Breakpoint: is this it for good?

February 13th, 2010 by Andre

I just read that the Breakpoint festival, the largest demoscene festival in the world, will be hosted for the last time this year – at least by the old orga team. The organizers would love to be a visitor of such a festival again. And their growing old – no new blood in sight.

The last Breakpoint will happen from April 2nd to 5th in Bingen, Germany.




Mouse Interaction 2.0

February 2nd, 2010 by Andre

Kristian Gohlke and Michael Haltky from the University of Applied
Sciences Bremen presented a set of slick controllers for quick and
easy multipoint interaction with any audio software at TEI Conference
2010 at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA. Seems like the good old
mouse is not quite dead yet.

Read more here.
Full paper here.




The Future of our Joint Study Programme Digital Media

January 30th, 2010 by derjan

Dear fellow students,

currently the future of the joint study programme in digital media is discussed on the administrations side. Currently the degree course is certified and we don´t really need to care about, but this certificate thats proves the quality of the degree course needs to be refreshed. As we all are more or less aware of specific problems within our international, inter-university degree course, these lacks are not unheard and the administration really tries to improve the quality of our studies, the organisation and further aspects which will be taken into account during the process of certification, the so-called “Reakkreditierung”.

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A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) – Caleb Larsen

January 25th, 2010 by Andre

eBay auction item which attempts to sell itself via eBay. If you buy it you can put it in your room, connect it to your internet connection and wait until it tries to sell itself again. Interesting postironic concept.




compArt data base of Digital Art

January 22nd, 2010 by valderama

since a while the compArt data base of digital art is online. the data base is developed and filled by the compArt group around frieder nake at the university of bremen. the online interface is based on drupal and was designed and implemented by me as a practical part of my master thesis.

it’s still unfinished, therefor feedback is even more appreciated as usually :)




Beauty Experiment – Participants for a photoshooting wanted

January 20th, 2010 by derjan

A student needs further participants for his bachelor thesis !

To sum up in short, be part of a professional photo shooting (Saturday, January 23rd) and retrieve portraits for free afterwards!


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Reminder: Global Game Jam 2010 in Bremen January 29th-31st !

January 19th, 2010 by derjan

Global Game Jam is soon ! It´s still possible to register. Some good news: Participation is now free of charge !

For more info visit the site http://dm.tzi.de/en/events/ggj2010/

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The Third & The Seventh

January 8th, 2010 by derjan

This really impressing video on vimeo should be viewed in fullscreen, because …

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

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NetArt 09 retrospective

December 29th, 2009 by Andre

mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com covers some of the NetArt activities which have happened happened in 2009.




The 00s: Lists of official relevance

December 28th, 2009 by Andre

The 00s will end in a few days. I take this opportunity to link to the top lists for this decade.

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