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Mtricht Update

Mtricht.com will move to Maestricht.net next week

Like mentioned last month Mtricht.com and Maestricht.net will be merged into one platform: Mtricht.com

In recent weeks members of Maestricht.net have probably noticed differences and adaptations to allow the merger. Adjustments are made to both design and language. Check the NL-info and EN-info section at Maestricht.net for explanation of changes and innovations.

During next week the domain names will be changed. As mentioned, we will proceed with the domain Mtricht.com and the Maestricht.net network. The domain Maestricht.net will continue to refer to the homepage of Mtricht.com. The current Mtricht.com website will be available as http://my.Mtricht.com for another couple of weeks.

Membership of Mtricht.com has to be renewed after the switch (sorry for that). Also information you placed on this site that has to be preserved should be moved to the new Mtricht.com manually (sorry for this, too). Membership of Maestricht.net will continue as membership of the new Mtricht.com. Our Facebook and Twitter channels will continue to exist as they do now.

If you created bookmarks / favorites to specific pages, please keep in mind that after the switch these will not work anymore. You must re-create them. The same goes for subscriptions to RSS feeds, which should be re-created.

Hope to see you all back at the new and improved Mtricht.com after the switch next week.

Cheers,


Ron Aardening, publisher Maestricht.net en Mtricht.com

Comments and questions: react at the site or mtricht.com[at]gmail.com
addresses: www.mtricht.com - www.maestricht.net - my.mtricht.com

Maestricht.net and Mtricht.com join together in Mtricht.com

[Dutch text below]

Social networks Maestricht.net and Mtricht.com will be merged into one platform: Mtricht.com in the course of this month. By merging the two networks with increasing overlap, there will be more clarity for users and editors. The pillars of the new network will be the areas of overlap: integration issues, people, Maastricht area, arts and culture.

Maestricht.net was launched in 2008 and emerged from Buurtplein.nl, an initiative of the City of Maastricht and Aardening & Company. Maestricht.net is primarily a social network for neighbourhoods and residents in Maastricht. Several neighbourhood sites are connected to Maestricht.net and make use of this network in addition to the website. The City of Maastricht has its forum hosted by Maestricht.net.
Mtricht.com was launched last year as an International addition to Maestricht.net. The network focuses on the international community in the region of Maastricht (Maastricht area: circle approximately 40 km around Maastricht).

Both networks have similar functionality: members have the opportunity to create profile pages, share photos, start discussions, and create a blog. Also, communication and social media functionality (Web 2.0) is offered. At first look, the network is similar to sites such as Facebook and Hyves, but built around a central theme (Maastricht region and neighbourhoods). However, there are more features for both members and managers.

Planned changes Maestricht.net and Mtricht.com
Unfortunately we cannot seamlessly merge the networks. Part of the membership information and the content (text and images) will get lost. To minimise the lost, we chose to maintain the membership information and content of Maestricht.net as a basis for the new Mtricht.com network.

For current members of Maestricht.net the adjustment means that both account information and content will be retained. However, the design of the site will be updated and the new network will be partly in English.
For members of Mtricht.com the changes mean (unfortunately) they have to create a new account and existing content will get lost. This is but a fraction of the Maestricht.net information, since many activities take place on the Facebook pages of Mtricht.com. The Facebook pages are maintained.

We will keep everyone, members in particular, informed of progress. We do our best to keep the nuisance as limited as possible and certainly would hope to see all members back at the new Mtricht.com after the migration.

Mtricht.com members can start registering for the new network here: maestricht.net. After the merger we will keep the 'old' Mtricht.com (this site) in the air for a while, so members can transfer content and photos themselves.


Sincerely,

Ron Aardening, publisher Maestricht.net and Mtricht.com

Comments and questions: react at the site or mtricht.com[at]gmail.com
addresses: www.mtricht.com - www.maestricht.net


[Dutch] Maestricht.net en Mtricht.com samen verder als Mtricht.com

De sociale netwerken Maestricht.net en Mtricht.com zullen in de loop van deze maand worden samengevoegd tot één platform: Mtricht.com. Door samenvoeging van de twee netwerken, die steeds meer overlap vertonen, ontstaat er meer duidelijkheid voor de gebruikers. Tevens kan de redactie meer aandacht schenken aan beheer en inhoud. Omdat de overlap vooral zit bij de onderwerpen integratie, inwoners, regio, kunst en cultuur, zullen dit de peilers van het nieuwe netwerk worden.

