Stories in Digital Media is 3 months old now and I would thank all contributers for their work, inspiration, critique and encouragement. There are some plans for the future, including a reworked Layout, a new Logo, some additional functionality (to be discussed) and editorial refinements (cannot be too precise yet). If you are a reader …

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.

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 …

This morning a friend of mine asked me the following questions: What is it, that you are studying? For what is it for? What can you do with it after your graduation? Honestly, I did not really know how to answer these questions efficiently let alone satisfyingly. I mean, of course I have a personal …

i just discovered how cool our digital media programme is organized. Last semester i visited 6 lectures, 2 at HS-Bremerhaven, 2 at HfK and 2 at Uni-Bremen. After successfully finishing the courses, the respective professors promised me, that they will send the "schein" to the examination office of their university, and from there it will …

HI, I was looking for something to collaborate here and today I found it, and as my first post I would like to touch a topic usually understood as in the antipode of DM, it is our planet, the nature. Today is the World Environment Day , take a moment to think about it. Here …

This is unfortunately just an announcement for the German / German-speaking students amongst us. There will be a convention for the staff of the DM-program and some of its students in order to discuss (and maybe improve) some of the processes within the program Digital Media. Therefore, there will be a two-days "convention" (the German …

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 . …