Brief History Of New Media Art In Turkey
The new media scene in Turkey can be viewed parallel to the establishment of Visual Communication Design (VCD) departments at universities, which goes back to the end of the 1990s. In 1996 private universities founded earliest VCD departments. Yıldız Technical University is the first state university that started such a program, as well as the [...]
Amber ’10 Art and Technology Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
dancetechtv WORLDGRIDLAB production team Asli Yilmazturk
Budget Monitoring And Citizen Participation In The Netherlands
My name is Noureddine and I am a member of the training group that deals with budget monitoring. We have examined the prospects paper for 2013. On page 26 of the bill it is stated that in 2013 there will be 197 million euros in expenses. We’ve got an overview of the financial statements of [...]
Transparency International
One global movement sharing one vision: a world in which government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. In 1993, a few individuals decided to take a stance against corruption and created Transparency International. Now present in more than 100 countries, the movement works relentlessly to stir the world’s [...]
Is Another World Really Possible? The Slogans Of The French Revolution Reconsidered
The famous slogan of the French Revolution was “liberty, equality, fraternity“. In the succeeding two centuries the world has demonstrated both the contradictions of this slogan and the very limited degree to which in fact any of its three elements have been realized anywhere in the modern world-system. Today, the question is whether, in a [...]
Ontmoeting op het Centraal Station
Het Centraal Station in Amsterdam was in de oorlogsjaren een cruciale plek voor de Duitse bezetter. Een banier prijkte op de voorgevel: ‘Victorie, want Duitschland wint voor Europa op alle fronten’. Een ware demonstratie van hun macht en aanwezigheid op deze plek. Vanaf dit station vertrokken veel Amsterdamse joden naar Westerbork. Tegelijkertijd was het station [...]
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