Our colleagues at the MediaLAB Amsterdam are ready to kick off their new year. This year, there are four thematic strands: Locative Media, Media and Education, Transmedia Storytelling and Urban Screens. The INC works with the MediaLAB on two projects: Open Courseware (in the Media and Education strand) and Urban Screens. If you are interested in joining the MediaLAB as a student or project partner, please contact: G (dot) Gootjes (at) hva (dot) nl.

To learn more about the MediaLAB, you can watch an interview with Gijs Gootjes (in Dutch), or visit their website http://international.medialab.hva.nl/(English) or http://medialab.hva.nl/ (Dutch).

On December 4, the INC will organize an Urban Screens event in Trouw Amsterdam, in collaboration with MediaLAB Amsterdam and the Netherlands Architecture Institute. For more information, see www.networkcultures.org/urbanscreens or contact Sabine (at) networkcultures (dot) org.

Interview with Matteo Pasquinelli by Klubradio

http://backyardradio.de/files/mp3/matteo.pasquinelli034.interview.mp3

Surfing the waves of crisis – from energy, to environment to the current financial crisis, Pit Schultz and Matteo Pasquinelli talk failed metropolis, cyberpunk and underground culture. A history lesson for urban survival in the future, they discuss notions from J.G. Ballard, digital sub cultures and parasitic cybernetics.  Matteo bids a dirty farewell to media culture!

Matteo Pasquinelli is a writer, curator and researcher at Queen Mary University of London. He edited the collections Media Activism (2002) and C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader (2007). With Katrien Jacobs and the Institute of Network Cultures, he organised the Art and Politics of Netporn conference (2005). He lives in Amsterdam.

Podcast Produced by www.Klubradio.de