Marleen Stikker
Director
Waag Society for Old and New Media
Waag
After studying Philosophy she in 1985 founded Alligator, Performance & Art Magazine. She was director of multimedia art festival Zomerfestijn Amsterdam in 1990 and 1991 and organiser of the Wetware Conference (on hardware, software and physical interaction).
In 1993 Marleen Stikker initiated De Digitale Stad/ The Digital City, of which she was director untill 1995 and is currently president of the board. Together with Caroline Nevejan (formerly of Paradiso) in 1994 she founded The Society for Old and New Media.
Marleen Stikker is now director of The Waag Society for Old and New Media, which is a cultural research and development organisation for public technology. The Society develops communication and information systems for use in educational, commercial and cultural processes.
Central to the Society is the notion that technology that is being developed supports the cultural, social and economic growth of the individual.
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