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International Seminar De Balie, Amsterdam

Critics Floating in the Virtual Sphere

Will Art Criticism Survive the Digital Age?
Organisation:
AICA Netherlands - Association Internationale des Criticques d’Arts
De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics

Wednesday December 9, 2009, 14.00 - 17.00 hrs (CET)
Doors open: 13.30
Live webcast:
wwwdebalie.nl/live

The digital revolution has profound effects on the status of art criticism. With newspapers and other printed media in decline, the traditional platform for critical reflection on art has shrunk or shifted towards electronic (web-based) media. At the same time the presence of art criticism on the internet is mostly limited to the “blog” – a format that celebrates an impressionistic, subjective and often populistic point of view. More substantial forms of web-based criticism are still rare to be found.

Speakers:
Georg Schöllhammer, editor in chief of Springerin and curator of the Documenta 12 Magazines project.
http://magazines.documenta12.de/frontend/
Regine Debatty, writer and editor of we-make-money-not-art.com.
www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
Arjen Mulder, writer and media theorist.
Jennifer Allen, art critic.

Moderator:
Maria Hlavajova (Basis voor Aktuele Kunst Utrecht)

Society of the Query Conference

I find it very tiring to reply to every email,greet all friends in FB and make sure I get the right news first. I found I was depressed when I lost mu iphone the other day, not because it is expensive but because I was push out of the online world since then.
I hated it when my phone was offline now all the time and I cannot track it down using the .mac account. I sent out the erased all instruction yesterday. I will forever lost my iphone. Requiem.

Here is a piece of new that I missed :
The need to create order and find meaning in the gigantic quantity of online data has turned the search engine into our most significant point of reference. In this query driven society, The Society of the Query conference seeks to analyze what impact our reliance on resources to manage knowledge on the Internet has on our culture.
They have a fabulous speakers line up including : Matthew Fuller (UK), David Gugerli (CH), Siva Vaidhyanathan (US), Florian Cramer (NL), Lev Manovich (US), Christophe Bruno (FR), Joris van Hoboken (NL) and Teresa Numerico (IT).
Hey wait no IT people and google people....arty, media culture policy people talks about search engine, it is cool.


Date: November 13-14 2009
Location: Trouw Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Organized by: Institute of Network Cultures
Website: www.networkcultures.org/query/about.

Blogfest Asia

Bloggers in Asia -- Come Together

6~8 November 2009

Henry Leong Community Center, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong

Come join the festival of bloggers in Asia.

1st regional gathering in Hong Kong.

Everyone is welcome!

Highlights:

· Meet bloggers from 20 countries / economies in Asia
· Learn how "Me Media" is making Asia 2.0, addressing "Change & Responsibility"
· Voice out for Hong Kong & for Asia! - 2009 Hong Kong Blogger Con (www.hkbloggercon.asia)
· Free workshops for NGOs and New Media advocates

Featuring :

· ABCA awards
· Charlesc sharing the success of Ma Ying Jeou election utilizing Web 2.0 (netvism.tw)

REGISTER NOW! @ www.blogfest.asia