Stories in Digital Media

The images taken by Roland Kerstin during the Master Retreat weekend in Verden are online ! http://www.wackelfilm.de/MA2009/

Thanks to Toni !

Midtime Presentation of the current Digital Media Master Projects (3rd Semester)

Tomorrow !

Friday, Nov. 20th 2009. Start at 12:30
University Bremen, Theatersaal. It´s in the basement of the “Zentralbereich B“. Just search for ZB on the Campusplan

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Liebe Studierende und Lehrende,

an nahezu allen Hochschulen wird kritisch Bilanz gezogen über das Ergebnis der Reformen in den letzten Jahren (Bologna-Prozess). Auch an unserer Universität gibt es Verbesserungsbedarf: bei der Ausstattung und Betreuungssituation sowie in Fragen des Studienaufbaus und der Studienorganisation.

Aus diesem Grund möchte das Rektorat mit Studierenden und Lehrenden der Universität in einen offenen Dialog über die gegenwärtige Studiensituation und Möglichkeiten zu ihrer Verbesserung eintreten.

Als Auftakt laden wir alle Studierenden und Lehrenden zu einer Diskussionsveranstaltung

am Mittwoch, 25.11.2009 von 10 – 12 Uhr im GW 2 auf der “Kunsttreppe” (B-Trakt GW 2, Eingang vom Boulevard) ein.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Wilfried Müller

The open discussion will be on Wednesday, 25th of November at GW2 – “Kunsttreppe”.

Dear DM-Students,

we hereby invite you to the plenary meeting of all digital media students.

This year’s plenary meeting of digital media students will take place on Wednesday 25th of November 2009 at 12:00 s.t. at the University of Bremen, Room MZH 1400.

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Dear Masters,

vote HERE (doodle poll) if you´ld like participate at November 14th OR November 21st.

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The lectures started at all universities now and the most of the new students arrived in the master programme as well as in the bachelor degree courses.

There´ll be the master retreat at Verden on November 6th and as I´m an junior in the master programme I´m really looking forward to it.

To give an brief overview: There are 5 projects which will start in the next term, mandatory lectures started already and it´s up to us to form our groups in the next weeks, months. Just have look at the projects page on the official programmes website to retrieve an overview.

So, I´m a parcitipant within the upcoming Serious Games : Entertainment Computing project at the university. Recently I stumbled upon this blog called acagamic.com of an Ph.D. Candidate in the research field of Serious Games. His academic presentations are also online on slideshare . Could be also of interest for the parcitipants of the mobile gaming project at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen ?

Might be the right to time to distribute the url of this blog and to have a look if there´ll be a bit more parcitipation in the future to improve the communication between the different projects and institutions? We´ll see.

In October 1969, a student typed ‘LO’ on a computer – and the internet was born

Unless you are 15 years old or younger, you have lived through the dotcom bubble and bust, the birth of Friends Reunited and Craigslist and eBay and Facebook and Twitter, blogging, the browser wars, Google Earth, filesharing controversies, the transformation of the record industry, political campaigning, activism and campaigning, the media, publishing, consumer banking, the pornography industry, travel agencies, dating and retail; and unless you’re a specialist, you’ve probably only been following the most attention-grabbing developments. Here’s one of countless statistics that are liable to induce feelings akin to vertigo: on New Year’s Day 1994 – only yesterday, in other words – there were an estimated 623 websites. In total. On the whole internet. “This isn’t a matter of ego or crowing,” says Steve Crocker, who was present that day at UCLA in 1969, “but there has not been, in the entire history of mankind, anything that has changed so dramatically as computer communications, in terms of the rate of change.”

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.

More information…

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.

More.

On September 3rd – 8th this years AEC festival takes place in Linz. It’s a special one, as this year the new building (see it here) of the AEC was opened, which increases the available space quite a bit. Also, Linz is European Capital of Culture (Linz09). Reasons enough for me to go there (who else is planning to visit it ???).

The programme features…

• - A lot of Exhibitions
  • — CyberArts 2009 @ Offenes Kulturhaus
  • — Showcase of Interface Culture Student Projects
  • — Human Nature Exhibition @ Brucknerhaus
  • — 30 Years Ars Electronica Exhibition History Lounge @ Brucknerhaus
  • — SEE THIS SOUND @ Lentos
  • —Japan Media Art Festival @ Hauptplatz
• - “IMPETUS” Works from the MIT Media Lab
• - An Animation Festival
• - Discussions and round tables

Also nice: The facade of the AEC will be illuminated during the festival by VJ’s hosted by FM4.

Looks like an in really nice programme. The reduced festival ticket costs 85 €.

Find more info on the festival website.