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Announcement for a new course

September 16th, 2008 by klangeland

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.

Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath, Bernd Robben
dace@artec.uni-bremen.de |robben@artec.uni-bremen.de

www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~dace/cgii

For students of the Uni and HFK (and HSB and HSBV) in the winterterm 2008/2009.
Accredited for DM Bachelor und Informatik Diplom/Bachelor/Master.

VAK 03-05-H-804.5q, Modul 705-1 / B-306, Kategorie A (6 ECTS)

2+2 hours
Lecture: Mo 10-12 in GW1 C1070 (Uni),
Studio: Do 13-15 in GW2 1212/15 (Uni)


Beginn 27.10.2008 10 Uhr in GW1 C1070 (Uni)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 11:17 by klangeland and is filed under Announcements & Events, Internals, Programme.

8 Responses to “Announcement for a new course”

  1. valderama Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 13:22

    what about the teachers? any experiences with them?

  2. klangeland Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 14:07

    I do know both lecturers. Daniel is a young PhD candidate of Frieder Nake’s. He taught a computer games class last winterterm (with C++ … I can’t remember exactly) which I enjoyed a lot … very practical and hands-on like. And he was at Mark Amerika’s workshop. Bernd Robben is a bit older and a lecturer, also former PhD of Frieder’s, well known for his Media theory class. They will probably come for the HFK introduction I just announced here. There, you can meet them and get a “live” impression. I think, they are both fantastic and knowlegeable guys and it is great, what they are planning to set up. Here is by the way the link for a documentation we did with Bernd Robben after our theory class. Hope this helps a bit.

  3. admin Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 16:09

    And what about this being a Bachelor’s course? I heard that those normally won’t be counted as a Master’s course. In this case it might be a question of negotiation, as Andreas Breiter would say.
    BTW: I plan to organize another trip to the Transmediale, as well, since the other trip was pretty much fun!

  4. klangeland Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 16:26

    Until now it seems like a DM Bachelor course. Maybe there is room for some deals (Daniel is checking it) but normally, in this DM program, no course that was announced for bachelors was then turned into a Master’s course. But a Master’s course is mostly open for Bachelors. But it seems, like the Informatik guys can do both … so maybe there is hope for those Masters desperately seeking credits.

    Anyhow, you always have the possibility to negotiate something called “Independent Study” – actually, in the regulations it says, we are even strongly supported in doing something like this. What it implies is, that you can actually earn credits for nearly anything, that you negotiate beforehand. ;-)

  5. drnn1076 Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 17:43

    Very polite of you adding in parenthesis the names of this other two Universities. In the original announcement they are not even mention.

  6. klangeland Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 18:34

    I would not take this personal. I think the emphasis was put onto the fact that also the “artists” and not just the “scientists” are invited. That is why, I guess, the others are simply not mentioned – but of course also welcome. I know, some of us feel more like a stepchild than others. Not everyone knows about our super 4-university system and especially people who do such a course somehow for the first time for “Digital Media”. That is why, I am promoting news like this … otherwise such information gets lost and no one knows about really “interdisciplinary” endeavors.
    Dr. NN and myself, you both should get back to your thesis instead of moaning … enough distraction and uni bashing for today :-)

  7. valderama Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 8:02

    mmhm. phds of frieder can’t be bad :) so i guess i gonna take that class, if it fits in my schedule. of course, first i have to ask if it is open for a student from hsbv.. ;)

  8. valderama Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 14:39

    this course started today, and here are some facts:

    maybe the most important thing for DM-Master students: it is in german.

    as already announced, visiting exhibitions is part of this course. in particular we are going to kunsthalle, weserburg, edith-russ haus, oldenburg and transmediale, berlin.

    in the schedule, there are sessions on thursday, 13-15h, but those won’t take place every week – the time is used for the exhibitions and also for a workshop-day (Sa 01.11.: 13:00 – 20:00).

    the main work of the course will be an interactive installation, done in random-teams of three.

    techniques and programming languages used are completely open, but C++ with the library SDL under Windows with Visual Studio is “supported” by the the professor.

    personally i will try out openFrameworks

    about credits: bernd robben said, it should be possible via an independent study. (in total not more then 8 ECTS can be done via I.S. in our master, as far as i know. )

    most participants of the course are informatics students from the Uni, so there is still a need of more people with other skills! some guys from hfk wanna join??? please, please, please :)