Media Squares Symposium at De Balie
by Lieke Kessels
On Friday September 30th there will be a symposium on the different and new forms of protests and their corresponding media at De Balie in Amsterdam. This event will attempt to formulate a critical analysis of recent events on streets and squares around the world. From Syria to London, New York to Chile, Egypt to Tunisia. The discussions will be ‘disrupted’ by artistic intervention strategies within the social debate.
As we on The Right to ...
The Right to the City: Urban Exploration
by Nicola Bozzi
As promised, I am coming back from Den Haag with a report on Todaysart, a media art ...
Todaysart
by Nicola Bozzi
The Netherlands are particularly rich in media art festivals and conferences, but the Den Haag-based Todaysart (September 23-24) seems especially interesting to us. ...
The Right of the Ones We Kill
by Lieke Kessels
One of the most popular tweet relating to the #yeswecamp and @OccupyWallStNYC was one that originated from ...
Impakt Tip: New Content on the Impakt Channel
The Impakt Channel is getting an important update: content with context.
Previously used solely as a platform for screening Impakt Festival ...
The Challenges of Data Journalism. Interview with Jelle Kamsma from NU.nl
by Nicola Bozzi
One thing we haven't properly discussed yet, here at the Impakt blog, is ...
Future Daily
by Lieke Kessels
A special edition of the Metro – a free newspaper in The Netherlands – is coming out on September 30th, filled with ...
Anonymous Watch: Yes, We Camp
by Lieke Kessels
On the 17th of September you are all welcome to join some urban campers near different stock exchanges around the world. ...
Geofence
by Lieke Kessels
Flickr has upgraded their privacy settings via a new ‘Geofence’ in order to protect your geoprivacy. Other than either disclosing or hiding your location information, you can ...
by Nicola Bozzi
So far we've been discussing the Right to Know in terms of information. There is usually some knowledge out there, some tools to ...
by Lieke Kessels
Al Jazeera
I love Al Jazeera. I use it all the time for finding news reports that are different from the mass repetition we find in ...
by Nicola Bozzi
Iceland and Democracy 2.0. An Example for our Future?
In 2007, before the infamous financial crackdown hit the the country's economy almost overnight, Iceland was ranked ...
by Lieke Kessels
There is an App for That: Death App
Ever wondered how many murders and road fatalities have occurred in your neighborhood? Well there is ...
By Lieke Kessels
Ever since seeing the VICE guide to North Korea in 2009, I’ve been fascinated by the notion of going to this country. It might sound strange ...
By Lieke Kessels Facebook appears to be an important part of our daily lives. When
waiting for the tram or sitting alone in a ...
GOGBOT 2011, DATA-PANIC/TRUE PLAY
GOGBOT 2011 takes place from 8th –11th September with this year's theme: DATA PANIC - YOU-TUBE-Poop - JAPANOIIID!
GOGBOT is 4 days of art, ...
By Lieke KesselsIn the night from the 21st to the 22nd of August there was a break-in at Mediamatic in the Duintjer CS building on ...
In
my
last post about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange I wrote that transparency seems to be a staple requirement in many
platforms for informational activism. But another key ...
By Lieke Kessels Today I read that UK Prime Minister Cameron comments about the
possibility of Internet Censorship has received praise from China. Always ...
By Lieke Kessels
I started my week with the news that the blogger Asmaa Mahfouz was taken into custody
by the military government in Egypt last Sunday ...
By Lieke KesselsI thought Bart was this
loving cheeky character from the Simpsons but apparently it also stands for the
Bay Area Rapid Transit, in San
Francisco. On ...
The Ethics and Heritage of Transparency By Nicola Bozzi
WikiLeaks has been
around since 2006, but only since 2010 has it been so tightly
identified with ...
By Nicola BozziWhen
it comes to sharing personal information on the Internet, the first
thing that comes to mind is the privacy issue. We've all frowned upon
Facebook's ...
by Nicola Bozzi
Hours after the devastating Oslo attack and the tragic Utøya massacre, of which Anders Behring Breivik still appears to be the sole architect, ...
Impakt has selected the Brazilian artist Lucas Bambozzi for the residency in Utrecht. Lucas Bambozzi is a multimedia artist based in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. ...
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