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Eric McLuhan- An invitation to the dance…

I received this message from dr Eric McLuhan: Dear Miss van der Klink, I have just returned from speaking at a convention in Mexico City. The students at the university there became somewhat excited about some work of mine...
By Heleen on 06/15/07 Comments Off on Eric McLuhan- An invitation to the dance…

Spamming in the city…

A while ago I found this flyer tied to my bike with a rubber band. First I was astonished, then it made me laugh. I have grown up in a small town in the Netherlands and of course quite...
By Heleen on 05/28/07 2

Screencasts- a new method for game analysis?

At the moment I am writing a paper for the tutorial “current themes in new media”. In this paper I am analyzing whether Fraps, a real-time video/ screen capture software program, is an appropriate tool to use to collect...
By Heleen on 05/21/07 2

Help a student! And fill out a short questionnaire

Matthijs Rutten has developed a digital survey for his thesis. It itvolves new media and politics, or in particular the manner in which politicians use digital communication tools in order to get as many votes as possible. In this...
By Heleen on 04/04/07 Comments Off on Help a student! And fill out a short questionnaire

My Second Life: The Video Diaries of Molotov Alva

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’...
By Heleen on 03/15/07 2

Science Fiction, Science Faction- An exploration of the visions behind the contemporary digital world.

ANNOUNCEMENT Science Fiction, Science Faction An exploration of the visions behind the contemporary digital world. Organized by the Waag Society, Internet provider XS4ALL and the Cyberspace Salvations Research Team (University of Leiden, Erasmus University Rotterdam): In the mid-1980s, due...
By Heleen on 03/01/07 Comments Off on Science Fiction, Science Faction- An exploration of the visions behind the contemporary digital world.

Plans in European Commission to require publication of subsidized research

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...
By Heleen on 02/25/07 Comments Off on Plans in European Commission to require publication of subsidized research

Blogger sued for copyright infringement

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...
By Heleen on 02/12/07 Comments Off on Blogger sued for copyright infringement

dr Leo Kannerhouse

This Thursday I will be visiting the Dr Leo Kanner house in the Netherlands. In this house there is a special multimedia theatre were people can experience the world through the eyes of a person with autism. The headquarters...
By Heleen on 02/12/07 Comments Off on dr Leo Kannerhouse

Review of Information politics on the Web (review by Adrienne Massanari)

Richard Rogers is head of the new media department from the University of Amsterdam. Adrienne Massanari wrote a review on Rogers book “information politics on the Web”. Information Politics on the Web Author: Richard Rogers Publisher: Cambridge, MA: MIT...
By Heleen on 02/02/07 1

The Oracle Machine: PRESENTATION Saturday January 20, 20.00 hrs / De Balie, Amsterdam

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...
By Heleen on 01/15/07 Comments Off on The Oracle Machine: PRESENTATION Saturday January 20, 20.00 hrs / De Balie, Amsterdam

Diversionary Therapy Technology- a game that helps Australian burns sufferers

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...
By Heleen on 01/06/07 Comments Off on Diversionary Therapy Technology- a game that helps Australian burns sufferers

Damn Small Linux – Linux on a USB stick

This article (that is in Dutch) explains how you can turn your own USB stick into a linux mini desktop. It has a step by step plan to place a small programme, called DSL on your USB stick, so...
By Heleen on 01/02/07 1

Smart Clothes: the hug shirt

The Hug Shirt has been nominated as one of the best Inventions of 2006 by Time Magazine! How does it work? The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned...
By Heleen on 12/30/06 Comments Off on Smart Clothes: the hug shirt

Security and Privacy in 2030; two scenarios for the future

In this interesting research the university of Tilburg describes two scenarios of security and privacy for the future in the Netherlands. The research has been done in request of the Department of Domestic Affairs and it shows two extreme,...
By Heleen on 12/15/06 Comments Off on Security and Privacy in 2030; two scenarios for the future

Leading Surveillance societies

And here’s yet another reason why we should all move to Belgium…. or consider moving to Germany! I wanted to show this chart yesterday in class, during our discussion of Philip Agre’s article “Surveillance and capture: Two models of...
By Heleen on 12/15/06 1

Bio Mapping

Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this...
By Heleen on 12/15/06 Comments Off on Bio Mapping

Public Authoring – from the margins to the centre – Virtueel Platform Workshop with Giles Lane

A N N O U N C E M E N T Public Authoring – from the margins to the centre Virtueel Platform Workshop with Giles Lane, 13th December 2006 at the Digital Heritage Conference 2006 – Interactive Heritage...
By Heleen on 12/07/06 Comments Off on Public Authoring – from the margins to the centre – Virtueel Platform Workshop with Giles Lane

interesting locative media websites

I have found a couple of interesting locative media websites/ articles/ blogs: These involve geotracing: http://www.geotracing.com/ http://beta.plazes.com/locate/mobile.php http://www.n8spel.nl/ Location based mobile phone games (pervasive gaming): http://www.in-duce.net/archives/locationbased_mobile_phone_games.php#more http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/ http://www.pervasive-gaming.org/index_swf.html Article about botfighters, a mobile (location based) multi user game (/pervasive...
By Heleen on 12/05/06 Comments Off on interesting locative media websites

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

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...
By Heleen on 11/19/06 Comments Off on MyCreativity, Fifth Session (Creative Labour and Precarious Creativity) Part Two

Mark Poster- “Digitally Local Communications: technologies and space”

Mark Poster is a professor of history at the History department of the University of California. His special academic interests are: European Intellectual and Cultural History; Critical Theory; Media Studies. Last year we have read one of his articles...
By Heleen on 11/18/06 Comments Off on Mark Poster- “Digitally Local Communications: technologies and space”

Users let their guard down on social network websites, such as MySpace

When I was at the netcraft website, I was redirected to another interesting article (from the washington post). The WP reports that internet users are very suspicious when they receive spam e-mails, but they let their guard down when...
By Heleen on 11/03/06 1

More than a 100 million registered domain names, according to Netcraft

According to Netcraft the internet has more than a 100 million websites. This news was brought to my attention by the newsbar in my gmail account, which let me to the Tweakers net website where google apparently found the...
By Heleen on 11/03/06 Comments Off on More than a 100 million registered domain names, according to Netcraft

Surveillance – From Jeremy Bentham to Michel Foucault to Gilles Deleuze to blogs

On the left you can see the prison that philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed in the 19th century. In this design the prison cells are being build in a circle around a centre in which the guard resides. The guard...
By Heleen on 10/15/06 3