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?26Nov?: Tijmen Schep
Tijmen Schep (1981, NL) is a Dutch mediatheorist who is fascinated by the intertwining of notions of public space and wireless media. He graduated with an MA in Digital Media Design at the Higher School of the Arts (HKU), where he learnt that digital media might become even more powerful when they moved away from our desktops and were embedded 'out there', in our everyday lives. Wireless media seemed to be a primary candidate for colonising this space, with the mobile phone as it's flag bearer. A second MA on New Media and Digital Culture received from the University of Utrecht, however, lead to a more nuanced perspective. His thesis, a critical look at Mark Weiser's idea of Ubiquitous Computing, was well received. He now focusses on ideals and myths surrounding wireless technology, trying to balance excitement over the new with the reality of everyday life, a skill that is very necessary of the colonisation is ever to succeed. This academic balancing act is fed back into society through the NetNiet.org Foundation, of which he is a founding member. This foundation promotes wireless media art in public space. Examples of this work have been the Wireless Festival 2006 in Utrecht, as well as the creation of countless installations, workshops and lectures.
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Pawel Pokutycki
Interaction designer working for the AR+RFID Lab of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague and a teacher at the Interactive/Media/Design department. === Feedback === Your name and a link to your project:
Marnix de Nijs
As an artist, De Nijs shows how culture acts upon our senses, and he expresses this in a great variety of ways, making use of continually-changing technology. This allows him to emphasise a new role for the artist that seems to have been established by our developing culture of technology. De Nijs describes himself and his work as recognition of the dynamic collision of bodies, machines and other media. http://www.marnixdenijs.nl/
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