by Nicola Bozzi As a part of the Revenue Models panel at the Ecommons conference, the presentation by Jaromil and Marco Sachy focused on the decentralization of currencies and credit. The former began by introducing their own website, dyndy.net, an online lab providing “Tools, practices and experiences for the conceptualization, development and deployment of currency”; […]
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Towards a Radical Archive: De Balie’s Eric Kluitenberg
Eric Kluitenberg is a well-traveled theorist, writer, and lecturer who has produced media events in The Netherlands, Moscow, and Estonia, and also currently heads the media program at De Balie, a cultural and political hotbed in Amsterdam. I’ve had to the luck to attend some of Eric’s events, such as 2010’s Electrosmog fest, and witness […]
Towards a Radical Archive: De Balie’s Eric Kluitenberg
Eric Kluitenberg is a well-traveled theorist, writer, and lecturer who has produced media events in The Netherlands, Moscow, and Estonia, and also currently heads the media program at De Balie, a cultural and political hotbed in Amsterdam. I’ve had to the luck to attend some of Eric’s events, such as 2010’s Electrosmog fest, and witness […]
What We Call the Information Commons
What defines the information commons? Better, who defines it, grooms it, pays for it, ensures it is a vibrant place to hang out and rummage around in? Can we first ask where this idea of a commons comes from? Today’s information commons crept into public perception with the beginning of the internet in 1993, as […]
Michelle Teran: Black Leather Projection Purse/ Projects for a city. Girona
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers @ V2_ Rotterdam Report by Srividya Balasubramanian Michelle Teran (CA) performs, exhibits and lectures in topics ranging from collaborative art, street projections and urban intervention, exploring and illuming the inherent tension between the public and the private. In the two works that she presented at Test_Lab, she aims to brings into […]
Eric Kluitenberg: Affect in the Overburdened Information Environment
For: A Wedge between private and public Symposium in interactivity and public space 22 April 2010 SESSION 1 – Affect Report by John Haltiwanger Eric Kluitenberg’s presentation concerned the relevant future paths for affective interactive art. As a first example, Eric showed footage of Radio Ligna’s “remote controlled flashmob” I am(not)sterdam to highlight a central […]
Bilwet Audio Archive and Theory on Demand launched!
On the 19th of February, 2010, the INC launched two new online projects: the Theory on Demand Publication series and Geert Lovink’s online radio archive. The Theory on Demand series, produced by Margreet Riphagen and designed by Katja van Stiphout, is a print-on-demand publication series that kicks of with four books. After an introduction by […]
US09 Report: Mettina Veenstra on Public Screens and Social Capital
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. […]
Accelerated Living – Conference Report
By Elena Tiis Sitting in the plush, red chairs at Filmtheater ‘t Hoogt in Utrecht on the 15th of October, I listened in to the lectures of the “Accelerated Living” conference dealing with the ecologies of time & speed, and media technologies’ capacity to impact contemporary time experience. The kick off was with John Tomlinson’s […]
Connecting the Dots
Report of Test_Lab: Topology at V2_ in Rotterdam, 17 April 2008, by Marije van Eck.
Drawing parallels with the seminar on mapping at the Piet Zwart Institute, V2_ focused on the term ‘topology’ in their latest edition of Test_Lab. V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, is located just off the Witte de Withstraat, the center of creative ideas and artistic outlets in Rotterdam, and thus the ideal location for this bimonthly event, which in this edition focused on how topology can be applied to various fields of art and research.
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