Look at that gorgeous photo! Yesterday my celluloid short film Lunar Storm was screened as part of the Vertical Cinema program at Glasgow Short Film Festival , It looks amazing! Next week Vertical Cinema is moving continents to SXSW . Wow. And I am too, for my solo show at TRANSFER Gallery New York! Besides that, if you are in Birmingham tonight: there will be a screening of Ways of Something 1,2&3 @ Vivid Projects (with one minute by me and many more minutes by more amazing people) Thanks to the wonderful Lorna Mills ! Oh yes, and next week: the Symposium Born Digital in Breda, Netherlands, where I will talk with Jan Robert Leegte , Josephine Bosma Gerben Willers and Rafaël Rozendaal ! The Line-up: 11/03/15 - Vertical Cinema @ GSFF, Glasgow, Scotland 12/03/15 - Ways of Something @ VIVID, Birmingham, UK 17/03/15 - Vertical Cinema @ SXSW, Te...
Next week, actually this coming Monday, I will be re-firing my PhD on digital artifacts in London. I am looking forward but I also feel anxious,,, ...I need to pull a lot of threads together (this might also be why there have been so many posts on my blog the last week). So how did I get here? ..Quick recap time! In 2005 I first saw Untitled Game (1996), when I visited the exhibition World Wide Wrong (a solo exhibition by jodi.org at Montevideo ). The work sparked my interest but also many questions. I wanted to understand it and in February 2006, I decided to write my final thesis on jodi. 5 months of intense research later, my thesis got graded an 8,5 and I graduated. The last years I have been trying to translate and rewrite the thesis into English. Now six years later, some parts feel kind of naive and under developed. Even so, this thesis was a turning point in my thinking and the last six years have been echoing many of th...
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