Tag: Networks
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Open Media Research Seminars – Series 6
Tuesday the 12th of February Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield) will give the first talk in the sixth series of Research Seminars at Coventry University on ‘Open Media’. The seminar series is accompanied by a blog that provides more information about the speakers, the theme and the seminars. You can find it here. Underneath the full program…
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Culture Machine Live
Culture Machine Live is a podcast series dedicated to discussions of culture and theory. As one of the editors of this series (alongside Clare Birchall, Gary Hall & Pete Woodbridge) I have been conducting interviews with media and cultural theorists. Culture Machine Live is an extension of the online, open access journal of culture, theory and…
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Society of the Query – Part 2: Gugerli, Fuller, Manovich, Ludovico, Bruno and Van ’t Hof
Part 1 of my notes on the Society of the Query conference can be found here. David Gugerli a historian specialized in the philosophy of science gave a lecture on the history of databases and of data management as a signifying practice. In a Deleuzian fashion, he states, knowledge operates in distributed networks. The world…
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Society of the Query – Part 1: Lovink, Boutang, Pasquinelli and Numerico
Last month the Institute of Network Cultures organized a two day conference entitled Society of the Query. Below you can find a wrap-up of the notes I took during the conference. More elaborate blog entries focusing on each of the lectures separately can be found here and you can also take a look at the…
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RiP, Maecenas and Event
Brett Gaylor, the director of the Open Source documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto, is experimenting with the ‘Maecenas model’ (by others dubbed the ‘pay–as-you-like’ or Radiohead/NIN model) while launching his documentary online as a free download. I have written about RiP before here and since then the (CC licensed) feature length film has only gained…
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Business is boring
Via RethinkingMedia I came upon this lecture (in Dutch, sorry) by Martijn Aslander from Lifehacking.nl in which he talks about bookhacking. Although his lecture is filled with hip marketing one-liners, he does give a clear overview of how an online business model based on the giving away of free content could work. As he shows,…