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  • Van SF naar Social Fiction

    over In the Bubble, Designing in a Complex World

    Ooit, het lijkt lang geleden, bedachten we, overmand door een technologische roes, de meest fantastische toekomstscenario's. Telepresence, virtual reality, cyberspace, een nieuwe wereld leek zich te...
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  • Book: John Thackara 1 Dec 2005

    In the Bubble

    Designing in a Complex World

    We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    George Dyson

    author, designer, historian

    George Dyson is an author, designer, and historian of technology whose interests have ranged from the history and prehistory of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka, 1986) to the evolution of digital computing...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Mieke Gerritzen

    Multi Media Designer

    Founder of NL.Design, an Amsterdam-based design company, which produces designs for all media and collaborates with many different designers, writers and artists.
  • Maurice Nio 1 Jan 2002

    Infect the Soft

    What is really wrong with euclidic geometry? Which objections can really be lodged against integers, straight lines and orthogonal structures? Why are mechanical and mechanistic principles put in the...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Kai Hoffmann, Frank Druschel 1 Jan 1994

    The European Computer Museum sends Tidings of...

    Jurassic Park has returned the dinosaurs to us. Some months ago there was an exhibition of these veterans of primeval time in the German town of Hildesheim, one which could not be missed. What is so...
  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol.10#2 Arie Altena 1 Jan 2001

    54 Giorni

    1978, Italy. A prosperous country, but also a country of the mafia and the Brigate Rosse, one of high inflation, omertà, corruption beneath a facade, at least two cabinets per year, a country of...

  • Building Bacteria in Second Life

    after the lecture by Matt Biddulph

    Joshua Kauffman is a world citizen searching for reasons while based in Amsterdam. He writes about urban planning, media, sustainability, usability, presence and community, and does consulting for...

  • Dutch Mountains

    Mateusz Herczka

    Je ziet het groen, het al gemaaide gras, je ruikt de geur van het land en de mest. Dutch Mountains van Mateusz Herczka
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1992

    Rheingold

    Howard Rheingold, Virtual Reality, Secker & Warburg, 1991

    The second half of the memorable year 1989 saw not only the 'velvet revolution' that swept Eastern Europe, but also the presentation of virtual reality to the world. Two developments that will occupy...

  • Regaining Conscience

    New films from the country of Aibo, Kitty and Ultraman

    Dejima – island in Kyushu, was the only place where Dutch traders were allowed to import goods into Japan during the Edo Period. A point of departure for cultural endeavours, Dejima is the name of...
  • Arie Altena 1 Jan 2002

    Rambling Thoughts on Reality Engineering

    Introduction of the symposium Reality Engineering and the Computer

    How could you deal with the internet, master-infrastructure of our world, and totally escape from contemporary society? It's impossible. As soon as you think twice about computer technology, you end...

  • Adynda - or size does matter

    A review of the project by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries

    A drive through the city center of Amsterdam, in which the passengers -a man and a woman- but especially the man - ponder upon the size and color of his reproductive organs. The size isn't right and...

  • Report on Triggered by RFID

    After the first Mediamatic RFID workshop from the 13th till the 15th of July 2005

    Mediamatics' first Triggered by RFID workshop presented a mix of lecturers, cases, project proposals and technical lessons, and attracted an international group of artists, designers, engineers and...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Geert-Jan Strengholt 1 Jan 1994

    The End of Advertising?

    A round table discussion

    Point of departure for this issue of Mediamatic and the following discussion, is the preposition that advertising was one of the big arts of the 20th century, But will advertising make it into the...
  • Maurice Specht 1 Jan 2002

    What Happened in Reality

    As with all programmes, they never function the way they are written, and the programme of this symposium was no exception. Unfortunately some of the speakers were unable to attend. However enough...

  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 10#3 Arie Altena 1 Jan 2001

    An inescapable sense of confinement

    For a better World is not a pleasant CD-ROM. That is hardly surprising, given its deadly serious theme - that of self-immolation.
  • Mercedez Bunz 1 Jan 2001

    Extensions, Boundaries & Double Crossings

    Or: We Don't Trust Anybody. Shadowing Theory and Technology Constructing Subjects

    Bunz's text will focus on the different ways in which the word 'and' formats the relation between reality - which means us, the humans - and the computer. Her ambition is to demonstrate that the 'and'...

  • Wearable Workshop Recap

    10 | 11 | 12 November 2006

    Who was there, what they made and how. As information technology continues to shrink in size, ideas of incorporating its capabilities into other things than the traditional forms of computers are...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1998

    Mulder

    Het Twintigste-Eeuwse Lichaam

    Arjen Mulder, a scientifically trained biologist, is also a proud essayist who frequently directs his attention towards the domain of the visual arts. His hang-ups, his repertory of biological...

  • Digital Mantras

    May Salon 2004

    Digital Mantras, Video Art in the Age of P2P Network, new N Collective CD and a Still Life Dinner.
  • Christiaan Alberdink Thijm 1 Jan 2001

    Regulating the Internet

    In August 2001 I attended the international Hackers at Large convention in Enschedé (The Netherlands). Not because I'm a hacker, don't worry, but because I'm a lawyer and was asked to interview Ryan...
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Mediamatic/ IDFA workshop New Media Documentaries

    Take it hands-on from 22 till 26 november

    After the masterclass, 16 documentary filmmakers will develop and build pilot projects for new media documentaries in 5 intensive workshopdays, Through building their projects, participants find...

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