At 18:00, standing at Central Station, waiting on a delayed train after having wrapped up another workday, drenched from the relentless rain, and seeking solace in...
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Why the **** do people listen to the top 2000?
A holiday tradition on the radio The days are getting shorter and the weather is getting colder: it’s December. We are approaching the holiday season with...
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My scrolling activity looks very similar each day. I open Instagram with muscle memory, even though it is in a separate folder,(The goal was to have...
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Why are we so obsessed with taking photos of famous locations or artworks? In this video essay I tried to find an answer to this question,...
Continue reading...Live-streaming Queens: the bizarre and lucrative world of China’s live-streaming influencers
Scrolling through my Instagram content the other morning I came across a video that caught my attention. Most of the algorithmic content that pops up on the...
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Wearable Technologies
Wearable Technologies are perhaps a development most significant to today’s society, for it has made devices an everyday essential item. Wearable Technologies are created to be...
Continue reading...The power of TikTok on online shopping
We all know how TikTok works; you open the app, start scrolling through videos until you find something interesting, and then maybe start investigating on the...
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Albums I’m sure you have different albums created by yourself on your phone. You went on a weekend trip and on your way back you start...
Continue reading...[VIDEO] I’m Just Here For The Selfie
by Lorenzo Piero Holder On my recent visit to the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the Stedelijk in Schiedam, I was disappointed. While I was eagerly expecting...
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...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...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...(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....
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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...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...Communities : a social tsunami, Gamestop.
What is the difference between 3000 persons and a group of 3000 persons ? Easy answer, 3000 persons is a mass but a group of 3000...
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