March 2012:
EIT ICT Labs: WORKSHOP ON PLACE
This workshop takes place in Stockholm between 14 and 16th of March and launches the EIT ICT Labs Presence Lab at KTH, a disused reactor hall on campus (www.r1.kth.se). The first workday focuses the theoretical body of knowledge relating to shared mediated spaces, and what may be said to constitute "A conceptual toolbox for presence design" while the following days are devoted to prototyping in the Presence Lab.

>> More information at being-here.net

March 2012:
UNLIKE US, UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MEDIA MONOPOLIES AND THEIR ALTERNATIVES
Lecture: Being and Bearing Witness in Communities of Systems and People
Next generation material and immaterial infrastructres are merging networks for commodities like water and energy with social networks in which human intentions and behavior are expressed. The design of such networks needs a new design paradigm to which an individual human being's perspective is core. Human beings need to be able to accept repsonsibility and liability in such a context. Responsibility and liability, being witness and bearing witness, establishing trust and truth are foundationall for social structures. What are parameters for such a new design paradigm?

Organized by the Institute for Network Cultures (8-10 March 2012)
>> Go to website

November 2011:
UNFOLD AND PREPARE: EIT ICT Labs: MEDIATING PRESENCE
Together with Charlie Gullstrom (KTH Royal Insititute of Technology Stockholm) we are orchestrating a research program into ediating presence. Between Delft university of technology, KTH And Lulea University of Technology we organize 4 workshops in 2012 on Time, lace, Action and Relation. The Being-Here site is the testbed for this collaboration.

>> More information at being-here.net

March 2011:
ATHENS WORKSHOP: PRESENCE DESIGN & BIO MIMICRY
With Jaco Appelman
With students from a variety of European countries we worked a week to design solutions for a city using a Smart Grid. Students published their work in the Being-Here site and as result we could print a book at the end of the week with their work.

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March 2011:
CLIMATE FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE: A LIFECYCLE APPROACH
Lecture, 100 years International women's day
TU Delft, DEWIS

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October 2010:
SKYPE WORKSHOP: DESIGNING PRESENCE AND TRUST IN THE PROCESS OF INTERACTION
KTH School of Architecture Stockholm
Doing a skype workshop on Presence Design with 50 students of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In this workshop Charlie Gullstrom was my 'social interface', which permitted me to have "embodied mediated presence" and direct this workshop remotely. Orchestrating the afternoon very strict in a rhythm of moments of interaction, was crucial to its succes.

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June 2010:
SYNCHRONIZING PERFORMANCE FOR PLANETARY EXPERIENCE
Workshop: Zwarts & Jansma, Bid Olympics 2028
In a series of 4 workshops new infratstructure is explored to possibly organize the Olympics in 2028 in the Netherlands, 100 years after the frist Olympics took place in Amsterdam in 1928. Leading concept is to invent new infrastructures which will benefit the Netherlands, its spatial, ecological and social landscape, before and after. In my contribution I propose to excellerate on the concept of the Olympic games themeselves. Focus on social inclusion, using social networks, smart textiles and materials, to connect thousands of local playing fields all over the world to partake with and 'through' their heroes in the Olympic games. In such a concept new infrastructures focus to facalitate physical connections in distributed centeredness accelerating the concept of mediated architecture.

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April 2010:
WITNESSED PRESENCES IN EMERGENT CULTURES OF ENGAGEMENT
Workshop: Integrating Culture: Models, Simulations and Applications, TU Delft
The aim of this workshop is to discuss and develop models of culture that will enable policy makers and developers to represent and reason about different, possibly conflicting, social norms and practices arising from different cultures.in conference:

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April 2010:
BLIND SPOTS AND TICKING HEARTS
In the Workshop "The Digital Making of Art And Science", Virtual Knowledge Studio Maastricht, I report on doing in interdisciplinary research between art and science using the content management system AnyMeta, created by Mediamatic Lab. I address changes in metholdology and discuss what goes wrong as well.

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>> Go to website

March 2010:
MY SHARED CLIMATE
With Gerwin de Haan.
My Shared Climate is a concept for a research program that wants to develop agency for individual human beings to influence their spatiotemporal trajectories to improve health and informs policymakers how to act towards sustainable environments. It integrates reseach in a variety of facauties at TU Delft. Further exploration of this concept is ongoing till the fall of 2010.

