The latest edition of LucasX, the magazine about the broader Utrecht cultural scene, focusses on new media. For this reason Levien Nordeman and Tijmen Schep both wrote an article about new media.
Levien wrote about Web 2.0 and the cultural scene in Utrecht, whereas Tijmen wrote about the need to stimulare Utrecht's e-culture scene. They also wrote one article together about new media art in general, pointing out some good works.
At the end of August Tijmen, together with Mediamatic's Arjan Scherpenisse, will host the Social RFID hackercamp 09-01 at Mediamatic.
On Juli 15th Impakt, z25 and NetNiet.org organise the second evening about the Utrecht New Media scene, called "Utrecht Nieuwe Media Avond" (Utrecht New Media Evening). We will discuss the existing plans in Utrech, including ours, and think about what Utrecht needs in order to galvanise its E-culture scene. We will also discuss our own plans for a New Media Lab.
Carla, one of the workshop participants om our recent workshop in Madrid, put together a rockin' video about the workshop we did. Thanks!
We will be guest blogging at the Media Art Platform about all Treasuremapper related happenenings.
The Crosslab recently invited me to give a two-day workshop at the Willem de Koning Academie about Locative Media. Not only did we talk and work on their projects, but we also found some time to experiment with Treasuremapper. In half an hour(!) the students had made little games/walks in the vicinity of the academy. Playing them was great fun, expecially the locative text-based adventure: walking around, trying to avoid electrified tramstops, ninja's and evil armies, with the path finally leading up to the top of the Rotterdam Library where the quest came to an end. Because of the limited time, this group stuck to text and sound effects, which worked surprisingly well.
We presented Treasuremapper and talked about the state of locative media during the last re:visie lab, organised by the Dutch Film Festival . After the talk we tested out the software in the sunny center of Utrecht.
Hurray! We got second/third prize at Think Ahead (organised by the Netherlands Institute for Media Art ) when we presented our Treasuremapper plans. The jury will keep there eye on us.
Some of you might have heard, we had a surprise coming up. The surprise is called "Treasuremapper", and it's the first version of an application we're building for mobile phones that allows the triggering of media depending on geographic location. Which means your phone can show different pictures, sounds or video depending on where you are.
We started building it because we had such a hard time finding anything that could do something as basic as this, and do it in an easy way that works on a lot of phones.
A first glimpse was given at the Rencontres Internationales festival where it was available during our workshop. The next time it'll be out in the open will be at Re:visie lab.
More can be found at the temporary and very much under construction) Treasuremapper website.
If you're at the festival, drop us a line. Esther Polak and Tijmen Schep are giving a GeoTales workshop based on the one we did in Brussels. More info here.
We're working on something useful, which will be presented at the next Re:visie lab (an event of the Netherlands Film Festival that explores other modes of storytelling besides video). More to follow... it's a secret for now.
Tijmen Schep and Esther Polak gave a week-long workshop on locative storytelling in Brussels. The results were great!
Cindy is reading up for her upcoming thesis. It looks like we'll have a specialist in Social Entrepreneurship in our midst, and how that could affect the media sector. She's also enjoying her internship at Philips Lighting.
Tijmen has joined wireless artist Esther Polak's team. Together they will travel to Africa from the 30th of december till the 22nd of january for the Nomadic Milk project. After that it's straight on to Berlin again for the Transmediale. Before that Tijmen will help out with the Any Media workshop at Mediamatic, and after he can be found in Brussels helping Esther in running her IMAL workshop.
NetNiet spoke at a number of events, and installed a number of installations in the last few months. Amongst others we were at the Berlin Pornfilmfestival, at the Shift conference, and the Amsterdam museumnight (at Arcam).
We just installed Citizen Journalism at the ZXZW festival. Next stop: Tijmen will be speaking on the follies of Ubiquitous Computing at the Shift conference, titled "When nerds dream big".
Tijmen also just graduated "met veel genoegen" and now has an MA in New Media and Digital Culture.
Cindy finished her internship at Z25.org and will continue to lift weight there too.
Two pictures from Citizen Journalism:
Despite the holidays we've been keeping busy. We're in contact with the Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam, The Urbanscreens Conference 08 in Melbourne, and the Shift Conference in Lisbon.
First up though, you can find a brand new installation at the ZXZW festival in Tilburg.
The NetNiet.org team got seriously beat at playing Cruel to be Kind in the center of Utrecht tonight. Using mobile phones participants coordinated their arrival and their victories with the 'gamemaster', which then was able to signal the end of the game. It was all over in 45 minutes, but during that time the experience of wondering who was in the game and who wasn't was great fun.
Het stond er zowaar. Honderden bezoekers met buttons, druk in de weer met hun mobiele telefoons en de opdrachten die ze uit moesten voeren (en de cadeaus die ze kregen). We zijn erg in ons nopjes met de veelvuldige interactie en de positieve respons. Op deze pagina is een terugblik te vinden.
De kogel is door de kerk: NetNiet.org bouwt voor Impakt een nieuwe installatie genaamd "Gifted". Wat is jouw populariteit waard?
We zijn op het moment in gesprek met Impakt over de mogelijke totstandbrenging van een nieuwe installatie tijdens hun komende festival, dat begint op 7 mei 2008.
BelBellen, oorspronkelijk gepland voor ons eigen festival van 2007, is getoond op het Cinekid Festival dat van 14-21 oktober 2007 in Amsterdam plaatsvond. Het is uiteindelijk niet onder de vlag van NetNiet.org uitgevoerd, maar werd een co-productie van Pineapplejazz Design en Levien Nordeman. Er zijn hier enkele fotos.
Wegens een gebrek aan subsidie blijkt het niet mogelijk om het festival te organiseren in een vorm waar we achter kunnen staan. Dit is echt heel jammer want we barsten van de plannen.
Voor het festival zijn we op zoek naar sprekers, curatoren, kunstemakers (vooral rondom audio) en vooral vrijwilligers. Neem contact met ons op als je het leuk lijkt om mee te doen!
Hoera, NetNiet.org Draadloos festival 2007 komt eraan!
Na het succes van 2006 wordt er ook deze zomer weer een gratis NetNiet.org Draadloos Festival georganiseerd. Nieuwe avonturen staan de argeloze stadsbewandelaar te wachten. En dit jaar doen we het niet alleen. In samenwerking met andere creatieven zullen we wederom het historisch centrum van Utrecht veranderen in een spel van media en locatie.
Naast een aantal verspreide installaties kun je workshops, lezingen en presentaties rondom draadloze media en hun relatie met de stad volgen.
Dit jaar is ook de eerste keer dat het festival een prijs uitreikt, en wel voor de mooiste draadloos internet hotspot namen.
Draadloos, low budget en natuurlijk geldt ook dit jaar weer “bring your own devices”!
We hopen je tussen 1 en 9 september te zien in Utrecht!
The foundation, founded in 2006, promotes wireless media art in public
space.
We are translating the entire site into just English, but currently
some parts are still in Dutch. Our apologies, we're working on it!
Stichting NetNiet.org, opgericht in 2006, promoot draadloze mediakunst in de openbare ruimte. Hoewel we eerst draadloze festivals organiseerden, richten we ons nu op het maken van kleinschalige evenementen en installaties waarbij we met andere instanties samenwerken.
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