Stories in Digital Media

Lübeck is quite close (north of Hamburg).

This is the Homepage, unfortunately in German:

http://vielmehr.org/index.php

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HI, within the Breminale next Thursday and Saturday is the screening of the X-SCREEN short-film initiative lead by Joachim Hofmann at the HfK in the Digital Media program.
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Did you know that Space Invaders drove the Japanese so crazy, that the coins which were used to get a credit to play the arcade ran into a shortage? That it was programmed, designed and engineered by only one guy? Find more interesting facts here.

I would say, together with Pac Man, Tennis for Two (Pong) and Breakout, Space Invaders is one of the most famous and influential Video Games of all time. This month it turns 30 years!

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Just another video clip about the everyday life of a “web guy”? Maybe, but it’s been done great. And of course it’s funny. Check out this short film here.

Stories in Digital Media is 3 months old now and I would thank all contributers for their work, inspiration, critique and encouragement.

There are some plans for the future, including a reworked Layout, a new Logo, some additional functionality (to be discussed) and editorial refinements (cannot be too precise yet).

If you are a reader please comment on anything you ever wanted to comment regarding this very thing here but never found the right place to do this. Write your critique, ideas, wishes, etc. Thanks!

Finally, after some minor updates and refinements the official web site for the previous master project at Hochschule Bremerhaven (a.k.a University of applied sciences Bremerhaven) is ready.

The Audiovisual Compendium of Film Terminology (ACT!) is an outcome of throughout research, compilation and presentation of film language terms that build the grounds of classical film-making. ACT! compendium features six main categories: Photography, Cinematography, Mise-en-scene, Editing, Sound, and style.

It is built as a comprehensive package, which includes state-of-the-art high definition discs (HD DVD and Blu-ray), a standard DVD, a paper-based glossary manual and supplementary disc navigation map for 219 terms.

All are invited to visit this project on: http://act-project.de/

ACT!, Master in Digital Media. Hochschule Bremerhaven 2007/2008.

More than a blog – an institution – we make money not art writes about contemporary art for several years now. Their in-depth research and coverage does not only cover digital but also media art in general from places all over the world (right now they cover China). Be sure to check the blog regularly if you have any interest in contemporary art.

The last few years there was pretty much going on in Digital Street Art (compare Graffiti Research Lab).

Wii Spray is another contribution to this art form. Martin Lihs, student of the Bauhaus Universität Weimar, has chosen to design a digital Spraycan for his Diploma thesis. The picture clearly says it all.

Today the final version of Firefox 3.0 has been released.

The Mozilla guys want to break a world record in most downloaded application within 24 hours. So today is the Download Day (actually, it starts at Tuesday, 7pm and ends at Wednesday, 7pm). Help them break the record by downloading an application most of you would download anyway by clicking on the image below!

This morning a friend of mine asked me the following questions:

What is it, that you are studying?

For what is it for?

What can you do with it after your graduation?

Honestly, I did not really know how to answer these questions efficiently let alone satisfyingly. I mean, of course I have a personal plan, but this is not digital media as a pure thing – as digital media is a mixture of different disciplines and backgrounds. There is not one intended final use case or scenario for what we are studying. There is no job called “Digital Media Guy or Girl”.

Anyhow, I struggled to give at least a small hint about what digital media is and for what it can or could be used for as I simply did not know where to start explaining. Most people just want to get a very short answer. Maybe it would be better to avoid these questions after all or to make up some fake job description.

How do you deal with these kind of encounters?