Nick Koning

NIMk

nick.koning — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:36:57 +0000

Extensive website for the Netherlands Media Art Institute or Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst.

Media Art Platform

nick.koning — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:39:19 +0000

The Media Art Platform (MAP) is a social networking website for media art professionals and enthusiasts: for artists, developers, technicians, curators, researchers, lecturers, students and for anyone who is generally interested in media art.

click here to view the site

Metro

nick.koning — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:39:08 +0000

Scripting for the interior of an Amsterdam Metro. All of this in collaboration with Daphne Heemskerk, Olivier Otten, Dave Vriens and others.

click here to view the project.

Paturain Game

nick.koning — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:31:33 +0000

I made a 3D flashgame for Paturain together with Subpix (Mopix & Subpost) together . You can play it at the Paturain site, and even win a Citroen 2CV! click here to play

Portscapes

nick.koning — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:41:26 +0000

website for portscapes: a series of art projects in 2009 alongside the construction of maasvlakte 2.

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Stadshavens Rotterdam

nick.koning — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:45:00 +0000

Website for Stadshavens Rotterdam.

click here to view the site

NAi

nick.koning — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:39:41 +0000

Application for the exhibition ‘Maak ons Land’. the application makes it possible to stream video from a server to touch-screen based clients in a local network. The app is programmed using the AIR-framework.

uploadCity

nick.koning — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:41:52 +0000

Uploadcity is a website and exhibition made for the Biannual in Venice 2008 called Out there: Architecture beyond building.

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AKV | St.Joost

nick.koning — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:43:30 +0000

Website for the AKV | St.Joost art academy. One of the nice features on this site is that it allows all student to create and manage an online portfolio.

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speakout

nick.koning — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:49:03 +0000

website for the Speakout project called Where Do We Go From Here. this project was initiated by the Wite de With museum for contemporary art.

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CAS Zuidas

nick.koning — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:16:20 +0000

Website for Contemporary Art Screen Zuidas in Amsterdam. CAS Zuidas is a large screen in public space on which video-art will be shown for the next couple of years. The site consists of a front-end in combination with a custom made back-end. Most 0f it is programmed in php with some ajax functionalities. Visual design for the site was done by Katja van Stiphout.

click here to visit the site.

Interaction Design

nick.koning — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:27:01 +0000

For some years now I have been working part-time as a teacher interaction design at the St.Joost art academy in Breda. Together with Rene Bosma I am responsible for setting up the course and the curriculum. Courses I have given include interactive story-telling and locative media, mapping, visual design for the web, physical computing and technology & society.

Vrede van Utrecht

nick.koning — Sun, 13 May 2007 10:59:12 +0000

A major project I’ve been working on for the a couple of months is the Vrede van Utrecht site. The Vrede van Utrecht is a cultural institution which organizes art festivals around the theme of war & peace in run-up to the celebration of the historical Treaty of Utrecht in 2013. The visual design was done by the Utrecht based design company Die Twee. Actually it’s not a site but a cluster of sites linked together in a portal structure. Amongst others the cluster includes the sites: Community-art, Wij Zijn 17, Art in War and Kunst van Verzoening. The technical base of the cluster is a wordpress μ installation which functionalities were modified by series of custom plug-ins that I wrote. To me, this site signifies a new approach to web-design that utilizes aspects of the web 2.0 phenomenon in terms of both usability and scalability.

Click here to visit the portal

Institute of Network Cultures

nick.koning — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:00:56 +0000

The Institute of Networkcultures is an Amsterdam based media research institute affiliated with the ‘Hogeschool van Amsterdam’ and headed by Sabine Niederer and Geert Lovink. Not a single site, but a whole series of site clustered in a portal structure. The back-end for the cluster is my very own content management system Royale Deluxe (version 2). Apart from the general sites and the portal sites build for the institute include: C’lick me (together with Graig Kernow), New Networktheory (together with Leon & Loes), MyCreativity (together with Hendrik-Jan Grievink), Urban Screens, The Art & Politics of Netporn (together with Francien Frommé) and Incommunicado (together with Graig Kernow).

