23:59, 09 Sep 2007
Sarah Ars Electronica. Jasperschelling.com
13:09, 07 Sep 2007
Sarah Before I started writing this article I took some time to read Felix's article about his talk in the festival catalog. It actually made me change my mind about the content of this article. Before, this article would contain sentences such as, "Felix Stalder talked about 45 minutes, but I think he could have made his point in three". I wasn't very impressed about his thoughts on our worldwide new found individuality, mainly because it's been said so many times before, and I couldn't help but feeling slightly tired about it.
Felix Stalder
Felix Stalder on The New Public Life, 2.0
Reading the article however made my realise that he had made a few other points which deserve to be mentioned here, and that his story was actually well funded with facts and research of others. From my perspective he made his talk at the conference more about peoples individuality and the fact that they however still can seem to collaborate successfully on projects (nothing new here, yet the Wikipedia example was brought up again. Really can't people think of no other example when we talk about web 2.0 and collaboration?), while the really interesting thing about his talk was his description of the fragmentation of the public sphere. A bit to briefly discussed (in my opinion) in his talk, but when I read about it later, I saw the real point made here.
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12:34, 07 Sep 2007
Roel After Brian Holmes it's time for some social entrepeneurs, starting with a famous name in this business: Konstantin Guericke. Yesterday we talked about reclaiming souvereignity, considering the exposure to surveilled ánd observed area's, questioning if we can still consider our identity as our own. Hence today we will push it more towards publicity, we can use that to control our own identity, or can we?
Konstantin Guericke
Konstantin Guericke, Co-founder of LinkedIn, CEO of Jaxtr 'trying' to answer a question
While working at LinkedIn, you learn methods, techniques, and manners to control your online identity. Konstantin is doing a kind of corporate talk on LinkedIn and Jaxtr, but in the end I could agree with his message. His experience at LinkedIn was a nice addition to the central theme of this symposium today, and his view on controlling not only publicity but also communications was rather interesting. We are all worried about our privacy on the web, and our personal data flying around on numerous distinct webservers; but what if we can use this in a good way? Why not try to control by yourself what is wandering around on that vast internet? Or even better, we can assure that particular information is displayed more prominently than others. Off course you already noticed that a story on LinkedIn is emerging here, but it actually works; hear me out.
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Three young dutch new media creatives blog about their experiences at Ars Electronica Festival 2007. Why? Because it's fun. So we won't forget. So you can experience it as well. Because we're passionate about what we do.
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Sarah van HeckenFourth year C&MD student, stubborn and persevering. As part of the team of 7U responsible for concept development. A brand is much more than a logo nowadays, seriously. Keep watching experiencebrander.nl!
Jasper SchellingGraduated C&MD Cum Laude; mostly working on social visualization interfaces while doing his internship at Scholz & Volkmer and afterwards. Working on efficient interfaces for what we will call "the internet" in five years.
Roel van der VenFreshly graduated with an internship at Last.FM in London, but now back in Holland working fulltime on the realization of a new video-platform for Bright.nl; likes everything having to do with media, as long as it has a creative touch.