Martijn de Waal

• About

  
  I am a writer, researcher, curator and advisor based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. My main areas of interest are digital media, cities, culture and society. --More--

• Thinking about

  New Blogpost: Augmented Reality: its promises and shortcomings for architects http://bit.ly/aloCSt 15 hours ago

  On demand (o.a. uitzending gemist) doet het al weken erg slecht op mijn UPC Box. Ben ik de enige, of is dit een veelvoorkomend probleem? 2010/03/08

  Kreeg voor mijn verjaardag Fat Duck Cookbook http://bit.ly/cu2J39. Nu op zoek naar proefkonijnen voor moleculair experiment. Wie durft? 2010/03/07

  Attending Visible Cities #02: Ole Bouman (NAi) / Maurice Groenhart (Layar) tonight (De Verdieping) on Augmented Reailty http://bit.ly/cwxesx 2010/03/03

  Back at Sonic Arts. Looking forward to lecture by 'transarchitect' Marcos Novak http://bit.ly/brU38n #sonicacts2010 2010/02/27

  New Blogpost: Sonic Acts 2010: On the Poetics of Hybrid Space #sonicacts http://bit.ly/95QW4b 2010/02/26

  I am at Sonic Acts, looking forward to the panel on The Poetics of Hybrid Space http://bit.ly/ci32HN #sonicacts 2010/02/26

  gaat er iemand naar lost&found vanavond in de Waag? 2010/02/05

  gaat om 14:40 naar A Serious Man in Tuschinski. Any takers? 2010/02/04

  Weer eens op weg naar groningen, om een artikel te bespreken over de impliciete idealen in urban media. 2010/02/03

• Currently working on

• Projects

  • Follow The Money The database as a narrative form - Mediafonds@Sandberg Masterclass on New Media Storytelling
  • Digital Media & Journalism Workshop @ Caucasus Media Institute Yerevan
  • The Mobile City @ Interntional Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
  • ‘Visiting Scholar’ @ MIT
  • Stifo@Sandberg Masterclass on Digital Media Formats
  • Masterclass New Media & Journalism
  • The Mobile City
  • ‘Greetings from Pendrecht’ @ Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen and Hong Kong

• Publications

  • The Urban Ideals of Location-based Media
  • How Architects should relate to New Media - Keynote at the Day of the Young Architect (NAi Rotterdam)
  • Three philosophical questions about the ’sentient city’ - a response to the exhibition Towards the Sentient City
  • Towards a MySpace Urbanism?
  • The Chinese Dream / Imagined Cities
  • Stifo@Sanberg: The People Formerly Know as the Audience
  • From Medialandscape to Media Ecology. The cultural implications of Web 2.0
  • Visionary Power. Producing the Contemporary City

• Lectures

  • 12/2009: Digital Media & Journalism Workshop @ Caucasus Media Institute Yerevan
  • 12/2009: Urban Screens, Mobile Media & Urban Culture - Urban Screens 09 (Amsterdam)
  • 11/2009: Curating the City - Museumnacht 2009 (Trouw Amsterdam)
  • 11/2009: How Architects should relate to New Media - Keynote at the Day of the Young Architect (NAi Rotterdam)
  • 06/2009: The Urban Ideals of Location Based Media - Digital Cities 6 Workshop (University Park, PA)
  • 02/2009: The Digital Future of Storytelling - Bridging the Gap Masterclass (Edinburgh)
  • 11/2008: Green Tea, Black Coffee, Splendid Cities? Urban culture in contemporary Chinese visual culture. By-Pass De Balie (Amsterdam)
  • 10/2008: The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID - Waag Society (Amsterdam)

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