Posts By: Chris Castiglione

Cell Phone Disco @ Urban Screens

By Chris Castiglione, December 10, 2009

Do you know that annoying buzzing sound that comes from stereo speakers when a cellphone rings? That noise in the speakers is interference, and it is audible evidence of the electronic field that emanates from your cell phone. Cell Phone Disco, a project by Auke Touwslager and Ursula Lavrencic, visualizes this electromagnetic interference. The installation [...]
As a project-manager of MediaLAB Amsterdam, Gijs Gootjes works with...

Gijs Gootjes & MediaLAB Amsterdam

By Chris Castiglione, December 10, 2009

As a project-manager of MediaLAB Amsterdam, Gijs Gootjes works with students from various institutes of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. He began his presentation with a video example from earlier this year that he worked on with his students. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP7ILMUCsrs[/youtube] “We were very proud of this project because it was the [...]

Nanette Hoogslag, “Images not only as art, but as commentary”

By Chris Castiglione, December 6, 2009

In 2005 Nanette Hoogslag developed the idea for Oog, inviting artists to react to current affairs in an online environment. This became ‘Oog’, a weekly online page in one of the largest Dutch national newspapers the ‘Volkskrant’. Today Hoogslag's presented the projects of the Visual Correspondents Foundation, illustrated with various examples of the screen-based art works commissioned over the last 5 years.

Martijn de Waal, Improving Cultural Public Space

By Chris Castiglione, December 4, 2009

Martijn de Waal is a writer and researcher, who has specialized in the relation between technology, media and (public) culture. Together with Michiel de Lange he founded The Mobile City, a think tank and knowledge network on digital media and urban culture. “What is Urban Culture?”, asks Martijn, “The city is a place full of [...]

Matthijs ten Berge, “Find ways that we can engage us with our public space”

By Chris Castiglione, December 4, 2009

Matthijs ten Berge is co-director of illuminate Outdoor Media. Berge was the first presenter this morning at the Institute of Network Culture’s Urban Screens conference. Before diving into this talk he began with a message, “I’d like to say that I’m not here just to present my work to you, but I’m here to meet [...]

Annet Dekker, “Synchronising Media”

By Chris Castiglione, December 4, 2009

Annet Dekker has been active in the field of media art since the mid 90s. She worked eight years as curator, head of exhibitions and the artist in residence program at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam. At the moment she is an independent curator and programme manager at Virtueel Platform. According to Dekker, [...]