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Bang With Friends – are the ‘hook up’ sites the future of dating?

Bang With Friends – are the ‘hook up’ sites the future of dating?

By Annika Kuyper and Jakub Dutka Bang With Friends is a casual sex app, launched in January 2013. How does it work? It is dead simple. The app connects to your Facebook account and downloads your friends list. Subsequently,...
By Jakub Dutka on 10/07/13 Comments Off on Bang With Friends – are the ‘hook up’ sites the future of dating?
Duffy on Bowie – Foam

Duffy on Bowie – Foam

Review – Christoph Rauch & Gustavo López New album recently released, almost 50 years on the road. Simultaneous exhibitions sold-out over the world. 2013 is definitely David Bowie’s year. The chameleon artist, keeps surprising his fans and critics with...
By Christoph Rauch on 10/05/13 Comments Off on Duffy on Bowie – Foam
Open knowledge? Spain must try harder

Open knowledge? Spain must try harder

In our times, hackers like Julian Assange or Edward Snowden are the talk of the town. We could define them as sorts of Robins Hoods, heroics outlaw that “rob” information from the elites and give it to everyday people...
By Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez on 09/14/13 Comments Off on Open knowledge? Spain must try harder
Creating at Create-IT

Creating at Create-IT

Doing an academic research for applied science can be quite awesome! Imagine that you do an academic research project and someone is interested in translating it to applied science and actually work it out. What you have written behind...
By Annika Kuijper on 09/12/13 Comments Off on Creating at Create-IT
Are those guys Syrius?!

Are those guys Syrius?!

  How is it that the current discussion regarding the international and geopolitical decision to ‘intervene’ in Syria is solely focused on the evidence for who used the sarin gas? Why is the use of chemical weapons a “red...
By Gijs van der Grinten on 09/11/13 Comments Off on Are those guys Syrius?!
The digitalisation of hobby warfare

The digitalisation of hobby warfare

This year, hobby war gaming celebrated its 100th birthday. Created by H.G. Wells in 1913, it evolved into many different gaming systems, set in different realities. In this article I shall focus on one of the most popular tabletop...
By Jakub Dutka on 09/11/13 Comments Off on The digitalisation of hobby warfare
Privacy in the digital age

Privacy in the digital age

We live in an age where we share everything online. We share photos of our loved ones, our political thoughts but moreover we share irrelevant information. The internet has made this all possible. Companies like Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter and...
By Leon Meuwese on 09/08/13 Comments Off on Privacy in the digital age
From the Digital into the Physical: 3D Printing

From the Digital into the Physical: 3D Printing

In the west district of Amsterdam there is a building called the “old ACTA”, which is an old dentist academy and is now used for student housing and as a place where artists have their workshops. A few weeks...
By Pascal Janssens on 09/07/13 Comments Off on From the Digital into the Physical: 3D Printing
Improving your game performance with data visualization

Improving your game performance with data visualization

Nowadays, more and more game producers release video games on digital distribution platforms. Besides the increase in digital distribution of game content, these platforms and game developers offer gamers an experience out of a gameplay environment. For instance, these...
By Ferdy Looijen on 05/31/13 2
The language of dynamic and interactive graphics

The language of dynamic and interactive graphics

This blog post explores if and how the framework for the analysis of static graphics offered by Yuri Engelhardt in his PhD thesis, The language of graphics: A framework for the analysis of syntax and meaning in maps, charts...
By Lucas Reehorst on 05/27/13 1
Collage, Internet and the freedom of images

Collage, Internet and the freedom of images

Nonlegal consumption and circulation of content have powerful implications for the sociopolitical changes that are en route to shifting the momentum of production in today’s world. In terms of contemporary art and the effects of freely shared visual information,...
By Geoff Kim on 03/25/13 Comments Off on Collage, Internet and the freedom of images
Show Me the Data 2013

Show Me the Data 2013

Master students from UvA & maHKU proudly present seven multidisciplinary data visualization projects at SHOW ME THE DATA 2013 This year with three special guest speakers: John Verhoeven, Inspiring Data http://inspiring-data.com/ Arjan Scherpenisse, MiracleThings http://miraclethings.nl Jelle Kamsma, Datajournalist When: March...
By Bernhard Rieder on 03/22/13 Comments Off on Show Me the Data 2013
Visual (for) thought: why data visualization should be used more in the classroom?

