A Tour Through Video Conferencing Platforms: an Enter backgrounder
On 17 February, the Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD) hosted the event Archiving the Social at Het Nieuwe Instituut. The evening took Amsterdam's pioneering Digitale Stad (Digital City) project, revisited in the exhibition Designing the Social, as a departure point for discussing the relevance of preserving digital culture. As part of the programme, Florian van Zandwijk took the audience on a tour through a number of video conferencing platforms, tracing the context and inspiration for Het Nieuwe Instituut's own Enter.
7 March 2022
A tour through video conferencing platforms: a backgrounder for Enter.
Florian Van Zandwijk is an artist, researcher and designer, and project lead of Enter, an online platform initiated by Het Nieuwe Instituut that questions the assumptions of Big Tech platforms. Both public research project and conversation piece, Enter combines experimental design and development with critical reflection. The focus is on finding more human-centred ways to present online and hybrid cultural programming, hosting artist residencies, collaborative research projects, online event recordings and small group meetings.