Report of Impakt De Zondagsschool #7: Travel held at March 15, 2009 in Utrecht.
The seventh edition of De Zondagsschool (Sunday School), hosted by Impakt, focused on contemporary travel experiences. Travel is about discovery, about experiencing something new, and you don’t always have to pack your suitcases to do this. Merriam-Webster defines travel as ‘to go on or as if on a trip or tour’. And thus, you can travel at your own leisure, from the comforts of your own lazy chair. If you would actually like to go somewhere though, you can nowadays travel further than you’d ever imagined, far over the horizon.
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Report of the ‘The Big Picture’ lecture at NAi Rotterdam.
Written for the Institute of Network Cultures weblog.
The Netherlands Architecture Insitute (NAi) in Rotterdam teamed up with International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and Mediafonds to host the lecture ‘The Big Picture’, on January 29th 2009 at NAi.
Three speakers focused on the interaction between architecture and film or video technologies in three presentations. The link between architecture and film might seem farfetched, but during the introduction by NAi director Ole Bouman and IFFR curator Edwin Carels, it became clear that they have become more closely linked in postmodernistic architecture, because architecture is currently more about storytelling than about just designing a building to live or work in. An architectural design now focuses on the full visitor’s experience of working and living. Bouman mentioned also, however, that architectural narrative isn’t new, because there is even animation to be seen in light shining through stained glass cathedral windows: architectural cinematography from the Middle Ages.
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May 17th, in the middle of the night, I suddenly found myself wondering: why can’t alternative music sound like other alternative music? I’d been to a concert, one I’m about to review, and my friend told me: “If you are going to write a review, you have to listen to Martha ‘Stewart’ Wainwright and Joanna Newsom first”. So, after figuring out she meant Martha Wainwright and not Martha Stewart, I realised I know her songs, and I googled Joanna Newsom, and yes, my friend was right. The music of Angus and Julia Stone sounds similar to that, I however fail to see the problem. And really, they are quite different. While Julia Stone has a trumpet, Joanna Newsom has a harp, and Martha Wainwright has … Rufus Wainwright.
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Crossposted to Institute of Network Cultures Weblog.
Verslag van de bijeenkomst “Grenzeloze Nieuwsgierigheid”.
Op 31 maart 2008 vond in de Cruise Terminal in Rotterdam de bijeenkomst “Grenzeloze Nieuwsgierigheid” plaats. Naar aanleiding van een Manifest voor Nieuwsgierigheid, opgesteld en ondersteund door 23 van de grootste Nederlandse instellingen op het gebied van cultuur en ontwikkelingssamenwerking, werd deze bijeenkomst georganiseerd. Grenzeloze Nieuwsgierigheid was een middag vol debat én samenspraak met als doel nader tot elkaar te komen op het gebied van internationaal cultuurbeleid.
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