net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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: [...]
By morgancurrie, July 21, 2010
What struck me about visiting the Beeld en Geluid Instituut (the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) in Hilversum, was how tidily the country has consolidated one of the largest audiovisual collections in Europe – 700,000 hours of national radio, television, film and music. Because the Netherlands’ broadcasting stations reside a few kilometers from the [...]
By morgancurrie, July 8, 2010
What defines the information commons? Better, who defines it, grooms it, pays for it, ensures it is a vibrant place to hang out and rummage around in? Can we first ask where this idea of a commons comes from? Today’s information commons crept into public perception with the beginning of the internet in 1993, as [...]
By margreet riphagen, July 2, 2010
Available November 2010 Vito Campanelli – Web Aesthetics, How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society Design: Studio Léon & Loes, Paperback, 392 pages, 14 x 21 cm English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-770-6, € 23.50 INC in association with NAi Publishers Rotterdam. Web Aesthetics We live in a world of rapidly evolving digital networks, but within the [...]
By margreet riphagen, June 16, 2010
Blogs, games en online kunstwerken straks ontoegankelijk Pleidooi voor duurzame toegankelijkheid van digitale kunst en cultuur Alledaagse digitale data gaat ontoegankelijk worden. Vooral ‘born-digital’ materiaal zoals games, weblogs, internetkunst maar ook muziekfiles en digitale foto’s zullen als gevolg van software innovaties, browser updates en nieuwe systemen verloren gaan. Virtueel Platform, het sectorinstituut voor e-cultuur, presenteerde [...]
By morgancurrie, June 10, 2010
Interview with Kennisland’s Paul Keller on Creative Commons, Mick Jagger, and the changing role of the archive. Go here to listen to the original interview of May 18, 2010 Paul Keller, one of the founders of Creative Commons Nederlands, recently sat down with me to talk about freeing society’s creative silos, a conversation ranging from [...]
By julianabrunello, May 27, 2010
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers 20 May 2010, 20:00- 23:00 hrs, V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam The interactions between the urban space as means of artistic expressions and the dilution of such intervention by commercialization of such spaces was explored and critically examined in the Test Lab. Six live demonstrations by artists: Michelle Teran Matthias Oostrik Rui [...]
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers @ V2_ Rotterdam Report by Srividya Balasubramanian Michelle Teran (CA) performs, exhibits and lectures in topics ranging from collaborative art, street projections and urban intervention, exploring and illuming the inherent tension between the public and the private. In the two works that she presented at Test_Lab, she aims to brings into [...]
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers @ V2_ Rotterdam Report by Srividya Balasubramanian Matthias Oostrik (NL)is an artist trained in interaction media from the Nederlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, whose artworks focus primarily on the dialog between human presence and technological interventions, particularly, the discovery and exploration of its own presence by the interacting body. [...]
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers @ V2_ Rotterdam Report by Juliana Brunello Rui Guerra (PT) first presented his project called “Beam It“. The project consisted of a screen beamed on public space (in this case, in V2) that could be modified by online users by means of text messages, photos or videos. Basically people could visit [...]
