Arie Altena

Works for the V2_Archive.

Taught at Interactive Media & Environments of the FMI in Groningen, and occasionaly teach or guest lecture at other institutes, like the UvA.

Co-organize the Sonic Acts Festivals – and co-edited 4 Sonic Acts publications: Unsorted, Thoughts on the Information Arts (2004), The Anthology of Computer Art (2006) The Cinematic Experience (2008), and, the largest until now, The Poetics of Space (2010). All available at the Paradiso webshop and through www.sonicacts.com

Studied Literary Theory at the University of Amsterdam and spent 4 years there as a PhD-student, working on American postmodernist literature. I never finished my PhD because at the time (1994) WWW and HTML were far more exciting, and I became involved with new media and the internet.

Worked for Mediamatic.

In 2006 he was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy, where his research on the transformation of writing amongst serious bloggers was part of Ubiscribe-research: www.ubiscribe.net.

Lives in Amsterdam.

He is on the board of DNK-Amsterdam, the weekly concert series on monday night, now at the Smart Project Space: www.dnk-amsterdam.com

http://ariealt.net
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ariealt
http://www.mediamatic.net/person/24493