Masters of Media
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 and guest essays from renowned authors, commentators, academics and artists.
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 network of people working in the field. Three days full of experiences exchanges, workshops and keynote speakers all treating the workings of the web, independent media, hacking and so much more.
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.
Overview on the “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there” annual symposium
On Friday 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 of design, art, journalism, neurobiology, fashion, literature and film. This Symposium was the third edition of the yearly symposia initiated by MOTI.
Symposium “I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I Know I Want To Be There”
A thunderous introduction by Film + Design called ‘Modern Worship’ shows a time-lapse video image of a dancing King of Pop impersonator in full glitterati, refracting the stage-lights in a multitude of sparkles and starbursts, while slo-mo moonwalking across the black nothingness. Cue the airplane. First the nose of the plane cuts through the left cadre of the projection,
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Mark Changizi – “Cultural selection as the new blind watchmaker” at “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there”
In his presentation at MOTI’s “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there” theoretical neurobiologist Mark Changizi elaborated on the research method he applies to investigate the field of why it is that the human brain processes optical information like it does. Instead of…
Paola Antonelli – “Talk to Me” at “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there”
Last Saturday was the third edition of the symposium ‘I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there’ initiated by MOTI. The topic of this year symposium was about visual culture and how these effect us. A wide range of artists, journalists and critical thinkers took the stage. I was impressed by the quality of…
Google Search Plus Your World; seems to be the next big move in a long and painful war
So, what is going on on the interwebs? Well, in the social and search segment, things are getting heavily mixed up. Google finally uses its monopoly to push Google+ with its Search Plus Your World. Basically, the search results will get personalised even more than before, based on your G+ account. These personalised results will appear in the organic search results. Next to that, if you search for a person or brand, Search Plus Your World will show G+ accounts before Facebook Pages or Tweets. I can hear you say 'duh, obvious move', however, lot of people act surprised and start panicking. Strange.
Seminar: CBS Datavisualization – Bas Broekhuizen
Last Friday the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) organized their first interactive data visualization day “Datavisualisatie in beweging”.
With this seminar statistic data supplier CBS invited several data visualization professionals, to present their work in order to explore the data visualization field and the different disciplines involved. The main question that rises today is how to uses…
Seminar: CBS Data Visualization – Data Journalism
- Last Friday the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) held an interactive data visualization day “Datavisualisatie in beweging” initiated by web designer Eugene Tjoa and Bas Broekhuizen. With this seminar several data visualization professionals were invited, to present their work in order to explore the data visualization field and the different disciplines involved. -
In the former post…
Lessons in anti-security: tactical media and viral art
The following report is the outcome of two three hour sessions held in the context of the New Media course “Critical Media Art”, exploring the ideas and practices of ‘tactical media‘, in particular the use of viral tactics by artists, programmers, activists, and their collaborations. In the first session, media theorist Erik Kluitenberg gave a lecture…
Twitter vs. Established Media: Gatewatching, Information Dissemination and #OccupyLSX
A summary of paper presented at the DMI Winter School Mini-Conference, Amsterdam (January 2012)
Abstract:
Twitter is a social media platform where users’ messages can take flight, gain elevation (RT function), achieve direction (@ function), and be grouped together (# function) like a flock of birds or a murmuration of starlings.
Broadly speaking, the paper examines how…
Art is a Time Machine and Sonic Acts XIV is Travelling Time
Pictures by Sophie de Krom
We have experienced a mix of spectacular, timeless and technical sounds, dynamic pictures, relaxing smells and impressive colors. A combination we could hardly imagine before we had visit Sonic Acts.
When we arrived at SMART project space we are asked to take off our coat and shoes. By entering the space…
Participatory Media Art
This is a report of the session on participatory art held on February 28, 2012 from 9 to 11 AM in Amsterdam. The session was organised as part of a course called Critical Media Art, itself part of the University of Amsterdam New Media MA programme. The session was split up into three parts. First, the work on participatory art…
I Want You To Want Me
I Want You to Want Me by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar made me think: it’s a huge, goddamn lonely digital universe out there. It feels like, as researchers (and people) we’ve just launched an exploration into a new cosmos and the results are sometimes more unnerving than fascinating.
Ganaele Langlois Speaks about Language and Meaning in Software
[originally published on the UnlikeUs #2 conference blog]
Software Matters, the first session of the second day of Unlike Us #2, was introduced and chaired by Korinna Patelis, who underlined that software can be read and interpreted as a text, which has extraordinary implications for social media analysis. Users of social media read…
Jodi Dean Says “There Is No Such Thing as the Social”
[originally published on the UnlikeUs #2 conference blog]
After Geert Lovink’s enthusiastic welcome speech, which also introduced Social What? Defining the Social, the first session of UnlikeUs #2, Jodi Dean (pictured right) took to the stage and launched into a passionate presentation – that made excellent comic use of Lego-inspired imagery…
Night of the Living Dead: Future Museum
An Evening with Facing Forward: Theorizing the Future
This article is a co-creation by Autumn Hand, Juliana Paiva, Kendall Grady and Mario Gesteira.
The five hundred forward-thinking individuals gathered for an inquiry into Future Museum were eager to pick the brains of Hans Belting, art historian; Rein Wolfs,…
Plan (Your) Obsolescence – Archive (as) Art
This article is a co-creation by Autumn Hand, Juliana Paiva, Kendall Grady and Mario Gesteira.
Archive (An Informal Introduction)
Let’s blow the dust and grime off the archive. Let’s get to the art of this matter too.
Whether archive evokes a bourgeois, elite, stuffy academic notion of a hidden-away trove of…
Visualizations of space, social data and a bit of history at the 2012 InfographICs conference
Secrets of the far-distant corners of the Universe, paths of human activities seen from above, the history of infographics and even some shots of time travels on board of a DeLorean: the fifth edition of the InfographICs conference, held in the Dutch city of Zeist on 9 March, has been the meeting point of more than 300 professionals…