Stories in Digital Media

Dear Digital Media Students,

in the last month we discontinued our activites around this Blog due to several reasons. However, if you might not recognized, our study program is going to celebrate its 10th anniversary with an exhibiton in the Weserburg, Teerhof 20, which will be opened tomorrow the 3rd of July. Everyone is invited, its free of charge. So join the grand opening tomorrow at 18:00h !
More infos :http://www.dm4hb.de/

Additionally unpleasent developments cast a shadow on this anniversary. To sum up in short, the future of the study program and its inter-university cooperation between the currently involved universities is more than unclear at the moment. During the last year the Joint Commission on Digital Media put a lot of work on it to renew the accreditation of the study program to ensure its legitimation, to improve the quality of study conditions and the scope of lectures offered. As a result of this process several changes and prerequisites has been designed as a roadmap. Sadly, the rector´s office of the University of Applied Sciences announced that a central prerequisite won´t be fulfilled. This decision puts the future of the whole study program into question !

Due to that reason the students representatives at the University Bremen (StugA Digital Media, stuga-dm@informatik.uni-bremen.de) took the initiative and asks all Digital Media students to a sign a signature list to set a sign for the preservation of our study program and its inter-university cooperation.

Support them to save the study program !

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I just read that the Breakpoint festival, the largest demoscene festival in the world, will be hosted for the last time this year – at least by the old orga team. The organizers would love to be a visitor of such a festival again. And their growing old – no new blood in sight.

The last Breakpoint will happen from April 2nd to 5th in Bingen, Germany.

A student needs further participants for his bachelor thesis !

To sum up in short, be part of a professional photo shooting (Saturday, January 23rd) and retrieve portraits for free afterwards!

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Global Game Jam is soon ! It´s still possible to register. Some good news: Participation is now free of charge !

For more info visit the site http://dm.tzi.de/en/events/ggj2010/

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On 22nd till 23rd of January there will be an interesting workshop in berlin. It will take place at the Nordic Embassy and seems to be strongly connected to the Interactive Institute in Sweden. This Interactive Institute runs several branches all over Sweden, for example there is one with focus on Sound in Pitea, Northern Sweden.

The workshop is free, but you have apply for a place and name a reason why the workshop is interesting for you.

More on http://www.visualvoltageworkshop.de

There had been some hard work done to make Processing run on Android. Read some details here or here:

android.processing.org

On Monday, 14th of december the bachelor student Daniel Weidner will perform two game sessions ( 11:00 and 14:00 ) for evaluation purposes. He´s still looking for volunteers !

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Next thursday, december 10th Frieder Nake and his fellows will start the compArt database on digital art. Due to that reason they invite to a social event, 18:00 the same day, within the third floor, OAS Linzer Str. 9a.

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Bremen will be a spot of the Global Game Jam, January 29-31, 2010.

What is that actually ? Have a look at the last years keynote !

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Open talk on ethics and unmanned war machines by Prof. Dr. Noel Sharkey, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. University of Sheffield.

Tuesday, December 8th. 20:00, Haus der Wissenschaft, located here.

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