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Vibodh Parthasarathi by
CN –
Because people use technology devices, they also adapt to them. In the last hundred years have gotten used to another idea of being…
The same week a more formal Paradiso press release concerning the ICATA '89 stated the following: On August 2, 3 & 4 1989, a…
Ana Fernandez –
There are two important problem: Current ways of producing and consuming and growing populaion.
Felipe De Lima –
Second meeting of the course The Presence and the Design of Trust
In March and April 1990 we approached many people and organizations and we found that after a good conversation many people…
The text of the proposal was used to inform and connect with an initial group of people around us, including several who had…
The 'edit group' was located in a dressing room next to the server room and had regular problems posting its work on the GHP net.…
As with the GHP, the financial situation of the 0+Ball was extremely low budget. All participants more or less financed their own…
Vignesh Ilavarasan by
Where the image of core programmer in the western world is that of a solitary alienated figure to the world, in the Indian context…
Priya Kaul by
To establish trust in a technology environment I is not easy. Integrity, sharing information in an honest fashion is a first…
In the IT industry in India one can distinguish between three kind of companies that work internationally: large domestic export…
A second issue that demands attention when discussing the cognitive clash in mediated presence concerns the exchange of local…
Paradiso is a former church in the centre of Amsterdam, which was squatted in 1968 note 82 . Since the early days music and debate…
Thomas Quilinan by
Quillinan is working on a use case of crisis-management for a European funded project. They are modelling crisis as it happens. For…
Sligting, the musical artistic director of Paradiso, elaborates further on this approach. Paradiso does not just want to be a hall…
Throughout the months of May and June many commitments were met: raising the funds from the ministry of Education, Culture and…
The 0+Ball was hardly covered by the press. There were two articles in Dutch weekly magazines, in "Vrij Nederland"…
Shelly Tara, Vignesh Ilavarasan –
The transport arrangements by the organization play a substantial role to contribute in the respectability of the women employees…
Sjoukje van der Meulen –
Huyghe’s interest in how fiction can create “an additief of reality” evokes Baudrillard’s concept of the simulacrum once…
Martijn Warnier by
One of the reasons for the muddy software world we live in is, according to Warnier, that we don’t even know what the real…
For Warnier systems are tools in the first place. He would not ever call them participants. Maybe abstractions, but systems…
Nuria Aramburu –
After taking some knowledge of what biomimicry means and seeing how it is put into practise, we were ready to take the first steps…
Sander van Splunter by
Sander van Splunter has been investigating how complex software can adapt by itself. One of the issues he focussed on was whether a…
Pierre Ballings emphasized that the production process of Paradiso is 'content-driven'. As a result the editing, the marketing, the…
Another interesting aspect of Weber’s analysis of television in this context is that he links the above-described characteristic…
We could see yesterday how biomimicry is implemented, and how a sustanaible industry is possible.
Because of the current business models in software, we end up with very crappy software that we don’t really understand how it…
Ioanna Palanta –
Traffic jams in a big city in the morning
Angelo Vermeulen –
Electronic waste is one of the most problematic consequences of digital technology.
Dinesh by
Dinesh and his team decided that because of these developments it did not make sense anymore to provide a portal for all since its…
In my memory, I can still see waves of audiences moving through the building during those three days and nights. Sometimes it was…
Palantas Panagiotis –
A day at a sustainable factory
In organizing the networked events people with different skills and different technologies had to work together. The fact that the…
Jogi Panghaal by
In traditional artisan’s context, where the user and the maker shared time and place, there was an immediacy to the cycle of…
When inviting a diverse group of people and professionals to collaborate, the issue of conveying trustworthiness between different…
To understand why certain programmes are successful I turn to the distinction that is made between space and place in the variety of…
For the second day of the course we had programmed a trip to a carpet factory called InterFace FLOR. Since this factory is extremely…
In Upadhya’s research many people commented about the fact that there is a lot of reaching out in terms of information sharing.…
Jogi Panghaal argues that while interacting with material the human being changes the material , and the material changes the human…
The formal programme was orchestrated in the large auditorium at Paradiso. Debates, supported by presentations on the big screen…
To create good infrastructures is an art in itself. It requires a lot of technical insights about technology, finance and the…
When the writer and the printer discuss their shared product, which is the result of both their acts, they will need to have a…
For a musician doesn’t have time to build up a relationship with the audience. To make ends meet, he or she must perform concerts…
Maurice Berix –
With the project One Frame of Fame, the pop band C-Mon & Kypski is producing a video for their new single with the help of the…
Carol Upadhya by
Dr. Carol Upadhya and colleagues have conducted a considerable number of interviews in India’s IT industry in order to understand…
Natural presence has to be produced. Food, shelter, safety, education and social interaction are all necessary for survival and…
Rein Jansma by
Very logic things can relate to very complex and layered things. On a visual level people understand this like they understand…
When inquiring about the nature of the work, very few people are self-conscious and can articulate such things. By reading in…
"During the summer of 1989 the world as we know it will go into overload. An interstellar particle stream of hackers,…
Geetha Narayanan by
Geetha Narayanan argues it is time to question our systems of knowledge. Professional life gets more and more dependent on keeping…
Computer words are very different from the words human beings use, because computer words have very clear, specified semantics.…
When becoming part of the IT industry one has to adapt to the way the business is designed. Most of the Indian programmers come from…
The fact that as organizers of the GHP, we were actually connecting in person with most of the guests and contacts, made the…
The rape and murder of a woman call centre employee in Bangalore in 2005 received media attention worldwide (The Times of India,…
Collados Carlos –
"The company has its own team of experts devoted to finding more ecological ways of producing carpets."
