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Pieter van Kemenade ("pike") has worked as freelance engineer/designer for various projects after receiving his B.A. in multimedia at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam in 1995. During that period, he developed skills in various programming and markuplanguages. From 2000-2003, he was employed as archive and webdeveloper at V2_ Organisation in Rotterdam, where he started focusing on Semantic Web development and related issues.

Currently, he is freelancing again, and one of his projects is the technical management of the LabforCulture - this site.

published content

Kirkenes and the borders

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkenes This is an historical map of Kirkenes, taken from the period 1918-1940, when Finland got access to the Barents Sea …

Language that sounds like a song

We visited Zoya a few times on the Russian side of the border that runs between Norway, Finland and Russia. She is one of around 200 people from the indigenous …

The true Arctic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic The true Arctic is actually “subarctic”, based on climate and ecology. The word “Arctic” comes from the Greek word …

Ties of peace

“The national state does not exist,” says my friend from the South, still sharing the sun with me on my staircase. “The national state does not care about you. …

I am a real Lapland artist

Three-Legged Trouser Work (for Keith) - Part 1, Mark Roberts Mark Roberts, an artist and arts mediator from England based in Lapland (Finland), talks …

Mein Kampf

USB - United States of Barents

Click on the image to view the presentation What do people in the Barents Region have in common - other than the notion of living on the periphery? What …

The Catalyst

Download the play This is a play based on an event that took place in a village in the northern border region in September 2006. The event was initiated by the …

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