Posts Tagged: urban screens

De presentaties van Urban Screens 2011: Screening the City zijn...

Screening the City video documentatie

By margreet riphagen, December 12, 2011

De presentaties van Urban Screens 2011: Screening the City zijn geregistreerd en hieronder te bekijken. Dank aan alle sprekers voor hun bijdragen! 10.00 – 12.00u SLIMME STEDEN EN BEWONERS Joost Plattel THE QUANTIFIED SELF [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33543264[/vimeo]   Leonieke Verhoog – FIGURERUNNING [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33542779[/vimeo]   René van Engelenburg – DROPSTUFF [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33546754[/vimeo]   13.00 – 14.30u CONTENT OP LOCATIE [...]

Supporting the pixel liberation front: blurring the boundary between lights and displays

By denisseiglesias, November 3, 2011

“…If you think of every light in the city, …essentially being a pixel…that is programmable, that is editable, that can transform the experience of the city… that respond to the people moving around in the city and engage in the city… This is a fundamental reformulation of the idea of ….urban lightning…  Now you can [...]

Led it Up @ NFF

By denisseiglesias, October 3, 2011

Between the 21st and 30th of September the Led it Up Team from the MediaLab Amsterdam team got a spot at the Nederlands Film Festival. Between 19.00hrs and 21.00hrs people could use their smart phones to play the game Galgje with Dropstuff’s screen placed in Neude Utrecht. Using dutch film database video content, and part [...]

Urban Screens @ Picnic!

By denisseiglesias, September 19, 2011

This year’s PICNIC festival  spanned the theme of Urban Futures. The question on the table was how cities of the future could adapt to deal with a global population set to hit 8 billion by the year 2030. A broad variety of talks, workshops and activities were held in Amsterdam’s northern docklands in a temporary [...]
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22583001[/vimeo] London-based Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to...

Light organism

By denisseiglesias, September 19, 2011

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22583001[/vimeo] London-based Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving improvements in human and animal health. This year they celebrate their 75th anniversary, and they hold a special exhibition that introduces visitors to some of the key people behind the Trust’s achievements, including the Human Genome Project; malaria drug discovery; funding of science and [...]
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25087555[/vimeo] rAndom International is a London-based collective who are developing...

A study of time, by rAndom International 2011

By denisseiglesias, September 6, 2011

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25087555[/vimeo] rAndom International is a London-based collective who are developing projects and installations that have as a goal to re-interpret the ‘cold’ nature of digital work and emphasize on the interaction of the audience with the object. ‘A study of time’ is one of their recent works, which is based on their choreographic design for [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rlinVbCtZE[/youtube] Use Your Head is an interactive urban projection produced...

Urban Projection Use Your Head MediaLAB 2011

By denisseiglesias, September 5, 2011

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rlinVbCtZE[/youtube] Use Your Head is an interactive urban projection produced by MediaLAB Amsterdam together with the Filmwerkstatt Munster for the Flurstucke Festival. The audience can play a game where they use their own head as an avatar on the characteristic facade of the Diozesan Bibliothek. The goal of the game is to find a balance between [...]
From 25 August until 11 September 2011, the American artist...

Slow Dancing in The Hague

By sabine, August 29, 2011

From 25 August until 11 September 2011, the American artist David Michalek’s large scale portraits of renowned dancers are projected onto super-sized screens at Spui, in the city centre of The Hague. The super slow-motion videos, shot with a high-speed camera recording at 1,000 frames per second, reveal the muscular tension and precision of a [...]

Theo Watson: Start Your Own Graffiti Research Lab!

By Liliana Bounegru, December 5, 2009

Theo Watson is one of the members of Graffiti Research Lab, an art group which brings together hacking and graffiti writing into digital graffiti as a form of communication in urban spaces. The organization is based in New York and now has other nodes Mexico, Vienna, and Amsterdam, where Theo is located. The group experiments [...]
Urban Screens 09: The City as Interface 4 December 09...

Urban Screens Amsterdam Event on 4 Dec 09

By elena, November 1, 2009

Urban Screens 09: The City as Interface 4 December 09 at Trouw | De Verdieping Amsterdam Program is online here Registration: register@networkcultures.org Tickets: € 12, students: € 10,- (bring your student card/ op vertoon van studentenpas). N.B. Fee includes lunch and a copy of the Urban Screens Reader! Urban Screens is a series of events [...]