Boekman 111 is a special issue on art, media and performance in (urban) public spaces, for which Karin van Es and Nanna Verhoeff wrote an essay on urban data visualisation (in relation to the recent elections), and Sigrid Merx contributed an essay on performance in the city. See this link for more information.

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.

Originally from the planet-like metropolis of Berlin and now confronted with life in the (not so) tiny and (very) clean cities of The Netherlands, RMA student Paul Schmidt blogs on a quest to find the moments, ideas, and places where the city is more than it looks like. Follow him on (re)mystify!

Nanna Verhoeff has (co)edited a special issue for Television and New Media on Urban Cartographies: Mapping Mobility and Presence. This special issue takes up new media in situ, addressing how new media technologies have the potential to re-orient us and, by extension, radically intervene in our understandings of place—specifically the public spaces of the city—and our place…

Paul Schmidt wrote a new post for his blog remystify. It is connected to the workshop proposal he handed in for his course Urban Interfaces and starts off from the workshop he visited at Sonic Acts Festival in the beginning of that course. You can find it here.