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Hi all. While I’m finishing up my master thesis at the moment with only 5 weeks before the graduation day, there’s still time (I guess) to announce another interesting event, namely of a multidisciplinary performance by the VVORK artist collective. In their show, ‘Variety‘, they’ll give an contemporary and experimental interpretation of art pieces. Here’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]