Archive for all posts tagged ‘student’
Interactive Light Bar
Interactive Light Bar is a project created by Constanze Link during her 6-month internship at Limbic Media. The intention of Constanze’s project was to expose the Canadian audience to a visualization of European electronic and deep house music. To do this Constanze created a coin-slot interface that selects from one of 10 music tracks. For …
Web Design Timeline. The Real One.
Don’t Hassel the WWW is a new project by three brave students of last semester’s project “Timeline”, guided by Olia Lialina. Darja Daut, Susanne Müller and Lisa Hofmann staged the history of David Hasselhoff’s personal webpage. How would it look in March 1993? July 1996? On Geocities? During the Dotcom craze? The students investigated the …
Computers on Weels — The Timeline
Kristina Spurgat, a student of the Timeline project, finished her In-car Computer Technology Timeline. Six leading automobile industry brands were compared, seven innovations examined. A beautiful interactive SVG chart, though it can be a bit depressing for fans of German automobiles.
White Cube Inside Out
A result of the one week workshop “Digital Material—Glitch culture as a new popular trend?” with glitch evangelist Rosa Menkman. Daniel Kurfess invites you into his Glitch Gallery. Look around, discover the different exhibition pieces—but be warned: The more you get drawn into the White Cube’s winding corridors, the more the glitches begin to leak …
Sugar – Daily Diabetes Manager
The main focuse of sugar app from Jasmin Sipahi is to adress young daibetics. The research of the bachlor thesis showed that there is a gap between the need of people and the tools offered. Those tools all lag usability and a propper concept to enable an efficient discourse from patient to doctor. Sugar got …
Computers Getting Mental
Tho recent projects that could make us revise “Computer Power and Human Reason” Scott Kristina Spurgat: “Scott is a left-over of the old technology, an old computer looking for some attention in a world full of new technologies. When Siri was introduced, Scott decided to make some use of voice recognition himself. Scott however is …
AUDIOCHOPSUEY
If you are into music, adventure and file sharing, you should definitely try www.audiochopsuey.com by Oliver Rübener, a new platform to exchange audio files. Its core is a tool that chops your MP3 Files into little pieces and puts them back together in a new order so everything sounds like noise. However, the process works …
Daughter of all Demos
Cyberfeminism is back! Saskia Aldinger — professional internet amateur — presented her new project, the photo series Daughter of all Demos. Saskia as Douglas Engelbart, Saskia as Ivan Sutherland, Saskia as scientist of the future as imagined by Vannevar Bush. The history of computers and user interfaces is dominated by great men. But Saskia is …
To the Scrollbar, with Love and Respect
Daraja Daut’s work in last semester’s Magic Paper group was centered around scrollbars: their invention and acceptance, their metamorphoses through time and operating systems and their gradual disappearance from interfaces in the last couple of years. Prism, Feather and Infinite are three pages that show that scrollbars are too early to write off. Scrolling is …
I Can Has History?
I Can Has History, Helene Dam’s final project that mapped the world of lolcats, got online in July 2008. Since then no other page on the Merz Akademie’s servers got more hits than this one. The cat memes’ family tree also comes as a poster with the book Digital Folklore. None of its pages is …
Troll Culture
Stefan Krappitz, author of Flyer Generator, Save my Job and other useful applications, finished his studies with the essay Troll Culture, A comprehensive Guide. It can be read online through a typical imageboard interface. Other options are free PDF dowmlod and print on demand at lulu.com. The book introduces the history of trolling on- and …
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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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
ID Reception 2010
On tuesday 7.12 from 17:00-19:30 everyone is invited to the interface design reception at our Virtual Reality Studio ( room 2.6). You can see and try out our recent projects, talk to the the students and teachers, play Minecraft and have drinks.
Exhibition at WKV
The Merz Akademie present their results of remediate research project from the 19 to the 21 november at Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. The projects supervised by Mario Doulis are the following: Reverse Remediation #0 – Interacting Space Interaktives Filmmuseum: Sebastian Otto Raumkrümmer: Jörg Frohnmayer Alterung in virtuellem Welten: Benjamin Wingert Reverse Remediation #1 – Interaktive …
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, …
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On he 7th of July 2010, Wolfgang Schneider presented the CodeVis Tabe to the group of Beautiful Zeros and Ugly Ones. It is a a device that makes you learn to make up decimal numbers from 0s and 1s. In 2012, when computers take over, it will be a very demanded skill. Those who can …
Zalgos
Zalgo Image Creator v1.0 Freeware Linus Suter just finished this software that transforms a bitmap image into a character based image consisting of special characters from the unicode set. It allows you to make your own Zalgo-Art-Image quickly and easily. Due to widespread support for unicode characters you can now post Zalgo-Images anywhere you want. …
CSS with Cortes
In June 2010 Spanish designer and CSS artist Roman Cortes (3d Meninas, Coke Can, Tribute to the Beatles, etc) was giving a workshop at Merz Akademie. After exploring new options of CSS 3 and HTML 5, students deconstructed Picasso’s Guernica and reconstructed it with CSS3 transitions. You can see it and listen to it here: …
Shadows of the User
Shadows of the User Strike Back:D is a photo series by Brandi Bryant developed during the Drop Shadow workshop. She wisely notices: “Conformity is generally, NOT seen as a modern thing… yet corporates who pride themselves on their ”support” of individuality, symbolize that very thing as a blind, deaf, speechless stereotype Unisex. Wonderful. That’s about …
getting physical
Media artist Yunchul Kim held a workshop about physical computing. Students made experiments based on the Arduino and Max/Msp software. Some results of the workshop are documented here. The Media producers Antony Rayzhekoff and Emanuel Andel made experiments with natural user interfaces. The students learned how to handle the this.play touch interface and programmed an interactive …
Lacks of Limitation
Last week of April 2010 Manuel Buerger demanded that students “Try to bring the software to its knees!” because “Only if you know your tool you are ready for the next step.” It worked. The Beauty and Lacks of Limitation project is documented now: http://sites.google.com/site/thebeautyoflacksandlimitation/
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 …
Last Midi got a Media Prize
The latest project of former NM student Sebastian Schmieg — Last Midi Background got a the 1st prize for Online works at the 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival. No wonder. LMB is a beautiful and very alive archive of MIDI music. Like Animated GIFs formed the WWW’s look, MIDI files gave to the WWW its special …
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.
