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Profile: Marleen Stikker
The Grande Dame of experimental Internet and new media in the Netherlands. As 'mayor’ of the De Digitale Stad (Digital City) in Amsterdam, Marleen Stikker was the one who, in 1994, developed the first free access portal and virtual community on the Internet. In the same year, she and Caroline Nevejan founded the Waag Society; a media lab that developed creative technological applications for social innovation. Thanks to her 10 Petabytes of energy, she is also a member of the board of Virtueel Platform, Kunsten '92, the Stimuleringsfonds voor Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties, a member of the Amsterdam Telematica Raad and the founder, with Bas Verhart, of PICNIC Cross Media Week in 2006, the international event in the field of creativity, media, technology, entertainment, art and science, which will be held between 24 and 26 September this year.
Company name:
Waag Society
Company founding date:
1994
Place of business:
Amsterdam
Names of founders:
Marleen Stikker and Caroline Nevejan (until 2000)
Ages of founders:
45
About the company:
Waag Society is a platform for creative technology and social innovation. Artists, designers, and hardware and software developers all collaborate in the Waag Society laboratory to develop, among other things, serious games, intelligent materials, real-time collaboration and biological organisms. This results in the creation of innovative projects, such as location-bound games, intelligent cuddly toys and biological displays.
The Waag Society Fab Lab enables designers and architects to develop concepts into prototypes.
The Mediagilde (Media Guild) is Waag Society’s incubator, which offers facilities for creative start-ups in Pakhuis de Zwijger.
In addition, Waag Society also organises debates and events that are broadcast on the KillerTV channel.
Waag Society is co-initiator of PICNIC and the ICT Innovation Platform, Creative Industry.
Current project:
Presenting the transgenic Oranje Fazant by Adam Zaretsky to Prince Alexander. And obviously, PICNIC 08.
Source of inspiration:
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities) by Robert Musil
My big idea:
The Digital City in 1993
Favourite tools:
The screwdriver
Favourite website:
fablab.waag.org
Hobby:
Camping
Best advice I ever received:
I was given a lit-up signboard with the following text by Man Ray when I left De Balie: 'All opinion is transient, only the work of art remains'.
Biggest blunder:
I don’t have an answer to that one right now.
Tips for professional colleagues:
Find the debate.
As an ambassador of Amsterdam, I would...
Make Rop Gonggrijp ambassador.
Company website:
www.waag.org/
Company email address:
Web 2.0:
www.picnicnetwork.org/person/1125/en