Archive for October, 2011
Saturday, October 29th, 2011

I was at the Venice Biennale in August, but I only wrote my ArtSlant report in mid-October. My article isĀ focused on the main show curated by Bice Curiger, which I compared to the previous one by Daniel Birnbaum. Check it out here.
Tags: artslant, bice curiger, illuminations, monica bonvicini, report, song dong, tobias rehberger, venice biennale
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Monday, October 24th, 2011

I recently went to NIMk‘s Ethical Hacking conference for Impakt. My report came out today on their blog, go read it.
Tags: cecile landman, conference, hacking, heath bunting, impakt, jaromil, karin spaink, nimk, patrice riemens, rop gonggrijp, the right to know
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

As Impakt gets closer and closer, here’s another post I wrote for their blog. It’s about the geo-tagging frenzy, its controversial aspects, and why the whole privacy scare is not really that big a deal. Read it here.
Tags: facebook, foursquare, geo-tagging, iphone, locative media, privacy, stalking, twitter
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011

I’ve been keeping you posted about my regular contributions to the Impakt blog, but now you get to take a peek at some of the content I’ve been producing for the festival’s newspaper. The essays are extended versions of this and this blog posts respectively, but one of them has been turned into a nice infographic (the credit goes to the designers who made it). Oh, by the way, everything has been translated to Dutch, so there’s no reading it unless you’re fluent in Nederlands. It looks good though. (more…)
Tags: health, impakt, infographic, newspaper, web2.0, wikileaks
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Friday, October 14th, 2011

I’m happy to tell you that my review of No Order: Art in a Post-Fordist Society has just been published in the latest issue of Metropolis M, a great art magazine here in the Netherlands. Unfortunately for those who cannot read Dutch – which include myself – the article has been translated to Nederlandse. No worries, though, I’m posting the English version below. Check it out and, in case you do read Dutch, go buy the magazine.
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Tags: contemporary art, marco scotini, metropolis m, no order, post-fordism, review
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Monday, October 10th, 2011

This week’s post at the Impakt blog is about automatically-generated blogs and automated journalistic reports. Read it here.
Tags: automation, blogging, get rich quick, impakt, journalism, narrative science, paper.li, pipes, rss feeds
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Impakt got a new, amazing site, so go check it out asap. My latest post is a report after the Media Squares Symposium at De Balie, Amsterdam. Read it here.
Tags: de balie, erik kluitenberg, geert lovink, impakt, media squares, metahaven, tactical media
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