This post is the third of a five part series on ‘using the web for documentaries‘, addressing the following points: the embeddedness of society in the internet, the political in the web, the politics of engines, the politics of tools, and the web as an anticipatory medium.

Now that we have discussed researching the political in the web, let us have a look at the politics of engines to illustrate the need for medium specific methods on the web.
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This post is the first of a five part series on ‘using the web for documentaries‘, addressing the following points: the embeddedness of society in the internet, the political in the web, the politics of engines, the politics of tools, and the web as an anticipatory medium.

To start with, let us have a look at this AP’s picture (click for higher resolution). :
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BeamLab is een platform voor bewegend beeld. Bij BeamLab kun je statements verwachten, debat, innovatieve ideen horen van technici en creatieven, nieuwe samenwerkingen aangaan, toekomstscenario’s horen van fabrikanten en bovenal kun je zelf aan de slag en in gesprek.

Elke 3 weken in Pakhuis de Zwijger. De volgende is op woensdag 30 mei.
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The Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) is an international and interdisciplinary biennial that focuses on art, technology and society and is organized by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, in Rotterdam. program

DEAF presents a wide range of programme segments, including, of course, a large exhibition of interactive artworks and installations. There will also be concerts, performances, seminars, workshops and an academic symposium. The festival is characterized by a thematic approach. Its aim is to bring current developments and themes around art in our technological culture to a diverse audience.

DEAF is one of the most important international festivals focusing on art and media technology, and it can be regarded as a showcase for research for and production of new media art (some specially commissioned).

This festival in Rotterdam is the ideal place for representatives of various networks to meet and inspire each other, and for international critical debate to take place.

Interact or Die! (DEAF07’s Theme)
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Wanneer: zaterdag 28 oktober 20.15 uur
Waar: Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Leidseplein 26, Amsterdam
Kaarten: E 15,- / CJP e.d. E 12,50

Kunsthal, performance space, meetingplace en balzaal: Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam is het allemaal op zaterdag 28 oktober. Onder het motto IdentifiXatie bezetten toonaangevende kunstenaars de schouwburg. Victorine Mueller & Kirsten Reese, Sia Kyriakakos, Anat Stainberg, Naferlovesyou en Kristina Andersen & Nota Heilmann en vele anderen dagen u uit uw identiteit te ontrafelen.Curator Nat Muller stelt het programma samen van verschillende live-art projecten, waar in de centrale vraag is: Who am I?

Ben ik wel wie ik denk dat ik ben? Waar stop ik en begint ‘de rest’? Wij nodigen u uit om uw identiteit te onderzoeken, door mee te gaan op reis langs eeninteractief programma metperformances, dans, spoken word, installaties en djâs. U duikt in een afwisselend geruststellende, confronterende, zalvende, bedachtzame wereld. East is east and west is west in the end:in de spetterende audiovisuele cut-up van Serhat KÃksal waarin popular art and touristik art uit oost en west in de blender gaan. En u op de dansvloer!

ÂIdentifiXatie komt tot stand met medewerking van Victorine Mueller en Kirsten Reese (CH/D) | Quiver, Sia Kyriakakos (GR) | All Coffee, Anat Stainberg (IL) | The Dotting, Kristina Andersen en Nora Heilmann (NL/DK/DE) | Double Eye, De Organisatie (NL), David Middendorp (NL) | Kruimeldief ,Naferlovesyou (NL) | Brattaging, Dejan KaludjeroviÄ (AT/RS) | Europoly, 2/5 BZ (TR) | NO Exotic , NO Ethnic Market, O.Boogie (NL), Space (NL) | The Place Where We Belong & Alter Ego, videoprogramma [uni]formed identities met Corine StÃbi (DE/CH) | Working Girl, Nurit Sharett (IL) | Identityâ, Sharif Waked (PS) | Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints, Shahram Entekhabi (IR/DE) | Islamic Star, Itamar Gilboa (IL/NL) | want to be Green, Coco Fusco (CU/US) | Els Segadors.

Volledig Programma: http://www.leidsepleintheaters.nl/identifixatie.html
Meer Info: http://www.leidsepleintheaters.nl/transito.html

Vanavond NL premiere
Woe 18 oktober: Overtoom 301 Amsterdam (20.30 uur)

Documentaire over Indymedia op tournee

”I’ the film’ is een nieuwe documentaire van 84 minuten over activisme en eigen media. De twee makers, Rafael Lyon en Andres Ingoglia zijn afkomstig uit Argentinie. De film gaat voor een groot deel over de rol die Indymedia - het netwerk voor onafhankelijke berichtgeving - speelde bij de commotie rond de economische ineenstorting van het land in december 2001. Maar de film trekt de lijnen door (en voert de camera) naar andere delen van de wereld en belicht de - soms problematische - wisselwerking tussen media en activisme.

Publiciste Naomi Klein over de film: ‘When the world turned briefly upside down, this film fell out. ‘i’ positively vibrates with the energy and creativity of the movement it documents. Beautiful, intellectual, riotous, it fits in no box (and no blurb), just see it!’

I love listening to internet radio, my favorite is http://www.etherbeat.com
Today however I discovered last.fm’s neighbourhood radio. It is internet radio based on the songs you submitted to last.fm before … neat! A radiostation playing only the things that I like but not always know You can also give in a tag or an artist, after which you will only get similiar artists on your radio. Beat this pandora.com.

The real nice thing is that it is interactive radio as well. You can ‘love’ or ‘ban’ a track or skip tracks if you don’t feel like it right now. Afterwards people can tune in to your loved tracks radio.

Btw, I really have to switch to tags instead of categories soon. Tags are way more flexible than categories and if I adjust my plugin (see previous post) just a little so that it can work with TWiki as well … mmmhhh Bliki is coming my way … finally And then a tagcloud instead of a category listing and if you click on a tag you can see all my del.icio.us bookmarks with that tag, and my last.fm songs with that tag, and my wikitopics with that tag and my blogposts with that tag … and then what the world has to say about that tag (digg, wikipedia, del.icio.us) … Mmmhhh … sounds like my brain :S The everreturning question pops up: how much of myself am I willing to get logged and available on the internet?? I don’t want anybody (who I don’t personnaly know) to be able to profile me … I read that book called ‘Big Brother’, you know.

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. Elwyn B. White, schrijver/essayist (Essays, 1977)

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Now here is a cool new app!!! getdemocracy, although very american in seeing television as the ultimate form of democracy, is a very neat little app. It’ll let you subscribe to all kinds of feeds (channels) with videos and store them as a harddisk tv. It’s indeed as easy as switching on your television.

Looking forward to the allpeers firefox extension though. It’ll let you share all kind of files very easily and you can specify exactly to whom.

A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military’s plans for “information operations” - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm