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Review on Stephen Baker’s The Numerati

Stephen Baker’s The Numerati, published in 2008, tells the story of our modern world’s “binarization;” how every individual is deduced to ones and zeroes through the trails of data we leave behind which are consequently gathered, analyzed and categorized...

By Jeroen Rijskamp on 09/18/11 2

Google and the Principles of the Semantic Web

One of the first goals of the Internet was to expand the knowledge of the users by connecting different data. However, the contemporary web is by no means comparable to this initially academic network. The web expanded unprecedentedly and...

By Lauressa Ford on 09/10/12 Comments Off

Ask-the-Masters: Going Locative?

Locative media is about as vague a term as web 2.0. Essentially, locative seems to be about connecting ‘third nature’ information to real world places and/or objects. But there are a number of ways this can happen. Below I...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/29/06 6

Wikipedia and AI

Lately I’ve been looking at the possibility of using Wikipedia’s interlinking to study collective memory – seeing what associations are made and so on. Here’s an article about using similar techniques to make computers smarter. For example, with anti-spam...

By Michael Stevenson on 01/08/07 Comments Off

Internet of things book presentation at the Waag

Internet of things book presentation by Rob van Kranenburg. 28th of october, Theatrum Anatomicum, the Waag, Amsterdam intro by Geert Lovink (INC). The full publication can be found here (thanks jaromil for bringing this to my attention) (a camera...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/28/08 9

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

Big Brother Award of 2007 goes out to … You!

Friday the 21st of September, the annual Dutch Big Brother Awards were held at the Balie in Amsterdam. It was organized by the – unfortunately no longer existent – Bits of Freedom, an organisation which came up for your...

By Erik Borra on 09/25/07 5

Making the Spinplant Relevant: more from Friedrich Nietzsche

<update> See bottom of the post and the comments </ update> About a week ago there was a small-scale furor on this blog and a Nettime-NL thread surrounding the spinplant. Laura (one of the very creative members of this...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/09/07 24

Wikiscanner

In order to get some experience using a new media tool, I experimented with the Wikiscanner a bit. Ofcourse I had to see the changes made by Mabel Wisse Smit for myself. I figured it would be a bit...

By Carolien van der Vorst on 11/05/07 Comments Off

Granularity 1.0: načechrané obláčky and Flebb

načechrané obláčky and Flebb is the kick-off video for my new ‘one video a week’-project, that I started together with Extraboy. načechrané obláčky and Flebb is a response to the Video Vortex conference MOM attended last month, in Brussels....

By Rosa Menkman on 11/08/07 Comments Off

Katherine Hayles Keynote Address at the Computational Turn

How many books can a person to read in a lifetime? In her keynote address at Swansea University’s Computational Turn workshop, Katherine Hayles surmised that if we read a book a day till we’re 85, it would amount to...

By Morgan Currie on 03/13/10 1

Mobile city conference – Stephen Graham on the politics of urban space

Introduction by Ole Bouman: At the NAI, values of architecture are defended that we are fond of to defend. Most architects and policy makers do belief that architecture is about shelter and enclosure, occupation and representation. Archiving architecture used...

By Tjerk Timan on 02/29/08 9

Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube

Friday January 18 and Saturday 19th, PostCS11, Amsterdam. ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░▒░▒▒▓▓▓▒▒░▒░░▒░▒▒▓▓▓▒▒▒▓ In response to the increasing potential for video to become a significant form of personal media on the Internet, this conference examines the key issues that are emerging around the...

By Rosa Menkman on 01/15/08 Comments Off

Video Vortex: Alternative platforms and software

This session is the most concrete session of today. The focus is on practical views on online video from the perspective of speakers' practices. How do video artist, activists, programmers and curators deal with copyright issues, publishing and distributing...

By Esther Weltevrede on 01/19/08 4

Cultuur 3.0 report: “het internet is nog niet af”

Verslag van Cultuur 3.0 conferentie, 8 april, Club 11, amsterdam. Virtueel Platvorm.

By Tjerk Timan on 04/10/08 Comments Off

POLITICS: WEB 2.0 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Written for the Institute of Network Cultures Crossposted at Institute of Network Cultures Weblog Download PDF (full text including pictures) On April 17th and 18th 2008 the department of Politics and International Relations at the Royal Holloway University of...

By Roman Tol on 05/13/08 1

Getting the Most Out of My China Trip

It has been a while since I wrote my first post on international expansion of Chinese Internet companies and my experiences here in China. I wrote the post during a train ride from Guangzhou to Shanghai. A lot has...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 05/09/08 5

Visualizing the network

As a result of the course information visualization, a public screening was organized where all project teams involved got a chance to present their work at the Waag Society venue. Within a tight 6 minutes, concept explanation and implementation...

By Tjerk Timan on 05/22/08 9

Manifesto for a Schizo-analysis of Media Culture

1. Contemporary media are characterized by a stammering stream of an ever growing schizophrenic ‘logic of addition’. 2. ‘Old’ mass media like television and cinema are not dead but undead. 3. Schizophrenia points to clinical and critical symptoms of...

By Patricia Pisters on 05/25/08 2

Vriendjespolitiek.net: research into post-demographics

Since 1998, and on paper since 1989 (Stemwijzer 2008), general elections in the Netherlands have spawned a variety of so called voting recommendation machines. These systems typically ask the user to answer some questions after which they offer the...

By Erik Borra on 06/11/08 1