Archive for all posts tagged ‘2011’
Mediaglobe
Our Pathway completed the research on user interfaces for mediaglobe. Mario Doulis, Jörg Frohnmayer, Stephan Schröter and Joscha Jäger developed different scenarios for the mediaglobe research project. The focus was on the generation of different novel interface elements for the Semex video search engine programmed by the HassoPlattner Institute. Additionally to the web interface for …
GIF Disco
Happy Graphics Interchange is a perfect tool to make your own Animated GIF party. It helps you to find GIFs. Then it provides an interface to collage them, to scale and rotate. The next step you get an HTML code to paste wherever you find appropriate. The Disco section inspires you with the examples of …
Apps Kill
Back to the Web! is a final project of Christopher Heller. A killer app that should kill the apps by attracting attention of the users to beauty and openness of the WWW. You can get it for free at the market.android.com “Back to Web! An app that gets you back to surfing! This is a …
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The frameset HTML tag was introduced in 1996 with version 2.0 of Netscape browser. This tag made it possible to divide a browser window into parts and show several HTML documents at once. A lot has been written about this most controversial tag in the history of markup languages. Already in the year it was …
Projects in Winter 11/12
Dragan Espenschied WWWWWWWWW (2nd semester) Prof. Mario Doulis Spiel [Film] Prof. Olia Lialina Magic Paper
Uncanny Valley
In SoSe11 Johannes p Osterhoff offered to the students of the 2nd semester to visit Uncanny Valley of User Interface design. He writes: In the seminar at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart we found ourselves between the once reduced styles of Susan Kare and the currently opulent Apple icons, between the by-nature minimalistic Kindle Interface and …
Deaddrop in Stuttgart
Aram Bartholl worked with the Merz Akademie students this semester. Beside several speed projects and the Speedshow, he infected the students with one of the greatest illnesses of our time — the deaddrop feather. As a result, there is a Deaddrop in Stuttgart now! Hidden at a perfect place, namely at 48.77420 N 9.17993 E …
Fun is back / Speedshow Stuttgart
The best way to exhibit net art is to do it in an Internet Cafe (CallShop, CyberCafe). This is what we did on the 8th of June 2011 at Ch@troom, very friendly and open space next to the Stuttgart Stategallery (Staatsgalerie). Works and artists of the Speedshow Fun is Back: Save My Job by Stefan …
Typo
Some wise and spectacular typography projects made during “Typography in Interactive and Dynamic Environments” course by Lutz Eberle last year. Linus Suter TypoSnake TypoSnake is an interactive flash game coded in ActionScript 3. All your favourite fonts are there, but moving very fast. Chris Heller, Michael Ruß, Theo Seemann VisualBraille.ttf is a font that combines …
On Stage / Guitarhero Contest
Finally some photos of the Guitarhero even! Stefan promises that soon there will be more on the official site of the contest. And that it is not long to wait till Real bands and Wii bands will share the stage of Merz Akademie again. Thank you Nocean, Learning from Larry, and Apetown! Contestants of 2011: …
8bit Hero &more
In Mai 2011 Hans Peter Wyss Swiss artist was giving a processing workshop at the Merz Akademie. 8bit Hero by Oliver Rübner and Susanne Riexinger: 8bit Hero is a prototype for a game, where you have to hit “notes” on a midi keyboard or on your pc keyboard in the right moments, to increase …
S3D.VR.x
In Mai 2011 German artist Sebastian Denz ( www.denz.cc/ ) was giving a workshop at Merz Akademie. Students explored the field of stereo photography and learned how to compose high quality stereoscopic pictures. For the presentation they combined the static pictures with our immersive virtual reality system.
Long Tail Money
The processes of transfering money and virtual goods over the Internet was the main focus of the winter 2010/2011 semester’s project. Using Paypal, Flattr and more obscure mechanisms, students had to actually make money. Whoever would earn the most would be awarded with a T-Shirt from our idol Money Boy http://moneyboy.at/ A lot of ideas …
save my job
Up the Social Ladder! ——————— Traditionally, in Germany people are very serious about privacy and data protection. With the advent of social networks, millions of users exposed embarrassing photos to anybody daring to look. A seemingly unsolvable conflict was created: How could you still be cool, hang out with friends in rancid clubs and the …
2011-03-28
Hot or Hotter
Attention is serious business on the Internet. Student Marina Gröpel’s Hot Or Hotter serves as a battleground in between Facebook Likes (hot) and flattr donations (hotter). The hottest person taking part (order by “clicks”!) will win all the flattr money at the end of the month, so don’t wait and upload your photo!
2011-03-11
I HERD U LIKE HAMSTERS
Saskia Aldinger is sharing the cuteness of her little Hamster Jupiter with the whole world through a streaming web cam! If you want to contribute to Jupi’s well-being, donate one Euro via Paypal and a yummy goodie will drop down for him to chew on! Fully web enabled e-commerce remote controlled automatic hamster pleasure!! Remember …
I’ve got mouths to feed
Obtaining and using software is a story by itself; commerce and its circumvention through piracy is an engaging experience. While big software companies like Apple and Google are trying to unify these narratives to controlled, boring AppStores, individual exchange of monetary values, brought forward by Paypal or flattr, is certainly a form of communication. And …
Wild Wild Wired
Bernadette Neuroth finished her studies with a paper about WWW standards — Wild Wild Web: 15 years of browser wars, software competition and other conflicts; 17 years of W3C’s effort to regulate the development of languages and protocols. Bernadette’s design project — programmed in HTML5 and CSS3, according to the newest and hottest standards, but …
Projects in summer 2011
“… SPIEL DEIN SPIEL! …” by Mario Doulis Web-Design and -Development by Dragan Espenschied Peepshow by Olia Lialina
One Terabyte Blog
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is a research blog started by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied in January 2011. The idea is to collect, comprehend and document artifacts of amateur web found in and through the Geocities Torrent. The free web hosting service Geocities.com was founded by “Beverly Hills Internet” in July 1995 — exactly …
Ghosttown
When Google released Street View in Germany the world was shocked. Because it looked like Germans wash outside. Wherever you look there would be a huge shower cabin in the street. Well, the reality is not so exciting. The milk glass constructions are just houses, blurred by Google on request of the house owners who …
Raumnutzung2020
In the theoretical part of ‘Raumnutzung2020′ several ideas concerning the way people may interact with computers in their homes in the near future, are developed and discussed. Within the discussion Thilo Schulz refers to both new developments like Microsofts Kinect and abstract ideas like Weisers Ubiquitous Computing. In the practical part he implemented one of …