Athens Video Art Festival, Greece’s biggest festival of digital arts and new media, invites you to participate and present your work at 6th-8th May 2010 [at “Technopolis” of the City of Athens] in different categories like Video Art, Performance Art, Video Installation, Installation Art, Digital Image Art, Web Art and Animation Art.
So says Jeong’s website about the Hello Haptic project:
‘Hello Haptic’ is a flash card kit for the blind children to learn various haptical experiences about nature.
Visually impaired children are able to self-educate themselves about different parts of nature with this learning aid. They will be properly stimulated about diverse characters of nature as well as fulfilling their curiosity through their first-hand tactile knowledge.
Remember the guys who brought us Wolfram Alpha, the know-it-all search engine. Now they bring us WolframTones, a music composition tool, that makes loops based on mathematical formulas. It creates these funky looking graphics for each loop. All I managed to get out of it, is just some pretty horrible noise, maybe you guys will do better.
UID has nice workshops, teachers equipped with mustaches and turban, olympic-grade ping-pong table and coffee machines that spit out the worst brown liquid I know of, but one thing it is lacking is a proper web ninja. The web at UID has always been a somewhat low priority and it shows. I’ve been trying to do my share to reverse this planed cataclysm, but it’s clearly not enough. I alone cannot counter the school’s high latency on the issue.
Things might change soon as we now have an official position open for a web coordinator at UID. Yéééé! Read it all on the Current Vacancies page.
So if you are reading this post and thinking that this could be for you, email UID right away. Otherwise, please circulate the ad around so we can find the best candidate possible. I do hope that UID will evolve positively its web presence with the help of this new person. The slope is long and steep, I agree. But let us pray the HTML5 gods and the AJAX goddesses that it will happen.
Seriously, all the talk about the internet of things, spimes and ubiquitous computing and the result is a scale that sends your weight and BMI to Google and of course your iPhone. Yawn.
Strange Attraction (try it here) is an random-shape-generator made with JavaScript and Canvas. Done by Jacob Seidelin.
I have been playing around with it and I found some typographic-like shapes (picture above).
Chrome Experiments are projects from people around the world using HTML, Java, etc. Its a compilation of different programs easily accessible with a Web browser (firefox and chrome I tried). (see all here)
I was excited about the new iPad, even if I’m not a fanboy, when they released it today. Initially I thought it was amazing and revolutionary, but now that seen it all and read all the comments (which are very negative) I realize that it’s technically a POS. It has absolutely nothing new, the OS is the same failure as in iPhone, so you can’t listen to music and browse at the same time, you will need to buy a million connectors to get anything connected to it (oh apple, will you ever learn), and there are better machines already that have stylus support in case you ever want to draw on it, like this Asus eee, which is pretty much the same machine as this, but a million times better. But, it has something that the Windows machines don’t have, a viable business model – the App Store. Now newspapers and magazines and book publishers will hopefully, unfortunately, maybe, probably, eventually some day move towards digital content with their own downloadable app subscription, making Berg Boyz’s Mag+ concept happen. It will happen eventually, whether or not this device is the catalyst or not. We have all seen it in Minority Report.
We have some exciting news regarding the upcoming SIDeR 2010 Student Interaction Design Conference that will be hosted at UID March 24-26:
The Call for Papers deadline has been extended, and we are now accepting submissions until January 31st. Please visit www.ingredientsingradients.com for details.
We are also pleased to announce that Zachary Lieberman (www.openFrameworks.cc) will be one of the keynote presenters along with Erik Stolterman (Indiana University), and one more presenter to be announced shortly.
