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Last night was the world premiere of the artistic game “Day of the Figurines” by Brighton’s Blast Theory hosted by First Play Berlin, Trampoline an event which is part of UK’s radiator festival.
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atomic resolution micrograph of multiple twinned nanocrystalline film of Si (C. Song) in the ncem gallery
This post is sort of a followup to e.g. this randform post as it covers the unseeable.
A new shop on Kings road dedicated to digital wellbeing.
The shop hosts – among other stars in interactive design:
BrixtonBerlinBased random international
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(falls Flo das liest: auf superschicke klippslampe wird noch gespart)
art and video games seem to rise in acceptance in the art world hmm let’s say… at least the documentation 8 bit on art and games will be shown in the MOMA New York on Oct. 7 2006 8 p.m.
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Signs are often context-sensitive, means they have a certain meaning only in certain contexts.
In my last posts (see e.g. here) I was speaking about the nature of garment acting as a sign or also as a symbol or icon. Here the context of a sign can imply very different meanings -even just for shoes.
Above “devil” (thats how I called her) is my personal piece of “wearable computing”. I soldered it when I was 11 years old…so yes…this was still in the seventies.
supernatural studios are hosting a very interesting lecture series in London`s Tate modern on visual effects and computer animation.
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daytars project “d-room” was originally a proposal for a rhizome commission – however it didnt make it to the rhizome commisson‘s top ten. The proposal URL was only made public for rhizome members and since january the proposal is rotting on our server. So, I thought to make it public now.
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It is allways an interesting question at what point a picture becomes a symbol, i.e. a representative for something more abstract. This is also what I found to be the most important point which I missed in John Maeda’s commentary in this weeks post. How much is an avatar a symbol for the person behind it?
In the case of a logo the symbol nature is usually easy to manifest, but e.g. in the case of characters – especially from computer games – this depends. Sometimes they are pixymbols – just think of the pac man characters. For the smiley I find this is similar.
In this context it is worthwhile to see how early character design in computer games has transformed by time. And so I stumbled over these funny “round voxel”-3D analogs of game characters by designer Jeremy Dower who did – among others – also character design for the gameboy.
-See also an old randform post about pictoplasma.
-fake (?) space invaders characters e.g. here
trees in the urbanforest.
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