About
Maarten Brinkerink works as a project manager at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D department. He holds an MA in New Media and Digital Culture and specializes in the distribution of cultural content using digital media. He is an open content enthusiast, amateur content producer and musician.
At Sound and Vision Maarten manages innovative projects like Open Images (an open media platform) and Waisda? (an award winning crowdsourcing game for collecting metadata for audiovisual content). Within COMMUNIA – the European thematic network on the Digital Public Domain – he leads the working group on Memory Institutions (museums, libraries and archives).
Before he started working at Sound and Vision Maarten wrote his MA thesis CyberIndie (2007, written in Dutch) about the rise of the digital music culture and how this influences the music industry and creates new opportunities for (independent) musicians. As part of the research for his thesis he co-organized eTonaal (2006), a symposium about the consequences of digitization for music. During his studies at the University of Utrecht Maarten worked as a freelance writer and editor for cut-up and several other (online) magazines reporting about the intersection between new media and culture. He also played in several bands as a lead singer and guitar player and has performed at popular Dutch venues like Melkweg, 013 and Tivoli.
In his spare time Maarten is a board member of the Dutch Open Media Foundation and community lead for its main project, the Dutch open music platform Simuze. He currently sings and plays guitar in Guaranteed a Lifetime* and lives in Utrecht.
Contact
contact [at] maartenbrinkerink [dot] net
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