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Getting to know Amsterdam through festivals

Hopefully the new international students already got a glimpse of The Nederlands and noticed that is not only a country filled with tulips, windmills and grazing cows. No, the Dutchies also have a lot to offer regarding art and music: a little under...

By Safia Akkus on 09/08/14 Comments Off

PICNIC 2012: new ownership?

by Serena Westra and Katía Truijen The 17th and 18th of September PICNIC 2012 was held in EYE Filminstitute in Amsterdam. At the international gathering, about 3000 professionals were present from different fields like business, technology, government, NGO’s, education...

By Katía Truijen on 10/03/12 Comments Off

Festival Cultura Digital – Rio de Janeiro Brazil

A short summary of our experiences as map:m()b at the Cultura Digital Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Festival Cultura Digital is an International encounter where different people, projects and groups present themselves in order to strengthen an international...

By Fei An Tjan on 12/15/11 Comments Off

What makes Warsaw Film Festival a ‘one of a kind’

This month 27th Warsaw Film Festival took place. It’s organised since 1985 which makes it the second oldest film festival in Poland after Gdynia Polish Film Festival. This year 370 movies were displayed, 152 filmmakers from 39 countries presented...

By Urszula Jurgiel on 10/31/11 1

New Media in Brazil: An interview with the curator of FILE

FILE stands for International Festival of Electronic Language and is the biggest festival of new media in Brazil. The event happens annually in São Paulo and eventually in other cities of Brazil and holds projects, installations, screenings and presentations...

By Juliana Paiva on 10/29/11 Comments Off

A PICNIC in Pictures // Day 1 Roundup

PICNIC is certifiably special and cool. There’s a lot of love for ideas there and I’m happy to share that yesterday I finally had the chance to experience this unique festival first hand for the first time. Immediate impressions?...

By Ekaterina Yudin on 09/24/10 2

Book review: Repair – Ready to pull the lifeline

Repair is an art and technology festival organized by ARS Electronica, an Austrian platform for digital art and media culture based in Linz. The festival was held this year from September 2 until September 11. The message of Repair...

By Cendy Calis on 09/20/10 1

Lift10 Interactive Conference in Geneva

This week, I will be a blogger for the Lift Interactive Conference in Geneva. The Conference will be held on May 5-7 and will focus on the topic “connected people”. “Our next conference will gather one thousand participants to...

By Sarah Moore on 05/04/10 Comments Off

// Failing harddrive // Cimatics festival, Brussels, 2008 //

I made this video with the help of a collection of failing hard drive sounds, while the video is a combination of failed pdf screengrap videos (by me). It is the first time I made a (kind of) music...

By Rosa Menkman on 11/17/08 3

New Media Festival “Victorian Circus”

Victorian Circus, one of the most prominent new media festivals, thinks it is high time to explore THE FUTURE. Besides interesting lectures, brainstorms and debates you will be surprised by futuristic installations and films. As the cherry on the...

By Anne Helmond on 04/07/08 Comments Off

Mother Serpent (robodock 2007)

The Flaming Lotus Girls are a San Francisco-based group of female and male artists collaborating all year round to create exceptional fire art and provide a resource for learning metalworking and other essential shop skills. Mother Serpent is a...

By Paulien Dresscher on 09/23/07 1