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…

Michiel de Lange recently contributed a chapter to the edited book Cartographic temporalities: Time and space in digital mapping. Further description and details regarding the book can be found here.

Urban Friction-Flyer Urban processes have been impacted by frictions all throughout history. The remarkable pace and dynamics of the current phase of global urbanization in the age of mediatization, datafication, and pervasive connectivity suggest a new age where insular, political boundaries have come to shift radically. Perhaps to a larger extent than before, people are…