SubmarineChannel presents the first documentary, entirely shot online within Second Life:
Several documentaries have been made about Second Life, but now there’s a film that actually takes place insíde this popular virtual world. In the film ‘My Second Life’ the main character sets out on a journey and the viewer tags along.As more people are spending more time…
Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for information society and media, has released a document (a “communication”) in which the European Commission reveals its plans to require scientists to publish the results of subsidized research.
For those who believe in Vannevar Bush‘ opinion that collective human…
The Telegraaf (Dutch newspaper) reported in their issue of yesterday that Perez Hilton (real name Mario Lavandeira) is being sued for 7.5 million dollars by 7 photo agencies. This blogger searches the internet for photo’s of celebrities and then places them on his own blog. The blog of Perez focusses on gossip about celebrities, one could say he scoops the…
A N N O U N C E M E N T
The Oracle Machine
An installation for the façade of De Balie in Amsterdam.
“This is what we write, this is what we read;
this is how we deal with information today”
PRESENTATION: Saturday January 20, 20.00 hrs / De Balie, Amsterdam.
http://www.debalie.nl/media
Designer…
In this project children with serious burns get diverted during the treatment of their injuries. This project has won the Australian national award for collaboration.
From their website:
“ACID is working with the Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane to develop augmented reality devices for use by kids with serious burns while they undergo painful treatment of their injuries. The devices…
The Hug Shirt has been nominated as one of the best Inventions of 2006 by Time Magazine!
The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned phone number, all the data goes from the sensors Bluetooth to your mobile phone and your mobile phone…
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In 2007 the French will elect a new president. The French newspaper Libération offers a practical guide to net politics. |
By Lev Grossman
The “Great Man” theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” He believed that it is the few, the…
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…
Creative 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: