Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Day two of SoftWhere 2008 was an invite-only strategy round-table session that aimed to address several questions on the formation of a new field of studies. What is Software Studies? Is it an intellectual movement, a paradigm, a school or field? According to the Software Studies Initiative directors Lev Manovich and Noah Wardrip-Fruin it is… Read more SoftWhere 2008: Software Studies Strategy Round-Table
Over the past two weeks uÉɯʞuÇɯ Ésoɹ and I have been working on the Mediamatic Distributed Library project: We are liquidating our library in protest of the cultural funding stalemate Mediamatic will give away all its books. Our library will cease to exist in protest of the impasse between the Raad van Cultuur and Minister… Read more Notes on the Mediamatic Distributed Library project
The University of California in San Diego (UCSD) organized a two day event in order to pioneer the emerging field of Software Studies. The first day was a public event titled SoftWhere 2008 which consisted of over fifteen short presentation in Pecha Kucha style. The second day consisted of a closed strategic session that dealt… Read more SoftWhere 2008: Software Studies Workshop
Kaiser Chiefs – Pinkpop 2008 I’m at the Pinkpop festival taking pictures for VPRO 3voor12. Follow me on Flickr or QIK or Twitter. Please enjoy the great mashup by @roelandp. Animal Alpha – Pinkpop 2008
I just arrived in San Diego where I will be attending the Software Studies Workshop and present my current research at UCSD. After that I will go to the HASTAC II Conference in Irvine where I will be on the Software Studies Panel and Los Angeles. Thank you very much to the Institute of Network… Read more In San Diego at the Software Studies Workshop
Ernst-Jan Pfauth got his first article and I got my first picture published in a Japanese business newspaper. It looks quite odd to spot your own name surrounded by illegible Japanese characters. The other picture was taken by Ernst-Jan and features me sitting next to Erick Schonfeld from Techcrunch blogging live from the Next Web… Read more The Next Web pictures published in Japanese newspaper