This site publishes reflections form scientist, artists, professionals and students about their work. Scientists reflect on their research, professionals reflect on their practice, artists reflect on their artwork, students present their designs.
Principal investigator: Dr. Caroline Nevejan
Research context: Autonomous Systems, Faculty Technology, Policy and Management, Delft Technical University ( before: Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems group, VU University Amsterdam)
Supervision: Professor Dr. Frances Brazier
Website: Mediamatic Lab
Original research site: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl
Camera: Leen de Baat
Transcriptions: Helen Vreedeveld, Alexandra Pixley, Ruth Verster
Funding:
- The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
- Delft Technial University, Autonomous Systems group, Faculty Technology, Policy and Management
- Stichting NLnet
- Interactive Distributed Systems, VU University Amsterdam
This site is an ongoing research project into Witnessed Presence. Building upon the dissertation Presence and the Design of Trust (Nevejan 2007), Frances Brazier and Caroline Nevejan started a collaboration in 2008 to better understand implications of Witnessed Presence for systems design.
Knowledge from academia, from the professional realm and from the arts all contribute to a better understanding of how we design and experience communication processes anno 2011. The negotiation of trust and truth is deeply influenced by the use of technologies. Social structures are shifting and human beings invent new ways of understanding and acting in the world around them. Many of these changes are not intentional, they emerge. In the dissertation Presence and the Design of Trust it is argued that witnessed presence is a catalyst for these changes. Witnessing is the focus of the here presented research in which these emergent practices adn insights are explored.
With Mediamatic Lab a knowledge infrastructure was cretaed in which different kinds of knowledge can offer perspective to each other. Both a linear and an associative navigation are offered, as well as search on keywords. Metadata are authored by Nevejan, assuming that authorship of metadata generates more possibiites for meaning to evolve.