:

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…Imagine This is a Review. Thoughts on: ‘Style First’ by Mieke Gerritzen

Heleen Kerkman | 14 September 2008, 8:22 pm | tags: , ,

In her paperback Style First, graphic artist Mieke Gerritzen directly addresses and confuses the reader by stating that ‘…this book provides no final definition of what style is about.’ Containing articles written by media theorists as well as designers such as Lev Manivich, Hendik-Jan Grievink and Ned Rossiter, this book provides the reader with different visions within the current discourse on style. The paperback itself is in fact the catalogue of the exhibition ‘Style First’ by Mieke Gerritzen that ran from October 2007 till February 2008 at the MUDAC-Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains.