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By Sandra Fauconnier.

It is always very interesting to see how a festival like DEAF07 is perceived -- not only how it is covered in the (inter)national press, but also what "regular" visitors and participants think about what they have seen and experienced.
With the growing popularity of weblogs, YouTube and other "social" websites, it has become much easier for a festival audience to publish their own thoughts, reviews and interpretations; it appears that DEAF07 is extensively covered by bloggers and (amateur) photographers and video makers.

Reviews by webloggers

A nice overview of DEAF07 in various blogs can be found on Technorati - search term DEAF07 . A selection of highlights:

• Audio artist Keir Neuringer makes a very strong point about the "morally impugnant" act of implanting a web server in a dead frog (Experiments with Galvanism, exhibition piece by Garnet Hertz).
• DEAF07 is extensively reviewed at tagr.tv, a collective festival coverage blog.
• Anne Helmond, New Media Master student at the University of Amsterdam, writes about the DEAF07 opening and about UbiScribe: Collocollaboracontentquery?.
• Tineke Pauw, web editor, publishes an email interview with Hans Bernhard about Amazon Noir.
• And Gabrielle Marks, who worked as designer for DEAF03, writes about an assignment for her design students at Willem de Kooning Academie Rotterdam, involving the redesign of the DEAF07 program booklet.

Photos, video and others

Many people have uploaded photographs about the festival to their flickr accounts. A random selection of flickr photos, tagged deaf07, are shown in the right hand column of this website's blog -- if you want your own photographs (on flickr) to appear there, don't forget to add the deaf07 tag.

There is also a nice -- and interesting -- selection of DEAF07 video coverage on YouTube , which mainly documents the exhibition works. Check out all videos tagged with deaf07, and the DEAF07 YouTube group.

Feel free to add a link to your own materials in the comments.