Visual (for) thought: why data visualization should be used more in the classroom?

“Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.”- David McCandless, TEDGlobal, 2010  Whatever data is, one thing is sure: we cannot overlook them. Since we live in the Big Data era,as Jaimy and Ana analyze in...
By Eva Anagnostaki on 03/20/13 Comments Off on Visual (for) thought: why data visualization should be used more in the classroom?
Mapping the Web

Mapping the Web

By zooming in and out, you navigate through the digital Pompeii of millions of abandoned homepages. While you pass the neighbourhood called ‘Pentagon’, you see military images and short stories about the army. By entering another district named ‘Vienna’,...
By Katía Truijen on 03/20/13 Comments Off on Mapping the Web

Piracy: A Desire, Promise, and Threat.

Today marks the tenth and final day of the Austin based multimedia festival South By Southwest. Running for more than 25 years, the festival is renowned for it’s huge number of performing artists, variety in content (from music, to...
By Matthew Elworthy on 03/19/13 Comments Off on Piracy: A Desire, Promise, and Threat.
Piracy in the Gaming Industry; Consumers at a Loss

Piracy in the Gaming Industry; Consumers at a Loss

  Piracy has been both a key aspect and influencer of the video gaming industry ever seen its conception. It has affected the way in which games are perceived, played, made, and the way in which they are sold....
By Joseph Jackson on 03/19/13 Comments Off on Piracy in the Gaming Industry; Consumers at a Loss
Leave the consumer out of it!

Leave the consumer out of it!

When watching the documentariesTPB AFK: The Pirate Bay, Away From Keyboard about a large lawsuit against The Pirate Bay and Google and the World Brain about Google’s plan to scan and publish every book ever made online in the...
By Myrthe Bösensell on 03/18/13 Comments Off on Leave the consumer out of it!
P2P – Pirate to Pirate

P2P – Pirate to Pirate

You know that feeling when you’re in a candy store? Surrounded by mountains of chocolate, clouds of cotton candy and fountains of chocolate, the temptation becomes too much to bear. So what do you do? That’s right, when no...
By Maaike Hansen on 03/18/13 Comments Off on P2P – Pirate to Pirate
TPB AFK: ´How society ought to look`

TPB AFK: ´How society ought to look`

When I think about piracy, I think about a pirate with a wild beard, a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder. Kind of like Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, only perhaps less sexy. They do...
By Marijke van Leeuwen on 03/18/13 Comments Off on TPB AFK: ´How society ought to look`
African Film Industry Made Possible by: Piracy

African Film Industry Made Possible by: Piracy

Everybody I know downloads films and music illegally. The ‘Piracy is a crime’ campaign against movie piracy does not seem to work. March 31 HBO will broadcast the first episode of season three of Game of Thrones. I — with millions...
By Tomas Blansjaar on 03/17/13 Comments Off on African Film Industry Made Possible by: Piracy
Piracy and Publishing in the Era of the Digital Age

Piracy and Publishing in the Era of the Digital Age

‘Internet pirates will always win. Hit one, countless others appear. Quickly.’ (The New York Times), ‘High Court backs internet piracy clampdown.’ (The Telegraph), ‘The US attempt to control internet piracy has sparked a fierce battle between the creative industries...
By Monika van Dijke on 03/17/13 Comments Off on Piracy and Publishing in the Era of the Digital Age
Google and its pirate ways

Google and its pirate ways

In October 2004, Google announced the world their idea of making books available for everyone on the planet, by simply search for them using their search function. Google Books (previously called Google print) wanted to make an attempt to...
By Steff van Dorp on 03/16/13 Comments Off on Google and its pirate ways
Where should I live? Visualizing well-being in different countries

Where should I live? Visualizing well-being in different countries

  Raw data on its own does not contain much meaning. It presents values of quantitative or qualitative variables that are results of measurements and computations. Data needs some context so that it can be analyzed and visualized in...
By Charlotte on 03/13/13 Comments Off on Where should I live? Visualizing well-being in different countries

“The Transformation of Publishing Has Already Occurred…”

 ‘ … what is left is the playing out of this transformation in all its complexity.’ (Murphie, 2008)   Asked this week to contribute to the debate surrounding what is at stake in the production of open knowledge, I...
By Matthew Elworthy on 03/13/13 Comments Off on “The Transformation of Publishing Has Already Occurred…”