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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, …

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 ... …

Just another Ted-talk. This time by Will Wright. The New Statesman describes him in these words : " Will Wright - a legend among gamers, the nerd’s nerd, undisputed king of the simulation. " He developed Sim City , The Sims and finally Spore . In this talk from 2007 he presented Spore as a …

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, …

Pong Prom from Ed Keeble on Vimeo . I will not comment on this, this will get out of hands. But I have to commit that I´m amused. A little. Or a bit more.

As Andre wrote the list of official relevance for the 00´s, I just stumbeled upon a nice new addition to the digg labs website. Some of you might heard about digg, which is more or less a social bookmarking service. Just another Web 2.0 traffic generating service, promoting non-sense as well as important headlines around …

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 …

I just stumpled upon Stephan Scholdra´s documentation of his bachelor report which he submitted recently to retrieve his bachelor degree. And I must commit that I´m really impressed so far! Just check the related website connoc.de for an teaser, the thesis download (in german) and even an simulator of the game (adobe flash 10 required) …

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

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).

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 …

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 …

Japanese "ARTIST, DESIGNER, PROGRAMMER, DJ, VJ, COMPOSER" Daito Manabe took over the sound generation part in this amazing interface concept.

"How it would be, if a house was dreaming" The guys from urbanscreen in Bremen did a fantastic job with this projection on the Galerie der Gegenwart in Hamburg. The tromp-l'oeil effect is convincing – I wonder if that would work at daylight. This is definitely the most sophisticated facade projection I came across yet.

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 .

Shamus Young's impressive journey for an automatically generated cityscape by night. Watch it here or read the details here .

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 .

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 …

Oblong Inds. presents a spatial interaction to good to be true. Now, if I could afford a MS Surface table and get this here... I would degrade it to a... well, a table. g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo .

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

Did you ever ask yourself how to play around with your webcam ? Two years ago I started a small project to track a certain color range within the frames grabbed from my webcam using real-time image processing. So I came across the Open Computer Vision Library for C/C++, in short OpenCV , developed by …

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 .

[caption id="attachment_106" align="aligncenter" width="300"] [/caption] There are a bunch of tools for creating Typefaces, but fontstruct is one of the easy to use ones. After registering you may easily create fonts out of a palette of predefined shapes, allowing a huge variety of results.

[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 …

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 …

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 …

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! …

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 . …

Have you ever asked yourself "why can't I just send this ringtone through bluetooth" or "why can't i synchronize my phone with [whatever addressbook]"? You are not alone! When buying a cellular you are facing two problems: first, in most cases you cannot try before you buy. You may have the chance to take a …

Digital Media Bremen and Interface Design Potsdam graduate Christian Behrens recently finished his Master thesis at the University of applied sciences in Potsdam. He designed a compendium of dozens of information design patterns, such as treemaps, pie charts, thread arcs, etc. There is an online version available as well as a printed book (which is …

Information aesthetics is a fabulous website for information design and visualization. Whenever you need inspiration for visualizing sets of data or complex coherences, static or dynamic, you are very likely to find it here.

A great sampler of 70s/80s TV intro's. This might give logo and motion designers some retrospective inspiration:

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 …

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

"Say What Again" in high quality If you think this is cool, but you can do better: Henning Rogge Coming soon... Demnächst in diesem Theater EDIT: Ups, this was last semester, but there is a similar course this semester... General motion design stuff @ motionographer .