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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 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 …

Dear fellow students, currently the future of the joint study programme in digital media is discussed on the administrations side. Currently the degree course is certified and we don´t really need to care about, but this certificate thats proves the quality of the degree course needs to be refreshed. As we all are more or …

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, …

The inofficial channel of the international, inter-university study program of Digital Media (B.Sc. / B.A. / M.Sc. / M.A.) in Bremen, Germany. Get involved in our vimeo group: http://vimeo.com/groups/digmed , free to join and to submit your own video contents directly on the degree course, or related contents ! ( after you´re proved by the …

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) …

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 …

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 …

Just to make an conclusion of the last days as an junior master, new to the graduate programme. And to the University of Bremen. Groups formed already, but, as in most of the cases, known people stick together. And as I´m a stranger to all of them I try to get in contact to the …

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 …

[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 …

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.

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So, the new term has already started. In fact you didn´t recognized - I´m a senior in the undergraduate program, currently writing my thesis. Besides that full-time effort I waste my time with such unimportant stuff as to moderate a group related to our digital media degree course in the evil StasiVZ StudiVZ. It´s quite …

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!

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I think that I now saw everyone of our age group at the Master Presentations on Friday. Finally! I somehow feel much more connected to the other groups since I know now, what all fellow students are doing. Here are the four projects in overview: Intelligent Room gesture/sensor based interactive room (Uni) T³H – The …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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