It is the year 2013. I am 15 years old. I tell my friend the band My Chemical Romance has split up. She runs out of the classroom, crying. In his phenomenal essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin describes how Art has changed with the increasing ability to reproduce it. He lays out the concept…
In this video the notion of what it means to be a human and what it means to be a cyborg is explored through the analysis of video art. Charlotte Moorman performs with Paik’s TV Cello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9lnbIGHzUM My thumb is fatter than my finger but just as agile by Miguel Ángel Cárdenas: https://www.li-ma.nl/lima/catalogue/art/miguel-ngel-crdenas/my-thumb-is-fatter-than-my-finger-but-just-as/10082# Deus Ex Machina by Arno Coenen & René Bosma:…
By: Marcel Beentjes My last podcast for this course is about order desks that are used in GAMMA shops since a few years and that can be used in other shops too. Such an order desk is not only used for promoting online sells because it’s a source of videos and ideas and a platform where you can find help, tips and…
While I was wondering what I should write about in my last blog, I realized how much I actually enjoyed writing. As I am considering doing a minor in journalism – and even masters -, I searched online for future expectations if I were to become a journalist. Regrets. I should not have done that. I stumbled on an article by the…
It’s a very popular sci-fi trope, a cutesy robot that the viewer develops warm feelings for as the machine proves itself to be capable of acting as a human would, even exhibiting some semblance of emotion. These robots are, of course, not human, yet we can’t help but feel sad if something were to happen to them, how come, and how close…
By Marcel Beentjes In this podcast I will talk about digital socializing in times of the corona virus because I thought this is one of the hard things we have to deal with. What position do apps like Discord and Spotify have now? How about social well being and social health? Start listening now!
As the anti-big tech sentiment pivoted in recent years, ensues efforts to curb their reigning influence and power. In late October this year, on top of minor and major investigations for the past year, EU lawmakers were reported to have been drafting a new legislative package. Expert has split views on this, yet they could guarantee this move will for better or…
What’s up with them, anyway? It is often said that from suffering and hardship, amazing art arises. It’s an argument that can lead to the flawed conclusion that any form of suffering is somehow less bad because of that, but if we got anything from the pandemic, it’s some amazing albums. Taylor Swift with Folklore and Evermore, two amazingly evocative albums that…
“Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries…” – Neville Brody Last weekend I had the amazing opportunity to visit NXT Museum in Amsterdam, a first of its kind concept museum dedicated entirely to digital media art. What I walked away with was a broadening of my artistic horizons like I’ve never experienced before. Digital Art is a very fluid…
Inspired by “Is it My Opinion?”, “The Ease of Online Shopping” – blogs from fellow students – and a New York Times article, I have decided to touch upon the topic of fake reviews for my last blog. As mentioned in “The Ease of Online Shopping”, there is a plethora of products you can order online, but another interesting aspect of the…