One of the many advantages the internet has brought us is the accessibility of culture. Nowadays, there is no need to visit a museum or gallery...
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“I support women’s rights but more importantly I support women’s wrongs” [video essay]
In my video essay I explore how films and social media are challenging traditional notions of femininity by portraying characters who express unconventional emotions like anger...
Continue reading...The Vast Impact of Digitalization
On this podcast, Helen, Jet, and Tsamarah talked about the impact of digitalization in our respective fields of study. Topics including the advancement of Geographic Information...
Continue reading...The Changing Landscape of Filmmaking
Last night I had the pleasure of watching the movie Heretic and it was nothing short of brilliant (no, seriously, I sobbed at the end). As...
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[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...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...PODCAST: “Are you a watcher or a player?”
A movie about an online game with romance in the background. Sounds like a perfect movie to laugh about with your friends. But if I tell...
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Digital Technology as Medium of Art Creation
Letterboxd and making a game out of watching movies
Netflix’s “Sex Education”: The Role of TV Series in Addressing Intimacy
Is it possible to create a TV series that talks about mental health, identity, and sexuality among young people, all while offering an educational perspective? And...
Continue reading...Role of Art on Social Media Platforms
In last week’s blog, I touched upon a very interesting and multi-layered topic: how art and social media influence each other. But since it was impossible...
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The Evolution of Instagram: Artistic Visual Blogging
Imagination is the power. Ellen Sheidlin When Yuriy Dud, a Russian journalist, asks Ellen Sheidlin “What is power?” at the end of a 2-hour long interview, she...
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NFTs: Fad or the Future of Art?
The art world is no stranger to the increasingly rapid, and brutal, trend cycles of the digital age. Nonetheless, the desire to stick to our centuries...
Continue reading...Homunculus Loxodontus: From Art to a Russian Meme
I first came across this odd-looking creature on the album cover of Sand by Balthazar. I did not think much of it apart from it possibly...
Continue reading...Toward a different perspective on web-based objects
Introduction What are web-based objects, or what might they be? Since objects are culturally constituted, it is interesting to ask how the increasingly digital and internet-oriented...
Continue reading...“Inside” is a time period defining masterpiece
No one really likes to talk anymore about the time period where Bo Burnham’s “Inside” came out. It came out on May 30th 2021 and was...
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