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The Merger of Existence

Many challenges of new media theory are of such broad relevance to human concerns, and are so complex in their placement, that they have an enduring presence. Though new media studies has a relatively short history as a science,...
By Inge Ploum on 03/06/09 Comments Off on The Merger of Existence
Research Project: ICT 4 Uganda

Research Project: ICT 4 Uganda

New media is coming to Africa. With the fastest growth rate of mobile telephony on the planet and huge investments in fiber optic cables competing with satellite technologies, investors are bringing broadband connections to the continent. Africa is on...
By Ben White on 02/25/09 3

Lecture on Spimes at the TU/e

Bruce Sterling lectured at the Technical University of Eindhoven this afternoon about the status of and internet of things. The introduction is given by Koert van Mensvoort. Koert starts by wondering what it means to live in an information...
By Tjerk Timan on 10/17/08 Comments Off on Lecture on Spimes at the TU/e

Cybernetics in the Lowlands

Although the place to be for technological dreams is, or was, Silicon Valley in the United States, the Lowlands have their own valley: Eindhoven. In the seventies and the eighties a museum called the Evoluon exposed modern technology that...
By Arno de Natris on 10/04/08 Comments Off on Cybernetics in the Lowlands
Review: Hartmut Winkler, Basiswissen Medien, 2008

Review: Hartmut Winkler, Basiswissen Medien, 2008

Basiswissen Medien explains the most common terms used in media theory and gives an idea about the relationship between them. As a student looking for a basic overview, this book can be really helpful. It is short enough to...
By marie-anne soyez on 09/13/08 Comments Off on Review: Hartmut Winkler, Basiswissen Medien, 2008

Dingpolitik and an internet of things

The relevancy of performing research into the topic of an Internet of Things lies in the fact that, although seemingly the concept has faded into the background, reality might be catching up. Where the web 2.0 bubble keeps on...
By Tjerk Timan on 09/11/08 1

Non-figurative versus disfiguration

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By Rosa Menkman on 08/07/08 1

Wolfgang Ernst on Archives

Excerpt from presentation made for the tutorial German Media Theory under supervision by Geert Lovink Humboldt University (Berlin) professor Wolfgang Ernst is one of the pioneering scholars of media archeology, a branch of inquiry that he defines as “an...
By Erinc Salor on 03/07/08 2
Remixing Cinema Discussion Streams: Sean Cubitt and Lev Manovich

Remixing Cinema Discussion Streams: Sean Cubitt and Lev Manovich

For the Danube Telelecture series, Sean Cubitt ( “Immersion, Connectivity, Conviviality”) and Lev Manovich (“After Effects, or Invisible Revolution”) gave lectures and discussed the topic of Remixing Cinema: The Future and Past of the Moving Image. Cinema as a...
By Twan Eikelenboom on 01/24/08 Comments Off on Remixing Cinema Discussion Streams: Sean Cubitt and Lev Manovich