About
Maarten Brinkerink (1983) 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) Oorlogsmonumenten in Beeld (a location-based iPhone app that enriches war monuments with audiovisual heritage) and Waisda? (a multiple 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, performing at popular Dutch venues like Melkweg, 013 and Tivoli.
In his spare time Maarten is a board member of the Dutch Wikimedia Chapter, where he coordinates collaborations with GLAM-institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). He currently sings and plays guitar in Guaranteed a Lifetime* and plays guitar and synthesizer in Try Acrobatics. He lives in Utrecht.
Contact
contact [at] maartenbrinkerink [dot] net
Photos
Interviews
Warming-up voor OPEN VIDEO – by Vincent Lindeboom, NPOX (October 21, 2010) 
The Networked Vault – by Morgan Currie, Economies of the Commons 2 (July 21, 2010)
Simuze levert muziek aan project grote broer Creative Commons – by Atze de Vrieze, VPRO 3VOOR12 (March 13, 2008) 
Utracks – by Jacinthe Versteeg & Els Dragt, VPRO 3VOOR12/Utrecht (June 21, 2006)
eTonaal wil oren en ogen van de wetenschap openen – by Frits de Jong, Stichting Livre (June 21, 2006)
