Tag Archives: media art

Lessons in anti-security: tactical media and viral art

Daniel de Zeeuw | 19 February 2012, 10:15 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

The following report is the outcome of two three hour sessions held in the context of the New Media course “Critical Media Art”, exploring the ideas and practices of ‘tactical media‘, in particular the use of viral tactics by artists, programmers, activists, and their collaborations. In the first session, media theorist Erik Kluitenberg gave a lecture…

Media art to teach the unaware people

Maarten Jansen | 15 September 2011, 10:59 am | tags: , , , ,

My first blogpost on the Masters of Media blog should be about a topic I’m interested in., but that’s not as easy as it looks, because my interests are very wide spread. The reason why I’m following the master program of New Media at the University of Amsterdam is my interest in the use of new media in theatre and…

Augmented reality: the first steps to a society of control?

Chris Hoogeveen | 13 March 2011, 10:20 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Layla van Daalen, Chris Hoogeveen, Hanneke Mertens

Every aspect of the world has an extra layer of information. It may not always be obvious, but these extra layers are most certainly present. Marc Tuters and Kazys Varnelis describe these extra layers as a form of augmented space.  This is an extra layer of information, of data visualization on top of…

The rebirth of data – between database and narrative

Cendy Calis | 06 March 2011, 11:12 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

In arts, it has always been customary that artists influence each other and build upon the work of their peers. However, in the 20th century, this tendency magnified even further. Art movements like pop art and Dada, with their ready-mades and collages, used existing material to create their artworks, instead of creating from scratch. The concept of sampling is often…

ERROR: The Art of the G/itch

Jidi Guo | 20 February 2011, 2:58 pm | tags: , ,

With the advent of new technologies come new possibilities and applications that hitherto had been unthinkable. New technologies can also affect existing forms of production and presentation. These changes can lead to the emergence of new styles and ideologies, eventually claiming a space of their own in society. The creative industry is no exception to this.

This mini exhibition has…

Flash Drive In The Wall?

Michal Kielbasa | 01 November 2010, 1:25 pm | tags: , , ,

Check out the newest project of Aram Bartholl, a creative artist and writer on new media, who in his works blends urban landscapes, art, technology and media. He is building a series of USB dead drops in New York City. USB sticks are inserted into walls and other objects in public spaces. The idea behind…

Book Review: SUSTAINABLE ARCHIVING OF BORN –DIGITAL CULTURAL CONTENT

ibtisam omer | 20 September 2010, 8:31 am | tags: , , , ,

Author and publisher: Annet Dekker through Virtueel Platform: May 2010

In a time where contemporary art is struggling to exist as a part of history and its cultural heritage, the transition into a digital era from an analogous epoch is a fact. Archives no longer serve its simple purpose and task of storing specific artefacts and documents. The…

Notion Motion: a virtual existence

Chris Hoogeveen | 10 September 2010, 5:44 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Darkness has fallen over the Bodon Chambers. Only slim light shimmers over a pool of water onto a massive wall, creating a Virtual Space of light and movement. The Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson created Notion Motion: a visualization of light waves. This space is not digital nor exactly analogue. It’s a grey area. But how close…

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…

Interactive Media Artworks for Public Space: Does Art Hold the Potential to Influence Consciousness and Behavior in Relation to Public Spaces?

Liliana Bounegru | 18 September 2009, 2:56 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

“Individual bodies moving through urban space gradually became detached from the space in which they moved, and from the people the space contained. As space became devalued through motion, individuals gradually lost a sense of sharing a fate with others […] individuals create something like ghettos in their own bodily experience.” (Sennett, 1994: 323 – 366)

The Institute of Network…