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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 …

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" …

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 …

It sure is Duke Nukem Forever , announced in 1997, then awarded with the Intergalactic Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award (I just invented this one, but I am sure, that there is some price invented especially for DNF's case), responsible for a whole bunch of wasted youths (wasted hope, wasted time, wasted money, wasted everything), proof …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It turns out that Charles Bukowski, novelist and poet, famous for reflecting on and out of the american working class, was open to new technologies at least in his later years, if not eager to delve into them. In general Bukowski kept abreast of new innovations that would further his writing. In a letter to …

What will the web do to content, in terms of... high cost, expensive, time consuming content. Now we can see where that comes from.

Smooth Zarathustra of Design Stefan Sagmeister held a brilliant note at TED recently. It's about his sabbaticals and funny and informative. This is the second fantastic video I saw today (actually the third, but the third one does not belong here).

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 …

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 …

If you are a EU resident please consider signing this petition against any form of freedom-regulation. All bills to introduce a formal net neutrality which is guaranteed by law were declined to this day and the discussion is still vivid.

Fifty years ago, Miles Davis legendary Kind of Blue was released. Kind of Bloop is a hommage to the Album in 8-Bit Sound. Before I heard it I was fearing the worst since chiptune remakes tend to add an infantile and unsophisticated timbre (is it just me?), a quality highly arguably in Jazz. I would …

Art & Copy is a cinematic documentary about advertisement. I would say - according to the trailer - it is one typical self-criticizing and at the same time self-adulating fast paced movie with the motivation of mystifying things more than they probably deserve to be. Maybe it's all of that not because it's just the …

I feel that people started to listen to Radiohead just because their usage of distribution is not only just innovative but because the whole thing, how they play with media became a social experiment. People wanted to be a part in this experiment. But Radiohead are not necessarily the ones, who are playing, or are …

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 …

I read in the news recently that most Internet users are chinese now. Still, only 19% of them use the Internet regularly. Biggest per capita rate is in Japan, followed by the US. Click on the graphic below to see the numbers of some of the biggest Internet countries in 2008. [caption id="attachment_453" align="aligncenter" width="300" …

Reading one of my favourite magazines, Vice , I stumbled across an interesting interview with contemporary British philosopher Simon Critchley. The interviewer is not very good, probably he had no idea of what he should ask, but nevertheless, Critchley pointed out some interesting thoughts. We are not even consumerist; we are a society of distraction, …

Two eccentric game designers talk about - what else? - game design. English with German subtitles @ arte+7 , available only a few days!

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

In case you haven't seen it yet.

Okay, consider this as a comment on the contribution of non digital-natives. Consider this right here as a appraisal of what they all are talking about: Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo .

Ceci Moss from rhizome collected a couple of YouTube videos which document the transition from analog to digital in the USA on June 12, 2009. NTSC is history, ATSC is the new guy in town.

Maybe some readers will remember Big Dog from Boston Dynamics, which freaked me out and fascinated me at the same time. Well, although we all saw it coming , for me this TED Talk by PW Singer fires up the transition from the fantastic and horrible visions, like so many other forms of technical "improvements" …

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 …

You can go to Iran if you want. But i think you better stay here, and organize the community here, to collect money. the revolution will cost money. for pamphlets, machines, defense operations, unlocked iphones. Organise on internet the collection and buying or getting from apple of unlocked iphones for Iran Green. Did he just …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

[caption id="attachment_290" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Leopard Wallpaper Aurora"] [/caption] [caption id="attachment_291" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey"] [/caption] What you see here is the well-known Apple Wallpaper Aurora, the standard background in Mac OS X Leopard. Yeah, it's the first one, not the second. The second is a movie still from 2001: A Space …

[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 …

That president is so sympathetic that it almost scares me. But it's also the confirmation and fulfilment of the strategies he pursued during his campaign: running a campaign 2.0.

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 …

Firefox Plugin that simulates the censored chinese Internet routing behaviour.

An interesting info-animation, maybe some readers can relate. ;-)

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 …

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 .

Kansas State Dr. Michael Wesch gives a wonderful retrospect on the YouTube phenomenon. "55 Minutes, 33 Seconds Well Spent". via Data Mining

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.

Photo by (stacker) Did you know that Space Invaders drove the Japanese so crazy, that the coins which were used to get a credit to play the arcade ran into a shortage? That it was programmed, designed and engineered by only one guy? Find more interesting facts here . I would say, together with Pac …

Just another video clip about the everyday life of a "web guy"? Maybe, but it's been done great. And of course it's funny. Check out this short film here .