Click here to go to the portal

Visual design for graphic designers

nick.koning — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:17:39 +0000

Designing for the web truely is something completely different than designing for print. The importance of a good visual design should never be underestimated, but the days in which sites were simple and a graphic designer could safely venture him or her self into the field of web-design have come and gone. The visuals and interface of a website are now just the tip of the iceberg of larger technical systems. A good understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the techniques underlying a specific site and those available to the web are paramount in creating solid sites. You can only imagine my joy when I was asked to give a course in visual design for 2nd year graphic design students at the St.Joost art academy in Breda.

Witte de With, center for contemporary art

nick.koning — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:53:50 +0000

It turned out to be a long project, but the result made the hard work worthwhile. Together with wijbrand stet I designed the front-end of this rather extensive website. The back-end was programmed by Petra Dreiskämper. A lot of usefull input was given by Ariadne Urlus, responsible for the website over at Witte de With. One of the main features of the site is a dynamically generated menu for related content which ties together the information in the database. A database which holds all of the projects of the Witte de With center for contemporary art in the last 10 years. Recently the Website underwent an thorough update. The original ‘rhizome’-esque interface of the front page was traded for a more standard list view and many small improvements where made to the agenda, particpants-page and project-page.

click here to view the site

Locative media and Interactive Story-telling

nick.koning — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:15:03 +0000

Traditionally a story is told in time. But what happens if a story in told in space? Locative media – media that is aware of it’s location – makes it possible to do so. The minor ‘Locative media and interactive story-telling’ given at the AKV St.Joost art acedemy in Breda, allowed students to explore to possibilities of GPS-devices, mobile phones, Google Earth, etc. Not only at a technological level, but also at a conceptually. Guest teacher for this 7 week course was Information lab’s Auke Touwslager.

Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur

nick.koning — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:07:54 +0000

This site was done in collaboration with Leon & Loes who were responsible for the visual design and the concept. The ‘petri dish’ on the top of the page is a visualization of the data in the database and the usage of the site. Several aspects can be ‘read’ from the appearance and behavior of the ‘organism’. For instance: If an article is added to a specific section of the site the corresponding ‘organism’ will move more quickly for several days. If a section of the site is not updated for a longer period of time, the corresponding ‘organism’ wil slowly fade away. In a later stage my mailing system ‘mailbooster galore’ was also added to this site.

Click here to view the site and see the ‘petri dish’ in action.

Stereo Online Sketchbooks

nick.koning — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:19:26 +0000

The Stereo is an indepent art publication which experiments with the process of magazine making. In collaboration with Arjen de Jong and the rest of the stereo crew I’ve made two sites which where used for publications #3 and #5. The sites can be seen as online sketchbooks which assists the collaboration of the artists on a publication and makes the process of collaboration insightfull to both the artists and the audience.

Click here for Stereo Online Sketchbook v1 and here for Stereo Online Sketchbook v2.

Strootman Landschapsarchitecten

nick.koning — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:12:01 +0000

A flash based site for Strootman landschapsarchitecten in Amsterdam. This site won me the 3rd prize for best architecture site in 2006.

”Out of a total of 135 architecture sites, the Strootman Landschapsarchitecten site was given the third prize in the competition for best architecture site 2006. The jury praised the site for it’s classical and elegant design.” click here to read the full review.

Click here to visit the site.

Funda Prototype

nick.koning — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:02:47 +0000

As a part of larger design team I assisted in the development of a re-design of a section of the Funda housing site. The project ran for about a month at the Funda HQ in Amsterdam. Interaction design for the prototype was done by Amsterdam based usability experts User Intelligence. My work focused on the implementation of the wireframes / visual designs in a HTML and Javascript framework.

