Book Launch: Video Vortex Reader II

By nick, March 14, 2011

On Saturday, the 12th of March 2011, a few minutes before six, the second Video Vortex reader was being presented to the audience of the sixth edition of the Video Vortex conference. Editors Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles invited the contributors to the second volume, who were present en masse, to celebrate the launch [...]

Annelies Termeer on InstantCinema.org

By nick, March 14, 2011

Annelies Termeer was the third speaker during the lecture themed It’s Not a Dead Collection, It’s a Dynamic Database. She is ad interim head of digital presentation at the EYE Film Institute, formerly known as the Film Museum. The project she is affliated with is called InstantCinema. The goal of the website is to facilitate [...]

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 [...]

Clickable art, or, what does online participation mean? In 2010...

report Culture Vortex_online participation

By annetdekker, January 17, 2011

Clickable art, or, what does online participation mean? In 2010 the Institute of Network Cultures started a collaborative innovation programme entitled Culture Vortex. This research aims to encourage public participation in online cultural (heritage) collections. Collection holders in the public and cultural sectors have raised questions concerning the online distribution of creative material. Until today, [...]

Publiek 2.0: Onderzoek naar gebruikersculturen, nieuwe distributiemogelijkheden van audiovisueel materiaal...

Onderzoeksresultaten programmalijn Public 2.0

By admin, December 20, 2010

Publiek 2.0: Onderzoek naar gebruikersculturen, nieuwe distributiemogelijkheden van audiovisueel materiaal en nieuwe verdienmodellen. De programmalijn Publiek 2.0 heeft op volgende gebieden onderzoek gedaan: a. Vooronderzoek bij gebruikersgroepen (3 maanden, feb-april), i.s.m. onderwijs en onderzoekers – professionele online collectiehouders en curatoren (m.m.v. de andere consortiumpartners die een collectie bezitten) – kunstenaars (uit netwerk NIMk en Video [...]