In the beginning of my master’s second semester there was the option to enroll for several interesting courses; ‘Information Visualization’, ‘Transformation of Politics’ and lastly ‘Scopic Regimes of Virtuality’. Eventually I choose for the Scopic Regimes course (supervised by Edward A. Shanken) in which “we [would] develop our own theories of contemporary scopic regimes by [...]

Hiya. This week a tough decision needs to be made; which one of these three events will be the most appealing, useful or inspirational? Beat me on why these great events are hosted on the exact same evening, namely coming Thursday, May 27th. For those of you who like to combine several events: the different [...]

Since the release of the popular music streaming service Spotify in The Netherlands this week, my Twitter-stream exploded with messages from enthusiasts who were waiting for months for Spotify to expand its streaming empire. So now the application’s here, along with a massive database of music, and localized advertising for – for example – (in)famous bourgeoise singers, [...]

Besides tomorrow’s V2_ Test_Lab event, there’s also a conference organized around the topic of data-visualisation. Unfortunately, there’s not much of a specific event program available. Still, the international line-up of speakers looks promising. I also look very much forward to see the research projects (collaborations between the UvA and HKU students) that were initiated and developed in Yuri [...]