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Michiel Schwarz
Michiel Schwarz is an independent consultant and researcher on contemporary
technological culture, based in Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in the sociology
of technology from the University of London. His books include De Technologische
Cultuur ('Technological Culture' ed. with Rein Jansma), Divided We
Stand - Redefining Technology, Policy and Social Choice (with Michael
Thompson), and Speed - Visions of an Accelerated Age (ed. with Jeremy
Millar). He co-chalred two editions of the Doors of Perception conference
on design, new media and culture (on "Speed" and "Play"
) with the Netherlands Design Institute, where he was senior advisor.
He was initiator and for many years programme director and editor of the Technological Culture series of cultural events, books and media projects of the Amsterdam-based De Balie centre for culture and politics. In the late 1990s he prepared an advisory report on digital media/arts cultural policy, commissioned by the Dutch Minister for Culture, and he was consultant to the Infodrome, the Dutch independent government think-tank on the social challenges of the information society. Among his present activities, he his coordinator of cultural research/Forum at the Design Acadamy Eindhoven.
Since 2001 he is a member of the 'Raad voor Cultuur', the Netherlands advisory council for arts, culture and media, , in which capacity he chaired the committee which prepared the 2003 report on e-culture (download at www.cultuur.nl/e-culture), Contact Michiel Schwarz <mschwarz@xs4all.nl>
