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Come over and play at Tweetakt

By Kars | Published: March 9, 2011

From my win­dow I can see guys build­ing the Twee­t­akt pavil­ion on the Neude square. They’ve start­ed today. Next week, the fes­ti­val starts. And I’m a lit­tle excit­ed because this year I was asked by Twee­t­akt to curate the inter­ac­tive exhi­bi­tion that will be on dis­play at the pavil­ion. Twee­t­akt is a fes­ti­val for per­form­ing […]

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Human desire in the cognitive city

By Kars | Published: March 4, 2011

As I write this I am on a train to Utrecht, the last leg of my jour­ney home from Berlin. I was there for Cog­ni­tive Cities, a con­fer­ence on urban com­put­ing, data visu­al­iza­tion and relat­ed sub­jects. It’s been a hell of a week­end — a few minor flaws aside, the con­fer­ence was great and I […]

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“Personality goes a long way”

By Kars | Published: February 24, 2011

Ear­li­er this year Dutch artist Tin­ke­bell stood tri­al togeth­er with the direc­tor of a gallery for the alleged tor­tur­ing of ani­mals. She’d cre­at­ed an art­work involv­ing a lit­tle under a hun­dred ham­sters in so-called ham­ster­balls. Accord­ing to her it was a com­men­tary on the many peo­ple on YouTube post­ing video’s of their pets in these […]

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Machines for getting lost

By Kars | Published: February 16, 2011

It turns out Lone­ly Plan­et is not just in the busi­ness of help­ing you find your way, but also help­ing you get lost. I came across their exper­i­men­tal trav­el series when I was doing some con­cept devel­op­ment recent­ly for a her­itage site. A project I am work­ing on at the HKU’s DPI research group, which […]

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Drifting through the city with a few bocce balls

By Kars | Published: January 25, 2011

On a recent sun­ny Sun­day after­noon I took a walk while boulesing through Utrecht. Togeth­er with a group of friends I used a num­ber of streets and squares as a play­ing field. The water-lev­­el walk­ways along the Old Canal, the foun­tain behind the city hall, and the usu­al­ly qui­et Sev­en Alleys. Passers­by respond­ed with amuse­ment […]

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My talk at Ignite Amsterdam 4

By Kars | Published: January 11, 2011

Here’s a selec­tion of the 20 pic­tures I showed at Ignite Ams­ter­dam 4, and the words I man­aged to cram into the 5 min­utes I had avail­able to me. It’s about some of the things that excite me, some of our recent work (most notably PLAY Pilots) and some of our new projects on the […]

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Join us for Christmas drinks in Belgie

By Kars | Published: December 15, 2010

We’ll be head­ing to Kafe Bel­gië this Fri­day (Decem­ber 17 from 6pm) to cel­e­brate the Wright Broth­ers mak­ing their first pow­ered and heav­i­er-than-air flight, the air­ing of the first episode of tele­vi­sion series The Simp­sons, an event­ful and pro­duc­tive year at Hub­bub with projects such as NU Grounds, the Learn­ing Lab and of course PLAY […]

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Some upcoming super-short talks

By Kars | Published: December 14, 2010

I’ve been invit­ed to give some short talks at two upcom­ing events. The first one is Ignite Ams­ter­dam 4 on Wednes­day 22 Decem­ber 2010 which is orga­nized by the good folk at Media­mat­ic. This edi­tion is devot­ed com­plete­ly to games as part of their Arcade pro­gram. I’ll prob­a­bly go into some of the recent things […]

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Things we’re working on (volume 1)

By Kars | Published: November 18, 2010

So I decid­ed to make a lit­tle ‘what’s on deck’ area on the wall behind my desk today. These are all list­ed in my Things and stuff, but I like hav­ing things around me phys­i­cal­ly as a kind of ambi­ent reminder, also to all the oth­er folks in the stu­dio. And now I’m think­ing, why […]

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A taste of Mega Monster Battle Arena’s music

By Kars | Published: November 12, 2010

In 2009, we were involved with one of the 11kernenoperas pro­duced by Dario Fo for the fifth anniver­sary of the West­land munic­i­pal­i­ty. The result was Mega Mon­ster Bat­tle Are­naâ„¢, a mix between a game and con­tem­po­rary music the­atre for youth. The music was writ­ten by Daniël Ham­burg­er, who also per­formed it live at the shows […]

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