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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" …

Interesting TED -talk by Clay Shirkey

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 …

Open talk on ethics and unmanned war machines by Prof. Dr. Noel Sharkey , Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. University of Sheffield. Tuesday, December 8th. 20:00, Haus der Wissenschaft , located here . Just an announcement for a open scientific talk, related to the topic of ethics in computer science digital media. Might be …

Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life 55 years ago after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay. Describing Turing's treatment as "horrifying" and "utterly unfair", Brown said the country owed the brilliant mathematician a …

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, …

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 …

[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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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´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 …

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

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 …

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! …

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 . …

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 …

Two Principles of digital media. Talk by Frieder Nake on April 30, 5pm at the Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße, Bremen.