“Skate the Web” in Berlin
“Hi everyone! I’m SUPER EXCITED to announce the opening event of my little solo show in Berlin. Sa. 31.10., 20:00h The folks of Upgrade Berlin, Aram Bartholl, Jamie Wilkinson (Skype) and I will present FAT Lab projects and I will show new works, all around the title “Skate the Web”. The work will be on …
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.
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Two Awards for Happy Real
On December 7th, 2008, Marc Grimm’s Happy Real got TWO (!) prizes at the DIY festival in Zurich. Both awards are in the category of DIY Ingeneering. Happy Real was Marc’s final project: a self-built and self-programmed arcade that questions ego shooter behavior and ethics.
China Channel
Tobias Leingrueber is a master of Firefox Add-ons. His recent one — China Channel — he developed together with the great media artists Aram Bartholl and Evan Roth. China Channel offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China. Take an unforgettable virtual trip to …
The Escape
StudiVZ is Germany’s most popular social network for students. Michael Ruß created a service that builds 1990s-style amateur home pages from StudiVZ profile pages and weaves them together in a new old web that is a joy to surf through. For those 1000 users, the WEB 1.0 PROJECT generated their first personal website out of …
Circuit Bending with Gieskes
Among the devices built in the Circuit Bending and Arduino workshop given by Gijs Gieskes in May 2008 were some really curious ones. For example the modest chip with tiny LEDs on the picture below allows you to write in the air. It should be completely dark though. Another group of DIY enthusiasts made an …
The Final Frontier
After two and a half days in Johannes p Osterhoff’s seminar “The Final Frontier“, second semester students came up with the most radical presentation ever seen in the walls of Merz Akademie. Six minutes video of outer space wallpapers and screensavers: starring mondaufgang.jpg, cosmos07.jpg, cosmos04.jpg and many others, known from different times and systems.
Digital Visuals
During this semester’s pathway week, Julien Ducourthial (also known as otro), one of the main designers and VJs currently active in the home computer underground, came to do a workshop with NM students. He introduced them to a rich digital visual culture that is developing in parallel to “classic” graphic design around the special features …
Isa’s tips
Isabel Pettinato, NM student who made the theme for the old nm blog, came back from her internship at Feedback Media. She was designing and programming websites for Universal Music. Her projects for Schiller and Neue Töne are a success. Here are Isabel’s tips for the students getting ready for their internship. – Präsentiert sich …
Google apps and more
Among the online projects made last semester is a nameless but precious googlemaps-photo-service by David Ikuye, Christoph Brandin and Paul Steinhilber. It can be your personal photo album (or a global photo archive) that uses spacial navigation. You can register and store your photos there, look through other albums. And help the authors to find …
Street Fighter Diagram
Alexander Schlegel, author of the 2007 hit Pixel Art released his new entertainment for the online community and game fans — Street Fighters: Relations between Characters Diagram. Look at it, the bigger screen or the more screens your can connect to your computer, the more fun you will have following connections between the heroes of …
new yorkers
Former NM student Dennis Knopf now works at Rhizome, the foundation dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. At the same time our 5th semester student Tobias L. got internship at Eyebeam, one of the world’s leading art and technology centers that provides context and state-of-the-art tools …
Universal Remote
Time and again Florian Dusch had to find out how to set up another model of alarm clock, until once he got the idea of Universal Remote. It is supposed to simplify our relations with the everyday electronic house equipment: TV sets, microwaves, vacuum cleaners and of course alarm clocks. A mock up of the …
Alice with Diamonds
Alice with Diamonds is one of the generative graphics projects made last semester in the processing course given by Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest. Helene Dams and Stefanie Rückert combined processing techniques with the greatest glitter graphics of all times. Looks weird. To start the show you have to press glitter buttons on the modified …
First steps
In the beginning of December, the 1st semester students of Merz Akademie got introduced to new media and their challenges. One of them is computational design. For four days students were left alone with code and Arne Michael. And only after they’ve managed to achieve the first results, we brought them to the ZKM to …
HAPPY REAL in ZKM
Till the 6th of January 2008, Marc Grimm’s ego shooter research arcade can be tried out at the ZKM (Karlsruhe) as a part of the ‘World of Games: reloaded” exhibition. Happy Real is a central part of Marc’s final project that aims to answer the question: How far can you go with shooting on your …
2nd Semester Projects
The 1st semester in New Media (2nd semester of studies) is the time when students come up with their first web project. After HTML, CSS, PHP training with Dragan Espenschied, Action Script classes given by Alexander Götz and an Interface seminar by Johannes Osterhoff, students are free to develop their own ideas. Then they make …
Tobi’s Timemachine
Students of the summer semester project Standarts and Revolutions had to came up with the projects that would show that they understand and respect the laws of webdesign. Tobias Leingruber went further and made a work that is full of love to WWW and its pioneers. He writes: In the 90′s People started creating webpages …
Kleider machen Piloten
Marcs’s last year experimental game interface Kleider Machen Piloten is fully documented, everybody can try to make their own augmented pilot jacket now.