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Nietzsche on hypertext

This week’s assignment made us compare new media issues to Nietzsche quotes. I came across the following quote: This quote immediately triggered the post-modern idea of differance, that all meaning gets postponed and that one will never get to...
By Maarten van Sprang on 10/08/07 Comments Off on Nietzsche on hypertext

Washmountain AKA together in my freezer

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
Nietzsche – “Evil men have no songs”

Nietzsche – “Evil men have no songs”

By Esther Weltevrede on 10/08/07 Comments Off on Nietzsche – “Evil men have no songs”

Video Vortex Screening

Friday evening at Video Vortex in Brussels, Ana Kronschnabl and Tomas Rawlings showed “a selection of exceptional, witty and provoking Internet videos, compiled for the occassion by international and local guests”, which can be seen here. Most of us...
By Erik Borra on 10/08/07 2
Doing the Lime Jelly with Nietzsche

Doing the Lime Jelly with Nietzsche

By Paulien Dresscher on 10/08/07 1

Is the databody the next step towards becoming an Übermensch?

Is the Databody the next step on the evolutional stairway towards becoming Nietzsche's Übermensch? The truth is spectacular and men will be more spectacular as a divine Übermensch. But first this present creation, and half-Übermensch, has to have the...
By Bas Bisseling on 10/08/07 3

Truth, meaning and Peter Horvath @ Video Vortex

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...
By Rosa Menkman on 10/07/07 3
The Artist Moving (through) the Web @ Video Vortex

The Artist Moving (through) the Web @ Video Vortex

German video maker Simon Ruschmeyer explores the borderline areas between traditional audiovisual narration and the new possibilities given by interactivity and networked communication. He explores this interface between classical moving media (film/video) and new interactive forms (web/media art) both...
By Esther Weltevrede on 10/07/07 2
Repurposing the Wikiscanner: Comparing Dutch Universities’ edits on Wikipedia

Repurposing the Wikiscanner: Comparing Dutch Universities’ edits on Wikipedia

<update>This project got quite a few positive responses, and many universities were interested in their own ‘profiles’. But the best was an endorsement by Virgil, who created the WikiScanner. He’s now made the Wikiscanner mashable, making this kind of...
By Michael Stevenson on 10/07/07 3

Analysing a New Media phenomenon through the eyes of Nietzsche

In this post I will try to show that Nietzsche’s thoughts and aphorisms are still relevant in a modern Web 2.0 world. I have chosen a quote which I think is surprisingly true in the age of internet and...
By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 10/07/07 1

LivingLabs recap – what exactly is a creative city?

With every major city in Europe calling itself ‘creative capitol’ these days, the question raises how creative these cities really are and in what way they distinct themselves from others. In a ‘creative race’ between Asia, the US and...
By Tjerk Timan on 10/07/07 Comments Off on LivingLabs recap – what exactly is a creative city?
Tomas Rawlings and Ana Kronschnabl @ Video Vortex

Tomas Rawlings and Ana Kronschnabl @ Video Vortex

The main question that was posed in this lecture was ‘Why is this conferention about Youtube, and not one of the other websites that allow people to watch video’s online?’ Because Youtube isn’t the first website that offers people...
By Laura van der Vlies on 10/05/07 5
Deleuze vs. YouTube: Adrian Miles @ Video Vortex

Deleuze vs. YouTube: Adrian Miles @ Video Vortex

The subtitle of this conference is Responses to YouTube, and at least one alternative to the world’s largest supplier of piano-playing-cat videos comes in the form of ‘soft video’, via Australian media scholar Adrian Miles. Some of the questions...
By Michael Stevenson on 10/05/07 6

Lev Manovich on User Generated Content @ Video Vortex

The following post is a combination of a transcription of Manovich’s keynote and my own notes and commentary. Introduction by Geert Lovink Online video is renegotiating its (problematic) relationship with cinema. It deals with cinematographic principles versus the principles...
By Anne Helmond on 10/05/07 4

Wiki entry: Internet Phenomenon Little Fatty

Wikipedia compiles a list of Internet phenomenons, categorized under people, bands, games, videos, animation-based, images, films, web sites, and audio. Accordingly, only a “sample of Internet phenomena that have achieved recognition in contexts wider than that of the Internet,...
By Qilan Zhao on 10/05/07 5

Wiki-vicissitudes

It could be interesting to find out what will happen when an entry on a Dutch version of Wikipedia is made. I have decided to take a few samples of my bachelor thesis and use them for a...
By Bas Bisseling on 10/05/07 2

Alternative realities presented by Google

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...
By Rosa Menkman on 10/04/07 1

The University of Amsterdam’s ‘Great Man Theory’ on Wikipedia

Together with Erik, I’m working on a Digital Methods project called ‘Repurposing the Wikiscanner‘, where we try to adopt the infamous tool for uses other than scandal hunting. We’re still working on it, but here’s a nice preview. So...
By Michael Stevenson on 10/04/07 Comments Off on The University of Amsterdam’s ‘Great Man Theory’ on Wikipedia

Report on the Forum on Quaero

As part of Open-Search, I was invited to participate in the Forum on Quaero at the Jan van Eyck Acadamie in Maastricht, September 29 and 30, 2007. The purpose of the forum was to question and investigate the European...
By Erik Borra on 10/04/07 Comments Off on Report on the Forum on Quaero

Picnic Creative China

Last Friday, I attended Creative China, a partner event at Picnic 2007. One of the main topics of this seminar was the use of Internet versus government regulations and Internet restrictions in China. The Internet is by no means...
By Qilan Zhao on 10/03/07 2

ArnoudH: de Redder van de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia

Met het produceren van een Wikipedia entry kan je vele kanten op. Nu wist ik van het forum van mijn vroegere studentensportvereniging dat er over ‘ons’ nog geen pagina bestond. Al heb je dan een site op het internet,...
By Felicia Plijter on 10/03/07 2
Radiohead and the Ethics and Future of Downloading Music

Radiohead and the Ethics and Future of Downloading Music

As you might have heard Radiohead dropped its major label and put its new album online for download. This is not a new strategy but what is interesting is that they don’t sell their music through iTunes for $0.99...
By Anne Helmond on 10/03/07 6

WikiThings

This link and here is another one, on the dutch Wikipedia is part of a larger research assignment for the masters of media course in amsterdam, where new (and old) media are critically researched, viewed and responded on. Besides...
By Tjerk Timan on 10/03/07 2
De kennis van Wikipedia

De kennis van Wikipedia

Hoe makkelijk is het om berichten op de Nederlandse variant van Wikipedia te plaatsen? Wie bekijkt de nieuw aangemaakte pagina’s? Wat is waarheid volgens Wikipedia? Met deze vragen in het achterhoofd heb ik op woensdag 26 september een pagina...
By Laura van der Vlies on 10/01/07 18