Maestricht.net is in 2008 voortgekomen uit Buurtplein.nl, een initiatief van Gemeente Maastricht en Aardening & Company. Maestricht.net is primair een sociaal netwerk voor buurten en buurtbewoners in Maastricht. Diverse buurtwebsites zijn aangesloten op Maestricht.net en maken gebruik van dit netwerk als aanvulling op de eigen buurtwebsite. Gemeente Maastricht heeft haar forum ondergebracht bij Maestricht.net.
Mtricht.com is afgelopen jaar gelanceerd als Engelstalige variant op Maestricht.net, waarbij de focus ligt op de internationale gemeenschap in de regio Maastricht (Maastricht Area: cirkel van ong. 40 km rondom Maastricht).

Voor beide netwerken geldt dat leden de mogelijkheid hebben om eigen profielpagina's te maken, foto's te plaatsen, discussies te voeren en een weblog bij te houden. Ook worden er tal van communicatie- en sociale media-functionaliteiten (Web 2.0) geboden. In grote lijnen is het netwerk te vergelijken met sites als Facebook en Hyves, maar dan rondom een centraal thema (Regio Maastricht en buurten) en met meer mogelijkheden voor zowel leden als beheerders.

Geplande veranderingen Maestricht.net en Mtricht.com
Helaas kunnen we de netwerken niet geruisloos samenvoegen. Een deel van het ledenbestand en de content (tekst en beeld) zal verloren gaan. We hebben ervoor gekozen om de content en het ledenbestand van Maestricht.net te handhaven als basis voor het nieuwe netwerk dat de naam Mtricht.com krijgt.

Voor de leden van Maestricht.net betekent de aanpassing dat zowel accountgegevens als de eigen informatie bewaard blijft. Wel zal de vormgeving van de site worden aangepast en zal het netwerk deels Engelstalig worden.
Voor leden van Mtricht.com betekent dit (helaas) dat zij opnieuw een account moeten aanmaken en dat bestaande content verloren gaat. Het gaat hierbij echter om een fractie van de informatie in Maestricht.net, aangezien veel activiteiten plaatsvinden op de Facebook pagina's van Mtricht.com. Deze blijven gehandhaafd.

Wij zullen iedereen, leden in het bijzonder, op de hoogte houden van de vorderingen. Wij doen ons best de overlast zo beperkt mogelijk te houden en hopen in ieder geval alle leden na de migratie terug te zien op het nieuwe Mtricht.com.

Mtricht.com leden kunnen nu al registreren op het nieuwe netwerk: maestricht.net. Na de overgang zullen we deze 'oude' Mtricht.com site nog een tijdje in de lucht houden, zodat leden zelf eventueel foto's en conten kunnen overhevelen naar de nieuwe site.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Ron Aardening, uitgever Maestricht.net en Mtricht.com

reacties en vragen: via de site of naar mtricht.com[at]gmail.com
adressen: www.mtricht.com - www.maestricht.net

Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein on View at Museum Ludwig

COLOGNE.- The halftone dots used by Pop maestro Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) are world famous. Taking motifs from the realms of comics and consumerism, Lichtenstein made paintings by piecing together dots and coloured surfaces. But a very different side of his work can be discovered at this exhibition in Museum Ludwig. Around 100 exhibits, chiefly large-scale paintings along with a number of sculptures and drawings, reveal his fascinating explorations of style through the history of art – from Expressionism and Futurism to Bauhaus and Art Deco. Lichtenstein even appropriated works by his artist heroes - Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian and even Dali - and interpreted them in an often ironic and cryptic manner using his own visual language.

Many of his early works are based on historic American paintings, such as by Benjamin West. But he also painted after such models as Picasso, Braque and Klee, who according to his own words he worked into an “expressionist Cubism”.

Indeed, Lichtenstein even continued his takes on Picasso later on, once he had already begun to work with the half-tone dots. In his hands, Picasso’s works became a kind of comic and received a character all of its own. Painting a work that clearly resembled Picasso was, according to Lichtenstein, a liberating act.

