Martijn de Waal

I was a co-host at a workshop organized by Ronald Lenz of Waag Society in which architects and game designers were invited to develop urban games with the help of the 7scenes platform.

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During the conference Follow the Money I gave a talk with Yuri Engelhardt and Raul Nino Zambrano in which we showed a number of cannonical examples in different categories in which datavisualisation is employed for storytelling. The blurb promised “Thirty minutes of data films: from explanimation to PowerPoint cinema, from emomapping to infoaesthetics, and from [...]

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Press Now invited me again to host a Masterclass Digital Media and Journalism at the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, Armenia. Goal of the workshop: to share with CI students and staff knowledge and visions on developments in New Media and Journalism. The workshop will address three important themes. • Distribution and context of journalistic ‘content’ [...]

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I gave a talk at the Urban Screens Conference in Amsterdam, organized by the Institute for Network Cultures. I showed a number of urban screen and mobile screen installations and tried to analyze their implicit ideals of public space and urban culture.

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Juha van ‘t Zelfde and Michiel van Iersel invited me and Michiel de Lange to take part in their Interview Marathon on ‘curating the city‘ during the Museumnacht 2009 in Amsterdam.

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Michiel de Lange and I were invited to give a keynote lecture at the Day of the Young Architect organized by the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects. We addressed the question how Architects should relate to new media developments. Below is an extended version of our talk. See also The [...]

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At this Workshop I held a talk about the latent urban ideals in location based media or ‘urban media’

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In this lecture Dutch new media specialist Martijn de Waal will give an oversight of the most important developments in digital storytelling, both fiction and documentary. What are the most profound changes in the media landscape? What new opportunities for storytelling have come out of these changes? How is the relation between professional storytellers and [...]

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At the international symposium ByPass – Everyday Life and Contemporary Urbanism in India and China I held a short lecture on the representation of the Chinese city in contemporary visual culture titled: Green Tea, Black Coffee, Splendid Cities? Urban culture in contemporary Chinese visual culture In the past decade or so, China, a country of [...]

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Rob van Kranenburg invited me to hold a short presentation at the launch of his book The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID. I published some notes on the book at The Mobile City weblog, that I used as the base for my presentation. The main point [...]

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During the official book launch of The Chinese Dream by Neville Mars and Adrian Hornsby (an to which I contributed a chapter) I held a short presentation about the myth of the Chinese Dream in everyday life, and it’s impact on urban culture.

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I presented a paper at the International Symposium for Electronic Arts in Singapore. I addressed the themes listed in the abstract below by making an analysis of the People’s Park Complex, a building build according to metabolist architectural theory, in Singapore’s Chinatown. Urban Culture as Interface Culture View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: [...]

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Genius – a network organization for gay professionals – invited me to give a lecture on urban culture on a conference they organized on the theme of The City.

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| View | Upload your own Literature Referals and other background literature: Benkler, Yochai ‘Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere’ in: The Wealth of Networks:How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. PDF Blood, Rebecca ed. We’ve got Blog (Basic Books 2002) Bowman & Willis We Media [PDF] Burns, Axel, Gatewatching, Not Gatekeeping: Collaborative Online News [...]

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At this event organized by the Dynamic City Foundation I moderated a panel on urban developments in China.

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I presented the introduction for a discussion with the audience about the cultural impacts of the mobile phone.

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The Dutch NGO Press Now asked me to set up a two day masterclass on New Media and Journalism for the students and staff at the Caucasus Media Institute in Yerevan, Armenia. The goal was to introduce the students of the journalism program with the most important themes in journalism and new media, and to [...]

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During this workshop, organized by Mediamatic and held during the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, I held a presentation about possibilities of locative media for documentary storytelling. | View | Upload your own

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During Impakt‘s first sunday school session I held a short presentation on memes and media. How do memes proliferate differently in a ‘new media ecology’?

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At this conference organised by the University of Siegen I held a presentation on Urban Culture, using the Rotterdam neighborhood Pendrecht as a case study.

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In july I held a presentation during a panel at the Theory Culture and Society conference organised by our University of Groningen based research group on new media and urban culture.

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I participated in a debate that was staged as part of Eric de Vroedts interesting Might Society project. We discussed future globalisation scenario’s based on Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat.

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At the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam I was invited to speak in a pannel on mediafreedom. This discussion was connected to the program with documentaries from China, and I spoke about the freedoms of the Chinese Blogosphere.

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For an audience of radioprofessionals working at the Dutch Public Broadcast companies I held a presentation about possible ways to integrate Consumer Generated Content. download powerpoint

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In Eindhoven, at the Technical University, I held a lecture on the impact of bloggers and ‘citizen journalists’ on the medialandscape. Download the powerpoint.

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At the Transmediale in Berlin I participated in a pannel on media, the public sphere and China. I presented some of the findings I did in a short study of the Chinese blogosphere.

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During a workshop for televisionjournalists I held a presentations about the possibilities of Crossmedia and Web 2.0 .

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I was a commentator in one of the pannels at this conference on the impact of blogs and other forms of citizen journalism on the mediascape in east asia.

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During the yearly Museum Night I held a presentation at the Architecture Institute in Amsterdam on Chinese Urbanism, based on a personal journey.

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