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MyCreativity: Alternative Business and Organisation Models

Roman Tol | 21 November 2006, 5:09 am | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

The topic of discussion at MyCreativity was to propose a new system of copyright that withstands the 21st century, respects the domains of knowledge and creativity, and provides artist with a worthy financial compensation. Joost Smiers has clearly thought about this thoroughly. His lecture was the most detailed and covered some important issues. In this blog post I will translate…

MyCreativity: Made in Europe Part II: Dispatches from the City

Twan Eikelenboom | 20 November 2006, 6:07 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

The closing session of MyCreativity continued the previous session on dispatches from the city: Examples of the Creative Industry -or insert preffered term here- from around Europe. The first session covered Vienna, Dublin, Barcelona and Basel.

In this second session we’re venturing into London, Helsinki, Berlin and with Rotterdam we’re bringing MyCreativity back home to the Netherlands. What…

MyCreativity: Made in Europe Part I: Dispatches from the City

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 20 November 2006, 1:17 am | 4 comments | tags: , ,

This two-hour lecture covered the cities of Vienna, Dublin, Barcelona and Basel (Switzerland).

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Monika Mokre and Elisabeth Mayerhofer covered Vienna, Aphra Kerr covered Dublin, Barbara Strebel covered Basel, and Matteo Pasquinelli covered Barcelona.

The lecture started with Vienna, which was delivered at lightning speed. I didn’t know Austrians could speak English that fast. This made it hard for me…

MyCreativity, Fifth Session (Creative Labour and Precarious Creativity) Part Two

Heleen van der Klink | 19 November 2006, 11:16 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

photo of davidCreative labour as the basis for a critique of creative industries policy- David Hesmondhalgh

At this presentation Hesmondhalgh would to like think about how an analysis of creative labour might contribute to critique. Therefore he suggests three critical approaches to creative labour:

1. NICL: This term was created by

MyCreativity – Opening Night Screenings

Tom Roes | 19 November 2006, 3:30 pm | tags: , , ,

Some visitors of MyCreativity’s opening night might have been a bit surprised when they found out where it took place. The contrast between the friendly squat named Chequepoint at Damrak 16 and the overly capitalist surroundings could hardly have been bigger. The fact that the building used to be a bank might compensate for that.

As the rain…

MyCreativity, Second Session Part Two

Anne Helmond | 18 November 2006, 12:11 pm | tags: , , ,

MyCreativity: Rogerio LiraIn the second part of the second session Economy of Design Rogerio Lira, graphic designer and former student of the Sandberg Institute presented his project “Love-work: autonomous research in progress.”

His work is about the dynamics and interaction between people, the media, their emotions, their relationships and their creative processes.

MyCreativity, Second Session Part One

Anne Helmond | 18 November 2006, 11:46 am | tags: , ,

The title of the second session is Economy of Design. In this context Mieke Gerritzen & Teun Castelein presented the Artvertising project of the Sandberg Institute.

A Million Dollar HomepageThe project is based on the Million Dollar Homepage which is an idea of student Alex Tew. He sold a million pixels on his website for $1 each to pay…

MyCreativity Conference Photos

Anne Helmond | 17 November 2006, 6:31 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

The Masters of Media are blogging (semi) live from the MyCreativity conference:

MyCreativity: Twan EikelenboomMyCreativity: Michael StevensonMyCreativity: Eva KolMyCreativity: Esther Weltevrede and Jasper MoesMyCreativity: Anne Helmond and Twan EikelenboomMyCreativity: Eva Kol and Roman TolMyCreativity: Michael StevensonMyCreativity: Roman TolMyCreativity: Esther Weltevrede and Erik Borra

MyCreativity, First Session Part Two

Michael Stevenson | 17 November 2006, 4:46 pm | 3 comments | tags: , ,

MyCreativity: Michael StevensonMatteo Pasquinelli took the podium for the second presentation, followed by Rosalind Gill and Danielle van Diemen.

MyCreativity, First Session Part One

Michael Stevenson | 17 November 2006, 3:42 pm | tags: , , , ,

MyCreativity: Geert Lovink & Ned RossiterAt around 10:15 the usual suspects started showing up, including my fellow master students (some of us are aware that a 10 a.m. start means 10:30 in conference-speak). Geert Lovink (see photo) opened the proceedings as laptops took over the podium. Ned Rossiter (see photo), whose new book was presented a little while ago, reminded the crowd that we…