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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 [...]

On May 20, V2_ (“Institute for the Unstable Media”, based in Rotterdam) hosts another Test_Lab event. The Test_Lab series has been a unique opportunity to look into development trajectory of media artists as well as discussing them in an open setting.
Previous editions I have visited (‘Tools for Propaganda‘ and ‘Intimate Interfaces‘) have proven to be [...]

As mentioned in the earlier post about the Bonobo Band gigs, I’m admittedly a fanboy of the hip-hop / electronic music label Ninja Tune, founded by the sampling pioneers Coldcut. While I’m not familiar with the entire catalogue and also dislike a few of the contracted artists, the label has released a lot of triple A [...]

Last Monday I had the chance to attend at the sixth edition of the immensely popular event called This Happened, held at the HKU (Utrecht’s art academy) theatre. With the registations being closed within merely 58 (!) seconds you’d figure that there would be some quality keynotes to be held. And actually, there were some [...]

Hiya, again it’s been a while again. I just decided turn this blog towards a bit more informal one, starting with an announcement of upcoming gigs of Bonobo. Being one of the long-runners on the Ninja Tune label, I’ve been following him (and well, the entire label) for years now and adore most of his [...]

This post below was previously posted on the Masters of Media Research Blog. Note that the keynote brought together many of the inquiries done by boyd. So, if you’re familiar with her work, this won’t be groundbreaking. (I still had a blast though).
Last week I had the chance to attend at a symposium held at [...]