Walter Jenner

I just want to draw some attention to a course by Frieder Nake , with the title above, which is still looking for some participants. For those who never done a lecture with Frieder Nake, go for it, it is really a pleasure! It takes place on Tuesdays from 14-18:00 in room 3 09.100 at …

The topic is sampling , so how new music is generated with parts from old tracks. The interface are two turntables; one where a timeline of sampling can be browsed by rotation the vinyl; and the other one to explore tracks which contain samples. When playing the vinyl, the old song is played, and when …

since a while the compArt data base of digital art is online. the data base is developed and filled by the compArt group around frieder nake at the university of bremen. the online interface is based on drupal and was designed and implemented by me as a practical part of my master thesis. it's still …

On 22nd till 23rd of January there will be an interesting workshop in berlin . It will take place at the Nordic Embassy and seems to be strongly connected to the Interactive Institute in Sweden. This Interactive Institute runs several branches all over Sweden, for example there is one with focus on Sound in Pitea, …

In October there was a workshop in Potsdam, organized by Boris Müller and Moritz Stefaner, where they invited some interesting people. The video-recordings of the talks are online now: http://vimeo.com/album/153327/ Over the last three years, the MACE project developed concepts, tools and infrastructures to make digital information about architecture more accessible. An integral part of …

Liebe Studierende und Lehrende, an nahezu allen Hochschulen wird kritisch Bilanz gezogen über das Ergebnis der Reformen in den letzten Jahren (Bologna-Prozess). Auch an unserer Universität gibt es Verbesserungsbedarf: bei der Ausstattung und Betreuungssituation sowie in Fragen des Studienaufbaus und der Studienorganisation. Aus diesem Grund möchte das Rektorat mit Studierenden und Lehrenden der Universität in …

The course "Eventual Design: Exploring Another Approach to Making Things That Make Things Happen" from Nathan Felde had to be canceled for personal reasons. the stupid thing is that those people who need this module missed the beginning of other courses which have started already (not me luckily). :( via dm

In RiP: A remix manifesto , Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film is open for remixes, and there should be a version 2.0 released in 2010. The current …

Over the last three years, the MACE project developed concepts, tools and infrastructures to make digital information about architecture more accessible. An integral part of the project was the development of interactive visualizations that allow to search and browse contents about architecture in novel ways. The workshop » Living with Information: Architecture and Visualization « …

On September 3rd - 8th this years AEC festival takes place in Linz. It's a special one, as this year the new building ( see it here ) of the AEC was opened, which increases the available space quite a bit. Also, Linz is European Capital of Culture ( Linz09 ). Reasons enough for me …

On Friday 15th of May the current Master students will proudly present their results of the 1 year lasting Master-Project. This event will last nearly all day and will take place in the Gallery room of the HfK's Music Department at Dechanatstraße. Timetable 09:30 - 10:30 - NoISE - Novel Intelligent Sound Editing (HSB) 10:30 …

latex templates and master these archive from digital media, hagenberg . as i am willing to start working on my master thesis, i tried to find some theses from my old university . within a minute i landed on an online archive supervised by my former teacher rimbert rudisch. and it is super practical . …

Präsentation der Ergebnisse der Lehrveranstaltung CGII am Freitag 27. März, 15-19 Uhr, Auditorium der HfK, Speicher XI Besucher sind sehr willkommen!

i just saw that the schedule of lectures for the upcoming term is online. on the first sight it is not too interesting for me. a lot of lectures are the same (or similar) to what was offered in the last 2 semesters. at least one frieder nake lecture in a module that i still …

ars electronica festival started on 4th of september in linz. this year it comes under the title "A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property." as i don't have the possibility to be there physically, i try to get some impressions from their website and other media reporting about it. For example the radio …

This morning i got a newsletter from openFrameworks announcing an oF lab at ars electronica festival in linz in september. They are looking for 8 participants who would like to be part of the team during the festival. application deadline in on wednesday. more details here: http://www.openframeworks.cc/ars/

there's a collection of works done by the eyebeam lab in NY with oF. very niiiice... openframeworks @ eyebeam from openFrameworks on Vimeo .

you can find a new radiohead music clip on google code right here: http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/ There are also informations about how the video was produced...and the raw data of the 3d scanning! google and radiohead invite the community to play with that data and make remixes of the video.. sounds interesting, doesn't it?

i just discovered how cool our digital media programme is organized. Last semester i visited 6 lectures, 2 at HS-Bremerhaven, 2 at HfK and 2 at Uni-Bremen. After successfully finishing the courses, the respective professors promised me, that they will send the "schein" to the examination office of their university, and from there it will …

I just found the GNU manifesto in the internet (With the open-source browser Firefox, btw). And now I am writing a blog entry about that manifesto with Wordpress , also published under the GPL (GNU General Public License). Open Source Software is everywhere, and it's still growing! Seems like this manifesto written in 1985 really …

a friend of mine created a cool sound installation, called "quite quiet". here is the explaining text: Quite quiet mouth opens, streams through the machine and let perceive yourself else The mouth operates as sound generator apart the remaining voice apparatus. Eyes shut and mouth wide open. An alien sound spectrum is generated, self-perception might …

just found another neat library... called openFrameworks . It was used for instance by the graffiti research lab to create their laser tagging thing . unlike processing its based on c++. hm. don't know what to think about that..: ) on the one hand c++ is great, when talking bout speed, but on the other …

check out this video (done www.tagtool.org) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4yxmy_tagtool-visual-beta-test-iii_creation UPDATE: I want to build this piece of hardware and i'm looking for folks! So if you find this tool interesting drop me a line . And even if you don't want to build it, you might help - i am looking for an broken VHS player or …

There's a new t-shirt shop out there! In the valderama shop you can buy t-shirts designed by me . Nevertheless this shop is open for other young designer and producers who want to sell their stuff . Of course I won't charge anything for it, my benefit is that this shop gets more attractive. So …