(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 [...]

(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 [...]

(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 [...]

Hear hear. Good news y’all. About four weeks ago I started working as an interaction designer at Service2Media, a company which is well known for developing applications for mobile platforms. So far, it’s great to be a part of product development and its dynamics. And while I’ve designed interfaces before, mobile is a specific working [...]