Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 4.15 pm Location: Janskerkhof 13, room 0.06 Palimpsest, Pragmatism and the Aesthetics of Genre Transformation: Composing the Hybrid Score to Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed (2011) Stephen Baysted (University of Chichester) Electronic Arts’ Shift 2 Unleashed (2011) has a unique hybrid cinematic score that renegotiates and re-imagines ten ‘chart-toppi...

Just received the official notification that our 1 Million € research project on 'persuasive gaming' will be supported by NWO Topsector Creative Industries. Jeroen Jansz (EUR), Ben Schouten (TU/e), Joke Witteveen (xmediaworks) and Joost Raessens (UU) will start hiring two PhD candidates and one Postdoc soon. Project is a collaboration with game companies IJsfontein, xmediaworks and Submarine. ht...

Why an internship is like walking a tightrope, my research at SETUP Utrecht.

ARTICLE: 'Reductions in Social Network Visualizations' (by @ellenbijster) #bigdata #dataviz #truthclaim

A 3D animation in 4KB – impressive for its file size and its amazing graphics. Is it art? Is it craft? Or something completely different?

The Windows Phone-tiles are about content before chrome; they give immediate access to information instead of hiding it behind a metaphoric icon.

This article is a brief description about my six month internship at Ranj serious gaming, a serious game developer in Rotterdam. In this article I will address some difficulties and interesting findings I had during my internship.

A brief reflection on my internship at VeldMark, a field marketing agency.

Capturing the world in the form of Internet memes fits perfectly into the everyday aesthetics of our age.

From Muybridge to cinemagraph: an exploration of the cinemagraph in melancholic retrospect through Barthes’ notion of Death in Camera Lucida.

Spending hours searching for hilarious/surprising/shocking/beautiful and or lame video’s online? If so, we would like to ask you to join our editorial community starting early March.

In 2006, graduate students and teachers at the Utrecht New Media & Digital Culture research program presented a list of books, films, movies and games that we considered essential for understanding new media. This Golden List of New Media Titles is now up for a thorough review.

In the summer of 2012 I started searching for internships on the Internet. Finding an internship was a fun and exciting process. For the first time I actually read lots of vacancies and I gathered knowledge about organizations and companies. I soon found out that no workspace is the same. Here I will briefly describe my internship journey.

Ranging from data visualization to cinemagraphs, Flickr, interface design and even internet memes; magazine no. 7 turned into a 200-page book, in which we celebrate digital visual culture at its best. Let’s briefly introduce this vast network of theoretical discourses and image making practices.

A fundamental task for virtual archaeologists is to erase illusions instead of reconstructing the past as "truth"

Pierre Bourdieu‘s distinction meets digital photography on Flickr. My objective is to investigate the relationship between a cupcake and aesthetics.

Utrecht Data School is a research initiative for students to analyse and visualize data. Using data from social media platforms or analysing hyperlinks of websites reveals social interaction and patterns of communication.

The road to the internship, the tasks at the internship, and the aftermath.