Ricardo Cedeño Montaña

Lately, SDM has become concern about baroque aesthetics, well I've always found Latin-American literature quite baroque in style and content. When Espen Aarseth was here in Bremen, invited by Frieder, he constantly referred back to Borges and his labyrinths. In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that has …

This Korean animation is in the juried film list at the SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans, take a look. It can be downloaded in HD 720P here http://www.mesai.co.kr/

INC was founded by Geert Lovink , a renown media theorist in social critique of network- and ciber-culture. Lovink's research homes on in the use of media tools and technologies to openly distribute ideas outside of the official channels. He is an internet activist and scholar particularly interested on Tactical Media , as means to …

Hi, some weeks ago I read that Wolfram Research is planning to contend Google's supremacy on Internet. The initiative is reported in The Guardian , and comprises a knowledge search engine based on natural language entries. For that purpose Stephen Wolfram believes his scientific and mathematics engine might give better results in answering normal and …

Hi, this is my comeback part two. Hanging around in Internet I visited Lev Manovich website . Manovich recently published a new book, I guess by now many of you have already put your hands on it and devoured it piece by piece, however to my surprise nobody has posted it here :-). Right now …

Hi, it's been a long time since my last post here. And no! I was not dead neither have I forgotten this blog :-). It was my master thesis you have to blame for my absence. I have to say it was a pleasant time writing my thesis and soon I'll share it, for now …

HI today I got the following email by a digital media mate. Dear all, I am developing prototype of a web-based film terminology glossary, based on the former master project from Hochschule Bremerhaven called ACT! ( www.act-project.de ). In ACT! project, we developed an audiovisual film glossary DVD which visualized film terms in different media: …

HI, currently at the Reina sofia museum there is an interesting exhibition called Máquinas&almas , souls&machines, a very appropriate to name to discuss in our digital media times ;-) . The aim at this exhibition is to explore those blurry areas where art and technology meet and melt, for that purpose they propose us a …

Hi, sometime without sharing something here but currently my thesis work consumes all my time. Machinic language, I arrived to this blog [ Social fiction ] because of my research about machinic and assemblege theories. Social fiction people are involve in study the language in different manifestations. "When our language is passed on to a …

HI, last year I followed The New Yorker Conference , “ Stories from the Near Future ,” and I founded interesting what was discussed there, this year it took place on May 8 and 9, 2008. I recommend taking a look at some of the 22 conferences.

HI, Divided in four halls in August (20 - 24) in Leipzig is the the GC - Games Convention, and it promises to bursts the city. Some hints about the exhibition: Video Games Live GC ART GC ART Special: Space Invaders. From Outer Space GC ART: Machinima GC ART: Digital Beauties GC ART: History & …

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. It is a window to look at the recent video productions done during the last months by the students in the HfK, for some works is the …

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! …

HI, I was looking for something to collaborate here and today I found it, and as my first post I would like to touch a topic usually understood as in the antipode of DM, it is our planet, the nature. Today is the World Environment Day , take a moment to think about it. Here …