Author: Amsterdam
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IXD14 NL Edition
February 2014 interaction designers from all over the world flocked to Amsterdam to attent the Interaction14 conference. To celebrate this wonderful occasion, Pieter Diepenmaat, Ianus Keller & Alexander Zeh put together a special This happend IXD14 edition! Many Interaction14 speakers and attendees joined the Dutch This happened community at de Brakke Grond for this amazing set of speakers: Luna Maurer: Your…
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Amsterdam #7 – 21.10.2013
This Happened! Amsterdam #7 will feature talks by: Jon Stam & Simon de Bakker about the handheld movie projector Bioscope Raimond Reijmers from IJsfontein about the immersive experience Into D’mentia Lieven Standaert about the Aeromodeller II, a hydrogen-based airship that will never land. Paul Veugen about Human, an activity tracker for iOS. Get your tickets now. (€8,00…
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Ruairi Glynn – Fearful Symmetry
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Amsterdam #6 – 03.06.2013
We have another great lineup for the 6th Amsterdam This Happened! Ubi de Feo Ubi de Feo has developed a series of workshops that aim at teaching programming using a “tangible approach” involving bowls, boxes, M&Ms and ping pong balls.The initiative, called “From 0 to C”, was born out of Ubi’s work preparing students for Arduino hardware…
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Announcing Amsterdam #5: 18 March 2013
We have another great lineup for the 5th Amsterdam This Happened, which will take place on Monday March 18th, 2013.: Monobanda Monobanda – designers of interactive experiences for surprising locations – will talk about “Light on Wood“, a light installation on top of a centuries old boat in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The installation responds…
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Monobanda
Monobanda – designers of interactive experiences for surprising locations – will talk about “Light on Wood“, a light installation on top of a centuries old boat in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The installation responds to visitors with stories of light and sound.
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Dieter Vandoren
Integration.04 is a live performance by Dieter Vandoren. His instrument projects light and sound structures in a fog-filled space, immersing both him and the audience in it. He manipulates the ephemeral audiovisual shapes as if they were tangible materials, taking cues from the interaction between the human body and an acoustical instrument. The abstract digital processes…
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Happiness
To promote EOS magazine, a Belgian magazine specialized in science, ecology and technology, Happiness Brussels came up with a campaign that bundles these three domains in an interactive way. We decided to make a tree talk, in Brussels, and let the whole world know what it has to say. You can follow the Talking Tree on Twitter, Facebook, and…
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Nacho
Nacho will talk about what he learned in the making process of Coca-Cola Sitelets. A digital project developed in collaboration with Random for Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam # 5 – 18.03.13
We have another great lineup for the 5th Amsterdam This Happened This Happened Amsterdam is an evening about the creative process – the journey between the idea and the final result, and everything in between. Interactive artists, game designers, architects, hackers, graphic and interaction designers and app developers will all have their say. As makers…
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Announcing Amsterdam #4
We are happy to announce that the line up for our next event in collaboration with the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam is complete with Ief Spincemaille speaking about Lightmap. The fourth edition on Monday December 17, will present a mix of Dutch and Flemish interaction design projects. The other speakers are: Sara Kolster about Promised Land Mike Lee about Lemurs Chemistry…
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Ief Spincemaille
Ief Spincemaille (1976) obtained his master in Philosophy at the university of Leuven and studied Jazz, modern music and music and technology at L’aula de musica, Barcelona. He is active as an independent set designer and visual artist since 2006. Together with Kurt d’haeseleer he runs the organisation The Werktank since 2010, a production house…
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Sandy Claes & Daan Wampers
Sandy Claes and Daan Wampers are two media artists that explore the boundaries of animated film. Their latest project ‘Exploded Film’, offers an exploded view on (animated) film. This installation consists of a rollercoaster shaped track that represents the typical story plot of a movie. A camera follows this track up and down, producing a film…
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Sara Kolster
Promised Land is a web documentary on the curious role of holiday parks in the Netherlands: a common refuge for asylum seekers, migrant workers and olympic athletes. This documentary project deals with the fine line between leisure and survival. Once a holiday parc, now a resort for semi-permanent displacement. During one year, writer/filmmaker Eefje Blankevoort,…
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Mike Lee
The New Lemurs are a venture-funded app company established in Amsterdam last June with the goal of making games educational. Lemurs Chemistry: Water is their launch title, and their first attempt to not only create a new kind of game, but a new kind of company, in culture and in business, halfway between the Dutch…
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Amsterdam #4
Venue: Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond Nes 45 1012 KD Amsterdam The Netherlands In collaboration with Flemish Arts Centre ‘De Brakke Grond’, our fourth edition will present a mix of Dutch and Flemish interaction design projects.
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Mark Florquin
Mark Florquin will talk about the transition he made from Photography to 3D.
