Posthumanism, Protocol and Techno-Craft at Mediamatic’s Ignite Amsterdam 10
If androids dream of electric sheep, we posthumous dream of the Jetson family’s flying car. “Posthuman” because, as foreseen by early prostheses now as natural as eyeglass, human identity consciousness has already evolved beyond embodiment to privilege subjectivity over physical intervention; all information is substantiated by a…
Here I am, sitting on a couple of pillows in the front row of Mediamatic’s jam-packed main room. In just a few minutes, the PechaKucha Night Amsterdam Volume 15 will start. 12 presentations given at lightning speed (20 slides of 20 seconds each). Amsterdam is one of the 360 worldwide cities organizing Pecha Kucha nights and it’s…
Yesterday was the last day of the PICNIC event, and even though the “main course” was only acessible to conference ticket owners, there were still plenty of activities to be involved in, people to meet and games to try out.
Mediamatic is a project partner of PICNIC.
Excellent coders, designers and physical computers participate in this heavy duty camp to explore recent technologies, RFID, interaction design and social processes. The goal of the Camp is to realize multiple interactive installations, wearables and spaces for the visitors of PICNIC to play with.
I went to PICNIC a few days…
[this post is in Dutch, as the entire conference was held in Dutch, dealing with e-culture in the Netherlands]
Verslag van Cultuur 3.0 conferentie,
8 april, Club 11, amsterdam.
Virtueel Platvorm.
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When Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries announced he solved the Holloway-case and put together his findings, facts, and answers in a two hour film, he did so three days before airing the actual program. For 72 hours the Dutch public was held captive in front of their newspapers and screens. News was…
The lecture was meant as an introduction to the workshop given by Mediamatic on games as tools, but also as an inspirational talk to all involved/ interested in film making and new media.
First to talk was Friedrich Kirschner (zeitbrand.net and moviesandbox.org), with an introduction to his framework of comparing game-play.
Projects are ready to be prototyped and build. This monday all participants are working individually or with a small number of people on parts of the projects. You might think a “hackers camp” only includes hardware and software hacking and tweaking. Today there was however some old style building going on with hammers and saws. Transforming our hackers into wood…
This workshop is technical. It should include RFID. However, the aim of the projects is to make something for people. After some great technical and sometimes geeky first ideas for the projects, in the morning session we looked at the projects individually to see if we can twist the concepts into something more social. The aim is not only to…
