together with interactive/media/design of the royal academy of art
present
Saturday, September 27, 2008
From Amsterdam to The Hague, The Netherlands
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Mon Sep 29 19:22:22 UTC 2008
And more images by Jim Casper here and a lot more to come! -
Sun Sep 28 19:21:05 UTC 2008
Taken from the Twitter feed of Werner Vogels: Mastermundo absolutely positively rocks! being challenged by designers, artists, musicians and poets. 05:11 PM September 27, 2008 from mobile webIt was fabulous, intense, beautiful. Thank you! For an impression, check here, here or here.
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Mon Sep 22 20:24:35 UTC 2008
WE’RE SOLD OUT! We only have only 2 spaces left that you can earn if you send a really good reason to be there to “marcel[a]mastermundo.org”. -
Fri Sep 19 20:53:25 UTC 2008
Only great news today: The Dutch Railways (NS) provided us first class tickets to facilitate MM08. Next to that, the goodie bags are filling up great. Lots of inspirational stuff will be in there. And, another reason to want to be at MM08 is the MM08 book of inspiration, with contributions by Anton Corbijn, Fons Schiedon, Twopoints, Marco Bevolo, Krijn van Noordwijk, Mattmo, thankyoutoo.org, David Armano and many, many more. -
Fri Sep 19 20:39:00 UTC 2008
We will start at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, around noon on Saturday, September 27th. After art and talks, we’ll walk to Amsterdam Central Station. While dreaming away looking out of the train window to the passing landscape, you will having another two talks. In The Hague, we will walk to the Spuiplein for the remaining talks, and probably for a quick bite. We will finish at the Central Station of The Hague again, to enjoy a concert with trains. And additionally, you can party all night long at the TodaysArt festival.Tickets are 30 euros for people who earn money, 15 for students and available through this link http://mastermundo.eventbrite.com/. We’ve kept the costs as low as possible to encourage as diverse a crowd as possible. Tickets include access to the Stedelijk Museum, use of an Silent Disco headphone, a goodiebag, the MM08 book (will be send to you afterwards, because it will also report on the day itself, mixed with brilliant contributions by brilliant people), a train ticket A’dam > The Hague and a bunch more. There are max. 100 tickets available, so order early! Hope to see you there!
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Fri Sep 12 13:15:05 UTC 2008
Up just yet! The interviews of last year at our own Blip.tv channel. Thanks Przemek! -
Wed Sep 10 19:16:01 UTC 2008
We can proudly announce that Adobe, just like last year, will sponsor Mastermundo. -
Tue Sep 09 20:06:34 UTC 2008
Whooo! The site is live. Thanks to buzamoto.com. The coming days it will be updated regularly as the programme furher shapes itself and more features will be added to the website as well. -
Mon Sep 08 18:59:18 UTC 2008
Some great news just got in: the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will participate in MM08. This means that MM08 will start in Amsterdam and will travel to The Hague to close the programme there. -
Mon Sep 08 18:58:24 UTC 2008
Michael Tchong, Trend Analist, founder of Ubercool, internationally recognized speaker on emerging trends in business, culture and media (USA) unfortunately isn’t able to come. For those of you who want to experience him anyway, make sure that you visit the events at PICNIC he participates in.
You can contribute to MM08 by drawing or writing something here. An inspirational drawing, an doodle of an idea you have and want to share, a memorable quote.
Thanks, but the contribution is now closed.
This year, the Texelse Boys Foundation and I/M/D at the Royal Academy or Art bring you the second edition of the Mastermundo creative conference, that will take place on september 27th in The Hague, The Netherlands. Mastermundo is an intimate, active and informal gathering where interesting and passionate people share ideas, stories, passions or something that they love/hate/do/did/know/care about/obsess over with a curious, engaged, interesting audience. The 2007 edition still followed the rules of a traditional conference (speaker, stage, audience), the 2008 edition won’t. Ambition is to radically unfollow those rules, to change it from monologue to dialogue into a true 720° experience, tickling all senses.
This event is a partnership with the TodaysArt festival that takes place that same weekend and with the Picnic.
Regarding speakers we have looked for people with a high level of interestingness, preferably previously unconferenced or stories that previously have never been shared by people that speak at conferences often. So only truth, curiosity, diversity and no selling, no corporate bullshit. That show the people behind great works, together with the willingness and openness to share their personal stories and could also be open to take part in workshops and social interaction (so not only for a 20 minute talk).
As stated, we want to break with the traditional conference format. We are currently looking into that, so the final format can change until the last day. For the latest updates, check back regularly. As for now ideas are to take MM to the street, outside stages and conference rooms. To do citywalks, go to unexpected places. Latest rather unorthodox idea is to have a train between The Hague/Amsterdam. Mastermundo should be different each year, should be inspiring by itself and not only by its speakers, should make meeting people easy and should be really affordable. Last year was all free. Hopefully it can be free this year too, at least for students.
Last years’ speakers were e.g. Michael B. Johnson (Pixar Animation Studios), Zachary Jean Paradis (Sapient), Kris Moyes (muic video director, The Directors Bureau), Arjan Dingsté (architect UN Studio, worked on the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart), Regine Debatty (writer, blogger we-make-money-not-art), Devon Reid (soul coach, poet), Tjeerd Hoek (was responsible for UX of Windows Vista, currently at Frog Design).
Mastermundo is an initiative of the Texelse Boys Foundation and the Interactive/Media/Design department of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and has the goal to bridge the gap between passionate professionals and new generations or creators (and other interested people).
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Werner Vogels (USA) Bio
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com
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Stefan Agamanolis (UK) Bio
Chief Executive and Research Director of Distance Lab
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Rafi Haladjian (France) Bio
Founder of Ozone and Co-Founder and Chairman Violet
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Max Kisman Bio
Graphic Designer
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Laurent Haug (Switzerland) Bio
Organizer LIFT Conference
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Jeroen van Erp (The Netherlands) Bio
Head of Creative & Design Fabrique Design & Communication
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Itay Talgam Bio
Conductor
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Fons Schiedon (The Netherlands) Bio
Designer/Artist/Director
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Ethan Zuckerman (USA) Bio
Co-founder, Global Voices/ Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
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Devon Reid (The Netherlands/Canada) Bio
Poet, soul coach, New shoes today crew
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Alrik Koudenburg (The Netherlands) Bio
Design Director/Partner and speaker at LeadbyExample.nl workshops/Teacher at Design Schools
The Mastermundo program involves the following (conditionally):
12h00
Gather and register at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
14h30
Drop off headphones. Walk to Amsterdam Central Station. [Google maps]
15h11
Take the train from Amsterdam to The Hague at Amsterdam Central Station from platform 14a.
16h02
Arrival at The Hague Central Station. Drop off headphones. Walk to Spuiplein.
16h30
Arrival at Spuiplein.
19h30
End of talks and presentations. Walk to The Hague Central station.
20h00
Start of the evening with the Station to Station Concert and then blend into the TodaysArt festival.
TodaysArt timetable Saturday
For more information send an email to marcel[a]mastermundo.org.
In random order: Marcel Kampman & Frederik Nysingh (Texelse Boys), Rob Huisman (BNO), Monique van Dusseldorp (PICNIC), Anne Selene Cramwinkel (PICNIC), Olof van Winden (TodaysArt), Marco Zwaan (Zwaan), Takashi Okamoto (BuzaMoto), Annerieke Simeone (KABK), Marie-José Raven (Stedelijk Museum), Bert Hagendoorn (Adobe), Jan van der Kooij (Grafisch Papier), The teacher team of I/M/D at the KABK, the students of I/M/D at the KABK, Marco Bevolo,…