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Sylvain Vriens
Sylvain Vriens (les hommes de l’ordinateur) recently travelled around the globe to Sydney with a small team to work on an interactive sound installation for the newQT Sydney Hotel. An elevator that keeps track of the number of people inside and changes the music accordingly, and so changing the atmosphere and the behavioral patterns of…
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Matt Cottam
Matt Cottam on Chrome Web Lab Web Lab is a groundbreaking, year-long exhibition, featuring a series of interactive Chrome Experiments that bring the extraordinary workings of the internet to life. Google Creative Lab and Tellart created the user experience design for the Web Lab, and engineered and produced hardware and software for the physical exhibition. Visitors…
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Jeroen Uyttendaele & Dewi de Vree
Jeroen Uyttendaele & Dewi de Vree on Ground Ground is an audiovisual performance in which graphite drawings are directly used to control several handmade electronic instruments. Drawing, erasing and touching are the main gestures for a unique audiovisual composition. Graphite is a conductor for electricity. By using graphite as a variable resistor (instead of a standard knob) the pitch,…
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Announcing Amsterdam #3
We are happy to announce our next event in collaboration with the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. The third edition on October 15, will present a mix of Dutch and Flemish interaction design projects. Please join us for what will surely be a special evening. Speakers confirmed so far: Matt Cottam on Chrome Web Lab and Jeroen Uyttendaele with Dewi de Vree…
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Amsterdam #3
Venue: Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond Nes 45 1012 KD Amsterdam The Netherlands In collaboration with Flemish Arts Centre ‘De Brakke Grond’, our third edition will present a mix of Dutch and Flemish interaction design projects.
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Arjan Scherpenisse & Eelco Wagenaar
Arjan Scherpenisse en Eelco Wagenaar on PING, a face tracking automated ping-pong kanon. The installation consists of two identical separate spaces. Together these spaces form the “playground” of the ping installation. Each space contains a half pingpong-table, a pingpongball-canon, a bat with a touch-sensitive sensor, and a laptop. A network cable runs between the two…
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Announcing Amsterdam #2
The first This happened in Amsterdam was a great succes so we are happy to announce that we will continue our collaboration with Brakke Grond. The second edition on June 11, will present a mix of Dutch and Flemish interaction design projects. Please join us for what will surely be a special evening. Speakers line-up:…
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Joannes Vandermeulen
Joannes Vandermeulen on bpost: an online information portal for counter staff at Belgian post offices. Joannes Vandermeulen is the founder of Brussels based Namahn, one of the largest Interaction Design firms in Belgium. Namahn develops the Information architecture and interaction design for large scale & complex projects. Such as an applications for road and air…
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Ella Keijzer
Fietslabyrint is an interactive bicycle tour. When you start the tour you will cycle through beautiful Dutch cities and landscapes. You will see other people walking and cycling, children playing and well known landmarks. You will hear sounds from outside: birds, cars and your own bicycle. When you stop cycling, your interactive tour stops as well.…
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Lieven Menschaert & Ludivine Lechat
“Valence” is an interactive visualization controlled by live brainwave monitoring. The game world is an emergent system of attractive and repulsive cells made in Nodebox Opengl. When the player whose brain activity is being recorded relaxes (or is aroused), the cells in the game world respond… Valence is developed by Tom De Smedt and Lieven…
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Amsterdam #2
Venue: Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond Nes 45 1012 KD Amsterdam The Netherlands In collaboration with Flemish Arts Centre ‘De Brakke Grond’, our second edition will present a mix of Dutch and Flemish interaction design projects.
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Pieke Bergmans & LUSTlab
Res Sapiens
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Unfold
Kiosk
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Tim Knapen
Godmode
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Edo Paulus
SonOrb
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Amsterdam #1
February 27, 2012 Venue: Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond Nes 45 Amsterdam The Netherlands We have always tried to keep This happened a free event but due to circumstances we’ll ask you to pay an entrance fee of €10 at the door (or €6.50 if you’re a student or younger than 27). In collaboration with…
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Pieke Bergmans & LUSTlab
Pieke Bergmans and LUSTlab (NL) talk about Res Sapiens.
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Tim Knapen
Tim Knapen (Indianen, BE) talks about Godmode, a playful installation involving a hacked photocopier, some paper, black markers and colored pencils.
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Unfold
Claire Warnier (Unfold, BE) talks about Kiosk, a mobile 3D scanning and printing facility illustrating a near future in which these technologies have become ubiquitous.
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Edo Paulus
Edo Paulus (NL) talks about SonOrb: a permanent, interactive sound installation for groups children aged 7 to 12 years old.
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Additional Amsterdam #1 speakers confirmed
Earlier today we sent out an email announcement to our Netherlands mailing list. In it we already mentioned one additional speaker: Edo Paulus (NL) who’ll talk about SonOrb. The program for Amsterdam #1 is completed by Claire Warnier of Unfold (BE) who will present on Kiosk. All details are available at the event page.
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Announcing Amsterdam #1
After running over ten events in Utrecht, we are now bringing This happened to Amsterdam. In collaboration with Brakke Grond, our first edition will present a mix of Dutch and Flemish interaction design projects. Please join us for what will surely be a special evening. Speakers confirmed so far: Tim Knapen (BE) on Godmode and…
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Amsterdam #1
Venue: Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond Nes 45 1012 KD Amsterdam The Netherlands We have always tried to keep This happened a free event but due to circumstances we’ll ask you to pay an entrance fee of €10 at the door (or €6.50 if you’re a student or younger than 27). The event is sold…