Dag van de Amateurfilm 2012

Dag van de Amateurfilm 2012

On Friday September 28th the annual ‘Amateur Film Day’ takes place during the Netherlands Film Festival. This year’s theme: ‘congratulations’. The theme of ‘Congratulations’ allows the Amateur Film Day to celebrate several anniversaries and milestones in the field of amateur film, among…

Summer School: ‘Everyday appropriation of technology’

Summer School: ‘Everyday appropriation of technology’

Between 20-25th of August, 2012 a Summer School on ‘The Everyday Appropriation of Technology” is organized by Maastricht University and TU Darmstadt. Location: Waldemar Peterson House in Riezlern, Austria. “The present diffusion of so-called smart phones illustrates the main topic of the…

Turkowski’s ‘Margarete’ at Noorderzon 2012

Turkowski’s ‘Margarete’ at Noorderzon 2012

“During performing arts festival Noorderzon (Groningen, The Netherland) Polish performer Janek Turkowski offered  a surprisingly small and intimate filmic refuge from the predominantly big and spectacular main programme. His Margarete evokes a time long gone, on the other side of…

RMeS Summer School: Media in transition

RMeS Summer School: Media in transition

From June 25th-29th, 2012 the RMeS Summer School took place at Utrecht of Groningen. Theme: “Media in transition“. “Traditionally, research in the Humanities focuses on textual artifacts. Media scholars, whether they come from historical, cultural, literary, film or journalism studies,…