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Although the Fifa World Cup may preoccupy much of your precious media consumption time this week – honestly, with the crushed hopes for the South-African team, the Bavaria-skirt legal struggles and Frank Snoeks commenting many of the matches, it’s getting uglier every day – I would like to ‘enlighten’ you with some good old film [...]

Hiya. I got yet another announcement for an upcoming event, namely for The Bodily Turn held at Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst in Amsterdam coming Friday. Yes, it will overlap with Robert Overweg’s exhibition opening – will they ever learn to not plan interesting programs simultaneously?
Anyhow, although UvA professor Jan Simmons is involved in the first [...]

Later this month an extraordinary evening will be hosted at the Waag Society by Rob van Kranenburg. While you might know him from his recent publication The Internet of Things (which covers the society of control and hacktivistic approaches), I’ve come to meet him a couple of times during discussion groups organized by a fellow [...]

Last month I wrote about three promising media-events that were scheduled on the exact same day (what are the odds?). Eventually I decided to go for Re:visie:lab:6, where students presented very diverse projects (mostly technically interesting, not always as convincing conceptually). Also presenting were net.art artist Constant Dullaart (who, for example, explored the YouTube player [...]

First off, I’d first like mention an upcoming symposium as a part of the INFODECODATA exhibition (Sunday 13 June 2010, Graphic Design Museum Breda). There’ll be plenty of interesting speakers including Lev Manovich (in my opinion horrible in discussions), Jack van Wijck and Yuri Engelhardt discussing fundamental questions like ‘Will the Graphic Designer become a [...]