“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…
In April of this year, Nintendo unveiled Animal Crossing: New Horizons for its highly popular Switch console. A revamped version of its series, Animal Crossing can be best described as a “social simulation game” that revolves around a players character interacting with the digital environment, constructing the island they inhabit, making friends, visiting others and typically being an engaged member of a…
In this weeks episode of Work in progress, we talk everything lo-fi. We discuss some of our favourite lo-fi artists and songs, the general lo-fi aesthetic online and on digital platforms and what encompasses it, and even a tiny bit of the philosophy behind the lo-fi aesthetic. Music and artists discussed in the podcast (in order of appearance): Macintosh Plus – リサフランク420…
The power of sound. Have we unlearned to live in stillness? While going downstairs to grab my laundry the other day, I had to take our building’s staircase, which forces me to pass four different doors. Thanks to the fantastic logistics and the very minimalist choice of doors design in our building, each of our neighbor’s doors has a small gap at…
We all are familiar with Instagram and using it to post our life’s highlights to the quirky pictures or scroll through memes and cat pics. But in recent times, especially since there were lockdowns everywhere due to the Coronavirus pandemic, I have observed an explosion of people starting online businesses on Instagram. Business has really taken a whole new form with Instagram…
In the last months and the previous semester I have become acquainted with on-line classes. In this blog I want to share some of my experiences with this form of teaching. Most of the lessons are using the Kaltura software so that explains the name of this blog. At the moment it works fine but that took some time. In my first…

Pilot Episode This the pilot episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities. In this episode, Cosima introduces a discussion about the advantages and disadvantage of the digitilization of humanities. In future episodes, we’re going to rotate the role of host that introduces a topic and a discussion around it with…
The Parliamentary elections in Lithuania are approaching and will be held on 11 October 2020. Oleg Šurajev, a comedian, YouTube content creator, decided to use these circumstances for a social experiment. Oleg Šurajev and his team from the 1k YouTube channel created a non-existing candidate and agitated for him, both on the streets and the internet. The physical image is of an…