Sep 15, 2022Petervan Studios — New Website — Launch The ScaffoldSeptember 15, 2022 by petervan © 2022 Petervan Artworks — The Scaffold — created with Stable Diffusion Since March 2022, I have focused on the professionalization of my art practice. …Petervan Studios4 min readPetervan Studios4 min read
Sep 8, 2022Sneak preview Petervan StudiosSneak preview of upcoming launch Petervan Studios website — Turn sound “on”Petervan Studios1 min readPetervan Studios1 min readSneak preview Petervan StudiosSneak preview of upcoming launch Petervan Studios website — Turn sound “on”----
Jul 25, 2022Parallel GroovesPicture generated by DALL-E It all started with Vankatesh Rao’s “Future Tables” post last week, with the subtitle “We don’t want future visions, we want future tables”. Venkat introduced the concept of “temporal potential groove”. I added the following comment to his post: “I enjoyed this one very much. You…Interventions5 min readInterventions5 min read
Aug 30, 2021Petervan’s Delicacies — Issue #152As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. About a month since the previous newsletter. There is a shitload of new stuff this month. I tried to be extra disciplined and clean out the obvious, and what you’ve probably already seen elsewhere…12 min read12 min read
Aug 29, 2021Programmable Money and IdentitySince my time at Microsoft (almost 20 years ago!), I have been infected by the digital identity virus. At one moment I was even part of the WEF Personal Identity workgroup. Since then, I followed the identity space in some depth, some years more than others. …Petervan Studios5 min readPetervan Studios5 min read
Aug 2, 2021Phoenix organisations in the financial industry: where are they?August 2, 2021 by petervan It’s FinTech unicorns all over the place these days. But where are the Phoenix organisations in financial services? Keynote speaker and author Peter Hinssen wrote a book “The Phoenix and the Unicorn”, and he is going to interview me about phoenix organizations in the financial…1 min read1 min read
Jun 12, 2021Petervan Studios — Update June 2021 — The Right BalanceHere is the latest update on Petervan Studios. The previous update already goes back to November 2020, that’s more than six months ago, and a lot can happen in half a year. It looks like we are getting out of the COVID woods. At least in Belgium infection and hospitalization…Petervan Studios7 min readPetervan Studios7 min read
Jan 4, 2021Travelling without Moving — PlayThis post is part of a series of essays bundled under “Traveling without moving”. Intro of that series can be found here. The plan/ambition with this series: to share where I have been in 2020, what I learned, where I am going, and what is required. The broader quest is…Play5 min readPlay5 min read
Nov 29, 2020Travelling without Moving — PauseThis post is part of a series of essays bundled under “Travelling without Moving”. Intro of that series can be found here. After the Silence post of last week, we continue with Pause. In “Silence”, I mentioned “Stop the clocks — Manifesto for a Slow Future”, Joke Hermsen’s book about…Petervan Productions4 min readPetervan Productions4 min read
Oct 31, 2020Petervan Studios — Update Nov 2020 — Intervals of PossibilityIt’s almost one year (!) since my previous Dec 2019 update. And what a year it was/still is! I basically stayed home for the whole period and had zero travel since Oct 2019. I am publishing this on the day Belgium is entering its second Covid-19 lockdown. A forced pause-marathon…Petervan Productions7 min readPetervan Productions7 min read
