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I’d like a ticket to…

Posted on March 22, 2009 | Leave a comment

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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The Big Picture: architecture and the moving image

Posted on February 7, 2009 | Leave a comment

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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The Hot100 Create the Future

Posted on October 19, 2008 | Leave a comment

At the recent edition of the impressive PICNIC event, held at the Westergasfabriek site in Amsterdam, Virtueel Platform – expertise centre for e-culture – hosted the ‘Hot100′ PICNIC Special. The majority of the one hundred most talented creative media and new media talents were invited to share ideas, learn from professionals and build networks.

My report of this event was published on Virtueel Platform’s website: “The Future According to the Hot100″. Photos are by William Maanders and Anne Helmond.

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Hello Creative World

Posted on May 19, 2008 | Leave a comment

Report of “Hello Creative World”, 24 April 2008.

The website for “Hello Creative World”, a conference on entrepreneurship in arts and creative education, informed me this event would “show a diversity of interactive tours, challenging climbs, relax cabins, physical training, exciting landscapes, and plenty of opportunities to share your knowledge and experience with a wide variety of Art Schools in Europe”. So, all prepared for an expedition, I arrived at the Dutch Design Center in Utrecht, a former furniture factory. Red and yellow ribbon led me to the Zagerij, where I was invited by the crew into a conference setting, beautifully decorated by artwork hanging from the ceiling. My visitor’s badge, very appropriate, was a Swiss army knife. I was very curious what this day had in store, because my background is not in arts. My drawing has never exceeded that of a ten year-old, and I would not consider myself very creative. I do have an interest in arts and education, and looked forward to hearing different voices and learning new things.
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Connecting the dots.

Posted on April 25, 2008 | Leave a comment

Report of “Test_Lab: Topology” at V2_ in Rotterdam, 17 April 2008.

Drawing parallels with the seminar on mapping at the Piet Zwart Institute, V2_ focused on the term topology in their latest edition of Test_Lab. V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, is located just off the Witte de Withstraat, the center of creative ideas and artistic outlets in Rotterdam, and thus the ideal location for this bimonthly event, which in this edition focused on how the term topology can be applied to various fields of art and research.
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Cultuur in ontwikkelingslanden, of dicht bij huis?

Posted on April 16, 2008 | Leave a comment

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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