Blog Archive for Month: April 2008

Interesting post by Jonah on MAKE blog.

Pacman game path arranged into audio tape

This project, “Nam June Paik Man” by Irish artist, Ivan Twohig, is an homage of sorts to Korean artist Nam June Paik, where Twohig employs the technique used by Paik of running a tape head over recorded audio tape to produce sounds. The difference is that Twohig’s tape is arranged in the labyrinth shape of a game of Pac Man he played and the recorded audio is from the game as well, so you can literally follow the path the artist took around the game and listen to it as well.. Pretty cool way to re-imagine video games through physical interfaces. Ivan Twohig Projects

I like that. And it s not only game art but in some sense aslo a locative media art project. Looks like a typical GPS city sound walk. 🙂

Tim Pritlove proposed a thought bubble version of the “chat” project to me during 24c3. It could look like this piece but would you have a conversation between two thought bubbles?
But I like the cloud.

via vvork.com

thanks for the link LaserMartin!

3Sat-Neues ueber die re:publica 2008 – Die kritische Masse from netzpolitik on Vimeo.

“3sat Neues” a german TV magazin on computer, technology and society had a report on re:publica 08 conference where I was performing the “Follow me!” project. At the end of the clip “Follow me!” is introduced including a short interview. (german)
” …ironische Distanz zur digitalen Selbstreferenzialität…” 🙂

Besides the classic red map marker Google has introduced more colors like green for navigation and blue for user content on the Google maps web interface. I am still waiting for the day these icons conquer every day life public space.
Sometimes I find already tiny samples
😉

Since we are both graduated architects Pablo gave me a nice tour on the recently finished CaixaForum by Herzog & de Meuron, a quite impressive building. This facade detail on the top floor is taken from inside the cafe. Pixels or texture?

Me, the camera and my case in the entrance to Medialab Prado which I visited after Casa del Encendida in Madrid. I had a nice conversation with Marcos and held a spontaneous talk in front of a group of sociology class art students. Nice place!
[where is the cam?]

I had a very good time in Madrid. The “Chat” performance went very well, we had a lot of fun on the street and in a bar. It is a great honor to find myself in between all these great game art classics of the “Try again” exhibition at La Casa del Encendida.

Article in “El Pais” newspaper (for all who speak spanish).

All pics on flickr.

For my last exhibition newsletter I forgot to put everybody on bcc. So the whole list of recipients appeared in each email. I am really sorry about that and I decided to quit sending mass emails. In general I think it is useful to send/receive newsletters (I am not the typical up-to-date-blog-crawler) but maybe the time has come to stop misusing email as a news push service. It is interesting to see how much email is an “old” and private way of communicating within the exposed privacy craze of Social Web. In that sense I understand very much the concerns on accidental email spam lists.
(This is a blog post.)

This is the Index of the “Try again” exhibition catalogue listing all involved artists and authors:

“Try Again”
La Casadel Encendida
Madrid, ES
10.04.08 to 08.06.08