Posts By: leditup

Pinkpop press conference

By leditup, March 16, 2011

We just visited the Pinkpop press conference at Paradiso, where Jan Smeets announced the names of the bands attending the festival in June. Giel Beelen was presenting and opened the afternoon in a nice fashion with the guys from Blaas of Glory. The goal of our visit was to speak to Jan and convince him [...]

Video Vortex #6 workshop .. our WINNING videos

By leditup, March 16, 2011

Last Thursday Led It Up participated in the Video Vortex #6 workshop: Remixing and Re-Use of Open Video Collections. Led by Maarten Brinkerink from Sound & Vision and artsists Emile Zile and José Miguel Biscaya, students and interested creatives used open source material from Open Images to create their own videos. Use of chronological narrative [...]

Led It Up: project update

By leditup, March 15, 2011

After one and a half months participating in the MediaLab things are getting clearer. Our assignment is part of the Culture Vortex project. The aim for this big project is; to encourage public participation in online cultural (heritage) collection. There are different collections of public material but there are not so much ways of online [...]

Goodbye Chris!

By leditup, March 15, 2011

Yesterday we had to say goodbye to our MediaLab manager Chris Boven. It was a nice afternoon @ Canvas with drinks and bitterballen. As a parting gift Chris got a DJ case filled with musicfrom friends and colleagues.   Good luck with your new job, Chris!  

iCE Amsterdam

By leditup, March 13, 2011

We visited this event at the 8th of March. A big happening on the terrain of the Westergasfrabriek. We were at the conference in the Westerunie. In parallel session there were developer bootcamps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7. The first speaker was a programmer specialized in making apps through social media. He told [...]

Beamlab #22 Review

By leditup, February 24, 2011

Last Wednesday team Led It Up attended the BeamLab #22 conference. There were some inspiring presentations about media art and the use new innovative interactive devices. Justus Tomlow was the kick off presenter he showed us idea’s for KiKa (Child Cancer Foundation) in how they can get more money from donators. His students learned a [...]
Open source is ever growing and in the minds of...

Remixing the past – the future of music

By leditup, February 22, 2011

Open source is ever growing and in the minds of the youth, copyright is a word that belongs to the stuffy past. Part of our research process is to find (new) ways of creative and artistical ways of remixing old video to produce something new and add an extra layer of value to it. We [...]

Leditup goes wireless

By leditup, February 21, 2011

Last Thursday the team attended Wireless Stories. It was an interesting conference about new media in public space that mainly served us as inspiration source. Nearly all speakers showed examples of projects they were involved with so there was loads of eyecandy for all attendees. The conference is an initiative by the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam [...]

BeamLab #22 Pakhuis de Zwijger

By leditup, February 21, 2011

Team Led It Up will be attending the BeamLab night at Wednesday  23rd of February!

It has begun..

By leditup, February 16, 2011

The honeymoon is over! After spending a week getting to know each other, doing some cool workshops and experiencing the relaxed and creative MediaLab vibe, it is time to get busy. This week is all about setting up the team as a solid base for some extreme creativity. Led It Up will work together with [...]