Announcements & Events

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 …

I just read that the Breakpoint festival, the largest demoscene festival in the world, will be hosted for the last time this year – at least by the old orga team. The organizers would love to be a visitor of such a festival again. And their growing old – no new blood in sight. The …

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, …

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, …

There had been some hard work done to make Processing run on Android. Read some details here or here: android.processing.org

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In October 1969, a student typed 'LO' on a computer - and the internet was born Unless you are 15 years old or younger, you have lived through the dotcom bubble and bust, the birth of Friends Reunited and Craigslist and eBay and Facebook and Twitter, blogging, the browser wars, Google Earth, filesharing controversies, the …

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 « …

Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life 55 years ago after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay. Describing Turing's treatment as "horrifying" and "utterly unfair", Brown said the country owed the brilliant mathematician a …

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 …

The International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) has been taking place in prestigious institutions across the globe since 1988. It is organised under the auspices of the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA Foundation), an international non-profit organisation that promotes the relationship between arts, science and digital technologies. Projects and papers for presentation at the ISEA2010 …

[caption id="attachment_368" align="aligncenter" width="268" caption="Art and Electronic Media"] [/caption] After last year's Mark Amerika workshop, there will be another compart workshop – this year with art historian Edward Shanken . It will happen from the 13th until the 17th of July at the OAS @ Linzer Straße in Bremen. Shanken recently published a comprehensive book …

Online Exhibition of artistic Famicon (japanese NES) game cartridges.

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 …

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

April 18th, 2009 @ Caligari Theater in Wiesbaden We will explore new approaches that are being developed to confront the flood of information and transform it into useful knowledge Speakers will be Aaron Koblin (made that Radiohead music video), Sebastian Oschatz from MESO and others. Tickets for students are 40€. Drop me a line if …

[caption id="attachment_248" align="aligncenter" width="400"] [/caption] January 28th – February 1st 2009 (Wed–Sun) at the House of World Cultures Berlin Looking beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of environmental catastrophe prevalent in the global warming debate, transmediale.09 shifts the focus of this challenge to the broader cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the collapse of the northern …

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: …

The Ringvorlesung at the Haus der Wissenschaft will go on with Andreas Breiter's contribution on 19th November at 5pm: Educational Information Systems “Bringing Order into Chaos?” The next lectures will be announced here as well.

Yesterday a bunch of fresh bachelor students were introduced at the HfK. Only four Master students for the HfK already arrived at that time. How were things going at the other schools? And if by any chance a new study got lost and found this page: welcome again!

Held by Nicolas Born. 7th of October 2008. 5.30pm in the HfK room 3 09.100.

Held by Sebastian Hübschmann and Christian Schwarz. Under supervision of Nüri Övüc and Roland Kerstein. Monday, 29th of September, 14:00. Room 3.09.100

forward: Invitation Start of term welcome address in the Digital Media study program on Tuesday October 7th, 2008 in room 3-09-06 at Speicher XI University of the Arts (HFK) Bremen: 3 p.m. welcome address/general information 4 p.m. market place (teaching staff will answer students questions) After the welcome address and general information the new associate …

Computer Games and Interactive Installations This course is about designing, programming and building playable interactive installations. Beside technical aspects, questions of play, interaction and art will be discussed. We will go to several exhibitions, try out examples, work collaboratively in small groups for a weekend in a workshop and visit the Transmediale in Berlin. Daniel …

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 …

I recently visited eyebeam in New York. eyebeam became known to this blog before . Unfortunately there was no exhibition at the time I have been there. But be sure to check out their schedule .

Maybe some of you remember the lecture " Achieving Your Childhood Dreams " from last year by Randy Pausch. It was his very last lecture and he knew it. He was diagnosed with cancer and his doctors said that he only would have had a couple of months with good health left. Randy Pausch died …

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/

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 & …

Lübeck is quite close (north of Hamburg). This is the Homepage, unfortunately in German: http:// vielmehr .org/index. php Mensch & Computer 2008 DeLFI 2008 Cognitive Design 2008 Usability Professionals 2008 Interdisziplinäre Fachtagungen vom 7. bis 10. September 2008 auf dem Campus der Universität und der Fachhochschule in der Hansestadt Lübeck I do not know, if …

Stories in Digital Media is 3 months old now and I would thank all contributers for their work, inspiration, critique and encouragement. There are some plans for the future, including a reworked Layout, a new Logo, some additional functionality (to be discussed) and editorial refinements (cannot be too precise yet). If you are a reader …

Today the final version of Firefox 3.0 has been released. The Mozilla guys want to break a world record in most downloaded application within 24 hours. So today is the Download Day (actually, it starts at Tuesday, 7pm and ends at Wednesday, 7pm). Help them break the record by downloading an application most of you …

...for the German and political interested readers a short announcement:

The first lecture of this series was Frieder's talk The Machinic & the Semiotic . The next ones all take place in the Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße, at 5pm. 14 May Rainer Malaka, University of Bremen: "Intelligent Interaction" 4 June Roland Kerstein, HfK Bremen: "A lot of AV" 18 June Jörn Loviscach, Hochschule Bremen: "Graphical …

Two Principles of digital media. Talk by Frieder Nake on April 30, 5pm at the Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße, Bremen.

If you are sitting in the Marum, Room 2070, it is the 25th April of 2008 and the time is something between 9:30 and 15:30, you don't need to know that the Master Project Presentations of 07/08 will take place. If Marion does not forget it and she really will throw this on the wall …

Bremen based artist Zach with Plotter Drawings. 22 April to 15 June 2008 at the Kunsthalle Bremen.

Identitycamp Bremen will be the first Barcamp in Germany that focuses on identity 2.0, single-sign-on, reputation management, relationship management, privacy 2.0 and related issues. Please add further ideas below. Barcamps are bottom-up conferences, where the themes and sessions are set by the participants themselves. Everybody can participate and thereby take part in shaping the camp. …

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Dear fellows & friends, Welcome to Stories in Digital Media . SiDM is a fresh new blog for all you Digital Media students in Bremen and Bremerhaven. It is a blog for you , made by you. This blog should be about Digital Media in General (meaning: theory, design, art and technology) and the programme …