Stuff that may be relevant for the Digital Media programme in Bremen.
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film is open for remixes, and there should be a version 2.0 released in 2010. The current version can be viewed on opensource-cinema as well.
via fm4.
This technology, aka PatchMatch will be made available in CS5.
Check out this recent rhizome interview with Processing founders Ben Fry and Casey Reas. They talk about the roots, the development since 2001 so far and they let us have a little glimpse for the future.
I don’t remember if I started with Basic or Logo, but I learned a little with both. I hit a wall and I wasn’t motivated to learn more. (I love playing video games on the computer more than writing my own small programs.) (Casey Reas)
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We’re only looking as far into the future as 2.0. We’re planning a 1.5 release before that, which will have two additional components.
The outcomes of the Tiny Sketch competition mentioned in the interview are very nice. The goal was to implement a processing sketch with only 200 characters length.
If you are a EU resident please consider signing this petition against any form of freedom-regulation. All bills to introduce a formal net neutrality which is guaranteed by law were declined to this day and the discussion is still vivid.
(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
This heavily reminds me of Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad demo, as shown in “Doing with Images Makes Symbols (1987)”.
Over the last three years, the MACE project developed concepts, tools and infrastructures to make digital information about architecture more accessible. An integral part of the project was the development of interactive visualizations that allow to search and browse contents about architecture in novel ways.
The workshop »Living with Information: Architecture and Visualization« (October 16 , 2009 at FH Potsdam) will juxtapose experiences and results from the MACE project with thoughts and design approaches from practitioners in the fields of design, architecture and technology. Guided by five central questions, we will explore future trends in information visualization, the relationship of visualization tools and creativity plus issues like information over- and underload.
The workshop will be hosted by Prof. Boris Müller and Moritz Stefaner. Please note that all presentations and discussions will be in english.
PS: I am thinking about going there – anyone else?
Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life 55 years ago after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay.
Describing Turing’s treatment as “horrifying” and “utterly unfair”, Brown said the country owed the brilliant mathematician a huge debt. He was proud, he said, to offer an official apology. “We’re sorry, you deserved so much better,” Brown writes in a statement posted on the No 10 website.