Masters of Media

Technion Society of the Future

A nation that fascinates me enormous in many aspects is one of the smallest countries in the world. Despite that, this nation has four climatic zones and is the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel – that’s...

By Elias van Hees on 02/20/11 Comments Off

ERROR: The Art of the G/itch

With the advent of new technologies come new possibilities and applications that hitherto had been unthinkable. New technologies can also affect existing forms of production and presentation. These changes can lead to the emergence of new styles and ideologies,...

By Jidi Guo on 02/20/11 Comments Off

TOP: Egypt, Twitter, and Activism.

Activism and social network platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are mentioned together more often than ever. The 2009 Iranian election protest was nicknamed the ‘Twitter Revolution,’ and the more recent protests in Egypt are depicted similarly. The platforms...

By Kimberley Spreeuwenberg on 02/19/11 Comments Off

Call for Applications: International M.A. in New Media University of Amsterdam

International M.A. in New Media University of Amsterdam. Call for Applications Fall 2011 admission deadline: 1 April 2011 Overview The International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture (NMMA) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is accepting applications for...

By Anne Helmond on 02/15/11 2

26 Days of Peace – a collection of tactical media projects

Since the end of the Second World War, the world has only known twenty-six cumulated days of peace. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Gulf War gave rise to a hope that we could...

By Stefania Bercu on 02/13/11 4

FOSDEM 2011: MilkyMist Open VJ Platform

The field of VJ (visual jockey) is an increasingly prominent aspect of live performance, especially in the relatively “quiet” physical performance of electronic music. Clubs such as Winston Kingdom in Amsterdam run commercial Windows based VJ software in undynamic...

By John Haltiwanger on 02/05/11 1

Let’s become Architects

Let's think about Facebook, websites in general and possibilities. Could they be better? When was the last time you cried because of a website? And not because you looked at a LOL cat video or a drunk friend. Let's...

By Marije Rooze on 01/24/11 4

Map of Autocomplete Holland by Google

I had a look at the United States of Autocomplete by Dorothy Gambrell (found through Erik Borra's mood message on Skype, thanks!). I couldn't resist trying it out with our own little country and this what you see below...

By Minke Kampman on 12/17/10 1

Data Visualisation: World’s Facebook Friendships

Wondering what a visualisation containing a few dozen million friendships on Facebook would look like? Paul Butler thought of the same and took a shot. He says that visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank...

By Philip Man on 12/14/10 1

Who In The Australian Department of Justice Edited Julian Assange’s Wikipedia Page?

According to Wikipedia's edit history, on 23 September 2010 shortly before midnight, the entry for Julian Assange was edited by a user whose IP address belongs to the Australian Government’s Justice Department. The user attempted to make a seemingly...

By Natalie Dixon on 12/14/10 1

War 1.0: The Internets Fight Back. Pirate Bay Helps His Friend Wikileaks

It may be clear that Wikileaks is under heavy attack. Established (governmental) institutions are doing everything they can to boycot Wikileaks by cutting every source they have such as internetservers and even money funds. Including is Paypal who has...

By Philip Man on 12/08/10 1

Twitter brings New Media student on stage with Imogen Heap

Thanks to Twitter, I (Janice Wong - cellist and New Media student at the UvA) was given a great opportunity...

By Janice Wong on 11/25/10 7

Funware _playing with software art

November 12, 2010 until January 16, 2011 | Conference on saturday november 27 On saturday november 27 MU and Baltan Laboratories in collaboration with STRP Festival organise a Funware conference. Provocative views on humor, software, playing and art will...

By Rosa Menkman on 11/23/10 Comments Off

Iranian Censorship of Women’s Online Magazines

Although media censorship in Iran is a widely publicized fact, this research report seeks to establish a clearer picture of which women’s online consumer lifestyle titles Iranian web users are currently forbidden to view. This report was conducted...

By Natalie Dixon on 11/15/10 4

Michael Edson on the Smithsonian Commons

This is a blogpost originally posted on the Economy of the Commons Blog. Michael Edson, director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution and Smithsonian Commons talks about how the Institute will make all Smithsonian resources...

By Emina Sendijarevic on 11/15/10 1

Simona Levi – “Power is always using the name of freedom to do the nasty thing”

This post was orginaly posted in the Economy of the Commons conference blog: Last, but surely not least in the session of “Critique of the Free and Open” is Simona Levi, multidisciplinary artist, director of Conservas and arts festival...

By Emina Sendijarevic on 11/15/10 Comments Off

Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard and the Cost Model for Digital Preservation project

by Nicola Bozzi Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics, but she has been working for media archiving institutions involved in digital preservation...

By Nicola Bozzi on 11/15/10 Comments Off

Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Inge Angevaare and the costs of digital preservation

by Nicola Bozzi With her 11-year long experience at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, Inge Angevaare knows a good deal about...

By Nicola Bozzi on 11/15/10 2

Economies of the Commons 2: Death Knell for Open Politics

Open source, open government, open culture - as Nate Tkacz, PhD at the University of Melbourne points out in his talk at the Economies of the Commons Conference, the ubiquity of 'openness' as a master category of politics in...

By Caroline Goralczyk on 11/14/10 1

Economies of the Commons 2: Yann Moulier Boutang on Sustaining the Free and Open

In his talk at the Economies of the Commons Conference on November 12th at De Balie in Amsterdam, Yann Moulier-Boutang, editor of the Quarterly French Review MULTITUDES and professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, discussed the fate...

By Caroline Goralczyk on 11/14/10 Comments Off

Jeff Ubois and Wishful Thinking: Thoughts on Cultural Institutions and Archival

Jeff Ubois, of archival.tv, gave the last talk of the Economies of Commons 2 conference at De Balie, Amsterdam and presented his...

By Catalina Iorga on 11/14/10 Comments Off

Revenue Models – Jaromil and Marco Sachy tell us about Cyclos and their own dyndy.net

by Nicola Bozzi As a part of the Revenue Models panel at the Ecommons conference, the presentation by Jaromil and Marco Sachy focused on the...

By Nicola Bozzi on 11/14/10 5

(Pro) – Active Archives: Celluloid Remix – Annelies Termeer

Annelies Termeer presents the Celluloid Remix online video contest organized by EYE Film Institute Netherlands and Images for the Future. In this 7 years during project four public archive institutes digitize, save, preserve and share the Dutch audiovisual heritage...

By Fenneke Mink on 11/13/10 Comments Off

Michael Dale Explains the Benefits of Open Video Platforms

Michael Dale is an advocate for open standard and free video formats for the web. The past two years he has lead...

By Catalina Iorga on 11/13/10 Comments Off