Since Columbia Records hired Alex Steinweiss as the first ever art director in 1938, music has become an industry riddled with variables. Whether album covers featured the artist or a concept, they immediately became a point of judgment for music. When I stopped buying CDs for what I saw on the album covers, I started listening to music based on thumbnails. Regardless of where I went and how I searched,…
The seventh edition of the Amsterdam Light Festival hosts thirty light artworks and installations in the heart of the city. Both locals and tourists can admire the pieces of art, especially made for Amsterdam, from November 29 till January 20 by passing through the canals by boat or simply cycling or walking over the bridges that characterize the capital. The main theme of this year’s festival is “The medium is…
On their first day of class at UvA in 2016, a shared interest brought together two students who seemed otherwise to be total opposites. Adel Al Khozaae, a 21-year-old Communication Science student, and Dan Ungureanu, a 23-year-old European Studies student and a former DJ at the Eastern Connecticut State University WECS-FM, founded UvA Radio, fulfilling a dream the latter had had for many years. On September 5, 2018, the students…
The national rail company Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) has announced it will pay compensation to the survivors and relatives of Jews it transported to concentration camps during the World War II. Salo Muller, who is a former physiotherapist for Ajax football club and whose parents were taken to Westerbork transit camp on NS trains, convinced the company after a threat of legal action. NS has announced that it is setting up…
Last Sunday was the 19th International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the start of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. Even today, many women suffer daily abuse in silence – especially in countries outside of Europe. According to UNWomen, more than a third of women worldwide have been victims of either physical or sexual violence. Hundreds of cases are reported daily and a very small…
Every year the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) hosts an exposition called DocLab, where audiences can explore the medium of documentary in the age of interactive story-telling free of charge. Part of a broad and diverse programme consisting of different virtual and augmented reality experiences, the augmented reality app “Pilgrim”, created by Lauren Hutchinson, lets the audience delve into the experience of pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago. I…
