Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
The eighth edition of the Dutch Electronic Art festival is titled “Interact or Die!” and I am more than ready to interact. This is my third visit to the DEAF festival and the amount of installations seems to have slunk to a third. Due to funding problems the quantity has gone down but the quality… Read more Photos opening DEAF07 – Interact or Die!
Google is still maintaining it’s strong number one position in the search engine landscape. Microsoft is trying to get back by launching it’s new Live Search service, but are they strong enough to overthrow the almighty Google? This is one of the questions I asked myself for my BA thesis. And of course there are… Read more Open-search kick-off workshop
The Masters of Media are blogging (semi) live from the MyCreativity conference:
Staalplaat with Bas van Koolwijk at the Sensoralia festival 2006 in Brancaleone in Rome. I had a great weekend in Rome with Eliane Roest who curated the Dutch audiovisual showcase for the festival. I helped her out technically by making the DVD. More photos on Flickr.
Meet my databody: Futurism vs Passeism The data body is the total collection of files connected to an individual. (Critical Art Ensemble) I uploaded my iTunes playlist to the Paraplay server at home, thus feeding the Paraplay database with my favorite songs and recently played songs. My songs, amongst the other songs of attending people,… Read more Paraplay in Paradiso photos
I designed our Masters of Media t-shirts This morning we, Masters of Media, attended the student seminars at the Cross Media conference PICNIC06 at the Westergasfabriek. This is the first Cross Media conference week in Amsterdam and it seems to be a good initiative. But it’s a rather pricey initiative to attend at the cost… Read more Crossmedia conference PICNIC06