Archive for all posts tagged ‘event’
20 years NCSA Mosaic browser birthday cake party
20 years ago, on the 22nd of April 1993, NCSA Mosaic browser version 1.0 was released. It was not he first browser and not the one that became really popular. But it was the first cross platform browser. It meant that what ever you used: Unix, Windows, Mac — you could connect via HTTP, you …
Web Surfing Competition at Transmediale
Trailblazers #5 took place on 3rd of February 2013, the last day of Transmediale festival, on the stage of Cafe Global. It was a wonderful event. Experienced surfers, including such celebrities as Lorna Mills, Anthony Anthonellis or Aram Bartholl made their trails from Amazon to Pirate Bay, from Instagram to flickr, from http://www.lol.com/ to http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ …
Christina Xu opens Do You Believe in Users
Christina Xu, co-founder of Awesome Foundation and ROFLcon (Boston) gave a talk in Stuttgart on the 31st of October — “The Power of User Error” “So we have the people who just create, and people who just use, but what about all the people in the middle who come up with innovative ways of using …
Lecture Series: Do You Believe in Users?
The series is organized in cooperation with the Stadtbibliothek, Stuttgart. Lectures will take place at Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder Platz (Max Benze Forum), beginning 19:30. Do You Believe in Users? This question, asked in the legendary 1985 movie Tron, nowadays would have to be asked with a smile, as a nostalgic remark about the days when …
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 …
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: …
Firewall Ball
New media students are physically fit. They do tennis, surfing, skating and a lot of jump and run. In December 2010 our program was enriched with a new sport: Firewallball — it is like Volleyball, but for the information age. Photo documentation on Johannes P Osterhoff’s Flickr.
Trail Blazers #3
On the 13th of October 2010, the Beautiful Zeros and Ugly Ones invited Users “to surf the classic way” for the third time. 16 teams (more than 20 surfers) registered. This time the trails were really difficult. Only very experienced and devoted web users managed to come from www.facebook.com to www.joindiaspora.com, from www.ursula-von-der-leyen.de to www.zuguttenberg.de, …
Trailblazers #1
The Beautiful Zeros and Ugly Ones invite: Surf the classic way from amazon to piratebay nm.merz-akademie.de/trailblazers/surfing/wednesday/140410/20h/teckstrasse58/container/beer Trailblazers is a live web surf event where you can show off your PRO surfing skills. No keyboard, no google, just pure links! WIN A COPY OF THE DIGITAL FOLKLORE READER! – * “There is a new profession of …
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 …
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 …
Wiimote masters
After the great success of Wiimote Masters 2008, On & Off group of Merz Academy invites you to play again on the 24th of January, 18:00, at Ex-Ikea in Stuttgart. 4 projections, 32 teams. Online registration will be opened on the 20th of January. Dress properly, the best outfit will be awarded as well. Be …