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Jan Simons

Associate Professor New Media at the Dept. of Media Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
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Lev’s lecture (2)

Lev’s lecture (2) Lev Manovich’s lecture on May 17 in Paradiso, Amsterdam had at least one unmistakeable feature of a good lecture: it rose controversy. Already immediately after concluding his presentation, Lev was accused during the Q&A of endangering...
By Jan Simons on 05/30/09 2

Molotov Alva

Dispatches from Second Life A series of minifilms entirely shot on location in Second Life.  The series can be found at www.molotovalva.com.  A preview is, of course, available at YouTube. The series is produced by the Dutch new media...
By Jan Simons on 03/17/07 Comments Off on Molotov Alva

Guide de la Netpolitique (Libération, 12-20-2005)

In 2007 the French will elect a new president. The French newspaper Libération offers a practical guide to net politics.
By Jan Simons on 12/22/06 Comments Off on Guide de la Netpolitique (Libération, 12-20-2005)

Artists Give Community Something To Talk About

Rhizome | Rhizome News Email Rhizome News December 22, 2006 Artists Give Community Something To Talk About The People Speak is a London-based collection utilizing and ‘updating’ various communication techniques to facilitate exchange among residents of the city. They...
By Jan Simons on 12/22/06 Comments Off on Artists Give Community Something To Talk About

Cyberkoelies

Cyberkoelies Floris-Jan van Luyn en Edwin Verstegen, VPRO A documentary about the contradictions and tensions of modernisation and globalisation in China. Young people leave the country side and wind up as low wage substitute World of Warcraft players for...
By Jan Simons on 12/22/06 4

Person of the Year 2006: You!

Person of the Year: You Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world. By Lev Grossman The “Great Man” theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that “the history...
By Jan Simons on 12/18/06 1

Crash Course On Computer Design

En 1998, l’iMac d’Apple met de la couleur dans le monde gris de l’informatique. ARTE F (10) L’iMac En 1998, l’iMac d’Apple met de la couleur dans le monde gris de l’informatique. Ovoïde, translucide et coloré : à sa...
By Jan Simons on 12/17/06 Comments Off on Crash Course On Computer Design

Personalized advertizing on mobile TV

Last Wednesday December 13th BBC’s Newnight had an item about personalized advertizing on mobile tv. You can find it here
By Jan Simons on 12/15/06 Comments Off on Personalized advertizing on mobile TV

Peeping with Google

In addition to Heleen’s list of interesting locative media websites: you might have come across the article in De Volkskrant of December 7th that reported how easy it is to search for webcams through Google. Many webcams are, of...
By Jan Simons on 12/07/06 3

Cell Phone Culture

Recommended: Gerard Goggin. Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
By Jan Simons on 11/27/06 1

Avantgarde ‘YouTube’ (from Rhizome.Rare)

> ————————————————- > UbuWeb: The YouTube of the Avant-Garde > ————————————————- > UbuWeb has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film & video > holdings to on-demand streaming formats a la YouTube, which means that > you can...
By Jan Simons on 11/27/06 Comments Off on Avantgarde ‘YouTube’ (from Rhizome.Rare)

Resistant Maps

Resistant Maps, artistic actions in the interconnected urban territory. Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum, via Jacopo Ruffini 3, Genoa (Italy) 25-26 November 2006 Resistant Maps, artistic actions in the interconnected urban territory is a conference and exhibition produced by...
By Jan Simons on 11/24/06 Comments Off on Resistant Maps

Mobile Learning Game Kit

Together with the HvA Medialab and Waag Society, Mediastudies is developing a Mobile Learning Game Kit, an educational tool that works with mobile and wireless devices. The Game Kit, developed with funding from SURF, was presented at the SURF...
By Jan Simons on 11/20/06 6
Anti-aggression CCTVs: Minority Report in Groningen

Anti-aggression CCTVs: Minority Report in Groningen

The city of Groningen has installed CCTVs with sound sensors that respond to aggressive voice raising. The police can thus anticipate fights, physical abuse, riots and other threats to public order and intervene before anything serious will have happened....
By Jan Simons on 11/16/06 1

Session Thursday November 16

On Thursday November 16th Julian Kücklich will present his lecture ‘Beyond Narratology or Taking Computer Games Seriously’. Julian Kücklich is co-editor of the latest issue of Fibreculture on ‘Gaming Networks.’ The lecture starts at 4 p.m. In order to...
By Jan Simons on 11/10/06 7

Fibreculture Journal issue 8: gaming networks

Fibreculture Journal Issue 8: Gaming Networks, edited by Chris Chesher, Alice Crawford and Julian Kücklich In this issue an article by David Nieborg, ‘Mods, Nay! Tournaments, Yay: The Appropriation of Contemporary Game Culture by the U.S. Military.’
By Jan Simons on 11/09/06 1

Some additional literature on locative media

TCM reader ‘Locative’ Leonardo, Vol. 39, no. 4, 2006: ‘Urbanity and Locative Media’ Fibreculture Journal 2005 Issue 6: ‘Mobility, New Social Intensities and the Coordinates of Digital Networks’ Drew Hemment. ‘Locative Arts’, in Leonardo Vol. 39, No. 4, pp....
By Jan Simons on 11/09/06 Comments Off on Some additional literature on locative media

For your information: PhD position

Dear all, I recieved this announcement from Jeroen Jansz of ASCor: ASCoR, the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (University of Amsterdam) advertizes a new PhD position in research about digital entertainment games. The project is supervised by Prof. Dr....
By Jan Simons on 10/23/06 1