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.

Electric sheep

· Andre Hoffmann · in Art
Automatically generated psychedelic animations (called sheep), rendered with quicktime afterwards and distributed through a network of electric sheep users over the net; named after Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids dream of electronic sheep" which later became the movie Blade Runner, btw. Screensaver for Mac, Linux, Windows. Paper: The electric sheep screen-saver: a case study in aesthetic evolution

1 Comment

  1. valderama
    interesting! especially the ratings that are considered by the algorithms for new sheep. that could be called evolution of the aesthetics, maybe..

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