I like to take photos, make movies and read about new media and art. Last year I graduated on internet art (wrote my master thesis on the internet collective Jodi). Now I am in the Research Master media studies.
░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ In the foyer of the Balie, Julien Maire performed his live piece “Digit”; the writer sits at his desk with a glass of wine and a pile of paper. There are no writing tools, no pen, no typewriter,...
By Rosa Menkman
on 02/24/08 Comments Off on Julien Maire – Digit
Friday January 18 and Saturday 19th, PostCS11, Amsterdam. ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░▒░▒▒▓▓▓▒▒░▒░░▒░▒▒▓▓▓▒▒▒▓ In response to the increasing potential for video to become a significant form of personal media on the Internet, this conference examines the key issues that are emerging around the...
By Rosa Menkman
on 01/15/08 Comments Off on Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube
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 Comments Off on Strong girls glitch too
načechrané obláčky and Flebb is the kick-off video for my new ‘one video a week’-project, that I started together with Extraboy. načechrané obláčky and Flebb is a response to the Video Vortex conference MOM attended last month, in Brussels....
By Rosa Menkman
on 11/08/07 Comments Off on Granularity 1.0: načechrané obláčky and Flebb
Washmountain AKA together in my freezer. Music made by Extraboy. Video by Rosa Menkman. This video was made the night before we went to The Video Vortex conference in Brussels. Click To see the video! but it only works...
By Rosa Menkman
on 10/08/07 Comments Off on Washmountain AKA together in my freezer
This weekend Masters of Media visited Video Vortex in Brussels. Video Vortex is a recurring conference, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and mainly focuses on the independent production and distribution of online video content. This time, the...
The preceding couple of days, it has become extra clear that Google has become a very important source for defining our Truths. Not only Laura’s Spin-Plant (first Nettime post here) but also the 911truth.org issue, which Erik wrote about...
This summer I was part of the Digital Methods Initiative, a summer school program that aims to contribute to doing research into the “natively digital”. One of the projects I participated in was: Diagnosing the Condition of Iraq: The...
By Rosa Menkman
on 09/17/07 Comments Off on Salam Pax’ The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi.
In response to last weeks admittance of their work “44422435 to nowhere” to the Rhizome ArtBase, Entter told me that finally it seems “we are artists and not fucking nerd losers”. Since 2002, Entter’s fields of research and development...
By Rosa Menkman
on 09/10/07 Comments Off on “44422435 to nowhere”
Peter Fischli and David Weiss made a kinetic artwork in 1987, called Der Lauf der Dinge. My mother was very sensitive and would show this to me and my brother instead of Bambi. I still have...
By Rosa Menkman
on 06/27/07 Comments Off on Der Lauf der Remediation