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By sabine, September 28, 2006
by Nancy Mauro-Flude 01. Intro PLENUM allows you to experience the significance of software and its ability to consciously design environments which shapes social patterns and relationships. An open invitation for people to ‘inhabit’ along side each other is pivotal to the experience. It addresses the cultural aspect of the Free Software debate over copyright, [...]
By sabine, September 1, 2006
Digital Bodies: Notes on the transition from the digital to the physical (and back again) Reuten Gallery Amsterdam, September 2 – October 7, 2006 Participating artists: Geert Dekkers (NL), Foofwa d’Imbolité (CH), Mogens Jacobsen (DK), Jan Robert Leegte(NL), Alan Sondheim (USA) Most digital art works are to be experienced through the well-known output/input devices. Interaction [...]
By sabine, August 30, 2006
by Marije Janssen This year’s Impakt Festival featured two netporn couch.clubs that were organized by the INC as a preview for our second netporn conference in 2007. The first presentation by Sergio Messina dealt with the topic of Realcore, a recent development in online porn. Realcore is about the attraction of reality in sexuality. By [...]
By sabine, July 30, 2006
door: Paul den Hertog Onderdeel van mijn afstuderen aan het Instituut voor Interactieve Media was het houden van een referaat. In dit referaat moest ik mijn visie te opzichte van interactieve media verdedigen aan de hand van een aantal voorbeelden en stellingen. Omdat ik mij tijdens mijn studie steeds meer ben gaan specialiseren op het [...]
By sabine, July 20, 2006
INC Newsletter Summer 2006 The Institute of Network Cultures (INC), set up in June 2004, caters to research, meetings and (online) initiatives in the area of Internet and new media. In this newsletter: 1. MyCreativity: convention of creative industries researchers 2. Urban Screens Berlin and Urban Screens Manchester 3. Publications 4. Netporn talkshows at Impakt [...]
By sabine, July 7, 2006
The Internet enables new transdisciplinary forms of interaction and organisation. NGOs are increasingly performing communicative tasks and actions that go well beyond the original scope of their primary processes. As such, they can be considered new players on a field previously reserved to the classic actors within the public sphere. By effectively using current innovations [...]
By sabine, July 6, 2006
URBAN SCREENS 2007, a joint project of BBC Public Space Broadcasting, Cornerhouse Manchester, MDDA, and the Institute of Network Cultures, is seeking candidates for the CURATOR position for its 2007 conference.
By sabine, June 27, 2006
By Nancy Mauro-Flude I would like to share my perspective on ‘social software’ in order to introduce some thoughts about its potentiality, where not only people conduct social and cultural modes of exchange but also other ways of engaging with space, time and place are brought about. Here, rather then speaking as an expert, I [...]
By sabine, June 18, 2006
Lost in ‘Open Social Order’s Remains* By Kenneth C. Werbin Like the current discussion noted on the Corante weblog, I too am struck by ‘ranking lists’ in the blogosphere. But I would argue that the emergence of ‘ranking lists’ are merely a material reification of more disturbing trends that I associate with the complexities and [...]
By sabine, May 29, 2006
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.