Okay, first of all sorry for the title. If you are hoping to get some randy Bonnie and Clyde details or some smashing peas and carrots recipes, I am afraid I will have to disappoint you. But, if you are interested in great collaborations, this might still be your cup of tea. I am talking [...]
My life as a movie. Whilst the violins were playing there he was – in slow- motion of cours – walking towards me. This random stranger and I, we shared a glance, walked past each other and went our ways with Dustin O’Hallorans non- diegetic musical presence. It was magical… But that was in my world. In his world [...]
The official opening of Fablab.iMAL that took place on Friday 14th in the well-known Brussels-based Media Lab iMAL (Center for Digital Cultures and Technology) gave us the chance to look closer at personal fabrication and to observe curious artifacts. On the Brussels Maritime Canal banks, more precisely in Quai des Charbonnage/Koolmijnenkaai, one can find [...]
Every good idea is a solution to a problem. In the case of San Francisco based start-up Nextdoor the problem is that neighbors no longer get to know each other and truly communicate. The small-scale social network is trying to solve this by introducing a digital medium for neighbors to exchange messages, ask for help [...]
The way people viewed artworks throughout history has been very different and has evolved over time. Walter Benjamin’s essay on the work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility has become a classic text about arts in modern mass society. In his essay he discusses a shift in perception; the way we see [...]
Reviewers: Evangelia Anagnostaki, Paola Gulian & Despoina Mountanea. Info: 24/08-28/09 FIBER exhibits up-and-coming audiovisual artists at NIMK with works by: Nicolas Andreas Fischer,Leon Lubberdink & Robin Koek, Matthias Oostri, Gabey Tjon A Tham,Lieven van Velthoven Just a day before its closing, we decided to visit and review this collaborative audiovisual art exhibition and, as a [...]
“A picture says more than thousand words.” This is the strength behind social network site Pinterest, a virtual pinboard where people can collect and share pictures and photos of interest they find on the web. The founders of Pinterest have as goal to: “Connect everyone in the world through the ‘things’ they find interesting. We [...]
Second author Daan Smith The application Ptch can be used as an application for your smartphone (at this time only available for iPhone) and it is integrated with a lot of remix-capabilities. The application gives you the chance to create new (social) videos called Ptches. You can use “all” of your (social) media content (also [...]
By: Juliana Marques and Sonia Kolasinska Tired of checking many news websites every morning to get the full overview of what’s going on? Pulse is the solution. With the help of this app it’s a piece of cake to gather posts from your favorite news websites and blogs in one place. Released two years ago, the app [...]
At September 4th 2012 the public broadcast station NOS announced that Dutch gas prices are higher than ever. For people who don’t own a car, like most of the students, this news is negligible and there is no need to think of a possible solution to deal with this issue. But, unfortunately, everything comes to an [...]
The emulation of older forms of media has, as Bolter and Grusin (2000) have famously argued, always been a central part of digital media. Nostalgic callbacks to older media abound. To offer just a few examples, Instagram revives the aesthetics of the Polaroid, while the recent Dutch satirical YouTube program Panache reminds its viewers of [...]
Medium is a newly announced publishing platform initiated by the Obvious Corporation. With Medium, the founders of Twitter and Blogger are “rethinking publishing … from the scratch”. The site is to be launched in early 2013, and is now open for publishing only for a select few. Publishing on Medium is organized around topics. Topics [...]
As early as 1997, WELL member Michael H. Goldhaber predicted the paradigmatic shift that would be brought about in the global economy as widespread use of the internet began to take place. He realized that in these coming times of unavoidable information overload, getting attention (and most importantly maintaining it) would be the deciding factor. No sector [...]
When was the last time you’ve sent someone a postcard? And not just over the e-mail e-cards that go directly to people’s spam folders, but the good old days genuine postcards brought home by the postman. In the age of speed-reading and skimming through loads of wall-posts and search results, nobody slows down to put [...]
“Fancy is part store, blog, magazine and wishlist. It’s a place to discover great stuff, to curate a collection of things you love, to get updates on your favorite brands and stores and to share your discoveries. We built it because we love to show off the things we have and to window-shop for things [...]
The revisiting of favourite films and novels is a common practice, in fact for many, the notion of ‘re-reading the classics’ can be even more enjoyable and enlightening than their initial interpretation. Yet for gaming, which has always and only existed in a new media environment, revisiting the classics has been limited and overwritten by [...]
On Saturday 29th of September, Pirate Cinema attended Polderweg Damoclash festival, (located in Amsterdam-Oost), with their five-wheeled bicycle installation. Pirate Cinema’s essence lies in the synthesis of the mobile media and in its inclusion of the socially engaged message of public participation. As a non permanent object, rooted in a physical space, but at the same [...]
To be where the party is does not longer mean you might not like the music. The times of the silent disco are over! We can all again listen to music together in real life with people who appreciate the same genre via the use of multiple Apps. But we’ve found an app that combines [...]
by Serena Westra and Katía Truijen The 17th and 18th of September PICNIC 2012 was held in EYE Filminstitute in Amsterdam. At the international gathering, about 3000 professionals were present from different fields like business, technology, government, NGO’s, education and the creative industries. The theme of this edition was ‘New ownership: The Shift from Top [...]
Healthcare apps are on the rise. According to Research2Guidance, 500 million smartphone users worldwide will be using a healthcare app by 2015. It will change the way healthcare is delivered in the future, but also increases the risk of dependence on an unreliable source (Visser and Bouman). ‘Moetiknaardedokter?’ is one of the latest healthcare apps, [...]