April 16 10
Inspired by the computer game Football Manager, in which you are the trainer of a top football club, Juha van ’t Zelfde dreams of the game Museum Manager, in which you get to run a top museum. It will have been in 1995 that I managed to get my hands on my first copy of [...]
Posted in Article, Metropolis M, Non-fiction, VURB, Viral Radio, art, museum
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Tagged Alexander Ribbink, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Frank Rijkaard, Henry, Ibrahimovic, Joan Laporta, Johan Cruijff, Messi, Metropolis M, Museum Manager, Olafur Eliasson, Stedelijk Museum, Viral Radio, VURB
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April 12 10
Following our contribution to the ACCESS2CA seminar at the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana (Slovenia) last year, the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) has invited us to give a number of workshop at this year’s symposium ‘Contemporary Art: Who Cares?’. This international event will take place at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam this summer and is [...]
Posted in Non-fiction
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Tagged Bart Rutten, Charles Esche, Eija Liisa Ahtila, ICN, KIT, MoMA, Nedko Solakov, SBMK, Stedelijk Museum, Tate, UvA, Van Abbemuseum
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March 29 10
Another update from Juha, having just recovered from the flu. Michiel has been ill too – way to go Non-fictionites. These past days have been all about the North Sea Jazz Festival, and a little bit of balcony gardening. Already after the first time I give up writing a weekly update. I admit, I’m not [...]
Posted in News, Viral Radio, event
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Tagged Alog, Bimhuis, BJ Nilsen, Christian Fennesz, Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke, Huub van Riel, Icarus, Jacob Kirkegaard, Kadir Selçuk, Lantaren/Venster, North Sea Jazz, Philip Jeck, Rotterdam, Stephen O'Malley, Viral Radio, Volga, Yukon
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March 12 10
It has been quite a while since we took the time to write a post about the projects we are working on. This is the start of a new rhythm on the site, inspired by the incredible people of Berg in London, who consequently update their loyal followers about their whereabouts. Not sure if we [...]
Posted in Non-fiction
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Tagged Den Haag, Gaslamp Killer, Haagse Muziek Driedaagse, Juha, Loops Haunt, Michiel, Mike Slott, North Sea Jazz, Nosaj Thing, Radna Rumping, Rustie, Saskia Kriekhaus, Shane Burmania, Viral Radio, Zwolle
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February 5 10
Viral Radio is the experimental electronic music vehicle of Non-fiction’s Juha van ‘t Zelfde and Beat Dimensions’ initiator Yuri Boselie (Cinnaman). It has been organising cutting-edge events in TrouwAmsterdam, Paradiso, Bimhuis and other venues across the Netherlands. Its latest interest is investigating new forms of music distribution and interaction via mobile phones, in collaboration with [...]
Posted in 3voor12, Amsterdam, Non-fiction, VURB, Viral Radio, event
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Tagged 3voor12, Bimhuis, Cinnaman, Dimlite, Hudson Mohawke, Jamie Vex'd, Juha, Kuedo, Paradiso, Rustie, TrouwAmsterdam, Vex'd, Viral Radio, VURB
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February 2 10
The widespread employment and adoption of ubiquitous computing, sensor networks and mobile media into the urban environment have unforeseen implications for how we might come to use networked digital resources to change the way we understand, build, and inhabit cities. Visible Cities presents a revolving programme on how emerging technologies are changing the cities we [...]
Posted in Amsterdam, Architecture, Non-fiction, Urban informatics, VURB, deVerdieping
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Tagged Currentcity Foundation, De Verdieping, Euro Beinat, Layar, Maurice Groenhart, MIT Media Lab, NAi, Ole Bouman, Ronald Lenz, Senseable City Lab, Urban informatics, VIsible Cities, VURB, Waag Society
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February 1 10
From this year on the annual Three-Day Music Festival in the Dutch city of The Hague will become the epicenter for innovations in classical music: “Is there a future for classical music?“, “How can we engage a new and young(er) audience?” and “what will a concert (hall) be like in the year 2030?“. Non-fiction sets out to [...]
Posted in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Non-fiction
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Tagged Amsterdam, António Jorge Pacheco, Carnegie Hall, Casa da Musica, Den Haag, Dr. Anton Philipszaal, Edgard Varèse, Haagse Muziek Driedaagse, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lucent Danstheater, Michel van der Aa, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Oslo Opera House, Porto, Rem Koolhaas, Three-Day Music Festival, Wii, YouTube Symphony Orchestra, Zaha Hadid
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January 31 10
A while ago, I wrote a brief introduction to VURB here on our site. In the past months, we have met with many brilliant people, started a monthly night in De Verdieping called Visible Cities, and investigated various scenarios in the vast dimension of responsive architecture and urban informatics. VURB founders Ben Cerveny and James [...]
Posted in Amsterdam, Non-fiction, Trouw, Urban informatics, VURB, deVerdieping
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Tagged Ben Cerveny, De Verdieping, James Burke, mobile, responsive environments, TrouwAmsterdam, ubiquitous computing, Urbanode, VURB
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