Undermining
the borders between text and image, between private property and public
space through the design of ‘imaginary’ advertisements and (ironically)
deconstructing some of the basic conventions of a magazine, Imaginary
Property is curating the 77 issue of HTV-De-IJsberg, investigating new
fields of image-production beyond the hard-coded notions of the
commercial versus the editorial.
On January 30th, 2009, the 77th issue of HTV De Ijsberg was launched at a session of Killer TV at the De Waag, Center for old and new media
in Amsterdam. The entire magazine is devoted to questions of "Imaginary
property". It has been edited and compiled by the researchers of the
"imaginary property" research group at Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht
in close collaboration with the editorial team of HTV. The magazine as
well as additional material can be visited and downloaded at: http://www.htvdeijsberg.nl
‘They’ve Got A Bomb‘ is an occasion for showing our support to victims of massive and blind bombing on Gaza, and also against the
experimentation of new american weapons over disarmed populations. The
new nickname of the bomb is DIME. 
This is the second last day of the coding week, the prototype rush by Megabug and me, sponsored by the Design department of Jan van Eyck Academy
(many thanks!). The sun is shining and we would really love some
walking in the bush, since the whole landscape is white and silver, and
the snow has covered the country.
I am studying SQL, it is now 2009. In a few days the first coding
week will start! My head is all over the places, I am changing house,
moving stuff around. Thanks to the support of Jan van Eyck, Megabug
will come to help me in Kanne, the new home for Ubik and me. Here you
can see our development plan:
– data analysis (metadata fields)
– database structure
– pilot database pool
–
python application (command line) to make operations on the database
(Souls inserting, metadata management, genetic relations and
inheritance)
– debugging (code freeze)
– download-able package
– users community
– population of the database
It
will be a very intense working week. Before he comes, which means
tomorrow, I would like to state the final metadata field, and the
minimal pilot. Our first meeting will be about the ‘database
structure’. After that, we will start with the python application.
I am looking forward to some coding :)
-written in Amsterdam-
Ed eccoci tornati in Olanda, Ubik ed io. Un viaggio a fari spenti nella notte attraverso l’Europa ghiaggiata, la pioggia la neve e la mia collezione di bestemmie. Ci siamo persi in Francia, in mezzo a crepes e pezzi di stronzo. Ne siamo usciti, per arrivare a Kanne, la nostra ghiacciata nuova casa in campagna!
