Masters of Media

Overview on the “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there” annual symposium

On Saturday December 17th, The Museum of the Image (formally known as the Graphic Design Museum) organized a symposium about visual culture in Paradiso, Amsterdam. The symposium brought together a crowd of professional, students and industries from the fields...

By Clément Adam on 12/18/11 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

Marcelo Somers: Advertising works when it can scale

The Syndicate is a new breed of an ad network. Among its members are Khoi Vinh, former NYTimes.com design director, Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, and Horace Dediu, mobile computing analyst.

By Andrian Georgiev on 12/09/11 Comments Off

Next Nature Book: Nature Changes Along With Us

Next Nature: Nature Changes Along With Us is positioned at the intersection of technology, design and nature. It is a 472-page compendium of the most thought-provoking observations from the awarded website nextnature.net, supplemented by lots of visuals, infographics, maps...

By Natalie Dixon on 11/25/11 Comments Off

How Chinese Weibo has Changed China

Weibo is the chinese name for “Micro blog”, which was born two years ago, but now has already reached millions of users. Because of the strict censorship in China, the birth of weibo is the same as the birth of...

By Siying Yang on 11/21/11 1

IDFA DocLab, your place for discovering new forms of documentary storytelling. Nov 17 – 23, 2011. Amsterdam.

The world-renown International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam officially kicks off its 10 day program today, permeating itself across theaters around the city . Perhaps less known but more exciting for the ‘new media crowd’ is IDFA DocLab, a unique...

By Ekaterina Yudin on 11/16/11 Comments Off

[Event] Amsterdam Commercial Night

For those of you interested in Commercials and marketing: The Marketing Association Amsterdam organizes the Amsterdam Commercial Night on Friday the 18 November 2011. This year’s theme is “Interactivity Brings People Together”. The evening will be filled with (inter)national...

By Clément Adam on 11/14/11 Comments Off

Dis Connecting Media

In the current literary landscape of mobile phones and mobile culture it’s rare to find a title that’s both playful and insightful. In fact, most titles concerning mobile-mediated communication are text tomes: although interesting, also dense. Occasionally...

By Natalie Dixon on 11/12/11 Comments Off

Alexander Klöpping and the Myth of Expertise – Interview

Note: This posting will continue in Dutch. This because translating the interview would be a waste of fine Dutch language, used by the interviewee – believe me, I’ve tried. Also, he is a Dutch celebrity who appears on Dutch...

By Roos van Tongerloo on 11/09/11 4

Wikimedia Conference 2011: Cultural Heritage, Commons and lots of Data. Pt. 2

This is part 2 of my report on the Wikimedia conference 2011. The first part can be found here Teun Lucassen – Wikipedia is reliable Almost all the sessions in the cultural heritage track were presentations about...

By Joris Pekel on 11/08/11 Comments Off

Wikimedia Conference 2011: Cultural Heritage, Commons and lots of Data. Pt. 1

On Saturday 5 November, the Wikimedia foundation held a conference in Utrecht. I took the opportunity to go there and write this report about it. Because of the size I decided to split it in two parts. The first...

By Joris Pekel on 11/08/11 3

WappZapp; the revolution of interactive real-time television

The computational era we currently live in overwhelms us with the latest gadgetry, fidgets and means of communications. It is a tidal wave of new media micro-evolutions which we engulf ourselves in every day. Its innovational force moves so...

By Jeroen Rijskamp on 11/06/11 2

Exit Through the Webshop

The following is an interview with the founder of dutchdamage, Matthijs van der Meulen, currently head of the digital media department at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Q: How did Dutchdamage come into being? A: In 1996 I started taking...

By Martijn Dorresteijn on 11/04/11 Comments Off

Edial Dekker, CEO of Gidsy: from hacking to collaborative consumption

In yesterday’s class we discussed the development of free software and open source. A major shift has been taking place, albeit in a slow pace, from proprietary software to a more open and free form. This change is described...

By Bree Tahapary on 11/04/11 Comments Off

Interview with Lex Slaghuis, organizer of Hack de Overheid

What is Hack de Overheid (hack the government)? Hack de Overheid is an event where hackers, government officials and journalists come together to work with government data. Hack de Overheid thinks that at this moment there are a lot...

By Wouter Timmermans on 11/03/11 2

Is your boyfriend cheating on you? There’s an app for that too

With new smart phones and GPS tracking, it’s possible to find and locate the position of other smart phones and the human body that goes with it. But is this legal? Does privacy still exist? Japanese women apparently don’t...

By Wouter Timmermans on 11/03/11 62

Netexplorateur Observatory. Talking about Crowdmash, VirtuRéalité and Webego…

Tuesday 25th of October I went to see a conference in Brussels of The Netexplorateur Observatory at Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (IHECS). This observatory is formed of sociologists that analyse hundreds of innovation in the area...

By Aurelie Ghalim on 11/02/11 Comments Off

Interview with Arkadiy Kukarkin, developer at the Hype Machine

How about an introduction: *Scroll down for the interview! The Hype Machine is a website that keeps track of what music bloggers post on their blogs. A selection of blogs are selected by the makers of the website. The...

By Clément Adam on 11/02/11 Comments Off

Meanwhile in Hungary

When the new media law for Hungary was passed on 21st of December 2010, many people were outraged at how much of a setback it was for press freedom in Hungary. A Facebook page named “One million people for...

By Demet Dagdelen on 11/02/11 Comments Off

On the Nature and Culture of Photography

The praxis and technology of photography has seen dramatic transformations over the last century. The most obvious transformations taking place in the last decade of the 20th century, marking the shift from analog to digital photography. Yet another shift...

By Martijn Dorresteijn on 11/02/11 4

Interview with The Find Magazine

The Find Magazine is a global collective of music lovers dedicated to promoting the diffusion of hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, and related genres. We are inspired by the culture of ‘crate digging’ and thus constantly scour the dusty...

By Aurelie Ghalim on 11/01/11 Comments Off

Four considerations to Microsoft’s Productivity Future Vision video

Robot butlers, flying cars, invisibility cloaks, super powers, nutrition through pills, teleportation, time travelling; we all know these future predictions from the movies and comic books. Some developments seem plausible, others improbable. They play roles in our daydreams and...

By Stijnie Thuijs on 11/01/11 Comments Off

Fleet Commander Neusa talks about EVE Online

In her 2010 TED speech Jane McGonigal states that on average we invest 3 billion hours weekly playing online games. Also, Nick Yee (2006, 70) estimates that the MMORPG player spends on average 22 hours a week playing the...

By Andrei Florian on 11/01/11 Comments Off

Thanks For Sharing; Gratitude to Social Recommendation and Cool Friends

“Knowledge sharing and creation is at the heart of innovation in all fields – science, art and business – and innovation is the driving force for wealth creation... Information can be transferred in great torrents, without any understanding or...

By Autumn Hand on 11/01/11 Comments Off