Stories in Digital Media (SIDM) was a blog run by a few students and the professor Frieder Nake, part of the former Digital Media programme in the state of Bremen, Germany. By the end of the first decade of the millennium, the web and digital technology were advancing at an unprecedented pace in the social and artistic sphere. Developments were exciting, and we kept a log of some events and took time to reflect.

What you see here is a rendition of the content as it was back then, in a different, static archival representation. Enjoy this glimpse into a hopeful and exciting past.

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Electric sheep

May 5, 2008 · Andre Hoffmann · Art · 1 comment

Automatically generated psychedelic animations (called sheep), rendered with quicktime afterwards and distributed through a network of electric sheep users over the net; named after Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids dream of electronic sheep" which later became the movie Blade Runner, btw. Screensaver for Mac, Linux, Windows. Paper: The electric sheep screen-saver: a case study …