What is paper recycling machine??
Twelve participants collaborated in this Biomodd Workshop. Most of these came from the Sint-Niklaas area. Two participants, Pieter…
The idea of case modding is approached as a form of expanded sculpture. In this sculptural approach a 'functional' form factor is…
Rebekah Wilson by
Understanding of the open source ethic that most programmers want to uphold is crucial as technical director. Programmers will make…
In distributed environments the issue of trust is significant. Therefore a distinction is made between trusted and non-trusted…
When designing buildings and infrastructure the human body is always key to the design. Vision, hearing, physical constraints of…
The different natural presences are mediated by mediated presences. Natural presence defines the distinct personal time zones in…
There is also a possible third physical clash, which is triggered by the infrastructure of information and communication…
Sebastien Moitzheim, Franziska Scheuermann, Mark Weltzl –
As the second day of our journey to find some ways in how to design new uses and purposes for water, we were gathered in the…
On the first day 140 three-day passes were sold for fl 25,00 note 102 each and 154 one-day tickets for fl 10,00 each. The second…
Technology deeply influences the architecture that can be made; because of the speed of calculation of computers the process of…
In the months following these announcements many connections were made, people approached us and we approached people, including…
Vic Van Peborgh –
InterfaceFlor is a company that makes carpet tiles, it is one of the few companies that really try to be as eco-friendly as…
Anouk Vangronsveld –
InterfaceFLOR is a company that produces carpets by using Life's Principles. But what do these principles consist of? The aim is to…
Upadhya describes the dynamic as follows: “Because of cultural stereotypes it is implied that there is a certain level of…
Ronald Ophuis –
My work consists of the creating and painting of fictitious events. I stage the drama in my studio. Actors playing and…
Before describing the cases I will first sketch the context in which they were conceived. Each case study is what I will call a…
To be able to gather the crucial network, I looked for 'the third point' in the conferences I orchestrated. This is the point that…
In the press the issues of the new computer era, which were raised by the GHP, were sketched convincingly. Hackers want to show that…
Abhishek Hazra by
In contemporary context the question of trust is crucial, since distance and disembodiment are an integral and accepted factor of…
Some of us had had the experience of the Galactic Hacker Party, where we managed to establish a network and get a variety of very…
The new information and communication technologies facilitate a sharing of knowledge that was not possible before. Both the speed of…
Source Elements is company based in the USA, which is collaborating with a company elsewhere and clients all over the globe.…
Rein Jansma explains that in the architectural company Zwarz & Jansma no distinction is made the between the design process and…
The recycling plant of the future
Nevejan replies that we need to better understand systems because we live in a world where they have become very important; they…
Jan Dietvorst, an independent visual artist and programmer of special lectures and modern classical concerts in Paradiso, who was…
When looking at systems, engagement brings the act of witnessing to another level, Hazra continues. The act of engagement is a…
Beatriz Martin de Andres –
In order to experience a real application to biomimicry, our course visited InterFLOR factory
Zoro Feigl –
The container was the first place I started. I built a small container of wood to see what a container essentially is. Then, after I…
For Jansma the most important requirement of today’s technology is very simple: there should be zero footprint of carbon energy.…