… this is the so-called blog of Arie Altena. I write about new media, art, internet-culture, media-theory, literature &c. for various magazines and publications. I work as editor/researcher for V2_ in Rotterdam: http://www.v2.nl; I am theory tutor at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen; I am part of the team that organizes the Sonic Acts festival: http://www.sonicacts.co Sometimes I do a translation job (GB-NL and GE-NL).

A sort of archive of my published writing can be found at http://www.xs4all.nl/~ariealt. It is in need of updating.

I studied Literary Theory at the University of Amsterdam and spent 4 years there as a PhD-student, working on American postmodernist literature. I never finished my PhD because at the time (1994) the WWW and HTML were far more exciting, and I became involved with new media and the internet.

I work/worked for Mediamatic, http://www.mediamatic.net for a long time — still feel a strong connection to them.

I also work/worked for Metropolis M, the Dutch magazine for contemporary art, http://www.metropolism.org, I co-organized Sonic Acts X, XI, and XII http://www.sonicacts.com, and also edited three books for Sonic Act.

And much more, of course.

In 2006 I was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, http://www.janvaneyck.nl, where my research on the transformation of writing amongst serious bloggers is part of the Ubiscribe-research: http://www.ubiscribe.net. I am continuing this research.

I live in Amsterdam. I play guitar in Oorbeek, http://www.oorbeek.net.

It goes without saying that on this blog I write about anything that catches my attention. Including blogging. And cycling.

In 2006 I decided to write in (international) English; before that I used my native language, Dutch. Although I feel more at home in Dutch, I continue blogging in English; being under the impression (delusion?) I have a small international audience…

E-mails to ariealt[at]xs4all.nl please.