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1 Jan 2003
Stine Jensen
Philosopher
Stine Jensen studied philosophy and literary theory at the University of Groningen and obtained a PhD in cultural studies at the University of Maastricht.
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Arsenal
Park - China Town
- installation by Meggie Schneider11Feb 2003An installation that offers the visitors of the Berlinale a quiet and peaceful place for contemplation. In the middle of the Forum in the Sony Centre, you can almost smell the botanical gardens of...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 6#4 1 Jan 1992
In Memoriam the Ear
With regard to the ear, we humans were still living in a transitory phase: that of the whale which could already swim, but would still heave itself ashore out of nostalgia.
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Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
I (X-pose)
13Jul 2002- I+I (you&me), I+I+I (mumbag)1Sep 2002Tentoonstelling van werk van Karin Arink.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 6#4 Jorinde Seijdel 1 Jan 1992
vol. 6#4 Ear Issue
(H)ear my Ear
The eye dominates Western culture: we worship the image and we're scared to death of the dark. The eye is our instrument for dominating and fathoming the world: Our emergence from our unawareness...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998
Ford, Glymore, Hayes
Android Epistemology
Forty-six years ago, Alain Turing opened his article Computing machinery and intelligence by contemplating whether or not machines can think. At that time, this consideration must have seemed radical...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1998
De Landa
A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History
This long-awaited book by Manuel DeLanda bears an imposing title for its three hundred pages plus notes. Is it meant as a joke? No. Does it have to do with some childrens or MTV history of the...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol.7#1 Remko Scha 1 Jan 1992
Virtual Voices (2)
Mimesis
Soft Machines
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Mediamatic Magazine vol.7#1 Remko Scha 1 Jan 1992
Virtual Voices (1)
Mimesis
The new digital media technologies, which are now being developed, are often imitative technologies. Future generations may end up viewing the twentieth century as the century of abstraction, and the...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Adilkno, Bilwet 1 Jan 1992
vol. 7#1 1/0 Issue
Hardware Software Wetware
According to Adilkno, the human being is no longer an individual in the digital era, but wetware, a 'wet bag' hanging on the machine. Coupled to hard- and software, the mind voyages while the body...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1992
AI !(2)
Back to Networks
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1992
AI! (1)
It sometimes feels as if everything is up for grabs in the crazy, fin de siècle postmodern-cyberchips-with-everything world of today. There's nothing to count on, nothing you can wave above your head...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Manuel De Landa 1 Jan 1995
Homes: Meshwork or Hierarchy?
How do homes happen? Are they planned, as we have intuitively tended to believe, or is the process a more messy one? Drawing on biological, cognitive and economic models, De Landa believes that the...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998
Tierra
Artificial Evolution in an Artificial World
Until recently, one of the most frustrating problems for evolutional biologists was the fact that the process of evolution could not be directly perceived as a process. With the recent development of...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1993
World Names
Brief news item: in Bosnia and Hercegovina, the first children conceived by Bosnian women after being raped by Serbian soldiers have been born. The women refuse to recognize these babies and leave...
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Book: Stan Franklin 1 Jan 1995
Artificial Minds
An encyclopedic but nonetheless compellingly readable overview of the history of Artificial Intelligence.
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Book: Evelyn Fox Keller 1 Jan 1995
Refiguring Life
Metaphors of Twentieth Century Biology
The focus of these three essays is the role of language and technology in the progress of genetic science. Drawing on a broad spectrum of theoretical work, Keller shows how scientists often operate...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Jacques Servin 1 Jan 1998
Mitchell
An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
In 1969 a Cambridge mathematician, John Conway, amused himself by constructing a computer game he called Life. The game's world was divided into cells which each had a specific, determined effect on...
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Book: Melanie Mitchell 1 Jan 1996
An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1998
vol. 9#1 Secret Agent Issue
editorial
When a government no longer knows how to solve a problem within the borders of legislation and the tolerance of public opinion, it calls on the secret agent.
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Book: Kevin Kelly 14 Apr 1995
Out of Control
The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.
An accessible and entertaining explanation of why the coming years will probably be the Age of Biology -- particularly evolution and ethology -- and what this will mean to almost every aspect of our...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1996
Street Religion and Matrix Magic
Religions not only express desires for origins or a higher reality. According to Dirk van Weelden, they are also procedures that create order and constructively channel fear. What kind of fear?
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1996
Don't answer too quickly
With reference to John Lilly's Simulations of God
Theory only flourishes when a central concept is found into which everything ultimately seems to fit. To cite just a few examples: structure, sign, discourse, media, production, desire, seduction. If...
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Book: José van Dyck 1 Mar 1998
Imagenation
Popular Images of Genetics
Historian of science Jose Van Dijck examines the role of images and imagination in popular representations of the new genetics since the late 1950s.