Stuff that may be relevant for the Digital Media programme in Bremen.
Sound gets processed into video and back, ranging from sonic bursts to melodic melancholy, using joysticks and selfmade controllers to keep it all in line (most of the time). Every SKIF++ performance is improvised, but based on structures that give each set its distinct character.
Held by Sebastian Hübschmann and Christian Schwarz.
Under supervision of Nüri Övüc and Roland Kerstein.
Monday, 29th of September, 14:00. Room 3.09.100
Digital Media rocks!
A nice link:
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/dmal
and a nice “workshop” with videos:
Hi, sometime without sharing something here but currently my thesis work consumes all my time.
Machinic language, I arrived to this blog [Social fiction] because of my research about machinic and assemblege theories.
i just saw that the schedule of lectures for the upcoming term is online. on the first sight it is not too interesting for me. a lot of lectures are the same (or similar) to what was offered in the last 2 semesters. at least one frieder nake lecture in a module that i still need is offered (semiotic aspects of media, tuesday, m-102). so i am fine 
at the moment i still miss the descriptions of a lot of lectures, but in the last terms the schedule was updated a few times…
see the current schedule here.
An interesting info-animation, maybe some readers can relate. 
forward: Invitation
Start of term welcome address in the Digital Media study program on Tuesday October 7th, 2008
in room 3-09-06 at Speicher XI University of the Arts (HFK) Bremen:
3 p.m. welcome address/general information
4 p.m. market place (teaching staff will answer students questions)
Computer Games and Interactive Installations
This course is about designing, programming and building playable interactive installations. Beside technical aspects, questions of play, interaction and art will be discussed.
We will go to several exhibitions, try out examples, work collaboratively in small groups for a weekend in a workshop and visit the Transmediale in Berlin.
ars electronica festival started on 4th of september in linz. this year it comes under the title “A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property.”
as i don’t have the possibility to be there physically, i try to get some impressions from their website and other media reporting about it. For example the radio station fm4 broadcasts some specials on-air and also writes some stories on their website.
Did you ever ask yourself how to play around with your webcam ? 
Two years ago I started a small project to track a certain color range within the frames grabbed from my webcam using real-time image processing. So I came across the Open Computer Vision Library for C/C++, in short OpenCV, developed by Intel and published under a BSD License. As an example : The built-in facetracking algorithms are definitly the favorite toys of our Federal Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble.