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.

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ORIGINS

April 29, 2008 · Frieder Nake · Art Theory · 3 comments

Nobody really believes anymore that anything in the world could have a definite and precise date when it started. As soon as we define a phenomenon as “new" by giving it a name, and talking about it in particular ways, we discover its pre-cursors. Digital media need digital technology to be what they are. Digital …