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New Media Protocols and the Artist (Rasing his Voice?)

In my research paper – which I will be writing the next two months, I want to deepen the discussion around new media art and its relation to political and social engagement. While net.art has always taken a very...

By Marta Colpani on 10/24/09 Comments Off

RFID & wireless surveillance in the Internet of Things

In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices. These will probe and monitor our bodies, even our dreams.” A RFID chip consists of...

By Maarten Hoogvliet on 10/29/09 1

E-mobility versus Immobility at Electrosmog

De Balie’s Electrosmog festival this week argues that in the age of hypermobility, staying put can be a tactic of sustainability in itself. The festival self-consciously explores the ways we might reduce our carbon footprint by substituting technology for...

By Morgan Currie on 03/20/10 8

Cartography of migration flows

It has been acknowledged today that geography and cartography are not neutral or objective scientific practices but are ultimately about relationship between power, space and place. Yet, it was only at the end of 80s /early 90s, with development...

By Radmila Radojevic on 04/27/10 7

The Whole Truth and Nothing But……Or Not?

I keep hearing that consumers demand transparency in advertising campaigns. We don’t want advertising companies to promise us one thing, and end up doing another. What else is new? Especially with the rise of online advertising and the popularity...

By Mares Kahrel on 09/09/10 3

I’ve got higher chances of dying crushed by some space debris than of trusting my yahoo inbox (these days)

I’m desperately searching for a house. I was supposed to move into a quite small but cozy flat in the Jordaan, one of the most gezellig-driven district of Amsterdam, but in the end the lady who was offering me...

By Alberto Angelini on 09/11/10 2

Burning Questions

Is Google the always-on, silent recorder of global zeitgeist? There’s Google Trends, which lists most searched-for sites and topics in the last week, month or year around the globe. This has been a useful tool for digital publishers to...

By Natalie Dixon on 09/11/10 Comments Off

Book review: Business Model Innovation Cultural Heritage

'Business Model Innovation Cultural Heritage' is a result as well a report of a project carried out in Netherlands in 2009 by two Dutch institutions, The DEN Foundation as well as Knowledgeland; and commisioned by the Ministry of Education,...

By Michal Kielbasa on 09/19/10 Comments Off

What’s a Good Online Dictionary?

Every good scholar and samaritan comes across a new word throughout their life, so we've relied on dictionaries to aid us. Our lexical resources have evolved with our languages, and even in my...

By Ashiq Khondker on 09/19/10 Comments Off

Lost in Wikipedia

I’m writing this post to say that, since I posted my wikipedia article about Lost character John Locke, I haven’t heard a single thing from bots or other people. I tried to find something that was in my field...

By Sander Jansma on 10/02/10 Comments Off

The Collective Collaboration of SpaceCollective

The English version of Wikipedia has over 3,400,000 articles at this time, so when I was contemplating a subject that I wanted to contribute on the web-encyclopedia, you could imaging it was hard to come up with something that...

By Bob Nefkens on 10/02/10 Comments Off

Contributing to Wikipedia: a painstaking task on an too open platform

Ever since Wikipedia has been embraced by millions, the online and collaboratively created encyclopedia has been heralded as the manifestation of Web 2.0’s possibilities. Often, Wikipedia has been ascribed characteristics that belong to online media that are approachable to...

By Lennard Torbijn on 10/02/10 Comments Off

To Be or Not To Be Deleted: My First Wikipedia Entry

There are 3,431,688 articles in the English Wikipedia on a dizzying range of topics. Surely there must be one on data-driven journalism, right? Well, the answer is no; an article on database journalism focuses on computer-assisted reporting, the digital...

By Catalina Iorga on 10/04/10 Comments Off

Twart: Twitter and art

Twitter offers many interesting opportunities for interactive artists. While in many projects and installations participation by interacters needs to be requested, Twitter acts as an enormous database of the human psyche that artists can rely on for their work....

By Cendy Calis on 10/11/10 Comments Off

Twitter as a conceptual frame

Most people think Twitter was “created” in 2006. These are the same people who think Richard Gere created Buddhism in the 1990′s, just before Madonna created yoga. Folks, like the sun, moon, and stars, Twitter has always been. This...

By Alberto Angelini on 10/11/10 Comments Off

Can conversations become more virtual (i.e. powerful) on Twitter?

My Twitter inquiry had as a starting point the question, whether we may deploy the notion of the virtual to enhance the “real”, or that is, the actual. So I was interested in researching whether it is possible to...

By olga paraskevopoulou on 10/11/10 4

Government Works in the Public Domain – All Your Tax-paid Content are Belong to Us

The Free Culture Research Conference last month 8-10 October (2010) devoted one of its panels to the notion that governments should explicitly release public materials – data, photographs, film – to the public domain. The moderator was Mathias Schindler...

By Morgan Currie on 11/10/10 3

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

Interacticipation: Ten Artworks Reflecting the Status of Contemporary Participation in New Media Art

Interactive art is a genre of art in which the viewers participate in a way by providing an input in order to determine the outcome (Wikipedia, 2011a). In other words, it allows a dialogue between the artwork and the...

By Lotte Woerde on 02/24/11 6

Video Vortex #6: In conversation with Natalie Bookchin (part 1)

Natalie Bookchin with Geert Lovink. Photo: Anne Helmond Artist Natalie Bookchin took time to talk to Geert Lovink about online video and her artistic practice...

By Janice Wong on 03/15/11 1

The Search Engine That Talks Back to You

With the mission of defining 'the future of information consumption', the founders of Qwiki, a self-proclaimed multimedia alternative to the text-based search provided by Google state to have launched the 'next big thing': a narrative search-tool based on the...

By Caroline Goralczyk on 03/20/11 2