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March 2010:
LECTURE: WITNESSING IN SUSTAINABLE IMMOBILITY
The ElectroSmog festival is a critique of the worldwide explosion of mobility, and an exploration of the new forms of connectedness with others offered to us by network and communication technologies. With Ronald Ophuis, Debra Solomon, Martijn Warnier and myself, we presented interdisciplinary research on witnessing in merging realities. Reports of presentations (including video) at: http://www.electrosmogfestival.net

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>> Go to website

March 2010:
WITNESSED PRESENCE AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Since the fall of 2008 Caroline Nevejan has been interviewing colleagues and other professionals about how their practice has changed because of technology. Focusing specifically on Witnessed Presence. Also in every interview she addressed the YUTPA framework discussing time, place, action and relations. Over twenty interviews are presented here.
Camera: Leen de Baat
Website: Thomas Quilinan.

>> Go to website

March 2010:
BEING-HERE.NET
Experimental site in development with Mediamatic, in which knowledge/ experience/ work from academia, the professional realm and art, are presented in relation to one another.

>> Go to website

2009:
SUPERVISION OF MASTER THESIS OF STEPAHN TEN KATE
"Trustworthiness within Social networking Sites"
University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics & Business

In this master thesis it is analyzed how people assess others' trustworthiness within the Social Networking sites LinkedIn, Beehive and Hyves.

>> Go to website

June 2009:
MAPPING E-CULTURE
The Virtual platform of the Netherlands, appointed by the Dutch government to facilitate the e-culture sector, published a three fold volume. In the first volume I write an article about the changes that happen because of the rise of the networked society; on how new identities are formed; on how the relationship between professionals and amateurs is changing; on how management in this era needs new guidance and orchestration skills.

>> Download PDF [ English ]
>> Go to website

March 2009:
QUIZ: UTOPIAN PRACTICES
Together with Paul Wouters and Sabine Wildevuur I created a quiz about interdisciplinary collaboration during the conference Utopian Practices, organized by the Waag Society, The Virtual Knowledge Studio(KNAW) and the Arts and Genomics Centre of the Univeristy of Leiden. Between a scientist, a designer and an artist one had to choose the one answer all could agree with. This provoked passionate debates.

>> See Slideshow online

December 2008:
SAMIZDAT IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL JUNGLE
The Centre for Culture, Media and Governance at Jamia Millia Islamia, university in Delhi (http://www.jmi.nic.in/ccmg/index.html), organized a seminar on media governance just after the Internet Governance Forum had taken place in Hyderabad in december 2008. Dynamics of media governance. In my presentation I argue that audiences (human beings, who are citizens, consumers and producers) develop SAMIZDAT COMPETENCES to be able to understand their environment to be able to express themselves and move towards their own well-being and survival.

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November 2008:
ASCRIBING AND INSCRIBING PRESENCE: INTERTEXTUALITY IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
In this article Erst Thoutenhoofd argues that my work establishes a shift from ecological psychology to ecological sociology of mediated presence.

>> Erst Thoutenhoofd
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October 2008:
CAN YOU SEE WHAT I KNOW
In Keho, the presence magazine that is published on the Internet, I wrote a report about the CYSWIK workshop. When creating and orchestrating mediated presence, it is mostly the visualization of data that is experienced. In these visualizations certain interests are magni�ed, while others are put in the background. Moreover, visualization often excludes the representation of uncertainties and ambiguities while failure by design is a vital dynamic of many processes. Taking the perspective that knowledge production evolves in social interaction, presence technologies face the challenge of facilitating expressions and exchanges of many kinds of pleasant and unpleasant knowledge produced by people: cognitive, emotional, physical, social and tacit.

>> Download [ PDF ]

October 2008:
DAGEN OP DE SNELWEG: DE STUDENT ALS TOERIST
Column for SURFspace, which is part of the ICT organization of all universities of the Netherlands. I write about how we can be somewhere else while we do not come from elsewhere. As a tourist, on holiday and also on the Internet we seem to be in places where we actually do not connect with local reality and therefore not with our own reality. I question the way we can meet people when being somewhere else, and not coming from elsewhere. No adaptation other than to the offered imagination, is possible. The required adaptation for being able to meet each other is not taking place.

>> Read online [ Nederlands ]

September 2008:
CISWIK@PICNIC
With the Virtual Knowledge Studio, part of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of the Netherlands, I developed the workshop Can You See What I Know (CYSWIK), which was taking place at the Amsterdam cross media event PicNic (CYSWIK@PICNIC). We found out that when focusing on knowledge production there are two dimensions crucial: between experiencing and producing knowledge in the personal and/or the collective sphere; between knowledge appreciated in an instrumental way and appreciated as a value in itself. Also it was realized during this workshop that where science creates technology, also technology creates science by now. This has impact on how the humanities and social sciences can and will conduct research. Visualizing knowledge appears to be a deep part of the creation of knowledge.

