Institute of Network Cultures | Show me the Data – Thursday 20 May, 13:00

Manuel Lima of VisualComplexity and Daniel Aguilar of Bestiario are joining in for this year’s public presentations of our UvA/maHKU data visualization projects.

Presentations of nine multidisciplinary data visualization projects developed by Master students of the University of Amsterdam and the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (see http://tinyurl.com/infovis-blog for some of the students’ thoughts, and http://tinyurl.com/infovis-2009 for last year’s event). This year with special guest speakers:

Manuel Lima
famous from TED etc., see http://VisualComplexity.com and http://mslima.com

Daniel Aguilar
see his amazing work at http://Bestiario.org and http://blog.bestiario.org

Erik-Jan van der Linden – MagnaView

When: Thursday, 20 May 2010, 13:00-18:30 hours
Where: Room M1.01, Amsterdam Business School, UvA, Plantage Muidergracht 12, Amsterdam, see http://tinyurl.com/abs-uva and http://tinyurl.com/abs-uva-photo
Organized by: Marcel Worring, Raul Niño Zambrano, Yuri Engelhardt
Entrance: free

Mediamatic: http://www.mediamatic.net/page/149227/en
Twitter: http://twitter.com/showme_thedata
LinkedIn: http://tinyurl.com/Linkedin-Showme-thedata
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/facebook-showmethedata

show_me_the_data

Naked Logic: Lecture of Boldizsár Hordós at Metaforum X, Budapest

By Geert Lovink, November 12, 2024

I am happy to teach computer history at a fine arts university. Besides, I also work with small kids. Part of my job is to pry phones out of their hands—not the most pleasant part of the day. This is partly because (as with every mandatory intervention) it stirs up more chaos than it prevents. [...]

Infrastructure that Sticks: Digital Affect Within Sovietcore

By Salome Berdzenishvili, November 4, 2024

Жить тяжело и неуютно Зато уютно умирать (Living is difficult and confining, But dying is liberating) The words written above are an excerpt from the song Sudno (Boris Ryzhy) by post-punk band Molchat Doma from Minsk. These words also often loop over the reels on post-Soviet aesthetics found online – the ones of decayed brutalist [...]

Ágnes Básthy: Crisis? What Crisis? Taking a Suspicious Walk around a Fashionable Notion

By Geert Lovink, October 31, 2024

(Text of the speech by Ágnes Básthy on the first day of Metaforum X, Budapest, October 25, 2024) “‘Krisis’ was originally a medical concept which designated, in the Hippocratic corpus of texts, the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would be able to survive the disease. Theologians reprized the term to indicate the [...]