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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1996
Return to the Source or the politics of Plur
first Born, the Grandfathers told, had emerged from quivering mud to the rythmn of his own heart and so man had known the true rythmn from the beginning.(1) Soon afterwards man had learned to use...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Erik Davis 1 Jan 1996
Meditations on the Indranet
Standing at the door of his crumbling shack, Lance Daybreak looked kind of like I'd expected him to look, which was something of a disappointment. Long blondish-brown hair, bushy beard, drawstring...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1996
Don't answer too quickly
With reference to John Lilly's Simulations of God
Theory only flourishes when a central concept is found into which everything ultimately seems to fit. To cite just a few examples: structure, sign, discourse, media, production, desire, seduction. If...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1996
Baseline
Music is the basis of all life. Without music, we have no meaning, no joy and no soul. It comes from the innermost thoughts and emotions. Music is a celebration of life. Celebrate life....
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Michael Heim 1 Jan 1996
Alternate World Disorder
In Michael Heim's view both cyberspace and VR extend and enhance our powers of evolution. He even compares them to the invention of fire. But immersion in the virtual world has also its dark side. It...
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Sandberg Instituut
Stand Up One Minute
22Sep 20017Oct 2001Op verschillende locaties in Amsterdam komt een mobiele videocabine te staan waar voorbijgangers/publiek een eigen EEN MINUUT video kunnen opnemen. Op zaterdag 22 september staat de cabine op de...
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Book: Michael Benedikt, Manfred Fassler 1 Oct 1991
Cyberspace
First Steps
These original contributions take up the philosophical basis for cyberspace in ancient thought, the relevance of the body in virtual realities, basic communications principles for cyberspace, the...
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Book: José van Dyck 1 Mar 1998
Imagenation
Popular Images of Genetics
Historian of science Jose Van Dijck examines the role of images and imagination in popular representations of the new genetics since the late 1950s.
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Book: Chris Marker
Immemory One
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Marker
Immemory one
To each his Madeleine is the slogan with which the aging French filmmaker Chris Marker presents his cd-rom Immemory One . The madeleine is best known as the cookie which, dunked in tea, is the...
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Koepelzaal - Renaissance Hotel
I am Charlotte Simmons
7Oct 2005A presentation of the much anticipated novel of the noughties. I am Charlotte Simmons is about student life on American elite university campuses, and delves into the well advertised aspects of ivy...
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Streetlab_
1Dec 2005Street fashion, street culture, street business. Premsela invited several young makers to develop ideas for fashion culture and identity in the context of their latest project, Streetlab_
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Mariakapel
Temps Mort
5Jul 200122Jul 2001Margit Lukacs maakt tijdens deze tentoonstelling haar eigen versie van Hitcocks klassieker The Birds. Het publiek wordt uitgenodigd om tijdens draaidagen (elke zaterdag) een rolletje te spelen. Ter...
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Paul Groot 1 Jan 1999
Streaming Video killed the CD-ROM
On modern dance, Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe, Lara Croft and Olivier Messiaen
An artistically romantic dream of artists, one also aspired to on the dance stage, is to abolish the distinction between dead objects and living material, between human and puppet. The idea of being...
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Miklos Beyer 1 Jan 1999
Space Inhaler
He enters a world where his senses of self, otherness, and reality are blurred by the contemplation of internal, ineffable spectacles. He recounts his trip. A roller coaster ride where he loses his...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Michael Sikillian 1 Jan 1993
Ong
Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, Routledge, London 1988
The term 'global village' has become a commonplace in the media to describe societies created and sustained by electronic technology. But are digital computer systems replacing the visual print...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1992
Ronell
Avital Ronell, Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania, University of Illinois Press 2004
There is no theory of drugs concludes Ronell in her new book. Jumping on the bandwagon of the current war on drugs, she focuses attention on the 19th-century, the period when heavy use became...