>> http://cyswik.blogspot.com [ English ]
>> http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/22293/en [ English ]

June 2008:
KIND VAN DE REKENING
Column for SURFspace, which is part of the ICT organization of all universities of the Netherlands. Inspired by the artwork 'Slace City" by atelier van Lieshout (http://www.ateliervanlieshout.com). I write about how effeciency determines the agenda of innovation.

>> Read online [ Nederlands ]

May 2008:
DE VITALE ROL VAN KUNST ROL VAN KUNST EN DESIGN IN DE TOEKOMENDE TIJD
In "Crossover, Kunst, Media en Technologie in Vlaanderen"
Ed. Liesbeth Huybrechts, Lannoo Campus & Instituut voor beeldende, audiovisuele en mediakunst (Gent, Belgium)

In the chapter I wrote for this book, I argue that when shaping the future, design contributes knowledge of interdisciplinary collaboration and art is a realm in which fundamental research is taking place.

Cross Over won the Plantin- Moretusprijs 2009. This prize is given to the best designed book of the year in Belgium.

>> Read online [ Nederlands ]

Spring 2008:
KEHO: ISSUE 3, BODY EDITION
Keho is the magazine of the Presence community. On page 38 I make a statement about the vital value of research into Presence Design since we are facing climate change.

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March 2008:
CHALLENGING THE DIGITAL IMPERTATIVE
Inaugural lecture Professor by Dr. Sally Wyatt
http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/staff/sally-wyatt

With professor Wyatt and visual artist Mecky van den Brink I developed the concept for the artwork to visually translate the inaugural lecture of Professor Wyatt.

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March 2008:
SCHERPTEDIEPTE
Column for SURFspace, which is part of the ICT organization of all universities of the Netherlands. Inspired by an experimental 4K visual projection, I reflect upon the limits and possibilities of the perception of depth and sharpness by our eyes and brains.

>> Read online [ Nederlands ]

March 2008:
MEDIA LAB ENSCHEDE
Lecture about working and directing a medialab.

>> Read online [ English ]

December 2007:
THE POLITICS OF PRESENCE RESEARCH
Nettime interview with Caroline Nevejan
By Geert Lovink

Nettime is a collection of mailing lists that exists for over ten years and explores net-art and net-theory.
nettime.org

>> Read online [English]

1995 - 2007:
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE OF PERFORMING ARTS LABS (UK)
Performing Arts Labs (PAL) is a foundation in London which organizes 'labs' of 10 days in which high profiled artists are invited to create new work. Labs were funded by the Arts Council, Sony, BBC, NESTA, the National Qualifications Authority and more. PAL functions as a catalyst in the cultural landscape of the UK. Since 1994 the creation of new work, which is facilitated by new media and digital technology, has been high on the agenda. Caroline Nevejan has been involved as 'Labdirector' and expert in multimedia labs, Learning Labs, broadband labs, BBC lab, New literature lab, Chaos Lab and facilitated research about an overall understanding of the work carried out.

>> http://www.pallabs.org

November 2007:
VISUAL RESEARCH ON CURRENT UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE
'Learning' needs and finds itself environments: formal and informal, some of them are designed and some of them have emerged.

With Hogeschool of Amsterdam and Kohn, Peterson & Fox (UK) and Performing Arts Labs.

>> Read online [English]

October 2007:
THE NEW BALANCING ACT
Presentation at the international conference 'Press and Press Support in a Digital Age'.
On behalf of the Dutch Council for Culture and the Arts.

>> Read online [English]
>> Download PDF [ English ]

September 2007:
WEG VAN DE HYPE
Interview with Caroline Nevejan in Spui,
alumni magazine University of Amsterdam
Written by Marion Rhoen, photography by Jeroen Oerlemans

>> Read online [Nederlands]

June 2007:
AT SEA
A continuous trade off between presence and trust
In collaboration with Leen de Baat

>> Read online [English]

May 2007:
OVER ONTWERPEN VAN ERVARINGEN
Onderstaand de inleiding van Raadslid Caroline Nevejan, uitgesproken tijdens het debat over 'Cultureel burgerschap' dat de Raad voor Cultuur op 30 mei 2007 in samenwerking met debatcentrum Tumult organiseerde in Utrecht.

Text about designing experience for others.
On behalf of the Dutch Council for Culture and the Arts.

>> Download PDF [30kb, Nederlands]

2007:
ORCHESTRATING (UN)COMMON GROUND
In (UN)COMMON GROUND:
Creative Encounters across Sectors and Disciplines.
Edited by Cathy Brickwood, Bronac Ferran, David Garcia, Tim Putnam.

>> Download PDF [English]

April 2007:
Professor Hans Achterhuis in AMC Magazine on Trust:
Hans Achterhuis, dutch philosopher high reputation, explores the notion of trust in social and political organization. Triggered by the work of Frances Fukuyama, he also elaborates on the notion of 'witnessed presence' as I formulated it in my dissertation.

