Category — lectures

The future of gadgets isn’t necessarily the homogeneous iPhone. With open source hardware and personal manufacturing, we can all have custom gadgets someday. Mark Argo talks about what we can learn from history as we try to make a DIY future

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…ist eine gute Band, passt aber auch zum letzten Wochenende: Am Samstag fand im EnKa in Berlin ein Workshop der Chiptune Marching Band statt

Jo Kazuhiro and Jamie Allen vom Culture Lab Newcastle machten in vier Stunden 14 Leute in drei Schritten zu Mitgliedern der Chiptune Marching Band:

1. Bausatz nach Anleitung zusammenstecken
   (Foto von chiptunemarchingband.com)

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Vom 23. bis 25.7. fand in Porto, Portugal die 6. Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Konferenz statt. Wenige Tage zuvor fand eine “Summerschool” statt, der von der Sonic Interaction Design (SID) Gruppe organisiert wurde und an der ich teilgenommen habe – ein kurzer Rückblick.

(Foto: pioforsky)
Die Veranstaltungen fanden übrigens im Casa da Musica (Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Arup-AFA) statt – einem außerordentlich schönem Gebäude, dass in Wirklichkeit ein Meteorit ist.
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Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale of pioneering synth pop band Devo admit they failed to save the world from backward decline. Music devolves as music tech evolves, so artists no longer need to make decisions.

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Dan Saffer, “Attention Awareness for Interaction Designers 2009″ auf der Interaction´09 Konferenz.

Moonwalking Bears?

Dan Saffer – Attention Awareness for Interaction Designers 2009 from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
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Jessica Banks & Ayah Bdeir (Little Bits) @ mind08 / The Design and the Elastic Mind Symposium

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???

this is a trust based thing. (…) No patents, you have to let go with the ego you have to share don´t waste your time and your money looking at the patents
and trying to defend them, move on, have another idea tomorrow, don´t be afraid.

(ca. minute 10)

On Tuesday I attended the Tenori-On lauch event at the Berghain Club in Berlin. Toshio Iwai, one of the inventors gave a little presentation and talked about the background of this project. He introduced some of his older projects for example “Piano – As Image Media”, “Composition on the Table” or the Nintendo DS videogame Electroplankton.

In the following video (excerpt 8.42) Iwai talks almost about the same things he refered to in his presentation:

download the whole presentation (2 hours): mms://stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2006_STF_INSIDE_01_E.wmv
(copy this link into your Videoplayer VLC, QT…. consider the codec)

Links
Interview with Toshio Iwai on pixelsurgeon.
summary of Iwais Ars Electronica lecture
YouTube-Videos with Toshio Iwai

relevancy
The Tenori-On is of course interesting for my work – especially because it’s a commercial product. The older projects of Toshio Iwai that are software and hardware based are also quite exciting.

An interesting quote from the pixelsurgeon interview to think of:

“I feel in the future, analogue and digital will be mixed together more closely, and its border will be obscure naturally.” (Toshio Iwai)

Yesterday I saw a lecture by a member of the Paris based graphic and video art collective Pleix.

I really liked the music video for Plaid:

Innovationsfoum Interaktionsdesign, 30. und 31. März 2007 in Potsdam
with cute ideas and great speakers

Bill Moggridge

CO-founder of IDEO and author of Designing Interactions talked about his book and showed some interviews he did;

His formula for success:

• built prototypes and test them
• find a quick and easy way for doing prototypes
• develop ideas in a non-linear way (flipper analogy)

Gillian Crampton Smith

“Research is not research until it is communicated” (quote from someone I forgot) -> add-on “research is not research until it makes a difference”

Kochlik & Paul / art+com

Well behaved interactive media.

• computers behave / pocket calculators do not behave
• communication through behaviour (technical artifact = animal)
• Anthropomorphism
• examples: robotic pets, outerspace, living with things

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I really liked the students presentation, especially Michiko Nitta’s Extreme Green Guerilla.

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