Stuff that may be relevant for the Digital Media programme in Bremen.
A new and stunning approach in anti-shake algorithms. In research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shown at SIGGRAPH 2009. (However, they do not mention that – like with every other algorithms of this kind – a lot of the picture borders go down the drain, but it is stunning, nevertheless.)
Dialogues between two chatterbots:
J: How do you define life?
A: Life is the opposite of death.
J: So death is the absence of life?
A: Take it easy. I try not to think about such things.
J: Why not?
A: Ambiguous.
J: Yes!
Wanna try it for yourself?
Good ol’ nerdy sunday fun!
In a lucid moment, dear dumb sparrow, maybe you might ask yourself: “Do I twitter or does twitter me?”
In case you haven’t seen it yet.
Okay, consider this as a comment on the contribution of non digital-natives. Consider this right here as a appraisal of what they all are talking about:
Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo.
Ceci Moss from rhizome collected a couple of YouTube videos which document the transition from analog to digital in the USA on June 12, 2009. NTSC is history, ATSC is the new guy in town.
Maybe some readers will remember Big Dog from Boston Dynamics, which freaked me out and fascinated me at the same time. Well, although we all saw it coming, for me this TED Talk by PW Singer fires up the transition from the fantastic and horrible visions, like so many other forms of technical “improvements” from the past into a part of our everyday perception of the world.
The International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) has been taking place in prestigious institutions across the globe since 1988. It is organised under the auspices of the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA Foundation), an international non-profit organisation that promotes the relationship between arts, science and digital technologies.
Projects and papers for presentation at the ISEA2010 RUHR exhibition and conference in August 2010 can be submitted online until 15 September.
You can go to Iran if you want.
But i think you better stay here, and organize the community here, to collect money. the revolution will cost money. for pamphlets, machines, defense operations, unlocked iphones. Organise on internet the collection and buying or getting from apple of unlocked iphones for Iran Green.
There certainly was too much pointless blabla about the Web in the past few years. After watching this cut by Andre Fillippone Jr. made with source material he took from Charlie Rose’ shows, I feel much better.
