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a few weeks ago i had a taste of life in rotterdam while working for the V2: Institute for Unstable Media. called in by my good friend and colleague danja, i had the opportunity to work in the "hack" department of the V2 Lab during this years DEAF07 and V2 25th anniversary events. most of the work i did was of a technical nature, and involved climbing up ...

So as to follow up on the on-going antics of the gamelan gang, for the past few months the MACPNE department has been generating research and development that encompasses the design of a user experience and deployment of a pavilion to house the Indonesian instrument know as the gamelan. This commission is to coincide with the grand re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall and renewal of London's ...

In 1982 Larry Dossey, an American physician, coined the term “time-sickness” to describe the obsessive belief that “time is getting away, that there isn’t enough of it, and that you must pedal faster and faster to keep up”. Guy Claxton, a British psychologist, thinks acceleration is now second nature to us: “We have developed an inner psychology of speed, of saving time and maximising efficiency, which is getting ...

Whew. And that was a tough term… Lucky for me I am on break now and have some time to prepare for the next term. Part of the requirement of the 1st year of my MA is to participate in a professional internship. For the first time in the history of the course, Karin, Alex and I are applying as an R&D team collectively for our ...

Another week, another project, another learning log entry.  our guest tutors for the Zeitgiest Heist are Adam Levene, Benjamin Reichen and Man Somerlink.  also joining are the usual suspects, Tricia Austin, Kevin Flude and Sarah Featherstone. zeitgeist (n) : the spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period; a phenomenon based on fate where something simultaneously happens everywhere at ...

for the third and final project for the first term of my MA studies (damn. has it only been two months?), my group and i had to fulfill a brief within the topic of fat. no, not as in pretty hot and tempting, but as in; ...a category of lipid, distinguished from other lipids by their chemical structure and physical properties. Fats are solid at room temperature ...

a few days ago in the bar i began toying with some peers, the idea of a CPfNE periodical publication. currently at "brain-fart" stage and far from being more then just a notion of drunken inspiration, i have thrown together a quick and dirty mind map to visualize the idea. please take a look at the attached jpeg and let me know what you think; if it is ...

here is an audio track that i slapped together for the crit on friday. it is simply a selection of anicdotal conversations that we encountered during the ethnography study element we conducted for a project mentioned in the previous post.