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This applet was originally done for another project than just our blog…
but after all this preparatory “eye work” we thought we could publish it anyways. Please visit also our daytar site.

Scientists in Newcastle found out that images of eyes attached near an “honesty box” in the psychology department’s common room made people more honest. (more…)

a comment on architecture in different contexts: two videos by Michal Levy and Pierre-Abraham Rochat

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This is a follow-up to our holodust post.
“iRomance-Die Romantik der Zukunft” (Romance of the future)– is a 6 min. funny comedy by Jan-M. Studt mixing the aesthetics of 2001 and star wars with the typical aesthetics of commercials. Unfortunately only in german, but may be the mimics and gestures are enough to understand the film…
Via the blog of Tim Bruysten, also featured on hackermovies.com (both links in german)

It is sometimes interesting to observe how ideas breed. Since some years there has been Ken Perlins vision of a Laser-Leia – or err – a teddybear? – on his marvelous and famous homepage (-> which had been included in the Whitney artport!). Seems last year (more…)

we get hyperselfreferential to improve our google ranking :).

I.e. this is a follow up to the two posts “Journées Informatique et Géométrie” 2006 and to 3 from 2 (dimensions of course).— Or to put it differently: I couldn’t resist to try out the software mentioned in 3 from 2 (dimensions of course). As a matter of fact the software works brilliantly on minimalistic math buildings. In particular it turned the image of the Nautibus building on the Campus in Lyon in to a Potyomkin– Nautibus. Next time I try Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
(“corner of Roermond and Schoenhauser Strasse”).

Unfortunately the jReality filereader (I have nothing to do with this bear!) has sofar no VRML2.0 parser, so I had to use Xj3D, whose navigation is mildly speaking “uncomfortable”. Stay tuned for the parser and in particular for the upcoming jReality release!

Roberto Cuoghi, Untitled 2004

Last monday the 4. Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art under the title: “Von Mäusen und Menschen” (Of Mice and Men) closed its doors. The biennale is one of Berlins important regular modern art events.

From the press kit for the exhibition:

“Of Mice and Men” looks at life as a series of traumas and at art as an enigma that capture moments of disorientation and states of uncertainty and fragility. Anxiety and paranoia, a
impenetrable obscurity and a looming sense of suspension are some of the recurring atmospheres in the show.

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I know: this link is not very fresh, but still it is worth a post. And it is indeed fresher than the link to its predecessor.
Both are Flash adventure games. The latter featuring an …um someone… inhabitant of an overcrowded planet facing an intergalactic crash. The former even an alien hijacking of a lovely dog…lots of creatures…
or: both are very poetic little treasures with a dreamlike setting and a very good meditative sound track.
Not your cup of tea, these themes? Well better decide for yourself what these games are about…
Created by the Czech studio Amanita Design the games are full of reminiscences to old eastern european illustrations and style. sweet.

We finally managed to put an excerpt of our video documentation of seidesein on the daytar website.

seidesein is an interactive environment, which investigates communication in virtual 3D space.

seidesein can be experienced on a home computer as well as in bigger setups like a virtual reality theatre. This is due to the platform independency of the underlying software called jReality. (see also links above :-))