Shazam: predicting future hits
Have you ever listened to a song and almost died trying to find out the name of the song? Then Shazam is going to be your best friend. Shazam is a music recognition app that was launched in 2002....
Interactive music videos
Its feels like yesterday. Me as a teenager watching MTV in my room all day long. But even more , I remember how frustrated I felt that I couldn’t see my favourite videos whenever I wanted. Not to mention...
Understanding New Media – a quick overview
By exploring the intersection of computing science, humanities and visual and performing art, new media is exploring its own path towards a science status. If the new media is affecting the way society behaves, we should try to...
Connectivity: friend or foe?
According to a news item, Facebook is willing to spend billions on connecting the world to the internet. This might come as a surprise since Facebook isn’t an internetprovider but a social media platform, but will be one of...
ICE BUCKET GHALLENGE
RULES OF THE GAME What? Ice Bucket Challenge or ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is an innovative way of donation. Who? One or more challengers dare friends or family to pour ice water on their heads. Where? Went viral on...
Orto: a New Media solution for horticulturists
A small warning for the reader: This blogpost is not as theoretical as many of you may like it to be. Instead it offers a small case study exhibits the design and decisions of a project I did in order...
Is Social Media an alternative platform for the voiceless in a conflict Zone?
In the time of war, every party of the conflict has a narrative that is definitely opposite to the other, and is being used as propaganda in its favor. So what are the most effective mediums to convey accurate...
What can we learn from a Facebook clone?
What is the future of Facebook? With the fast-evolving nature of new media, it is interesting to think of the possible scenarios for the further development. One way to do so is to look at a former Facebook clone...
Book as a reflexive medium : the materiality in post-digital print
Introduction The term ‘post-digital’ was introduced by Kim Cascone in 2000 to describe the rapidly changing relationship between humans and technology and the resulting aesthetics of digital failures and errors, like what has become to be known as ‘glitch...
From Digital to Print-E self-Fashioning
Self-fashioning online E-Self fashioning is how people present themselves on the internet, through social media, blogs, weblogs, websites etc. “It is done through technologies of the self, which usually take the form of documents or writing. People explicitly...
Digitized Classics – Printed Imperfections
“To change the material artifact is to transform the context and circumstances for interacting with the words, which inevitably changes the meanings of the words as well” (Hayles 23). With this sentence N. Katherine Hayles summarizes the importance of considering...
Tangible Data Visualizations
We live in a world of three dimensions (alright 4, and a spattering of more depending on which school of quantum theory you adhere to). However, when it comes to visualizing data, the results are surprisingly 2-dimensional, and mostly...
Data visualizations in popular Dutch media
EVERY TWO DAYS WE CREATE as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. That is something like five exabytes of data: 5.000.000.000.000.000.000 bytes. It is no surprise...
Data visualization: New professionals in demand
Data is the biggest change in the digital society that appeared during the era of the Internet and technologies. Information is exploding: 90% of the world’s data was generated over last two years. Data visualization and analytic view makes possible...
The distinct disciplines of infographics and information visualisations
Within the data visualisation community there is in general a strong premise that infographics and information visualisation are two distinct disciplines. Infographics present information as statistical charts, maps, and diagrams which are often annotated with text and beautified with...
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[Thesis] Google Art
A new view on museum and virtual museum traditions Although this MA thesis was submitted last semester, it remains relevant for how we peruse our cultural heritage today. I would like to share the abstract with you. Abstract...
Listen to This: Don’t Miss the Sound to Convey Data!
Aristotle wrote in his work Metaphysics that sight is man’s most significant sense. “We understand because we see”, Alberto Cairo similarly states in his book The functional Art. Philosophy has tried to understand sight and the relation between images and human perception since the beginning...
#IC14NL: Selfiecity
The 7th Infographic Conference took place last month on March 7th and featured Selfiecity, a collaborative project led by Lev Manovich and the Software Studies Initiative that was presented to the audience by fellow team member Mortiz Stefaner. Launched in...
Cinemetrics: Creative Ways to Measure and Visualize Movie Data
Visualizations with meta data from movies is nothing new, however those mostly depict available data sets about movies’ budgets, box office and their awards. Only recently designers and film historians with the help of media visualization techniques and tools...
SHOW ME THE DATA! 2014
On Thursday afternoon March 27th seven interactive data visualization projects will be presented, developed by Master students of the University of Amsterdam. Show Me The Data is an annual event which is open to the public, click here for...
Re-visiting 90s media theory: The Media Archive by ADILKNO
Alexandra Kontou, Caroline Boserup, Jakub Dutka ADILKNO / BILWET (Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge / Stichting tot Bevordering van Illegale Wetenschap ) was founded in 1983 as a collective of five artists/authors, Geert Lovink, Arjen Mulder,...
The Digital Book: curating emails via the EPUB format
During the first block of the Spring semester, a group of MA New Media students took part in the elective The Digital Book. This course aims to contextualise the rise of digital publishing in theoretical terms, focussing on themes...
Second Tuesday proudly presents LEV Light Reader
The LEV Light Reader The LEV Light Reader is a selection of key texts by Lev Manovich, most of which where previously unpublished. This reader has been compiled and edited by students at the University of Amsterdam in cooperation...
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[Thesis] The Quest for Happiness in Self-Tracking Mobile Technology
Abstract The practice of self-tracking became more accessible to the general public in recent years through the widespread use of connected portable devices (in particular smartphones), improved human biometric sensors, platforms and services specifically designed for monitoring purposes, and...