Inter Access Job portal & I-opener

nick.koning — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:29:53 +0000

Two flash/actionscript projects done for Metro in Rotterdam. The job-portal is a place where visitor can search for job-openings in the IT-sector. The I-opener is a test visitors of the job-portal can take to assess their role in a group. In both cases my work focused on the implementation of the designs in actionscript.

Click here to visit the job-portal.

Philips Media Tablet

nick.koning — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:10:06 +0000

This project, done for Philips Design in Eindhoven in early 2006, was part of a larger project called Lifestyle Home. It is an exploration of the possibilities of home consumer electronics in a connected enviornment. My work focused on the development of a demo for a digital domestic scrapbook called the media tablet. The demo was done in actionscript.

Click here to download the brochure. The media tablet can be found on page 20 and 21 of the .pdf.

CMS Royale deLuxe & Formbuilder extreme 3000

nick.koning — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:22:45 +0000

What’s in a name? CMS Royale deLuxe is a content management system that I’ve build in 2005 and that was used for many of the sites that I’ve made. The general idea behind it was to create a customizable framework that would allow me to recycle code and quickly build sites. Apart from enabling users to manage the content it also allows users to create the structure of the site in terms of subsites, pages and items. This turned out to be one a very useful strength. But, as we all know, the web is very dynamic and – sad as it may be – the CMS has become somewhat obsolete.

The Formbuilder Extreme 3000 is an application to build HTML-forms. Building such a form is really a tedious job, it takes forever to get everything to work. And even though form are almost the same, it is hard to recycle the code. That’s why I came up with the idea to make the formbuilder. Why not create something that generates the code for an HTML-form?

By the way, the names are an ironic reaction to all those really weird names that are given to content management sytems.

Interaction for Mobile Phones

nick.koning — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 11:16:42 +0000

In this intensive one week workshop Interaction @ the Willem the Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam, students developed a demo for a mobile phone game. I gave this workshop together with Wijbrand Stet.

download the course manual Interaction for Mobile Phones

SpaceTime

nick.koning — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 11:19:37 +0000

Our memory is flawed. We quickly forget most of our experiences. SpaceTime is an attempt at creating a ‘documented life’ by collecting and structuring the data that flows through one of the most intimate devices of our time: the mobile phone. I constructed a system that automatically and continuously captures the data generated by ordinary use of the mobile phone such as audio recordings of calls, sms’s, images, video’s, news headlines, agenda information and the location of the phone in the network. Consequently, this data is uploaded to a database and organized in a framework of space and time coordinates. Thus creating a diary of personal digital traces of everday life.

SpaceTime was my graduation project for the Piet Zwart Institute for post graduate studies and research in june 2004.

Essays

nick.koning — Fri, 07 May 2004 20:21:23 +0000

During my time at the Piet Zwart Institute for post-graduate studies and research I wrote several essays on varying subject. These include: TASC – Towards A Subordinate Computer: an essay about the role of the interface in the relation between the user and technology. Master & Slave – Exploring the ‘Eigensinn’ of the Machinic: text about the ‘quality’ and ‘behavior’ of specific technologies. Media Strategy in Dystopia: an analysis of dystopia’s based on Sci-fi movies. Organization of Memory: about the nature of human and computer memory.

Visions of Impact

nick.koning — Sat, 02 Mar 2002 11:21:13 +0000

Graduation project for the Rotterdam School of Management. Developing scenario's for the impact of mp3 on the music industry.

Darwin

nick.koning — Thu, 04 May 2000 11:20:40 +0000

The first real site I’ve ever build. Way back in the days of Netscape, flash 3 and my top-of-the-line ice-blue powermac running at a whapping 300 Mhz. But I still like it. Darwin is a site with ‘genes’, programmed in such a way to make the site change in appearance every time it is visited. Even when reloading the same page many aspects change. Different colors, different lay-out, and even a different sountrack based on a small database of samples. The site, which I build together with Ritske Rensma, (sorry for the link Ritske, but it was the only web-presence I could find :-) was even nominated for the 3rd International Browser Day held in Paradiso, Amsterdam in 2000.