Archive for all posts tagged ‘2009’
security by obscurity show
On the 1st of July 2009 students of the Security by Obscurity project guided by Olia Lialina, presented their work. -Tobias Leingruber (and Dragan Espenschied) invited everybody to join Ursula von der Leyen-Fanclub. -Theo Seemann Flaged RFID ! -Florian Kroener gave an insight into audio CAPTCHAs. -Michael Russ read Bot Poetry. -Christopher Heller made a …
Unisphere
This semesters’ physical computing workshop was held by Yunchul Kim. The students produced an sound installation called “Unisphere” that can generate sound and light events, out of the weight changes of objects placed on the Unisphere platform. The whole project was technically realized with Arduino and Max/Msp. Presentation: Testing:
Digital Folklore Reader
Digital Folklore reader is out! Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied Designed by Manuel Buerger Texts and projects by: Cory Arcangel, Julia Böger, Manuel Buerger, Helene Dams, Dragan Espenschied, Jörg Frohnmayer, Mark Grimm, Christopher Heller, Yunchul Kim, Dennis Knopf, Stefan Krappitz, Florian Kröner, Tobias Leingruber, Olia Lialina, Leo Merz, Bernadette Neuroth, o+ro, johannes p …
Raumgenerator
This semesters’ creating virtual worlds workshop “Raumgenerator” was held by Tracy Krüger and Gabriele Bingula. The architects working in the field of digital content creation and virtual reality adressed two main topics: space as programmable mode and filters as structural elements of space. Some results of “Raumgenerator” can be found here.
The Drop Shadow Talks
If you are n Berlin don’t miss The Drop Shadow Talks at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule. The event is organized by Johannes p Osterhoff. He writes: “With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it raises not only windows from background …
10 Years of Blasting
10 yers ago Merz Akademie students Dragan Espenschied and Alvar Freude created the Assoziations-Blaster. Soon this project became an icon of German net literature and hyper narration. On the 4th of November at the Stuttgart State Library Alvar and Dragan will recapitulate 10 years of unstable links and collaborative writing. German announcement: Mittwoch, 4. November …
iF Award for Isabel
Isabel Pettinato, the designer of the site you are looking at, got an IF Communication Design Award 2009 for Gebührenrechner. Congratulations! You can read about it in German and in English. To see really good communication design and socially significant work you should visit Isabel’s final project — Viral Candy Shop.
Lyriknacht’09
Students of the Interface Design Pathway presented their work about Elektrolyrik at the Lyriknacht’09 in Stuttgart. The exhibition took place in the Wilhelmspalais’s lounge. The selected projects are. Botpoetry from Michael Russ, Speak and Fips from Julian Bingman, Papertrust from Stefan Krappitz and Happytube from Jens Natzschak.
How to DIY
Usually Aram Bartholl shows to his students how to make real objects out of digital artifacts. During his workshop at Merz Akademie he addressed this topic on meta level. Under the motto “How to DIY” workshop participants were following online tutorials, very famous and completely obscure ones, and are now offering their own Howtos to …
HappyTube &More
With the HappyTube Firefox plugin by Jens Natschka, YouTube will become an oase of peace and happiness. Simply install HappyTube on your Firefox Browser and enjoy the new, friendly YouTube community. HappyTube was realized in the 2nd semester web development course. Here are the links to the other exciting projects. Tagwall: http://tagwall.de.vu Wemob: http://wemob.de Weemind: …
The transparency of attention.
Human attention equates to a form of inter-instance, through which contents become perceivable. Yet attention itself usually stays invisible. According to this, mediareception can be both, the immersion in contents and the attentivness on the materiality of medial surfaces. The installation intends to create a permanent shift between media transparency and media consciousness, respectively to …
Virtual Reality Mario Land
Christopher Heller, Michael Ruß and Theo Seemann finished their portation of Marioland on a 3D environment with real intuitive input devices – your own feet! The main aim was to produce a super natural interface. Thus the application, made in Jörg Frohnmayer’s VR-seminar with TCL and Lightning, uses tracking of your feet while you’re walking …
Projects 09/10
Future Tools by guest professor Femke Snelting Reverse Remediation by prof. Mario Doulis
SCOOTER IN A BOX
SCOOTER IN A BOX is an interactive box with a magnet stick. SCOOTER IN A BOX makes the music tangible. Based on Arduino, Max and the special physical attributes of magnet and inductor, SCOOTER IN A BOX lets you not only hear the music, but additionally lets you feel it via the magnet stick. If …
Happy Front End
On the 5th of May 2009 at 19:30 Happy Front End lecture series (Ringvorlesung), organised by New Media/Interface Design pathway will start. This time it will be about successful practices in the field of interface design, web design, game design, media art and computer history research. Note the dates and read the abstract in German …
Multi-Touch
There is a multitude of hard- and software development and a growing “community” in the domain of multi-touch interfaces. But are there really new application areas or will the new technology vanish into thin air after the euphoria of the useres and developers ebbs away? In the project students of New Media/Interface Design Pathway at …
One Click Worth 300dpi
Once upon a time people had to spend from 10 to 22 seconds to design flyers for their parties. They had to take a skyline, a siluet of a dancing girl, crazy fonts and paint splashes, and put it all together. Everything changed early 2009 when Holy Stefanius, Patron of Graphic Designers, (at that moment …
NetArt Prize for Bootyclipse
Denis Knopf’s final project –Youtube channel Bootyclipse, got the Prize for Online Art at the 22nd Filmwinter Festival 2009. No wonder, Bootyclipse is one of the most interesting web project of our time, a beautiful statement on current video culture, amateur aesthetics and an answer to the question “What is net art today?” Read more …
Projects 08/09
Multi-Touch– Prof. Mario Doulis Keywords: Interactive surfaces, bi-manual & multi-user interaction, interface design. On and Off — Prof. Olia Lialina Keywords: Online event online, offline event online, online event offline.