features 12.01.12 Annet Dekker
Initiated by a generation of artists that has grown up with the Internet, the practices and methods of the Internet are moving over to the exhibition space. The process of materializing the digital is not taking place without a struggle, however. The Netherlands Media Art Institute is devoting an exhibition to this theme. This article is published in Metropolis M no. 6, 2011.
21/02/11 Jolien Verlaek
E-flux, the New York-based distributor of information on art, has taken the initiative of setting up a worldwide system of time-based currency for artists and curators. Anton Vidokle, co-founder of e-flux and Time/Bank talks about the motives behind this alternative economic service.
David and Googliath
reviews 25.11.09 Erik van Tuijn
Amsterdam
Society of the Query conference
13/11/09 - 14/11/09
At the Society of the Query conference PHD researchers, cultural historians/analysts, new media specialists and artists all shared in the goal of critically assessing Google’s position as an information monopolist and the effect this has on us – Google users.
features 02.11.09 Erik van Tuijn
Interview with Tijs Teulings and James Burke, founders of NARB.me, the online platform for ‘people filtered art’ which offers a micro blog and art agenda as well as an interactive list of ‘hottest exhibitions’ all rolled into one.
Ubiquitous Museum
17/08/09 Juha van 't Zelfde
Museums are gradually beginning to realize what can be done with new, increasingly sophisticated digital technology. The so-called ‘ubiquitous’ museum, which can be visited everywhere and at all times, is steadily drawing closer.
The Lessons of Digital Identity
22/07/06
On the internet the imagination is king, particularly in role plays in which you and I can participate and take on a different identity in the form of avatars we have made up ourselves. The games may have been quite simple initially, but by now apparently perfect and extremely complicated imaginary worlds have been created, which merge seamlessly with real life.