I have been introduced to Polaroid cameras thanks to a game called Life is Strange. The main character, Max Caulfield, is an instant photographer who ends...
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The term ‘cottagecore’ might or might not be familiar to you. It is a term coined for an internet aesthetic popularised greatly in the Covid pandemic...
Continue reading...The Ascension of Video Art
On a bright April day earlier this year, I traveled all the way to Liege to visit Bill Viola’s retrospective in Musée de la Boverie. It...
Continue reading...Will the Medium Lose the Message?
While exploring one of the many online services offering tools to uncover your roots, I found myself captivated by the AI modification of historical images. What...
Continue reading...Your Loved Ones are Ruining Your Online Privacy
“Never share the view outside your window on the internet, or else creepy people will be able to find you”. Some of you may have heard...
Continue reading...Why you don’t need an 8-step skincare routine
The 8-step routine Serums with hyaluronic acid, rose water toner, and a foaming cleanser from The Ordinary. Does that sound familiar, or not at all? These...
Continue reading...A digital revolution in drug discovery – Meet Google’s protein folding AI
I remember attending a lecture several years ago that focused primarily on the 3D structures of proteins and their importance in drug discovery. It being both...
Continue reading...The Death of Connection in the Digital World
Something that has popping up a lot on my mind lately is the feeling of being (dis)connected. The English Cambridge Dictionary defines “connection” (feeling) as: “feeling...
Continue reading...What Faded Away in Time
As a millennial, we literally were born on the edge of the digital world, and the era before. Outdated products were disposed of, and replaced by...
Continue reading...The rise of reality TV: A Cultural Shift We Can’t Ignore
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How Do We Prepare Future Generations for Their Life in the Digital?
In my last blog on ongoing digitalisation with respect to the radio, I asked myself whether one has the right to lead a life outside of...
Continue reading...Byte-Sized History: Key Milestones in Digital Media
Since harnessing the power of digits, we’ve been able to do a bunch of cool stuff with it. It hasn’t even been 100 years, and we’ve...
Continue reading...An audience of one in a post-information age
In his widely known book Being Digital (1995), Nicholas Negroponte describes what he calls the post-information age; an age of rapidly emerging technologies and ever-evolving electronics....
Continue reading...The iPad, the iPhone, the iPod and the iPet: The Advent of Microchips
To the vast majority of animal owners the installation of a microchip under your pets skin can represent a milestone moment of the early stage of...
Continue reading...Otome game: Empowerment or Reinforcement
In the film her, released in 2013, Theodore falls in love with the AI in his phone. However, he cannot declare his love to the world...
Continue reading...Electric Eye
Introduction Any attempt to answer the question “what analog[ue] technologies […] are part of/at the roots of [(ALL)] digital technology” will, for certain, raise a number...
Continue reading...Digital VS Analog: Music
I am once again back in my room, typing on my computer. As per usual, I have put on a record to listen to as I...
Continue reading...CDs and digital cameras; vinyl records and Polaroids of the 2020s?
Vinyl records and Polaroid cameras don’t remind me of the 70’s or the decades surrounding it. They remind me of the 2010s. Thanks to the hipster...
Continue reading...From the first cell phone to today
I’m sitting on my parents’ old couch at a family celebration. It’s a very funny, relaxed atmosphere when my mother gets up and announces promisingly that...
Continue reading...How Information Now Changes My Digital Practice
I remember when I was in elementary school, the teacher would always say ‘Just ask Google if you don’t know something.’ I tried entering a keyword...
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