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Thoughts about the unveiling of Iphone 4S

Today was the official release of Iphone 5. Oops, IPhone 4S I mean. I followed through the NY Times and The Guardian‘s live blogs and Twitter. While I was overwhelmed with an incredible amount of data, #letstalkiphone quickly become...

By Juliana Paiva on 10/04/11 1

Book Review: opaque presence: manual of latent invisibilities ed. Andreas Broeckmann and knowbotic research

opaque presence instructs toward a mythology of suspended origin. Such a creation myth is necessarily one of destruction. Fully actualized, opaque presence could deposit the naked and the clothed in the Garden of Eden as a garden, an unbroken...

By Kendall Grady on 09/25/11 Comments Off

Picnic10, Live

So here we go, enjoying the amazing picnic experience! Below you can find some pictures from the activities you can access at the festival/ conference.. So far everything is amazing!

By Ourania on 09/22/10 1

Is it actually true that Blizzard Entertainment will make enormous amounts of money on the 5th edition of BlizzCon?

Blizzard Entertainment is a major publisher and developer of games and entertainment software. This American conglomerate, placed in California, is behind multiple ‘game of the year’ awards. Additionally it is also the owner and creator of battle.net, world’s first...

By Bart Brodzki on 09/10/10 Comments Off

Media Playgrounds Program announced!

Media Playgrounds presents creative ways of dealing with broadcast media by community media practitioners, professional and emergent artists. Media Playgrounds takes place in Amsterdam, London, Vienna, Budapest and Sofia. At each location, during two days, a variety of workshops...

By Rosa Menkman on 12/08/09 1

Join Hap-poken-ing020!

This year, for the first time, the Digital Hippies will initiate a Happening. What is the plan? ‘Hap-poken-ing020’ is set to be a spectacular and spontaneous event that will harmlessly disturb the public domain of Amsterdam’s Dam square. It’s...

By Bas Bisseling on 03/29/09 5