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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Vx:meeting in Amsterdam 18, 19, 20th Jan 2008
VX:mission will look at how distribution of Social Justice Video is happening using Free and Open Source technology. It is a chance to find out about existing distribution projects, get feedback for your own projects or ideas, find collaborators and scheme about how best to distribute your video. This is event is associated with the […]
Linux for Theatre Makers: Embodiment and *nix modus operandi
by Nancy Mauro-Flude This is a text I wrote during my MA Media Design at Piet Zwart Institute, in response the Thematic Project *Command Line Culture* September-December 2006 led by Florian Cramer, (the course director). From the perspective of a performing artist, and as a developer of the /eclectic tech carnival http://eclectictechcarnival.org/ I discuss my […]
Social software: fiction, action-at-a-distance and dolls
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 […]
From Lists to Blogs: What is lost and what remains?
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 […]
Support Iraqi Bloggers
Interview with Cecile Landman By Geert Lovink Cecile Landman is a Dutch freelance investigative journalist, who specializes in the facts behind the news. One of the areas she researches and works in is Italy, a country she is passionate about. Cecile has often said to me that she was born in the wrong part of […]
Urban Screens 2005 Report
Urban Screens 2005: discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban society International Conference – 23/24 September – Amsterdam Report by Cecile Landman Geert Lovink and Mirjam Struppek met in 2004, by way of Struppek’s thesis on the subject. They thought of organizing an expert meeting of one day in the Rietveld academy, but were […]
Out There: Exploring Satellite Awareness
Interview with Lisa Parks By Geert Lovink In her book Cultures in Orbit (2005), media theorist Lisa Parks describes satellite technology as a ‘structuring absence’. Satellites play a key role in today’s global news industry and its “spotlighting of the apparatus” (Elsaesser). However, the key ingredient of the global live connection remains invisible. This is […]
Luna Maurer Interview
by Goran Batic, INC researcher for A Decade of Webdesign Luna Maurer (1972) is a graphic/interaction designer based in the Netherlands. After completing courses at the Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute she’s done many different kinds of projects ranging from interactive narration to performances and fashion. Instead of seeing herself as a graphic designer […]
Surveillance, Performance, Self-Surveillance
Interview with Jill Magid – By Geert Lovink US-American, Amsterdam-based artist Jill Magid was a ‘must see’ at the 2004 Liverpool Biennial (www.biennial.com). Her work fitted in tightly with the Biennial’s topic of the city and the ‘engagement with place’. The installation, Evidence Locker, shown at the Tate Gallery and the Fact centre for new […]
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