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*** This event is now fully booked, if you want to reserve a seat on the waiting list, you can email [email protected] *** What: A creative and engaging event exploring the politics of cybernetics with Katherine Hayles, Luc Steels, Andrew Pickering, and Ricarda Franzen When: March 23, 4-7 PM Where: Crea Muziekzaal, Nieuwe Achtergracht 170, […]

On March 22 and 23, Dorien Zandbergen and Justus Uitermark, based at the University of Amsterdam, organize a seminar entitled "The State of Cybernetics. The digitization of cities, bodies and communities." The purpose of the seminar is to revisit the legacy of cybernetics to shed light on contemporary digital politics. Many of the fundamental questions [...]

For Dear CEO, The Gr1p Foundation, on request of the VPRO Medialab, connected some of the most prominent technology thinkers of the moment to representatives of companies and government to debate wearables and media. Through a unique letter exchange, they research the rough edges of this technology and unearth the most pressing controversies together.

For Dear CEO, The Gr1p Foundation, on request of the VPRO Medialab, connected some of the most prominent technology thinkers of the moment to representatives of companies and government to debate wearables and media. Through a unique letter exchange, they research the rough edges of this technology and unearth the most pressing controversies together.

For Dear CEO, The Gr1p Foundation, on request of the VPRO Medialab, connected some of the most prominent technology thinkers of the moment to representatives of companies and government to debate wearables and media. Through a unique letter exchange, they research the rough edges of this technology and unearth the most pressing controversies together.

For Dear CEO, The Gr1p Foundation, on request of the VPRO Medialab, connected some of the most prominent technology thinkers of the moment to representatives of companies and government to debate wearables and media. Through a unique letter exchange, they research the rough edges of this technology and unearth the most pressing controversies together.

How much does our spatial data tell the city about us, and how is that likely to change in the next decade? This was the central question of the recently-finished, one-year Maps4Society research project From Data Subjects to Data Producers, conducted at the University of Amsterdam.The project studied the use and governance of spatial data in […]

From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data is now online at the New Media & Society webpage. This article, co-written by Tamar Sharon and Dorien Zandbergen is based on their research of the so-called Quantified Self community. The self-trackers who comprise this movement are often referred to as […]

What: workshop People, Data and Power When: Monday March 21st, 9 AM- 6 PM Where: Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS), Mauritskade 62, Amsterdam Click here for directions. Register: Places have almost filled up, please write to [email protected] if you are interested in joining. On March 21st 2016 the University of Amsterdam, the Centre for Urban Studies, […]

By: Marjolein Lanzing You probably never considered the possibility that there might be more people interested in watching your alcohol-consumption and dance-routines than your friends or the handsome bartender, but times are changing. It has become increasingly difficult to keep one’s activities in the public sphere unrecorded. We have already grown accustomed to CCTV when we […]