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 [...]

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.

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 [...]