For the last few weeks I’ve spent time on creating and updating my portfolio and curriculum vitae, something I stopped doing a few years ago. This time, I didn’t want to make the site too hard to navigate. (The problem I have with many portfolio’s is that they present themselves as archives that consist of [...]

Last Monday, I attended at yet another edition (the seventh) of the This Happened series, events where (interaction) designers reflect upon their projects, work philosophy and developments in the field. After my experience with This Happened #6, I had high expectations (and the fact that this time reservations were close within 8 minutes instead of [...]

During the conference called Doors of Perception, held back in 2002 in Amsterdam, prof. Philip Tabor elaborated on the relations between creative thinking, virtuality and space. Although it focuses on architecture specifically, it applies well on contemporary new media technologies. Here’s one of the paragraphs that struck me: We build up this semi-random cloud of [...]

(This article was cross-posted on the Masters of Media blog). Here’s the final version of my thesis (called ‘Persistence of Life-Streams – An Inquiry Into the Implications of Mixed Surveillance’) which covers the nature and implications of (participatory) surveillance in the field of social media, and specifically in life-streaming services like Twitter and Facebook. (PDF [...]