Tag Archives: video

WappZapp; the revolution of interactive real-time television

Jeroen Rijskamp | 06 November 2011, 10:00 am | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

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 fast that it cannot be properly studied; by the time a new product comes on the market, it…

Get to know your MoM…

Leander Roet | 29 October 2011, 5:02 pm | tags: , , , ,

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 connected with this wide and frequent use of social media. Since new media students will the ones eventually

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An interview with Jerom Fischer

Sebastiaan Smink | 25 October 2011, 1:46 pm | tags: , , , , ,

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 in writing my Master-thesis about the future of the cultural industries, I wanted to find out more about how today’s young…

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

Janice Wong | 15 March 2011, 4:44 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

[originally published on Video Vortex #6 website. The original text can be found here]

Video Vortex 6

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 at the Video Vortex #6…

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

Janice Wong | 13 March 2011, 11:55 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

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

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

Lotte Woerde | 21 September 2010, 4:02 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

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 Monday morning in the early nineties, when I was about ten years old. We were sitting in a circle in classroom.…

Television Viewership and IP Video: Adopting a New Business Model

Ronen Shay | 12 September 2010, 8:01 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

“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 traditional television business model generates revenue through commercials and advertisements. This revenue is in turn used to finance…

The Beast File: Google

Marc Stumpel | 17 March 2010, 8:02 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

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 DNA, trying very hard not to be evil’.

The animation features most of Google’s services…

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

Marc Stumpel | 13 September 2009, 8:12 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

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 impact of the analog videotape era to create a refreshing view of the analog past’s heritage to the digital age.

The…

The Collision of Video & Print Media

Joery Bruijntjes | 03 September 2009, 9:04 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
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 t.v. with a fresh coat of paint?

When I read about Entertainment Weekly Magazine embedding a video advertisement in

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