Towards a Toolkit for Going Online

By Marijn Bril, May 14, 2021

In this research blog, I’ve collected conversations with artists, designers, curators, and program makers about what it meant to ‘Go Online’ as a cultural event. We spoke about metaphors, strategies and experiences – specifically zooming into questions of audiences, interaction, serendipity, contextualization, privacy and much more. At the end of every conversation, I asked: ‘What [...]

Going Online: Ars Electronica In Kepler’s Gardens

By Marijn Bril, May 4, 2021

A Conversation with Veronika Liebl For Going Online, I ask designers, curators, and program makers about the events they’ve held online. This time: Ars Electronica. From the 9th to 11th of September 2020, the festival was held under the theme In Kepler’s Gardens – a nod to the astronomer Johannes Kepler who developed Kepler’s laws [...]

Going Online: The Computer, Privacy & Data Protection Conference in gather.town

By Marijn Bril, April 28, 2021

Gathering in the early 2000s For Going Online, I research events on the internet: last January CPDP conference went online. The Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference normally takes place in Brussels, this year partly in a self-created application and partly in gather.town. As a multidisciplinary conference, CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, experts from [...]

Going Online: samenkomen in een virtueel gebouw tijdens IMPAKT Festival

By Marijn Bril, April 27, 2021

In Gesprek met Arjon Dunnewind over IMPAKT Festival 2020: Zero Footprint Voor de blogserie Going Online ga ik in gesprek met ontwerpers, curatoren en programma makers over online evenementen. Jaarlijks vindt het IMPAKT Festival plaats in Utrecht, vol met mediakunst, performances, films, lezingen, panels, workshops en meer. Van 28 oktober tot 1 november 2020 stond [...]

Going Online: Dutch Design Week Part 2 – Liveness

By Marijn Bril, April 23, 2021

“Once everything is digital, and can stay on the internet forever, how do you create this ‘once-in-a-lifetime, can’t-be-repeated’ experience?” – Lauren Lundholm In the Going Online series, I talk with designers, curators, and program makers about online and hybrid events. The previous post dissected the media of Dutch Design Week 2020 – this time, we [...]

Watch the Public Spaces Conference – Hybrid Events Session back

By Marijn Bril, March 26, 2021

Exactly two weeks ago the Public Spaces conference Towards a Common Internet took place. The Hybrid Events table session particularly discussed online/offline event constellations: their opportunities, pitfalls, platforms, and experiments. With the goal of getting to know one another’s research and programming, Monique van Dusseldorp (Future of Events), Wilja Jurg (Tetem Kunstruimte Enschede), Lilian Stolk [...]

Going Online: Dutch Design Week Part 1 – From 3D Rooms to Counterstrategies

By Marijn Bril, February 24, 2021

Reminiscent of Space Beyond the Screen As a recent Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) graduate myself, I was part of the last cohort of graduates to be able to present for a physical and live audience. Dutch Design Week (DDW) is quite an event. Annually an incredible number of lectures, panels, exhibitions, and presentations flood the [...]

When I Look Through My Browser Window I Can Feel the Fresh Air

By Marijn Bril, February 23, 2021

From wildlife live streams, the iconic Windows XP Bliss wallpaper, to the afterlife of animals on the internet, nature is just a click away. Overly saturated and in full HD, or pixelated and lagging live streams, what kind of new meanings are formed in these nature representations and simulations? Networked image culture brings us closer [...]

Going Online: Metaphors, Strategies, and Experiences of Translating Cultural Events to the Internet

By Marijn Bril, February 17, 2021

A Series of Conversations with Designers, Curators, and Program Makers The start of this new decade has not turned out the way many expected or hoped for. In an increasingly globalized world, a sudden halt to mobility seemed unimaginable. From ‘the world is your oyster’ to being forced to stay confined in small bedrooms for [...]