07/06/2010 - 08:04 / Harold Schellinx

A Map Is Not A Trap

Unlike for the picture traps, the moment in space-time that Spoerri trapped in his Anecdoted Topography of Chance has not been preserved as a glued cut from reality. It is a map. And a map is not a trap. The very same map may represent a great many very different possible worlds.

09/05/2010 - 13:38 / Harold Schellinx

'Welcome To My Homepage!' (Digital Folklore)

Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenscheid are artists. Both also teach, at the German Merz Akademie. As editors of the 3-in-1 Digital Folklore Reader (student's reader, monograph and catalogue) they combine both qualities.

29/03/2010 - 07:35 / Harold Schellinx

A map, a table, an instrument

A fine early example of an interactive map is Daniel Spoerri's "Topographie Anecdotée du Hasard" (An Anecdoted Topography of Chance). On october 17th, 1961, the artist drew a map of the state of his table at 15h47, in room 13 of the Hotel de Carcassonne in the Rue Mouffetard in Paris, where he was living and working at the time.

06/03/2010 - 09:21 / Harold Schellinx

Tape Salad

New media come, old media go.

01/02/2010 - 11:23 / Harold Schellinx

Sound Maps

A sound that sounds will do so at a certain place and at a certain time. These are typically the sort of data that practitioners of the art of field recording will keep track of, as part of the documentation of their work. Phonographers therefore have always had a natural interest in sound mapping techniques (the linking of acoustic and geographical data).

10/12/2009 - 10:20 / Harold Schellinx

(Back-to-the) Future Lab

Media-art is booming! ... But what is it? ... It will - at least - include much of what is produced by the media labs, that over the past decade were sprouting like mushrooms in a damp wood ... But then: what is a media-lab?

09/11/2009 - 10:05 / Harold Schellinx

RAUDIO IIIII : ready for sale!

[ Please turn off your cellphone before continuing ... (unless you are reading this on one, of course) ]... Het was in één keer goed!

26/10/2009 - 09:29 / Harold Schellinx

Status: in review

Over the past couple of weeks we have been working hard (and indeed finished!), creating our first full and independent iPhone application, after all the intriguing and instructive work making reactive music scenes for the RjDj app (ShakeNRoll, and

18/09/2009 - 07:42 / Harold Schellinx

RjDj Sprint Lab @ PICNIC09

After my recent entries on our adventures at the London Music Hack Day and about how we put together ShakeNRoll, the ookoi's première scène for the augmented audio-reality and reactive music iThing application RjDj, here is your chance to try all of this yourselves!

07/09/2009 - 20:46 / Harold Schellinx

Shake 'n' Roll: the *ins*, the *outs*

The ookoi scene that we cooked up during the London Music Hack Day is now available in the RjDj scenes list: look for ShakeNRoll.