Stories in Digital Media

Big Dog is freaking me out, with it’s surrealistic natural movements (check out the trousers it has – looks like two small people are desperately stuck inside of it. Point is, that you know there are only those two legs and no corpse. I am shivering.) At the same time one can also give lots of kudos to the developers from an engineering point of view. Look at the lunge it makes when it’s kicked or on slippery ice.

As an accompanying literature I suggest this Telepolis article (sorry, only in German).

January 28th – February 1st 2009 (Wed–Sun) at the House of World Cultures Berlin

Looking beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of environmental catastrophe prevalent in the global warming debate, transmediale.09 shifts the focus of this challenge to the broader cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the collapse of the northern ice barrier reveals. Are we about to reach another historically succinct moment of unavoidable and revolutionary change, a point of no return leading to an unforeseeable global transformation akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago? Will it be a time in which we realise that everything will be different, without knowing how everything will be different?

Early Bird rebates until December 19th.

I am planning to have a trip like in the last time. Contact me (see the authors page) for more info.