Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Lev Manovich published a .doc and .pdf of his upcoming book Software Takes Command online. You may download it, send in suggestions and remarks and design your own cover. Here’s my design for Software Takes Command by Lev Manovich using an image I took while visiting the Software Studies Workshop led by Manovich at UCSD.
This morning I received the following message from my mother: @silvertje: Congrats! Take part in the world wide party. Today at 14:28h the www has existed in the Netherlands for twenty years. I would like to celebrate this special occasion with a sneak preview into an assignment I did in high school on the internet.… Read more Happy 20th Birthday Dutch Internet!
At the Q&A of the Moving Movie Industrie conference someone from the audience asked me what the difference between a journal and a blog is. In my MA thesis I moved away from the genre approach of blogging that often sees blogging as a form of keeping a diary or as a form of journalism.… Read more Bruce Sterling: “The person who comes up with the new buzzword for ‘blog’ should win a Nobel Prize!”
Last Friday I gave a lecture on ‘The Perceived Freshness Fetish’ at the Stifo@Sandberg Moving Movie Industry Conference organized by Mieke Gerritzen and moderated by Koert van Mensvoort. In my lecture I focused on the changing notion of authorship in blogging as blogs are more and more becoming autonomous units within the network. This network… Read more Slides and notes from my presentation at Stifo@Sandberg Moving Movie Industry
Where: Theater van ’t Woord Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam Oosterdokskade 143 1011 DL Amsterdam Time: 9.30 hours – 17.00 hours Entrance: Free Reservations via conference@sandberg.nl (obligated due to limited amount of seats) Program: 09.30 – Registration & coffee 09.50 – Welcome by Mieke Gerritzen & Hans Maarten van den Brink 10.00 – Bruce Sterling (USA )… Read more Stifo@Sandberg – The Moving Movie Industry
It’s been three days since BLOG08 finished so I had some time to wrap up unfinished postings and reflect on the event. First of all I would like to thank journalism.co.uk who enabled me to attend the conference. As you can read on my badge the tagline of BLOG08 was “rockstars of the web” and… Read more BLOG08: The after thoughts