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2019-05-24T13:43:06+02:00

Check out this stunnishing timelapse video directed by Hiroshi Kondo of the flow of motorbikes in the streets of Taiwan.

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2019-05-22T17:34:55+02:00

Great day today with the Processing Citizenship team and Professor Kalpana Shankar where we discussed connections with her work on social science data archives and data curation practices. Afterwards she also gave a colloquium at our UTwente STePS department on “Data Work as Organizational Work: The Sustainability of Social Science Data Archives”.

2019-05-16T22:19:24+02:00

Some nice recent articles from Courier International:

  • A bit of history on the introduction of street numbers in Vienna. As ways to collect taxes, for conscription of people into the army, for political reasons, etc. Read it here.
  • A lengthy piece on the invisible business of moving artwork.

2019-05-12T12:14:24+02:00

I’m always interested to learn about influences on culture and traditions that are otherwise taken for granted, or are considered “natural”. So I’m pleased to find out via Wikipedia about “The Pizza Effect” as one perspecive on such a phenomena:

2019-05-11T14:56:29+02:00

Listening to a podcast from the BBC program In Our Time about Henri Bergon’s ideas on time. Some ideas I found noteworthy:

  • The historical background of thinking about time during the 19th century. The appearance of timelines, focus on time, influence of trains, timezones.
  • The measurements of time and links with looking at it as space. And that then the lived experience falls out of the equation.
  • Coexistence of past and presence.

2019-05-07T09:18:54+02:00

The Hyphen Labs collective is making brilliant projects at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Check out there work here

2019-05-07T09:00:51+02:00

Looking at a keynote presentation of Lisa Nakamura at the transmediale 2018 “Call Out, Protest, Speak Back”. She focuses on the importance of critical race and feminist theory for understanding contemporary culture of digital technologies. Interesting use of Audrey Lorde’s quote that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” and how we can’t fix technology with more technology.

2019-04-22T10:55:38+02:00

Fascinating video on the daily background maintenance and repair that is required to keep the city of Venice “working”. Check out the website of the project Venice Backstage as well.

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2019-04-01T10:29:55+02:00

In South-Africa there has been severe water shortages due to a long drought and bad water management. The following short video gives us a glimpse of the terrible consequences such as police cracking down prohibited water use, such as someone trying to earn some living washing cars.

2019-03-31T09:07:46+02:00

Two important news updates via Tv5Monde’s 7 jours sur la planète emission of 30 March 2019:

  • “La Suède, l’autre pays du cyborg”: in Sweden it seems to become more common to have an RFID chip implanted under the skin. So much so that even in the train it seems to slowly be considered normal to use your hand with the implanted chip to scan your ticket.
  • “Nestlé accusé d’épuiser la nappe phréatique”: in France some activist groups are campainging against Nestlé for the water the company is extracting from the ground for their bottled water. I can imagine this happening in a lot more places in the world as water becomes more scarce.