last wednesday marked a milestone in my pursuit of a graduate degree in creative practice for narrative environments at central saint martins. the entire graduating class was required to hand in and defend their final project. it was a challenging final presentation as the external examiner, all tutors and the entire class were present to bear witness. what was most interesting to me was the paths of development undertaken ...
for the past couple weeks the team and i have been working hard getting our multitouch video/installation/performance interface to an alpha state, and meet our march 12th deadline. this has definitely been the most difficult personal project i have worked on, as i feel much of the development depends on the diverse skills, knowledge and background of my teammates. some of the hardest decisions to make are simply ...
Once again proving the need for good, free parties in east London, kesselskramer stirred it up nicely this past friday night with nothing less then an old school house party at the opening event of KK OUTLET. What could be described as the "victorian cottage" to the agency's deconsecrated church headquarters in Amsterdam (no seriously, it's a church, which is why it's not in parenthesis), KK OUTLET is ...
it's hard to draw lines. no, i don't mean lines that make drawings. i am talking about the virtual lines and psycho-geographical boundaries we make for ourselves and the world around us. now that kairn and alex have joined me in rotterdam, our internship is in full swing. it seems like we have been working on this together for months already... on order for us ...
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 ...
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 ...
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