The Mobile City, the project I do together with Martijn de Waal, will organize four events during the upcoming ‘connectivity’ week at the International Architectural […] Read More
Author: Michiel de Lange
Michiel de Lange (1976) is an Assistant Professor in New Media Studies at Utrecht University, researching mobile media and urban culture and identity. He is the co-founder of The Mobile City, an independent research group founded in 2007 that investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life and the implications for urban design and policy. Michiel is trained as a cultural anthropologist, and holds a PhD in philosophy (2010) with a dissertation about mobile media technologies and urban identities. He collaborated in a locative media art & science project (www.nomadicmilk.net). He worked for Kennisland, a Dutch think-tank that aims to strengthen the knowledge-based society. Here he worked on several projects at the intersection of ICTs and the city, e.g. co-organizing the Creative Capital conference. He also volunteered and worked for Cybersoek, a computer neighborhood center in Amsterdam. He is advisor e-culture at Mediafonds.
Michiel is on Twitter and LinkedIn.
I posted the first PICNIC ’09 report about augmented reality at The Mobile City weblog: http://www.themobilecity.nl/2009/10/02/picnic-09-report-1-augmented-reality/
I’ve written a review of Stephen Graham’s “The Cybercities Reader” (2004) at The Mobile City. Go there >>
Not really in the field of ‘mobile media’ but here’s an observation Nicolas Nova-style. While being on holiday in France recently I saw these entrance […] Read More
Mobile Monday #11 themed “Visions on Mobile” took place on June 1 2009 and had some great speakers: Alan More, Jamais Cascio, Andrew Grill, Joe […] Read More
Below the draft version of the last section of chapter 4 of my dissertation-in-progress about mobile media and identity. Not completely finished yet but readable.. […] Read More
Today I did a guest lecture for the course “Digital Art and Culture” at the Radboud University Nijmegen. I talked about mobile and locative media, […] Read More
As part of a new effort of The Mobile City to compile an ever-expanding overview of literature relevant to our themes, I have written up […] Read More
One of the oldest terms to think about the influence of both transport and communication technologies on the experience of time and space is “time-space […] Read More
Dutch broadcaster VARA’s digital television channel ConsumentenTV has an item (in Dutch) about future visions of the telephone. I am one of the people […] Read More
Yesterday I did a presentation at the Filmacademie in Amsterdam about media technologies and mobility. Below the slides: 090319_filmacademie-S.pdf (PDF 1MB).
(Also posted on The Mobile City blog) Found via Textually.org > Engadget Mobile > Make (nice trail): Artist Jorge Colombo (Portugal) made a couple of […] Read More
Just wrote a post about a story in the NY Times called “The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives“. In this story, it is argued that the […] Read More
Yesterday I gave a short presentation at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam about the possibilities to use mobile media for a food awareness campaign by FairFood. […] Read More
Dutch digital channel Uitzendinggemist has a number of ‘Micromovies‘ especially for the mobile screen. You can watch them via the application made for mobile phones. […] Read More
Just saw this very rudimentary urban screen (no interactivity it seems) at the Haarlemmerplein. Apparently with old photos from the neighborhood. The chill and wet […] Read More
I put a review online of a great chapter by Mimi Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Ken Anderson called “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The […] Read More
‘Funsmith’ Bernie DeKoven wrote a post on his site Deepfun about the differences between game communities and play communities. The post consists of the usual […] Read More
Yeah yeah, so much for participatory observation in research… I am finally on Twitter. Reading this article – which appeared a few months ago – […] Read More
Here is a great case of mobile phones playing a role in mass media reports, and their ‘playful’ characteristics in story-telling: Last Friday, December 19 […] Read More