Lev Manovich famously described new media artifacts as “interfaces to databases”, using Ervin Panovsky’s classic text “perspective as symbolic form” he introduced the concept of the “Database as Symbolic Form”. In this formulation the data base was no longer viewed simply as an expedient storage and management tool but as… read more →
Happy Birthday Amsterdam Digital City..”it was 20 years ago today”.. This week there are anniversary celebrations for Amsterdam’s Digital City. Where the screen design alone captures that dream-like moment when some imagined they would leave the material world (known at the time as “meat space”) and set up residence in a… read more →
Between 15th and 18th the Post Media Lab (a collaboration between Leuphana University and Mute Magazine) are concluding the first phase of their collaboration with a workshop designed to address fundamental changes in processes of archiving and the care of objects… The workshop is testing the limits or archival practice, sometimes seeking to extend (or… read more →