Media Design Research

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Piet Zwart Institute for postgraduate studies and research, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam Media Design Research

Research fellows

2003

• Brian Holmes (4-6 2003)
  • The Revenge of the Concept: Artistic Exchanges, Networked Resistance
  • Imaginary Maps, Global Solidarities
  • Flowmaps, the Imaginaries of Global Integration

2003-2004

• Alexei Shulgin
  • Privatronics
  • Seefree

• Kate Rich [BIT]
  • Bureau of inverse technology: the decade report, the bureau / the evidence / the first 10 years
  • BIT: fyi
  • social climbing rotterdam

• Lawrence Liang
  • Copyright, Cultural Production and Open Content Licensing
  • Guide to Open Content Licenses

Published as a printed book in two editions, second edition in collaboration with De Waag and Creative Commons Netherlands, 2004 and 2005, ISBN 90-72855-16-7, online at http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/lliang/open_content_guide

2004-2005

• Florian Cramer, Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/fcramer/wordsmadeflesh, Reviewed by furtherfield.org
• Simon Yuill, Social Versioning System (SVS) http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~syuill/svs/
• Peter Luining, DNvorscher, http://www.dnvorscher.org

2005-2006

• Lev Manovich, Deep Remixability http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/pubsfolder/manovichessay
• jodi [Joan Heemskerk & Dirk Paesmans], GEOGEO / Cityfonts [based on server programming, only usable online] http://geogeo.jodi.org/cityfonts
• Graham Harwood, Netmonster

Guest lectures

• December 3, 2003, Paul N. Edwards, Thinking Globally: Computers, Networks, and the Construction of "Global" Spaces
• May 2004, Giaco Schiesser, Working on and with Eigensinn - Media / Art / Education
• 2004, Richard Rogers, Why Map? The Techno-epistemological outlook
• October 26, 2005: Peter Lunenfeld, The Mediawork Project
• November 30, 2005: Gillian Fuller, The Rapture of Capture: the queue

Conferences and seminars

• Digital Work Seminar, October 11, 2003, Rotterdam
• Freestyle - FLOSS In Design Seminar, May 19th, 2004, Rotterdam
• A Decade of Webdesign
• Design Documents Seminar, October 13, 2005, Rotterdam
• Software Studies Workshop / conference, February 25-26, 2006, Rotterdam