Masters of Media

Endless rows of audio recordings, video tapes and all kinds of other audio-visual information can be found in archives all over the world. According to UNESCO there is over 200 million hours of audio-visual material on our planet, the only problem is that a great part of it is decaying; cultural and historical recordings are not going to last in their original storage formats. Digital technologies provide new possibilities for storing this cultural heritage, but the question is how do we best use these technologies to secure our collective memory?

Since I grew up in the eighties, the complete history of videotape which this book starts off with made me visit places I passed a long time ago. At moments the recognition was instantly. For instance I recollect a Monday morning in the early nineties, when I was about ten years old. We were sitting in a circle in classroom.…

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Being born in ex-Yugoslavia and understanding its culture, environment and heritage, I can not exclude them from my analysis of ‘Ideology of Design’. I hope that my analysis will not be judged and merely seen as a different non-Western perspective on the book.

The book promises to give us insight in the theories and practices…

Ever since I’ve stumbled upon its flickr group, I’ve been fascinated by a phenomenon called ‘databending’, the art of the glitch. Digital art created from software glitches. As we move more and more into the digital age it is almost impossible not to use or transfer digital data on a daily basis. As technology gets more complex and more…

“New information technologies have become ubiquitous and thoroughly established in our everyday life. This marks the end of a period of intense experimentations and speculations related to the introduction of global communication systems more than a decade ago. Artists and cultural workers were the first to explore the liberatory dimensions and to apply emancipatory potentials. These early…

Today i'm present at Picnic'10 and i'm really excited to be here. I will be live blogging today via the 'Masters of Media' blog and also on my personal Twitter. Don't hesitate to ask if there are any questions about PICNIC10.Right now i'm in the seminar 'The European Street Challenge', it's about making a difference, especially through creative thinking:A European Digital Design – Myth or Reality? A collaboration between the Futur en Seine, PICNIC, French and Dutch Designers, and the Paris and Amsterdam municipalities. Can European creatives design digital solutions across European cultures? A Parisian company can create and design a distinctive and expressive product for Paris. Can it do the same for Amsterdam?

Last week I attended a conference on Internet, Policy and Politics at the OII in Oxford. I was invited to present my paper based on my MA research conducted in Brazil, which I finished a couple of weeks ago.

So here we go, enjoying the amazing picnic experience!

Below you can find some pictures from the activities you can access at the festival/ conference..

So far everything is amazing!

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Several speakers in this session, Everything We Know about Transmedia is Wrong are sharing their thoughts about what transmedia is and what is about.  What are the current views on transmedia and is it still a dominant tool in for example marketing and social events nowadays.

The AI game, which came out in 2001, resulted in an enormous…

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Roman speaks about the emergence first globally consistent market called “the net generation”. The worldwide generation aging from 16 till approximately 35 grew up with internet and new technology. The Internet created a physical web of people located all around the world with more common interests then any other generation before. They form a group of consumers…

Working towards a fully connected professional world

Eugenie van Wiechen is the Dutch main director of LinkedIn, the largest professional networking site in the world with more than 55 million. Today on PICNIC10 she gave her vision on the growth of LinkedIn in the past few years especially in Holland. The critical question remains: “How to make…

“Take any article on Wikipedia. Who wrote it? Where did it come from? Now take a closer look at those unconvincing, badly written sentences in the middle. Why did someone add them? How long will it be before someone else deletes them? And how many people will have read them before they are removed?” -Andrew Dalby

Who, What, Where, When and…

Social network sites are very popular within media studies. They are common research subjects. How often did you refer to Facebook or LinkedIn when writing an article? There is not one way to explore the universe of social media. But what direction do you need to go to reach that academic level? Is a Marxist approach necessary…

Data have an incredible argumentative potential. Data can be produced, filed, saved, evaluated, spread, sold, aggregated, falsified, interpreted, transmitted, protected, processed and combined. Data show relations, support theses and disprove assumptions. Data can also change over the time and become a trend, which warns of the future or predicts better times. That means that data can have a prognostic potential…

Starting from its very title (“The digital humanist”), all in this book is clearly rooted into a hybrid philosophy, a way of looking at things from an interdisciplinary point of view. The context is that of Digital Humanities or Humanities Computing, a study/research field where the impact of digital technology on traditional humanities’ disciplines is analyzed along with the parallel…

PICNIC is certifiably special and cool. There’s a lot of love for ideas there and I’m happy to share that yesterday I finally had the chance to experience this unique festival first hand for the first time. Immediate impressions? I want to go again and again. And not just because of the awesome venue where it took place…

Chris Anderson headlined his latest feature in Wired magazine: The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet. He maintains that with the ubiquitous iPhone comes app addiction; so while most of us spend the whole day on the internet (using applications like Spotify and Google Maps) we’re no longer browsing the web as much as we used to. The browser is THEN and the app is NOW. In Africa the opposite is true.

Nowadays a lot of people are in some form represented on the internet. These virtual forms can include profiles on social network sites like Facebook and Twitter, but also as writings on a personal websites and blogs. They has been labeled many names, including data double (Haggerty & Ericson, 2000), a databased self (Simon, 2005) and the one I like most: the dividual…

Friday, 17 september, in Hague’s Korzo5HOOG theater, I, with companion, got immersed in the phantasies of dancer and choreographer Kenneth Flak. Inspired on the thinking experiment ‘The Chinese Room’ placed in the context of the notions of William Gibson’ ‘cyberspace’, the dance performance was a pleasure to behold. Accompanied by the multimedia artist