ars electronica festival started on 4th of september in linz. this year it comes under the title "A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property." as i don't have the possibility to be there physically, i try to get some impressions from their website and other media reporting about it. For example the radio …

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´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 .

Here you'll find an interesting TV Interview with Video Art Pioneer Nam June Paik . vvork is exclusively blogging a series of interviews with different artists recently.

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.

[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.

Maybe some of you remember the lecture " Achieving Your Childhood Dreams " from last year by Randy Pausch. It was his very last lecture and he knew it. He was diagnosed with cancer and his doctors said that he only would have had a couple of months with good health left. Randy Pausch died …

[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 …