net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By admin, January 26, 2010
We were very happy with the large amount of people attending the latest Video Vortex conference in Brussels. However, for those of you who could not make it, there is a full video report of all presented lectures to be found here. Cimatics festival was hosting the 5th Video Vortex conference. Two years after its [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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: [...]
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 [...]
By admin, November 23, 2009
Politics of online video Saturday, November 21, 2009 By Geert Lovink In his presentation the Glasgow-based Simon Yuill took us back to the 1980s and the media activism back then: films and videos produced during the miners strike and other riots and actions. This activity in the late 1990s transforms in ‘citizen journalism’. Yuill here [...]