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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]