Stuff that was probably relevant for the former Digital Media programme in Bremen.
Computer Games and Interactive Installations
This course is about designing, programming and building playable interactive installations. Beside technical aspects, questions of play, interaction and art will be discussed.
We will go to several exhibitions, try out examples, work collaboratively in small groups for a weekend in a workshop and visit the Transmediale in Berlin.
I´ve got a question at the back of my head since a while.
To sum up shortly, I get rid of the common definition of “media” in the journalistic/advertising way. Web 2.0 is not my playground. Flickr, facebook and all of the other “social” web services might be fun, but every child will abandon it´s favorite toy (Google Chrome) if it gets bored or hurt by it (Privacy Concerns Over Google Chrome’s “Omnibox”), or ?
HI, within the Breminale next Thursday and Saturday is the screening of the X-SCREEN short-film initiative lead by Joachim Hofmann at the HfK in the Digital Media program.
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Finally, after some minor updates and refinements the official web site for the previous master project at Hochschule Bremerhaven (a.k.a University of applied sciences Bremerhaven) is ready.
The Audiovisual Compendium of Film Terminology (ACT!) is an outcome of throughout research, compilation and presentation of film language terms that build the grounds of classical film-making. ACT! compendium features six main categories: Photography, Cinematography, Mise-en-scene, Editing, Sound, and style.
It is built as a comprehensive package, which includes state-of-the-art high definition discs (HD DVD and Blu-ray), a standard DVD, a paper-based glossary manual and supplementary disc navigation map for 219 terms.
All are invited to visit this project on: http://act-project.de/
ACT!, Master in Digital Media. Hochschule Bremerhaven 2007/2008.
I think that I now saw everyone of our age group at the Master Presentations on Friday. Finally! I somehow feel much more connected to the other groups since I know now, what all fellow students are doing.
Here are the four projects in overview:
I liked the presentation of the HSB the best. Because they actually demoed and it was a quite impressive one, regarding the early time of the project.
But what’s your opinion? Which one did you like the best and why? Tell us in the comments.
Digital Media Bremen and Interface Design Potsdam graduate Christian Behrens recently finished his Master thesis at the University of applied sciences in Potsdam. He designed a compendium of dozens of information design patterns, such as treemaps, pie charts, thread arcs, etc. There is an online version available as well as a printed book (which is not yet for sale).
The first lecture of this series was Frieder’s talk The Machinic & the Semiotic. The next ones all take place in the Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße, at 5pm.
14 May
Rainer Malaka, University of Bremen: “Intelligent Interaction”
4 June
Roland Kerstein, HfK Bremen: “A lot of AV”
18 June
Jörn Loviscach, Hochschule Bremen: “Graphical and Tangible User Interfaces for Computer Audio”
9 July
Holger Rada, Hochschule Bremerhaven: “Designing Usable Interfaces for Blu-ray and DVD”
If you are sitting in the Marum, Room 2070, it is the 25th April of 2008 and the time is something between 9:30 and 15:30, you don’t need to know that the Master Project Presentations of 07/08 will take place.
If Marion does not forget it and she really will throw this on the wall with the Projector, SIDM greets all Master Students and wishes everyone good luck, fun, insight and a good time and congratulates all Finalists.
Lyrics & Audio-reactive movie based on Goldfrapp’s “Lovely Head”. Made with Processing.
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