Category Archives: Past Events

Gonzo Photojournalism

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Tim
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We are on a mission to portray an array of various subjectivities and to narrate the spectacle of this festivity through precisely the stand points of these subject positions, including our own. Equipped with a camera and a creative approach we tell the diverse stories of participants of various ages, ethnicities and social strata who [...]

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Arts and censorship

Posted on July 18, 2010 by admin
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As part of the Creating Waves 2 event, we invited the participants to express their reflections on the relationship between art and censorship through figurative arts.

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Avant-garde Messages- The Dadaists are Back

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Sofia Tussis

This collective poem-writing performance connecting art and censure is inspired by the works of the Dadaists and most notably Tristan Tzara and his newspaper collages.
All workshop participants (and even passers-by) were invited to contribute to poems, by “throwing” words into the poem. Some however were also be given authority rights, having [...]

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Gonzo Journalism

Posted on May 29, 2010 by valentin
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Story #1 – Fun Fair Reportage
“WHERE ARE THE MOTHERFUCKING MILFs AT?”, my co-journalist, my co-druggy, co-party, co-crazy shouts. “SSST, we’re undercover.” Deadly look shoots through my zebralined specs. “We’re on a mission, blend in with the crowd bitch.” The crowd- drab, grey, mindless. Good luck trying to blend in when you look like you skipped [...]

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Participatory Editorial

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Conrad

The driving force behind “Creating Waves” was the wish to expand the number of voices that create Maas-media’s message as well as the ears that are receptive to it. In order for the maas-mediamorphosis to take place, we wanted to establish a face to face connection that we deem necessary for the formation of an [...]

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The Manifesto of Participatory Journalism

Posted on May 14, 2010 by valentin

The Manifesto of Participatory Journalism from Maas Media on Vimeo.
Journalism and the role of mass media were in the past two centuries defined by the dichotomy of production and consumption. The publication of the news by an elite few, meant for solitary consumption in living rooms, trains and libraries around the world encouraged a culture [...]

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Food Workshop

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Conrad
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Technology Workshop

Posted on November 14, 2009 by admin

We discussed the issue of technologies in the field of media, how they work and how they can induce change. We came up with some kind of analytical framework to look at media technologies in terms of

Accessibility
Capital Intensive vs. Low-Cost in terms of production, Dependency on Power
Effectiveness
defined in terms of outreach
Time
socio-technological development, in order identify [...]

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Politics & Human Rights Workshop – Fostering Disintegration?

Posted on November 14, 2009 by aranyo.aarjan
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Fostering Disintegration?

“I am not a cultural relativist, in the sense that I believe that our culture is better than a retarded muslim culture”.

Embedded in this statement by Geert Wilders, we find a tendency towards radicalization of the political discourse in Netherlands. A general turn towards a right-wing, conservative political discourse has occurred [...]

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