Posts By: sabine

After some of us traveled the world and others indulged...

Happy 2011!

By sabine, January 5, 2011

After some of us traveled the world and others indulged in a writing retreat, the INC crew is back at the office, working on our upcoming event Video Vortex #6 (check out the design for this event, made by the Rotterdam-based design studio Team Thursday) and upcoming publications, such as the second Video Vortex Reader [...]

Interview with CPOV Researchers Johanna Niesyto and Nate Tkacz

By sabine, November 30, 2010

The Signpost recently interviewed Wikipedia researchers Johanna Niesyto and Nathaniel Tkacz from the “Critical Point of View” (CPOV) initiative. That initiative organized three conferences about Wikipedia this year, in Bangalore, Amsterdam, and Leipzig (see brief Signpost coverage of the second and third conferences). Via e-mail, we talked about these conferences and other activities of CPOV, [...]
CPOV researcher Juliana Brunello interviewed the Amsterdam-based graphic designer Hendrik...

Interview with designer Hendrik Jan Grievink

By sabine, August 20, 2010

CPOV researcher Juliana Brunello interviewed the Amsterdam-based graphic designer Hendrik Jan Grievink about his Wikipedia-related work. What was the compelling reason for you to get involved in a project concerning Wikipedia? As a designer, I dedicate myself to inventing new ways of understanding the world through images. I use existing images in almost every project: [...]
In response to the increasing potential for video as a...

Video Vortex Reader II: Call for Contributions

By sabine, March 5, 2010

In response to the increasing potential for video as a significant form of personal media on the Internet, the Video Vortex program examines key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. With the rise of YouTube and alternative platforms, the moving image on the Internet has become expansively [...]

OUT NOW! Urban Screens Reader

By sabine, December 15, 2009

The Urban Screens Reader is the first book to focus entirely on the topic of urban screens. In assembling contributions from a range of leading theorists, in conjunction with a series of case studies dealing with artists’ projects and screen operators’ and curators’ experiences, the reader offers a rich resource for those interested in the [...]

US09 Report: Paul Klotz on light as artistic medium

By sabine, December 4, 2009

Paul Klotz is an applied art engineer and light designer who focuses on interactive light installations for public spaces. By means of light and sound installations which react to and integrate the movements of the passersby or of the people which interact with them, he attempts influence the movements and behavior of people in public [...]

US09 Report: Mettina Veenstra on Public Screens and Social Capital

By sabine, December 4, 2009

Mettina Veenstra is the principal researcher and coordinator of the theme public spaces at Novay Research. Novay is a research institute for ICT driven innovation. Her presentation today at the Urban Screens conference focused on what public displays can do for public space in terms of stimulating encounters and interactions between people in public spaces. [...]
On the fourth of December, Trouw Amsterdam hosts the Urban...

Urban Screens 09: The City as Interface

By sabine, December 4, 2009

On the fourth of December, Trouw Amsterdam hosts the Urban Screens 09 seminar, about the City as Interface, or: from urban screens to media architecture in the city. At 1 pm, the Urban Screens Reader will arrive at the venue, which will be launched at 3.45 pm. Follow us on Twitter: #urbanscreens, and Flickr (tag: [...]

Video Vortex V – Day 1

By sabine, November 23, 2009

System Flaws and Tactics After the opening speech by Bram Crevits (Cimatics) and Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures), the 5th edition of Video Vortex kicked off at the amazing Atomium in Brussels. The first session addressed System Flaws and Tactics. This session was inspired by the inherent errors, disabilities and restrictions of online video [...]
INC’s research intern Dennis Deicke wrote his second book review,...

Brainless Text Culture and Mickey Mouse Science

By sabine, June 21, 2009

INC’s research intern Dennis Deicke wrote his second book review, of Stefan Weber’s Das Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: Wie Netzplagiate Ausbildung und Wissen gefährden. Heise Verlag, Hannover: 2009. The Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: How Web-Plagiarism endangers Education and Knowledge, written by Stefan Weber, deals with the influence of the ever-increasing internet use on the prevalent culture of knowledge. Austrian media scholar [...]