On Friday September, 29th renowned scholar Janet Murray gave a master class for Utrecht University RMA students titled “Making Interactive Narrative”, which addressed ‘digital information design and interaction design principles to create more complex and expressive narratives, focusing on emerging platforms like experimental television, virtual reality, and augmented reality, and on the intersection of storytelling…

Vincent Baptist, Matthias Nothnagel, Rianne Riemens, Zeynep Yavuz (RMa Media Studies UvA) The masterclass led by professor Janet Murray gave an introduction to the practices of interactive storytelling. In her text “A Tale of Two Boyfriends”, Murray introduces an abstracted type of storytelling that is called ‘W2P’: a formalist technique for stories in which a…

Recently I gave a talk (in Dutch) for the Betweterfestival in Tivoli/Vredenburg Utrecht about the increasingly dominant role of data in the ‘smart city’. The talk was called “A Walk in the smart city” (Een wandeling in de slimme stad). The talk was in Dutch. The video of the talk (copyright UU Studium Generale) can be watched here…

On December 2 2017 I will give a talk at the Data (For) Culture conference in Katowice. The event is organized by Medialab Katowice. About the event: During the conference, experts from Poland and abroad will discuss a number of topics, including: (a) how to combine traditional methods of cultural research with the analysis of large data sets from…

One of our RMA students, Jessica Scarpati, worked as an intern for New American Public Art, and in that capacity wrote a blog about critical reflections on public art and location-based media. The name is Footings.