Stories in Digital Media (SIDM) was a blog run by a few students and the professor Frieder Nake, part of the former Digital Media programme in the state of Bremen, Germany. By the end of the first decade of the millennium, the web and digital technology were advancing at an unprecedented pace in the social and artistic sphere. Developments were exciting, and we kept a log of some events and took time to reflect.

What you see here is a rendition of the content as it was back then, in a different, static archival representation. Enjoy this glimpse into a hopeful and exciting past.

Stuff that may be relevant for the Digital Media programme in Bremen.

3 Comments

  1. valderama
    didn't know that site before, but i already like it :) the project "i want you to want me", which is shown on the site, is pretty cool. i just wonder if they don't have problems concerning data-protection if they pull out real content from dating platforms...??
  2. klangeland
    I also just stumbled yesterday across "I want you to want me" - same video, different blog. On the one hand, I think, it is awesome - a simple well designed, semiotically consistent visualization - but on the other hand it is one of these projects that plays with the creativity of the viewer by "just" displaying and sorting externally gathered data. The eye candy effect is so prominent, but its "real" content is hidden. So to speak, a cheap trick. I haven't decided if it is great or shallow. But it made me think a lot. BTW: The site is great.
  3. Frieder Nake
    "The use of a word determines its meaning", is roughly the essence of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Applied here: The term "information aesthetics" has over the last five years gained a totally new reputation. It used to be something strange and alien, in the 1960s. Now it names exciting experiments in digital media. It is the difference that turns computing machines into media events.

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