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Kristian Gohlke and Michael Haltky from the University of Applied Sciences Bremen presented a set of slick controllers for quick and easy multipoint interaction with any audio software at TEI Conference 2010 at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA. Seems like the good old mouse is not quite dead yet. Read more here. Full paper …

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 …

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 …

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

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) …

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 …

This analysis analog additive re-synthesis project absolutely blew my mind. Imagine approximating every sound with the sublime timbre of a piano. I wonder what that would sound like on an electric organ with multiple keyboards or the likes.

This technology, aka PatchMatch will be made available in CS5 .

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 …

(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This heavily reminds me of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad demo , as shown in "Doing with …

A few years ago I saw an interface for blind people which consisted out of a camera which was recording the contours of what was in front of it and translated that to an array of little actuators inside a device which the blind person would attach between his eyes. Unfortunately, I forgot about the …

Our goal is to create a powerful free and open cinema camera that we as filmmakers love to use. The idea of using an Elphel camera for this particular purpose was born in 2006, found many followers over the years and ultimately resulted in this community driven project entitled "Apertus" and this website. Check out …

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.

This Korean animation is in the juried film list at the SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans, take a look. It can be downloaded in HD 720P here http://www.mesai.co.kr/

The landing on the moon is one of the events in mankind I really would have liked to attend to. Well, no problem! The whole transmissions are played back in realtime, only 40 years after. Check it out here .

A new and stunning approach in anti-shake algorithms. In research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , shown at SIGGRAPH 2009. (However, they do not mention that – like with every other algorithms of this kind – a lot of the picture borders go down the drain, but it is stunning, nevertheless.)

Dialogues between two chatterbots: J: How do you define life? A: Life is the opposite of death. J: So death is the absence of life? A: Take it easy. I try not to think about such things. J: Why not? A: Ambiguous. J: Yes! Wanna try it for yourself? Alice Jabberwacky Good ol' nerdy sunday …

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" …

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

Hi, some weeks ago I read that Wolfram Research is planning to contend Google's supremacy on Internet. The initiative is reported in The Guardian , and comprises a knowledge search engine based on natural language entries. For that purpose Stephen Wolfram believes his scientific and mathematics engine might give better results in answering normal and …

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 …

Enjoy a TV feature about Grace Murray Hopper from 1982. EDIT: Btw. Today is Ada Lovelace Day !

An early experiment for digital news distribution.

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 …

Big Dog is freaking me out, with it's surrealistic natural movements (check out the trousers it has – looks like two small people are desperately stuck inside of it. Point is, that you know there are only those two legs and no corpse. I am shivering.) At the same time one can also give lots …

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 …

Digital Media rocks! A nice link: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/dmal and a nice "workshop" with videos: http://workshop.softwarestudies.com/

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 …

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/

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

I just found the GNU manifesto in the internet (With the open-source browser Firefox, btw). And now I am writing a blog entry about that manifesto with Wordpress , also published under the GPL (GNU General Public License). Open Source Software is everywhere, and it's still growing! Seems like this manifesto written in 1985 really …

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 …

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 …

Well, those guys basically had the same idea.... but they actually implemented it. Alliance (Win, Mac, Linux) allows you and your friends and colleagues to build up an own private Peer 2 Peer Network. Guess what: I have something 2 share with you. If you are interested: my nick is effzehn. EDIT: Well it seems …

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 …

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 …

How to use RSS Maybe it is really foolish to tell you here about it - but I think, even though so many of us are studying digital media , only a few of us know how to take advantage of uprising technologies/activities, blogging being just one of them. Here is a short and easy …