The Silestra Museum Forum is part of an intended strategy to reboot cultural and social life in the city by enhancing neglected historical sites and public spaces with new cultural and social functions. This new connective network makes clever use of the old city fabric, including the park bordering …

Verkennend onderzoek naar werkwijze waarop met stadslabs in verschillende gemeenten wordt gewerkt aan oplossingen voor weerbarstige vraagstukken.

Natalie Bookchin’s work is synonymous with the Video Vortex network and the rise of YouTube. Whereas we got to know each other’s work in the turbulent net.art late nineties years, this particular story started with a DVD I got from Natalie, containing The Trip (2008), a video collection of early YouTube …

Ulus Baker (1960 – 2007) was a Turkish-Cypriot sociologist, philosopher, and public intellectual. He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1960. He studied Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, where he taught as a lecturer until 2004. Baker wrote prolifically in influential Turkish journals …

How to keep an innovational and creative approach in corporate low-end ‘lite’ productions? This research has aimed to take a closer look at more creative means of expression within the constrictions of the limited low-end model. Determining a visual style and planning a well-structured story are two …

Since the arrival of cinema, film theorists have studied how spectators perceive the representations that the medium offers to our senses. Early film theorists have bent their heads over what cinema is, how cinema can be seen as art, but also over what cinema is capable of. One of the earliest film theorists, …

Witte de With is subject of a public debate on its name giver Admiral Witte Corneliszoon de With (1599 – 1658). The centre itself started an inquiry within the context of Cinema Olanda: Platform and in an Open Letter it is asked to take position. Florian Cramer thinks it is time to change its name.

Technologies that were initially developed to be applied within the domain of video games are currently being used in experiments to explore their meaning and possibilities for cinema and cinema audiences. In this position paper we examine how narrativity, interactivity and engagement are mutually reshaped …

Researchers have long argued about the existence of the universal consumer trend escapism since it is believed that the trend has a positive influence on the entertainment industry, and thus the cinema industry, during the recession. As a result, the cinema industry is believed to be recession-proof, …

In the last few years, the phenomenon of piracy has grown tremendously, with special regards towards movies. In the past, a great number of film industries and other companies made huge losses or even went bankrupt. With the increasing interconnectedness of people, different networks have been developed …