Here is a video, and the website.

Installation made by Roland Loesslein.

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

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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Translation of the description …

Nowadays all commercial images are heavily manipulated to achieve a certain level of quality. The “Beauty experiment” investigates the effect of retouching on our perception of aesthetics. If you participate in the “Beauty experiment”, a portrait of you will be professionally shooten, including make-up, hairstyling and clothing. Your best portrait will be digitally improven as well as deteriorated subsequently. All variants of this portraits, inclusive the original will be placed in an online quiz and evaluated by different people. The quiz is completely anonymous and will be online over a short period of time. You get all variations of your images in a printable quality for free afterwards. If you’re interested and fulfill the following criteria, write an email to velly@tzi.de, preferably with a photo of you.

CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPANTS:

tended appeal

european descent

age: 20 to 30

normal to sportive figure

face: no piercings and no tattoos

men: clean-shaven or scruffy

The photo shoot will take place on Saturday 23.01.2010 at the University of Bremen, within the 5th floor of the MZH.
In case of high interest, a second shooting would be possible.

Webby’s Top Web Moments of the decade

cnet’s top downloads of the decade

Top 10 gadgets of the decade

The Top Selling Games of the 2000s

Top 15 Most Influential Games of the 2000s

Top Gaming Innovations of the decade

The Top 10 Internet Memes of the Decade

Please post your list in the comments!
SiDM wishes every reader all the best for the coming year and decade.
Rutscht gut rein!

Bonus:
Washington Post’s Top Moments of the Decade
Intro’s top Pop Songs (German)
Intro’s top Pop Albums (German)
imdb’s best (and worst) movies of the 2000s
101 best music videos of the decade

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 was hosted by Prof. Boris Müller and Moritz Stefaner.

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.

Liebe Kollegen und Kolleginnen, Freunde und Freundinnen,
dear colleages and friends,

I am proud to announce to you the start of the compArt database on digital art.
The database schema which we have worked on for a long time, is gradually filling up with data.
We now believe time has come to make it available on the internet even though we are far from our goal of 98+.
98+ stands for “98% correct with an increasing tendency”.
We know this cannot be verified. But it’s fun to put a quality in the form of a quantity.

These are times of social networks. Therefore we will use them.
compArt has from its start aimed at contributions from artists, critics, curators, researchers, or gallerists.
We are now beginning to actively ask for inputs, corrections, improvements.
We are optimistic to gain such.

The database is only one component of the compArt medium on digital art.
We build various systems on top of the collected data. These systems will establish various interfaces to the data.
They are virtual and actual, in cyberspace and in the Aesthetic Laboratory.

On Thursday, December 10, 2009, we will start the server between 6 and 7 p.m.
We invite our local friends to come and chat with us over a drink (see attached).
We invite all friends in the world to take a look at the current state and send us your critical remarks.

Be advised that we currently restrict our subject area to the time up to 1979.

We wish to live in a more peaceful world.
Frieder Nake
for the team of compArt:
Hermann Cordes, Susan Grabowski, Jörn Ketelsen, Stefan Kreitmayer, Jens-Holger Streck

via the StugA Digital Media mailing list.

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.”

In general Bukowski kept abreast of new innovations that would further his writing. In a letter to John Martin, his Black Sparrow publisher, Bukowski mentioned the availability of a technology (the Internet) that would allow him to send poems instantly. The speed and ease of new technologies amazed, excited, and inspired him. When he first got a fax machine, Bukowski immediately wrote Martin a fax poem. In late 1992, Bruce Kijewski approached Bukowski with the idea of electronic books. Bukowski was intrigued. He wrote back, “Yes, you have a strange project: electronic books. It might be the future as more and more people find that the computer is such a magic thing: time-saver, charmer, energizer.” Bukowski’s open-mindedness in old age is refreshing, when you consider all the aging writers who fall back and rely on the familiar, be it in technologies of writing or actual writing style.

http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukowski-william-burroughs-and-the-computer/