Jan Wieferich

Tomorrow at Friday, 22nd of October two events are going to happen. Welcome Digital Media Students ! (Erstsemesterbegrüßung) Digital Media Party ! ( If you need an german translation, you might be wrong here.) Both events are located in the Gallery of the Music´s department of the University of the Arts in the Dechanatsstr. 13-15 …

The annual Digital Media party will take place this year at HFK Music Dep., Dechanatstr., on 22nd of October at 18.00. Marion will post it soon she said on the digital media page but before that she asked to inform as many as possible, so that they can inform the others and so on. So …

Dear Digital Media Students, in the last month we discontinued our activites around this Blog due to several reasons. However, if you might not recognized, our study program is going to celebrate its 10th anniversary with an exhibiton in the Weserburg , Teerhof 20, which will be opened tomorrow the 3rd of July. Everyone is …

Dear fellow students, currently the future of the joint study programme in digital media is discussed on the administrations side. Currently the degree course is certified and we don´t really need to care about, but this certificate thats proves the quality of the degree course needs to be refreshed. As we all are more or …

A student needs further participants for his bachelor thesis ! To sum up in short, be part of a professional photo shooting (Saturday, January 23rd) and retrieve portraits for free afterwards! (full resolution) Translation of the description ... Nowadays all commercial images are heavily manipulated to achieve a certain level of quality. The "Beauty experiment" …

Global Game Jam is soon ! It´s still possible to register. Some good news: Participation is now free of charge ! For more info visit the site http://dm.tzi.de/en/events/ggj2010/ Global Game Jam 2010 in Bremen Do you think you can build a computer game in 48 hours? The GGJ is a global event around the world, …

This really impressing video on vimeo should be viewed in fullscreen, because ... The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo . ... it is fully generated by photorealistic computer graphics ! When I first had a look at it I just thought, okay. Just another DSLR HD movie functionality promotion. But ... …

Just another Ted-talk. This time by Will Wright. The New Statesman describes him in these words : " Will Wright - a legend among gamers, the nerd’s nerd, undisputed king of the simulation. " He developed Sim City , The Sims and finally Spore . In this talk from 2007 he presented Spore as a …

Some nice news for us: We could achieve an increase of the pageviews during the last weeks. And we hope that we could create some news of your, the digital media students, interest. If directly related to the programme or not. The idea behind this blog is to create an inofficial platform from the digital …

Pong Prom from Ed Keeble on Vimeo . I will not comment on this, this will get out of hands. But I have to commit that I´m amused. A little. Or a bit more.

As Andre wrote the list of official relevance for the 00´s, I just stumbeled upon a nice new addition to the digg labs website. Some of you might heard about digg, which is more or less a social bookmarking service. Just another Web 2.0 traffic generating service, promoting non-sense as well as important headlines around …

Interesting TED -talk by Clay Shirkey

On Monday, 14th of december the bachelor student Daniel Weidner will perform two game sessions ( 11:00 and 14:00 ) for evaluation purposes. He´s still looking for volunteers ! A brief summary (in german) is listed on his thesis description, on his website . So, for those iPhone Users... I think that it´s clear and …

The inofficial channel of the international, inter-university study program of Digital Media (B.Sc. / B.A. / M.Sc. / M.A.) in Bremen, Germany. Get involved in our vimeo group: http://vimeo.com/groups/digmed , free to join and to submit your own video contents directly on the degree course, or related contents ! ( after you´re proved by the …

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 …

Bremen will be a spot of the Global Game Jam , January 29-31, 2010. What is that actually ? Have a look at the last years keynote ! Registration is already open, detailled informations on the event in Bremen , organized by the Digital Media Master freshmen are also online. Very easy, just register at …

Open talk on ethics and unmanned war machines by Prof. Dr. Noel Sharkey , Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. University of Sheffield. Tuesday, December 8th. 20:00, Haus der Wissenschaft , located here . Just an announcement for a open scientific talk, related to the topic of ethics in computer science digital media. Might be …

I just stumpled upon Stephan Scholdra´s documentation of his bachelor report which he submitted recently to retrieve his bachelor degree. And I must commit that I´m really impressed so far! Just check the related website connoc.de for an teaser, the thesis download (in german) and even an simulator of the game (adobe flash 10 required) …

The images taken by Roland Kerstin during the Master Retreat weekend in Verden are online ! http://www.wackelfilm.de/MA2009/ Thanks to Toni !

Midtime Presentation of the current Digital Media Master Projects (3rd Semester) Tomorrow ! Friday, Nov. 20th 2009. Start at 12:30 University Bremen, Theatersaal. It´s in the basement of the " Zentralbereich B ". Just search for ZB on the Campusplan presented projects: 12:30 - 13:30 MobileHive (HSB + HS Bhv.) A Context-aware Mobile Learning Game …

Dear DM-Students, we hereby invite you to the plenary meeting of all digital media students. This year's plenary meeting of digital media students will take place on Wednesday 25th of November 2009 at 12:00 s.t. at the University of Bremen, Room MZH 1400. We will elect a new financer, and the official participants of the …

Dear Masters, vote HERE (doodle poll) if you´ld like participate at November 14th OR November 21st. Hello New Masters, For those who doesn't know me, my name is Joatan and I am Digital Media Master student (3rd Semester - HSB), and I would like to promote a touristic walking in Bremen, to present the main …

In half an hour I will enter my car to go to Verden. Or better said the Schullandheim Verdener Brunnen. 50 junior master, 1 senior and 10 lecturers will join (hopefully). So here is the Agenda: Until 11h: Travel to Youth Hostel 11-12h: rooms etc. 12-13h: Lunch 13-13.30h: Agenda 13.30h-15h: Mutual presentation of students (MW) …

Just to make an conclusion of the last days as an junior master, new to the graduate programme. And to the University of Bremen. Groups formed already, but, as in most of the cases, known people stick together. And as I´m a stranger to all of them I try to get in contact to the …

The lectures started at all universities now and the most of the new students arrived in the master programme as well as in the bachelor degree courses. There´ll be the master retreat at Verden on November 6th and as I´m an junior in the master programme I´m really looking forward to it. To give an …

So, the new term has already started. In fact you didn´t recognized - I´m a senior in the undergraduate program, currently writing my thesis. Besides that full-time effort I waste my time with such unimportant stuff as to moderate a group related to our digital media degree course in the evil StasiVZ StudiVZ. It´s quite …

Did you ever ask yourself how to play around with your webcam ? Two years ago I started a small project to track a certain color range within the frames grabbed from my webcam using real-time image processing. So I came across the Open Computer Vision Library for C/C++, in short OpenCV , developed by …

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 …