net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By julianabrunello, May 27, 2010
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers @ V2_ Rotterdam Report by Juliana Brunello Toine Horvers (NL) and Paul Cox (NL) have been working together at a project called Beijerkoppen, which is still being developed and improved. The project has already had its debut on a wall of the new Media-markt at Beijerlandselaan, Rotterdam. The main aspect of [...]
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers @ V2_ Rotterdam Report by Cecilia Guida Gunnar(DE) has demonstrated the project ‘Parasite’ by the Berlin-based collective TheGreenEyl. The Parasite is an independent projection-system that can be attached to subways and other trains with suction pads, using the speed of the train as parameter for the projected content. The projection starts [...]
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers @ V2_ Rotterdam Report by Cecilia Guida Oscar Steens (NL) is the Special Guest of the program, who works for City Media Rotterdam, which is a key facilitator of urban screens in the city. Oscar is the editor-in-chief for those screens. In his presentation he has shown the prospective of the [...]
By rachel, May 19, 2010
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 [...]
By julianabrunello, May 4, 2010
A wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 1 – AFFECT Gjis van Oenen Geert Mul Eric Kluitenberg Moderator: Jeroen Boomgaard SESSION 2 – INTERFACE Alexander Galloway Christa Sommerer Steven van Thije Moderator: Geert Lovink SESSION 3 – OBJECT Yvonne Droge Wendel Ronald van Tienhoven Johan Hoorn [...]
For: A wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 3 – Object Report by Juliana Brunello Johan Hoorn is a computer scientist and technologist whose work consists of affective computing, which means programming human things, or robots as a third body as one might say. He and [...]
For: A wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 3 – Object Report by Juliana Brunello Ronald Tienhoven first assures us that he is not a true theorist, but an artist. His theoretical thinking is however very well developed, as we could witness during his speech. He [...]
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 3 – Object Report by Juliana Brunello The Moderator Klaas Kuitenbrouwer started the third session of the conference by introducing some of the thoughts that Willem van Weelden had for his keynote speech, but could not attend due [...]
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 2 – Interface Report by Juliana Brunello Christa Sommerer‘s main topic is interfaces in art. She starts by citing Lev Manovich: the language of new media. He predicted that “we will see a language of interface develop as [...]
By julianabrunello, May 3, 2010
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 2 – Interface Report by John Haltiwanger Steven van Thije spoke to address the notion of interface and how it relates to art, especially in the sense of the museum. Invoking Michael Serres’ *The Parasite*, Steven discussed how [...]
