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WappZapp; the revolution of interactive real-time television

The computational era we currently live in overwhelms us with the latest gadgetry, fidgets and means of communications. It is a tidal wave of new media micro-evolutions which we engulf ourselves in every day. Its innovational force moves so...

By Jeroen Rijskamp on 11/06/11 2

Get to know your MoM…

As new media students most of us are leading frequently updated online lives through social media. At the same time we encounter a substantial amount of research pointing to possible dangers concerning issues of privacy and identity that are...

By Leander Roet on 10/29/11 0

An interview with Jerom Fischer

Some say this is the best time for artist and creative entrepreneurs. Others think the creative industries are coming to an end thanks to the negative impact of the Internet on industries like the music industry. Since I’m interested...

By Sebastiaan Smink on 10/25/11 0

Video Vortex #6: In conversation with Natalie Bookchin (part 1)

Natalie Bookchin with Geert Lovink. Photo: Anne Helmond Artist Natalie Bookchin took time to talk to Geert Lovink about online video and her artistic practice...

By Janice Wong on 03/15/11 1

Video Vortex #6: Sam Gregory on video activism and advocacy

Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS presented his thoughts on using online video as a political tool at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam yesterday.

By Janice Wong on 03/13/11 0

Book Review: Inherend Vice, bootleg history of videotape and copyright. By Lucas Hilderbrand.

Since I grew up in the eighties, the complete history of videotape which this book starts off with made me visit places I passed a long time ago. At moments the recognition was instantly. For instance I recollect a...

By Lotte Woerde on 09/21/10 0

Television Viewership and IP Video: Adopting a New Business Model

“From 2007 – 2009, I coordinated website content and online initiatives for a community television station. In this time I was able to experience first hand the fear traditional television stations have of losing viewership to the Internet.” The...

By Ronen Shay on 09/12/10 0

The Beast File: Google

This video, created for ‘Hungry Beast‘, a news program that airs in Australia on the ABC1, depicts Google as a dangerous, pretentious, ubiquitous and ever growing advertising giant: ‘building an empire on your street, in your phone, in your...

By Marc Stumpel on 03/17/10 4

Review of Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright – Lucas Hilderbrand

In his latest book: Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape (2009) Lucas Hilderbrand explores the analog past of video nostalgically, and shows its importance and relevance to (new) media studies. Hilderbrand mainly focuses on the aesthetic, cultural and legal...

By Marc Stumpel on 09/13/09 0

The Collision of Video & Print Media

I spent some time last year researching how proclaimed ‘internet television’ stations like Revision3 might or might not be remediating more traditional media like television. In other words; are they really doing something revolutionary or is it just plain-old...

By Joery Bruijntjes on 09/03/09 0

Video Vortex: Online Video Aesthetics

To much disliking of my parents, as a kid I frequently would watch low budget television programs based on audience generated video fragments and unscripted pranks. These programs included the popular America’s Funniest Home Videos and candid camera shows...

By Roman Tol on 01/19/08 3

Strong girls glitch too

While traveling through networks she discovered she existed. Then one day somebody committed burglary into her brain. Her shell was cracked and she became one of those people with hacked souls. She thought she had seen it all, but...

By Rosa Menkman on 12/02/07 0