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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 …

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 …

eBay auction item which attempts to sell itself via eBay. If you buy it you can put it in your room, connect it to your internet connection and wait until it tries to sell itself again. Interesting postironic concept.

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 ... …

mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com covers some of the NetArt activities which have happened happened in 2009.

The 00s will end in a few days. I take this opportunity to link to the top lists for this decade. Webby's Top Web Moments of the decade cnet's top downloads of the decade Top 10 gadgets of the decade The Top Selling Games of the 2000s Top 15 Most Influential Games of the 2000s …

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 …

A lot of work has been done lately in terms of facade projection. This is the next big thing. by playmodes @ Ingravid Festival, Spain Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Ingravid Festival, Figueres 9/2009 [FULL] from Telenoika on Vimeo . via cdm

Check out this recent rhizome interview with Processing founders Ben Fry and Casey Reas. They talk about the roots, the development since 2001 so far and they let us have a little glimpse for the future. I don't remember if I started with Basic or Logo, but I learned a little with both. I hit …

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 …

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 …

Movie props rebuild within a 3D game engine.

More interesting than those here , 9 0 0 0 s flickr set shows some beautiful and interesting Atari VCS cartridge artworks .

In a lucid moment, dear dumb sparrow, maybe you might ask yourself: "Do I twitter or does twitter me?" sk8monkey

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 …

There certainly was too much pointless blabla about the Web in the past few years. After watching this cut by Andre Fillippone Jr . made with source material he took from Charlie Rose' shows, I feel much better.

[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 …

E15:oGFx is a Python API to generate and explore 3D forms originating from 2D animations. (Runs in Leopard only!) It derived from MIT Media Lab's E15 Project .

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo .

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

[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, 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 …

Sound gets processed into video and back, ranging from sonic bursts to melodic melancholy, using joysticks and selfmade controllers to keep it all in line (most of the time). Every SKIF++ performance is improvised, but based on structures that give each set its distinct character.

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 …

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 .

Here you'll find an interesting TV Interview with Video Art Pioneer Nam June Paik . vvork is exclusively blogging a series of interviews with different artists recently.

[caption id="attachment_93" align="aligncenter" width="300"] [/caption] A few years ago, when I dreamed of being a famous designer, one of the first great and inspiring websites I stumpled upon was neave's , an interaction designer from the UK. He had this funny Flash-frame which bended upon touching it with the mouse and wobbled back into its …

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/

Let me channel your attention on a project Mark showed some of us last week. Google Will Eat Itself We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the …

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?

When: Tue 8 July, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Where: ZIMT (Flughafenallee 10), room 122 With respect to still images, the literature is full of wonderful papers concerning the use of Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) techniques to produce painterly effects. But with respect to applying these same concepts to 3D animations, there is much less. Still …

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 …

More than a blog – an institution – we make money not art writes about contemporary art for several years now. Their in-depth research and coverage does not only cover digital but also media art in general from places all over the world (right now they cover China). Be sure to check the blog regularly …

The last few years there was pretty much going on in Digital Street Art (compare Graffiti Research Lab). Wii Spray is another contribution to this art form. Martin Lihs, student of the Bauhaus Universität Weimar, has chosen to design a digital Spraycan for his Diploma thesis. The picture clearly says it all.

2 things come up in our studies very often, which I want to emphasize here today: presentations and learning. PRESENTATIONS: There are two people, I want to introduce you to and whom you should look at and take into consideration whenever you do presentations and visualizations. Their names are Edward Tufte and Garr Reynolds . …

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 …

Automatically generated psychedelic animations (called sheep), rendered with quicktime afterwards and distributed through a network of electric sheep users over the net; named after Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids dream of electronic sheep" which later became the movie Blade Runner, btw. Screensaver for Mac, Linux, Windows. Paper: The electric sheep screen-saver: a case study …

vvvv is a toolkit for realtime video synthesis (Windows only).

What? you might ask yourself while thinking of the notion esoteric in combination with programming languages . How can that two fit together? Well, life is full of contradictions which very well might end up in a dialectic conclusion, as you will see in this example. In the normal case, programming languages claim to be …

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 …

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 …

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

Lyrics & Audio-reactive movie based on Goldfrapp's "Lovely Head". Made with Processing. Flight404

Do you guys know vvork ? It's a great Blog about contemporary art. Many, many gems in there! (It recently celebrated its 2nd Birthday.)