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

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

• Alexei Shulgin (9-12 2003)
  • Privatronics
  • Seefree

• Kate Rich [BIT] (1-3 2004)
  • Bureau of inverse technology: the decade report, the bureau / the evidence / the first 10 years http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/bit/research/
  • fyi http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/bit/fyi/
  • social climbing rotterdam http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/bit/climbing/

• Lawrence Liang (4-6 2004)
  • Copyright, Cultural Production and Open Content Licensing http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/pubsfolder/liangessay/view
• 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

• Florian Cramer (9-12 2004)
  • Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/fcramer/wordsmadeflesh, Reviewed by furtherfield.org

• Simon Yuill (1-3 2005)
  • Social Versioning System (SVS) http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~syuill/svs/

• Peter Luining (4-6 2005)
  • DNvorscher, http://www.dnvorscher.org

• Lev Manovich (10-12 2005)
  • Deep Remixability http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/pubsfolder/manovichessay

• jodi [Joan Heemskerk & Dirk Paesmans] (1-3 2006)
  • GEOGEO / Cityfonts [based on server programming, only usable online] http://geogeo.jodi.org/cityfonts

• Graham Harwood (4-5 2006)
  • Netmonster

Guest Lectures

• Paul N. Edwards
  • Lecture, December 3, 2003: Thinking Globally: Computers, Networks, and the Construction of "Global" Spaces http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/edwards
• Giaco Schiesser
  • Lecture, May 2004: Working on and with Eigensinn - Media / Art / Education http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/pubsfolder/Eigensinn/
• Richard Rogers
  • Lecture, 2004: Why Map? The Techno-epistemological outlook http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/pubsfolder/whymap/
• Peter Lunenfeld
  • Lecture, October 26, 2005: The Mediawork Project http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/lunenfeld
• Gillian Fuller
  • Lecture, November 30, 2005: The Rapture of Capture: the queue https://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/Gillian/view

Conferences and Seminars

• Digital Work

Seminar, October 11, 2003, Rotterdam

   Seminar announcement
   Hardcopy 16
   Online at
   Transcription of all lectures
   Hardcopy 16
   Published online at 

• Freestyle - FLOSS In Design

Seminar, May 19th, 2004, Rotterdam:

   Seminar website
   Hardcopy 17
   Published online at http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/floss/ 

• A Decade of Webdesign

Conference, January 21-22, 2005, Amsterdam

   Conference website
   Hardcopy 18
   Published online at http://www.decadeofwebdesign.org/
   Transcriptions of all lectures
   Hardcopy 18
   Published online at http://www.decadeofwebdesign.org/transcribes.html 

designtimeline.org [developed by Michael Murtaugh] (2005)

Internet/programming project:

   www.designtimeline.org [based on server programming, only usable online]
   Hardcopy 19
   Online at www.designtimeline.org
   Open History Timeline, downloadable server software developed for www.designtimeline.org
   Hardcopy 19
   Online at http://www.designtimeline.org/oht.html 

• Design Documents

Seminar, October 13, 2005, Rotterdam:

   Seminar website
   Hardcopy 20
   Online at http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/desdoc/view
   Transcriptions of all lectures Hardcopy 20
   Published online at http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/DesDocTrans/ 

• Software Studies

Workshop / conference, February 25-26, 2006, Rotterdam, in conjunction with an book publication project for MIT Press http://www.softwarestudies.org Book "Software Studies", edited by Matthew Fuller, MIT Press, 2007