Posts By: margreet riphagen

We were very happy with the large amount of people...

Full video report of CPOV

By margreet riphagen, April 9, 2010

We were very happy with the large amount of people attending the CPOV Wikipedia conference in Amsterdam. However, for those of you who could not make it, there is a full video report of all presented lectures to be found here. Credits: The Critical Point of View conference is organized by the Institute of Network [...]

Siva Vaidhyanathan in Vrij Nederland

By margreet riphagen, February 3, 2010

Naar aanleiding van de Society of the Query conferentie, die gehouden is in november 2009, is er een interessant interview afgenomen met Siva Vaidhyanathan voor Vrij Nederland. Siva is de auteur van het boek ‘the Googlization of Everything‘ dat momenteel geschreven wordt. Een boek over één bedrijf, Google, een volledige cultuur, economie en community kan [...]

Follow the Money – Conference on 14.01.2010 at de Balie

By margreet riphagen, January 15, 2010

www.followthemoney.nu (video availabe) Conference on 14.01.2010 at de Balie Short summary by Juliana Brunello First Welcome: Hans Maarten van den Brink welcomes us participants to the conference. He shortly explains that this is the 11th edition of the circuit of conferences done by Mediafonds, Sandberg Institute and for the first time with Erasmus University. The [...]
By Rachel O’Reilly Darren Tofts considered the 1990s history and...

Darren Tofts – Writing media art into (and out of) history

By margreet riphagen, January 11, 2010

By Rachel O’Reilly Darren Tofts considered the 1990s history and present plight of media art in Australia,” in terms of individual artists, and access to and curatorial advocacy of media art work”. This presentation could be considered follow up commentary to Toft’s highly accessible and extremely timely book Interzone: Media Arts in Australia which addressed [...]

Doug Kahn – Far out: Brainwaves in inner space and outer space

By margreet riphagen, December 16, 2009

By Rachel O’Reilly Douglas Kahn, founding Director of Technocultures Studies at University of California (Davis) spoke on the final leg of his ANAT tour across Australia, organised by Sarah Last. Kahn opened with a recording of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Chuck Berry, and David Rosenboom “performing” live brain wave tunes on CBS’s Mike Douglas Show [...]

Video Vortex V – Day 2 – Online cinema

By margreet riphagen, November 29, 2009

What will happen to web cinema as we shift from learning to see and how to feel to learning how to participate in this new electronic space of modernity? Andrew Clay is the first speaker in the morning session and talks about web cinema; Mind the Gap! He is lecturing in Critical Technical Practices at [...]
Op woensdag 9 december 2009 vindt in De Balie in...

Dag van de kunstkritiek

By margreet riphagen, November 16, 2009

Op woensdag 9 december 2009 vindt in De Balie in Amsterdam een symposium plaats over de staat van de kunstkritiek. Het symposium bestaat uit twee delen, een middag- en een avondprogramma. Het middagprogramma is gewijd aan de beeldende kunstkritiek, het avondprogramma aan kunstkritiek in bredere zin. Middag: ‘Critics Floating in the Virtual Sphere’ De digitale [...]
CPOV event #1: WikiWars Call for Participation Wikipedia has emerged...

WikiWars, Event One for the CPOV Reader | Call for Participation

By margreet riphagen, July 15, 2009

CPOV event #1: WikiWars Call for Participation Wikipedia has emerged as the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. Different stakeholders – Wikipedians, users, academics, researchers, gurus of Web 2.0, publishing houses and governments have entered into fierce debates and discussions about what the rise of Wikipedia and Wiki cultures means and how they influence [...]

From Weak Ties to Organized Networks

By margreet riphagen, July 3, 2009

Proudly we present the Winter Camp report; From Weak Ties to Organized Networks – Ideas, reports and Critiques. about the publication: In March 2009 the Institute of Network Cultures brought 12 networks to Amsterdam for a week of getting things done. Aim of Winter Camp was to connect the virtual with the real in order [...]

Review MyCreativity reader by Megan Yarrow

By margreet riphagen, June 22, 2009

Cultural Studies: My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries My favourite piece in My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries -a collection of essays edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter- is Annelys De Vet’s Creativity is not About Industry: I have nothing smart to say about the creative industry. This might be [...]