Even though we surround ourselves with digital content every day, the idea of digital art being a part of media art can be quite peculiar to...
Continue reading...Chat with “anyone”: Character.ai
Character.ai is a chatbot service that uses neural language models to respond to conversational prompts. What is different from ChatGPT is that there are characters in the...
Continue reading...[VIDEO] Digital Laborscape: Navigating Value in Social Media
Here is a youtube link to the video, I will add the text in its entirety below if you want to read things over, enjoy! Digital...
Continue reading...[VIDEO] Virtual Reality in Museums: New Immersive Perspectives
Virtual Reality (VR) is a new form of technology that has gained significant popularity over the last decades. The use of VR headsets has been introduced...
Continue reading...Podcast: What Happens After pop Culture Enters the Realm of Films?
Welcome to my podcast! I discuss ‘an edit’ as a part of popular culture and explain how does it changes the way that people consume films...
Continue reading...II: Navigating Digital Art in the Institution
In reflection on my previous blog, IDFA’s Doclab 2024 is a must visit when interested by the cutting edge of technology in new media, technolgy, and...
Continue reading...I miss the old Black Friday
This past week, most of the tweets and TikToks I’ve seen about Black Friday have been along the lines of “I miss when they gave away...
Continue reading...Shared Nostalgia: How social media fuels our longing for the past
The phenomenon of nostalgia, and its status in the internet age has been a regular point of discussion and thought in many of my blog posts...
Continue reading...Keep your politics out of my tiktok
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(video essay) This Message is For You: When Spirituality Enters TikTok
I have been thinking about the relationship between digital media, especially TikTok, and spirituality for a while now. How does spirituality change when mediated by the...
Continue reading...Hito Steyerl and the Image Overstimulation
Thinking of digital art I remembered an exhibition I saw at the Stedelijk Museum in 2022. It was I will survive, an overview of works by...
Continue reading...I: Immersive Narratives and IDFA 2023
From the 8th to the 19th of November, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam is hosted in the cinemas of Amsterdam, presenting socially engaged documentaries from around the globe....
Continue reading...[VIDEO] Building Sandcastles: OpenAI and its closed future
by Lorenzo Piero Holder As I strolled along the shores of the North Sea, memories flooded back—days of building sandcastles with my sister. While at first...
Continue reading...(Podcast) Parasocial Relationships: From “Pookie Nation” to Oli London’s Marriage with Jimin (of BTS)
Have you ever been called “Pookie?” Or perhaps you have encountered Prayag Mishra’s “Pookie” TikTok or Reel on Instagram? Inspired by the new “Pookie” trend, we have explored levels of parasocial relationships in the digital environment! Join!
Continue reading...(Podcast) Parasocial Relationships: From “Pookie Nation” to Oli London’s Marriage with Jimin (of BTS)
Have you ever been called “pookie”? Or perhaps you have encountered Prayag Mishra’s “Pookie” Tiktok or Reel on Instagram? Inspired by the new “Pookie” trend, we have explored levels of parasocial relationships in the digital environment. Join!
Continue reading...Accept all cookies.
It feels like the little disclaimer on every webpage asking the user to accept or refuse -if that is even possible- the “cookies” was a snowball...
Continue reading...The Christmas Spirit and Other Consumerist Ghosts
As time moves past the Thanksgiving weekend (or for me, a poor retail employee, past Black Friday), or Halloween, it is officially Christmas time. Not religion-wise,...
Continue reading...Mathematics and/or a Robot
Digital devices are everywhere. They’re in homes, in public transport and also in schools. People have different opinions on smartphones in the classroom. Some want to...
Continue reading...Playing with Humanity: Cyborgs in Cinematic Context
Last week’s lecture made me realise that cyborgs go far beyond what I thought they were. My idea of cyborgs was pretty simplistic: On the one...
Continue reading...Enhancing Museum Experiences through Digitalization
Do you visit museums often? Are you always feeling tired of the traditional way of visiting? As the world gets more digitalized, numerous industries are adapting...
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