Stories in Digital Media

What? you might ask yourself while thinking of the notion esoteric in combination with programming languages. How can that two fit together?
Read the rest of this entry »

Nobody really believes anymore that anything in the world could have a definite and precise date when it started. As soon as we define a phenomenon as “new” by giving it a name, and talking about it in particular ways, we discover its pre-cursors.

Digital media need digital technology to be what they are. Digital technology is more or less bound to the existence of digital computers. Digital technology is algorithmic technology. That’s a funny technology, as you know: it is more immaterial than it is material. That is to say, digital technology is of semiotic kind.

Once this was discovered in the late 1980s, it dawned upon some of the early contributors to what is often called »computer art« that computer graphics is the field that later spawned digital media. This is so because computer graphics deals with the contradiction of aesthetics and algorithmics.

So digital media had its first phase between 1963 and 1968. Again that year!

Information aesthetics is a fabulous website for information design and visualization. Whenever you need inspiration for visualizing sets of data or complex coherences, static or dynamic, you are very likely to find it here.

How to use RSS

Maybe it is really foolish to tell you here about it – but I think, even though so many of us are studying digital media, only a few of us know how to take advantage of uprising technologies/activities, blogging being just one of them. Here is a short and easy video introduction about how to receive a blog (you like) regularly (approx. 4 minutes).

How to use RSS

So, for all new students reading this blog: Do not just read this blog and many other blogs just once, but regularly. And then do not forget to contribute via comments and posts .

Two Principles of digital media.

Talk by Frieder Nake on April 30, 5pm at the Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße, Bremen.

check out this video (done www.tagtool.org)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4yxmy_tagtool-visual-beta-test-iii_creation

UPDATE:

I want to build this piece of hardware and i’m looking for folks! So if you find this tool interesting drop me a line. And even if you don’t want to build it, you might help – i am looking for an broken VHS player or something similar which can be used as a case. HELP!!

If you are sitting in the Marum, Room 2070, it is the 25th April of 2008 and the time is something between 9:30 and 15:30, you don’t need to know that the Master Project Presentations of 07/08 will take place.
If Marion does not forget it and she really will throw this on the wall with the Projector, SIDM greets all Master Students and wishes everyone good luck, fun, insight and a good time and congratulates all Finalists.

Bremen based artist Zach with Plotter Drawings. 22 April to 15 June 2008 at the Kunsthalle Bremen.

A great sampler of 70s/80s TV intro’s. This might give logo and motion designers some retrospective inspiration:

There’s a new t-shirt shop out there! In the valderama shop you can buy t-shirts designed by me. Nevertheless this shop is open for other young designer and producers who want to sell their stuff. Of course I won’t charge anything for it, my benefit is that this shop gets more attractive. So contact me if you are interested in a cooperation.