First and foremost I’d like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2012! The starting of the new year (and having a few days off) was a good opportunity to work on updating my blog and portfolio sites.
Posts by Sjoerd
Mark Changizi – “Cultural selection as the new blind watchmaker” at “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there”
(This article was cross-posted on the Masters of Media blog.) 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 [...]
Joanne Richardson about the critical distance in political filmmaking
(This article was cross-posted on the Video Vortex conference blog.) From video artist Joanne Richardson (GER) was invited to give a presentation in the session called “Online Video as a Political Tool”, she immediately had problems with the terms ‘online’, ‘political’ and ‘tool’. As Marx had wrote in the Economic Transcript, a social revolution will [...]
Teague Schneiter about preserving indigenous heritage with IsumaTV
(This article was cross-posted on the Video Vortex conference blog.) In Friday’s first session called “It’s Not a Dead Collection, it’s a Dynamic Database”, media archivist and researcher Teague Schneiter (US/CA) took off with an elaboration about the ‘IsumaTV‘ project she’s currently working on. The people behind this initiative aim to set up an accessible [...]
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