>> Read online [Nederlands]
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2005-2007:
PRESENCE AND THE DESIGN OF TRUST
Powerpoint presentation of the issues and concepts formulated in my dissertation.

>> View presentation [ English ]

April 2005:
LIVING MATRIX
In the spring of 2005 I was invited to lecture at the London School of Economics in the department of social psychology. I presented myself as a 'living matrix', in which the students could browse. The presentation, included proceedings, drawings and pictures is online at the site of the LSE.

>> View LSE website [ English ]
>> View Matrix [ English ]

December 2003:
INNOVATION IN INDIA
Travel report by Caroline Nevejan
The wave of ICT innovation, that started in the United States of America in the eighties, hitting Japan and Europe rather soon in the nineties, has found new territory to flood. India and China are preparing themselves to surf the waves, so many people and magazines tell us...

>> Download PDF [467kB, English]

September 2002:
SCORE
This site is developed for the University for Professional Education of Amsterdam. It aims to inform both students and teachers/lecturers how to prepare for assements. In collaboration with over 150 teachers/lecturers this site was developed to give an overview of the 12 kinds of assesments that were used at this university in 2002. Teachers/lecturers find background material to how to develop specific assesments. Students find tips and tricks how to pass such exams. Assumption in the development of this site is that assesments provide an important moment in the learning process for both for students and teachers/lecturers. Therefore transparency in this process will benefit the quality of the overall experience of the people involved.

>> Go to Score website [English]

September 2001:
ORO
In 2001 I became director of educational research and development for the University of Professional education of Amsterdam (Hogeschool van Amsterdam). Together wih colleagues we created several sites around important themes for teachers, lecturers and students: on innovations in learning and education, on designing curricula, on doing research, on refelection and the above site on assesments.

>> Go to OrO/OrO website [Nederlands]

January 2001:
OrO/OrO
Teacherslab
To develop a shared understanding between teachers and professors of the University and Hogeschool of Amsterdam we organized a three day conference which included lectures as well as hands on workshops in which stories about learning and teaching were gathered. I conceptualized and organized the conference in close collaboration with John Thackara (Doors of Perception) and Willem Velthoven (Mediamatic), who created the workshops and the specific software that was used. On the here presented extensive site you can find all contributions as well as evaluations and more.

>> Go to OrO/OrO website [Nederlands]

2001:
SYNCROON/ASYNCROON [Nederlands]
In 1999 and 2000 a research process took place at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam with over 200 people involved: students, teachers, professors, managers, the board, marketeers, the ICT department and more. From this process I distilled a conceptual framework for designing and analyzing learning environments. It introduces information and network competences that people have to acquire and that people have to be able to use and understand: to edit, to orchestrate, to reflect, having network-presence, understanding feedback and intercultural communication.

>> Download PDF [1.5mb, Nederlands]

1995:
VITAL INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL SURVIVAL
(There are no u-turns on the information superhighway) [ English ]
Written with Patrice Riemens.
If we should believe the mainstream social theorists, we have now fully entered the Age of Information. In the North, the so-called cold war is over and only one of the protagonist is left standing, its ideology having so ostentatiously triumphed, that even the end of history has been prophecized in some quarters. The "free market" and its concomitant doctrine of "market conformism", is ferreting out the last niches on Earth it did not already occupy. This "New World Order" is not only a universal economic regime, it also strives a total appropriation of discourses: King Dollar rules, while the minds are captivated, and held captive, by its "One Idea System".

>> Read online [English]

1993-1999:
WAAG SOCIETY
Together with Marleen Stikker, I founded in 1994 the Society of Old and New Media in the oldest secular buidling of Amsterdam, the Waag. With partners from business (Rabobank and Weekbladpers), culture (Paradiso en the Balie) and education (Sandberg Institute and Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht/KMT) we were capable of financing a medialab that would work form out the agenbda of the public domain.

Under Waag we won the Design Prize in 1997:
http://www.designprijs.nl/archief/dpr1997/97/juryrapporte.html

>> Read online [English]
>> http://waag.org

1988-1999: PARADISO
For many years I was a member of the programming staff of Paradiso, the musical venue of international reputation in the heart of Amsterdam. Making 'a program' would include monitoring trends, connecting with stakeholders, conceive of a concept for a show for a night or a conference of several days, find and organize the money to be able to do it, invite guests and prepare with them, publicise and market the event and finally run the show after which post production had to be done. Paradiso has been one of the best working environments I ever met and I still like to be there. In my dissertation I discuss two programs at length.

>> Read online [English]
>> http://paradiso.org