Stories in Digital Media

The first lecture of this series was Frieder’s talk The Machinic & the Semiotic. The next ones all take place in the Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße, at 5pm.

14 May
Rainer Malaka, University of Bremen: “Intelligent Interaction”

4 June
Roland Kerstein, HfK Bremen: “A lot of AV”

18 June
Jörn Loviscach, Hochschule Bremen: “Graphical and Tangible User Interfaces for Computer Audio”

9 July
Holger Rada, Hochschule Bremerhaven: “Designing Usable Interfaces for Blu-ray and DVD”

just found another neat library… called openFrameworks. It was used for instance by the graffiti research lab to create their laser tagging thing.

unlike processing its based on c++. hm. don’t know what to think about that..: ) on the one hand c++ is great, when talking bout speed, but on the other hand.. aahm y’know… i always spend too much time on debugging my c++ code. but maybe openFrameworks is the basis of my first longer-lasting c++ relationship.

the pre-release can already be downloaded.

made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo.

Automatically generated psychedelic animations (called sheep), rendered with quicktime afterwards and distributed through a network of electric sheep users over the net; named after Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids dream of electronic sheep” which later became the movie Blade Runner, btw. Screensaver for Mac, Linux, Windows. Paper: The electric sheep screen-saver: a case study in aesthetic evolution

vvvv is a toolkit for realtime video synthesis (Windows only).