Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
The following post is a combination of a transcription of Manovich’s keynote and my own notes and commentary. Introduction by Geert Lovink Online video is renegotiating its (problematic) relationship with cinema. It deals with cinematographic principles versus the principles of the online age. We cannot directly transfer the cinematographic principles into the online age as… Read more Lev Manovich on User Generated Content @ Video Vortex
I’m off to Brussels, Belgium for the Video Vortex Conference part one “Responses to YouTube”. I will be blogging live from the conference, so stay tuned! Over the past years the moving image has claimed an increasingly prominent place on the internet. Thanks to a wide range of technologies and web applications it has become… Read more Video Vortex, Responses to YouTube : 5 October @ Argos, Brussels, Belgium
As you might have heard Radiohead dropped its major label and put its new album online for download. This is not a new strategy but what is interesting is that they don’t sell their music through iTunes for $0.99 per song or $10-12 per album but through their site only. They are moving the legal… Read more Radiohead and the Ethics and Future of Downloading Music
Two-day public program on RFID and things to come. 19 & 20 OCTOBER 2007 DE BALIE AMSTERDAM http://www.debalie.nl/recallingrfid It’s in travel documents, building passes, pet animals, clothing stores, libraries, public pools, theme parks and prisons… and yet only a few of us know what RFID is. RFID (radio frequency identification) uses radio waves to identify… Read more Recalling RFID: 19 & 20 October @ de Balie, Amsterdam
Thursday and Friday the European Bloggers (Un)Conference was held at the PICNIC conference and festival. Cory Doctorow attended for an hour to answer questions from the audience about Boing Boing. A lot of these questions concerned the business model and commercial side of the famous blog. Boing Boing is often mistaken for a magazine but… Read more PICNIC07 – Cory Doctorow Q&A at the European Bloggers (Un)Conference
Pablos Holman was so kind to present our Photobooth in his talk about “Implementing Science Fiction.” Here is the YouTube video (sorry for the poor quality, it was filmed with my phone.)