Tijmen Schep

Bio

Tijmen Schep (1981, NL) is a Dutch mediatheorist who is fascinated by the intertwining of notions of public space and wireless media. He graduated with an MA in Digital Media Design at the Higher School of the Arts (HKU), where he learnt that digital media might become even more powerful when they moved away from our desktops and were embedded 'out there', in our everyday lives. Wireless media seemed to be a primary candidate for colonising this space, with the mobile phone as it's flagbearer.

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A second MA on New Media and Digital Culture received from the University of Utrecht, however, lead to a more nuanced perspective. His thesis, a critical look at Mark Weiser's idea of Ubiquitous Computing, was well received. He now focuses on ideals and myths surrounding wireless technology, trying to balance excitement over the new with the reality of the everyday, a skill that is very necessary of the colonisation is ever to succeed.<o:p></o:p>

This academic balancing act is fed back into society through the NetNiet.org Foundation, of which he is a founding member. This foundation promotes wireless media art in public space. Examples of this work have been the Wireless Festival 2006 in Utrecht, as well as the creation of countless installations, workshops and lectures.<o:p></o:p>

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