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02.11.10Transmediale IIWhat an inspiring day. Together with curators and artists from all over europe we held a workshop during the transmediale´s "Free Culture Incubator". We searched for possible new and allready existing reclaiming techniques for urban and public media screens. Some of the answers were all over impressing, such as the open lab initiative by Prado MediaLab and the urban interventions by FACT Liverpool. The second part of the workshop was about the link up between artistic positions and financial business models. The discussion was lively striding from cultural responsibilities of public media supplyers over the support of artists by those ...
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01.13.10TransmedialeNext to the all of my time munching preparings for the TEI conference I currently work on a concept for a workshop taking place on the 5th of february at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin during the Transmediale Festival. With the Workshop we will try to find new ways of reclaiming digital augmented public advertising screens and discuss possibilities of a democratic access to urban media. Because this will be way to much for me to lift all by myself, Tobias Fischer, brother from another mother, will lead and monitor the workshop with me. It will be ...
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01.13.10M is for mekkaWow. I will go to the MIT MediaLab and present the SMSlingshot while the TEI conference end of january. This will be fun.... I can´t believe it. THE MIT!!! And it´s getting much more unbelievable, because there will propably be a workshop I will give, too. Currently I am preparing everything like slides, materials, models and some software tasks, so I might be a bit inconvenient at the moment for other things. Next to all this, there will be some more stuff going on the InterfaceBlog hosted by Form und Zweck. Right now there has to be some construction and update ...
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08.27.09white nightsVR/Urban, the media intervention collective I am part of, will present a further development of last years spread gun installation at the white nights festival in Riga / Latvia. Currently we work hard at hardware, software and interaction tasks to have everything running at the 12.9.2009. More informations soon here!
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08.27.09Publications updatedFor everyone interested in my theoretical and journalistic work, I updated the publications of last year and this year. There are still a few articles left that I will update as soon they are released. Please don´t hesitate to contact me if you wish to have more informations or I might send you a pdf version of a certain paper.
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07.09.09Rundgang 09Please feel invited to join the final presentation of the SwarmLab project I hosted this semester at the University of Fine Arts. The presentation will take place 10.oo o clock next thursday at the project pavillon, next to the mathematics faculty. We will show twelve student works, related to swarm intelligence and swarm aestethics as well as excerpts of the keynote talks. There will be also possibilities to see the project while the UdK Rundgang from 17. - 19. july. The results of the Sketching in Space and Rapid Stool Invention projects will be presented too.
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06.17.09snapshot udk 09 - revisitedAfter two weeks the DMY extended exhibition "Me You & I" will close tommorow evening. So you still have at least one full day left to visit it. The feedback so far is very good, not only the lamps attracted attention, the shelves, the installations and one of my favourites, the trikoton collection of hannah wiesener and magdalena kohler had been payed regard to. The opening with the attached panel discussion about "the shape of designer work to come" was quite interesting too, though it was a bit to long. Again it was all about to meet friends and colleagues, ...
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05.22.09snapshot udk 09We will present a selection of the spatial sketched lamps at the snapshot udk exhibition. As stated in the entries before, it will take place while the dmy festival here in berlin and is listed as one of the extended events. The opening will be on the 4th of june with a panel discussion on the future of designerly work in face of new media, new techniques, new economies. There will be interesting guests on panel, like Holm Friebe, Reto Wettach, Claudia Kieserling, Ronen Kadushin and Jörg Petruschat. Next to the talks there will be short presentations of the participating ...