With his Perfect and Imperfect Paintings Lichtenstein wanted to create abstract works purely for their own sake. According to him, the idea was to let the line start at some point and then to follow it, thus allowing it to draw all of the shapes in the painting. In his “Perfect Paintings” the line ended at the edge of the canvas, while in the “Imperfect Paintings” the line went beyond the bounds of the canvas; this was in fact a humorous play on the idea of the “shaped canvases”, which were very popular in the 1960s.

Lichtenstein’s large-scale paintings from the series “Brushstrokes” show nothing more than gigantic, stylised, comic-like brushstrokes on canvas. This motif has great significance in the history of art: it is a symbol of painting or indeed art per se, and testifies to Lichtenstein’s reflections on paintings about painting.

Lichtenstein also reworked classic motifs, such as the Laokoon group using stylised brushstrokes, which he sometimes applied to the canvas with stencils and sometimes by hand using expressive gestures. The brush stoke became the dominant motif and superimposed itself on the subject. So once again, his actual theme was painting as such.

Apart from this, Lichtenstein also turned his mind to the classic genres of the still life and the landscape. His strongly simplifying style of painting allowed him to capture his subjects in a kind of cliché. Here again he continued to reference Picasso, as well as Matisse. And he also cited his fellow countrymen who specialised in marine still lifes. For his landscapes he took the background of comic drawings as his basis.

Museum Ludwig has the largest collection of American Pop Art outside of the USA, including numerous works by Lichtenstein. Prior to the exhibition, the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation has managed to acquire another large-scale work from Lichtenstein’s late period. The 2.80 x 1.30 m canvas from 1996 comes from a series of works inspired by Asiatic motifs. During the mid-nineties Roy Lichtenstein took a long look at Chinese and Japanese landscape painting.

After completing the Lichtenstein exhibition it is worth taking a tour round the permanent collection at Museum Ludwig, which presents fascinating cross-connections and comparisons with works by Léger and Picasso and even Kirchner and Dalí.

The exhibition was organised in close co-operation with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. It was shown from January till May in a different form in Milan’s “Triennale di Milano” under the title “Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art”. It was curated by Gianni Mercurio, who has worked with Stephan Diederich for the exhibition at Museum Ludwig.

A documentary film on Roy Lichtenstein will also be shown at the exhibition containing hitherto unreleased material from international archives, as well as excerpts from Michael Blackwood’s film Roy Lichtenstein from 1976 and passages from interviews with Diane Waldman and Martin Friedman.

Meedenken over de toekomst van nieuws?

Hoe ziet de toekomst van nieuws en informatievoorziening eruit?

Deze vraag staat centraal in het project "Designing the Daily Digital", wat door TNO Delft, de Hogeschool Utrecht en de Hogeschool Zuyd gecoördineerd wordt (Voor meer info, zie http://www.dailydigitaldesign.nl).

In een van de activiteiten van dit project wordt gekeken naar nieuwe mogelijkheden voor het aanbieden van achtergrondinformatie met behulp van digitale toepassingen. Momenteel zijn hiervoor een aantal concepten ontwikkeld, welke we graag willen evalueren. De feedback die we hiermee verkrijgen, gaan we gebruiken om de concepten te verbeteren en uiteindelijk te verwerken in een prototype.

We zijn op zoek naar personen die de actualiteit volgen in de leeftijd 18-35 jaar (zowel studenten als medewerkers). De evaluaties zullen de komende periode gedaan worden in de vorm van een interview van maximaal een uur waarbij de verschillende concepten gedemonstreerd worden en naar uw mening hierover gevraagd zal worden. Interviews zullen plaatsvinden op locaties van de Hogeschool Zuyd.

Lijkt het u leuk om mee te denken over het nieuws van de toekomst en zou u ons willen helpen door deel te nemen aan deze evaluatie of wilt u meer informatie, reageer dan op dit item of stuur een mailtje naar s.kruitwagen@hszuyd.nl met uw contactgegevens.

Wij hopen op uw deelname!
Met vriendelijke groet,


Sander Kruitwagen

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Sander Kruitwagen – Jr. Onderzoeker / Designer
lectoraat Infonomie & Nieuwe Media – Hogeschool Zuyd
A: PO Box 634, 6200 AP Maastricht
E: s.kruitwagen@hszuyd.nl
T: +31 (0)6 4398 2168

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