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  • Mike Davis

    Urban Scholar, Writer, Activist

    Unlike most writers on Southern California, Mike Davis is a native son. He was born in Fontana in 1946 and grew up in Bostonia, a now lost hamlet east of San Diego. A former meatcutter and long...

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  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Mike Davis 1 Jan 1995

    Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control (3)

    The Ecology of Fear

    Parallel Universes

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Mike Davis 1 Jan 1995

    Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control (1)

    The Ecology of Fear

    Every American city has its official insignia and slogan, some have municipal mascots, colors, songs, birds, trees, even rocks. But Los Angeles alone has adopted an official Nightmare. Mike Davis

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Mike Davis 1 Jan 1995

    Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control (2)

    The Ecology of Fear

    The Half-Moons of Repression

  • Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1999

    The Storyteller, his Village and his Irony

    Florian Thalhofer's cd-rom small world presents a portrait of Schwandorf, a village in the Bavarian region of Oberpfalz. Thalhofer knows quite a bit about this village; he was born and raised there.

  • Gonzo (circus) community empowering

    A proposal for the creation of a community enhanced events finder

    Creating the first platform where professionals and enthousiast can find information about everything that's going on in new music and culture using web2.0 concepts.

  • Book: Christopher Alexander 1 Jan 1977

    A Pattern Language

  • Mapping for Tourists

    MFT resulted in Noord, an exhibition and travel guide

    Noord is the result of a project initiated by Nat Muller and Mediamatic: Mapping for Tourists. 22 artists were invited to map Amsterdam-Noord, pars pro toto for The Netherlands. The artists lived and...

  • Noel Douglas 1 Jan 1998

    SupUrmarket

    information for action through network technology

    What are the hidden histories of the commodities that surround us? Can network technologies serve and defend the public against private interest? We take a trip down to the SupUrmarket and go Ur...

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1992

    A Network of Relationships

    Having a computer on your desk and no modem is like using the Ferrari in your garage only to sit in and listen to the stereo, I once read somewhere. A pc connected to the phone network now has an...

  • Cultural Dating

    on the future of museums, archiving and cultural institutions

    TIME magazine choose YOU, the internet user, as person of the year 2006. Meanwhile however, the cultural sector is not making many moves to harness the potential of the enormous amounts of active...

  • On Videoletters.net

    Connecting people in cyberspace

    Videoletters is a series of 20+ documentaries made by Eric van den Broek and Katarina Rejger, in which they show how they connect people from former Yugoslavia by taping and delivering videoletters.

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Peter Fend 1 Jan 1994

    Art and Advertising

    When artist Peter Fend was still a boy, he seriously thought of a career in advertising. But because his belief in America was insufficient, his career in conventional advertising came to a premature...

  • Ganzeer

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Noordelijke Character(istics): A neighborhood is defined by its inhabitants. Ganzeer puts a face to the 'hood.

  • One Land, Two Systems

    Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST)

    FAST is dedicated to exposing the global abuses of ideological planning, as found in Israel’s ‘unrecognised’ villages like Ein Hud, and to offering alternative solutions.

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Peter Fend 1 Jan 1996

    Newsroom

    The chosen few, enjoying access to the power of God attempt to decide for us all: or how geopolitical power is ordered today.

  • 1 Jan 2004

    Interactive Video at World Wide Video Festival

    Workshop in Amsterdam for European Video Artists from 10 to 14 June

    Five intense days of exploring, discussing and building interactive video projects with international video artists during the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam from 10 to 14 June 2004. Get...

  • 1 Jan 2003

    Michael Benedikt

    Poet

    Contemporary US poet Michael Benedikt has published five collections: The Badminton at Great Barrington; or Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo (Univ. Pittsburgh Press, 1980); and with...

  • Project proposals

    Participating artists and the design team

    Mapping for Tourists resulted in Noord. These pages are snapshots of the artists' progress, as documented in July of 2010. Visit the Noord web space for the final results.

  • Oosterdok

    Het Oosterdok is een water in Amsterdam. Het ontstond in 1832 toen door aanleg van de Oosterdoksdam dit deel van het IJ werd afgescheiden en daardoor ook geen eb en vloed meer kende in het toen nog...

  • Project: Huibert Teekens

    177 X Amsterdam

    Ontdek de wereld in Amsterdam

    Volgens cijfers van de gemeente is Amsterdam de stad met de meeste nationaliteiten ter wereld (!). De stad telt 177 nationaliteiten en is daarmee de meest diverse stad ter wereld, gevolgd door...

  • Let's all go Dutch

    Eat bacon pancakes with sugar syrup, talk politics at parties and always start your conversations with a question. What does it mean to be Dutch, exactly? Is it possible to become, or stop being...

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1996

    Street Religion and Matrix Magic

    Religions not only express desires for origins or a higher reality. According to Dirk van Weelden, they are also procedures that create order and constructively channel fear. What kind of fear?

  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

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