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ice core

2008-06-09T20:45:00Z

This is a thin-ground section of an ice core brought up from a depth of 114m. In polarised light, it shows the borders of ice crystals and gas bubbles.

In almost a decade of efforts by the team from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), the Dome C ice core has enabled the reconstruction of Antarctic temperatures from the past 740,000 years. The results proof that CO2 concentration today is more than 28% higher than ever before during the last 800 000 years. The concentration of methane is today more than 124% higher than ever before during the analysed period.

Here is the related press release in German by the University of Bern from May 08.

moonshine: maya metaballs

2008-06-03T13:40:00Z

Metaballs-plugin for Maya by sayinghai.com

Drawing All Over - Favorites

2008-06-02T16:45:00Z

We have spent a beautiful weekend in the swabian mountains and had a well received presentation of our patashnik drawing performance. The “Drawing All Over” exhibition at K.I.S.S. Untergröningen is more than worth seeing – drawing in different forms and media, an inspiring selection of high quality works, among which many artists we haven´t come across before.

These were among our favorites:

Mareike Lee, currently living in Berlin.

Carlo Bernardini, Viterbo / Milan, Italy. room drawings with fibre optics.

Jill Baroff, New York.

Oscar Munoz – Re/Trato
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Drawing All Over

2008-05-30T15:19:00Z

This Sunday, we will perform our piece patashnik a/b at the opening of the exhibition
Drawing All Over – The Power of Line in the Untergröningen castle, between Stuttgart and Nuremberg. The show comprises works by an international selection of artists, a.o. William Kentridge, William Forsythe, Ulrich Möckel, Robert Longo.

“The 2008 summer exhibition of international contemporary artists has drawing at the centre of its artistic performance and visual perception. Drawing – often preceded by a rough sketch- is, like writing, closely related to the inspiration of thinking, and thus belongs to the most direct and spontaneous forms of artistic expression. “What cannot be said, must be drawn” is our paraphrase of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous philosophical maxim. Influenced by new media and expanding concepts of art, drawing is opening new horizons. But the latter are still bound together by the power of the drawn line.”

Drawing All Over – The Power of Line
June 1 – September 28, 2008
KISS Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen e.V.
www.kiss-untergroeningen.de

kode9 - 9 samurai

2008-05-22T19:34:00Z

SUBMIT! Festival Calls & Competitions

2008-05-22T09:27:00Z

Under the roof of our video platform SENDUNG.net, we have started the new blog SUBMIT! for festival calls for entries, competitions and scholarships in art, design, film, media art and architecture.

Subscribe to the categories you want to keep posted on by RSS to keep up with recent calls and competitions. Our Google Calendars remind you of each and every deadline a week before it´s due.

If you want to help us feeding this nice little project, please forward interesting announcements to submit [at] sendung [dot] net

link: http://submit.sendung.net

space by superfamous

2008-05-20T13:14:00Z

THE NUCLEUS OF AN ATOM IS LIKE AN ANT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SPORTS STADIUM. NATURE IS MOSTLY EMPTY SPACE. INTERRUPTED BY A FEW INSTANCES OF MATTER. THESE POINTS OF MATTER ARE THEMSELVES MOSTLY MADE OF EMPTY SPACE. WHEREVER WE LOOK FOR SOLIDITY WE FIND THE SAME DISTRIBUTION OF SOMETHING VERSUS NOTHING.

From: four typo/graphic pieces illustrating the concept of space for Pocket sized issue 1, a 105mm x 128mm publication by Superfamous aka Folkert Gorter. Together with Rene Daalder, he initiated and runs the awesome community / directory Spacecollective.org.

java 1.6 jogl issues on mac os x

2008-04-30T09:48:00Z

after apple released java 1.6 for mac os x today to the public i got curious to see how my processing (v0135) sketches/apps worked with the new version. unfortunately once you switch to 1.6 in your java preferences, processings opengl throws java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkErrors after messing around with it for a while i discovered that you had to upgrade to the latest nightly jogl build to make it work...

until the processing team releases a fixed version use this updated library to solve your mac p5/opengl issues. (simply replace the old opengl folder in your ./Processing 0135/libraries/ directory) » opengl-mac-java1.6-fix.zip

sonic surrounds blog

2008-04-21T15:31:00Z

Just discovered Musician and sound engineer Nick Mariette´s blog sonic surrounds. Run yet for a couple of years, Nick has slowly but surely built up an archive on sound tech, ambisonics, coding, hardware and sound art.

Jahrmarktskunst

2008-04-14T20:42:00Z

For an exhibition at the Caricatura Gallery in Kassel (January-March 2008), we created a series of playful and colourful miniature interactives:

loophole | funfaircapsule | the rush | jack in the box

Instead of developing capacious installations for months, we thought it must be nice to make up interactive artworks that fit in a casket. They are based on a simple punchline or a very accessible notion, imagery or format.

Caricatura is a Gallery for Comical Art, most often showcasing the work of illustrators, satirical drawings, animation and comic strips. On their invitation, the class of New Media Design at the Kassel School of Arts and Design presented a range of interactive and electronic artworks. Contributions comment on our everyday use of technology, reverse habitual expectations towards electronic devices and make computer dreams come true.

Find out more about the other participants at jahrmarktskunst.de (sorry, german only).

superfluid drip

2008-04-11T21:43:00Z

particle-based viscoelastic fluid simulation

2008-04-11T21:35:00Z

amazing video by a clever canadian who has coded up a fluid simulation using particles, similar to what i’m currently working on in p5 – only that his one seems to be working ;-)

65.536 particles @ 513fps

2008-04-11T19:45:00Z

hell, yeah!
– while working on the liquids code i realized that i need LOTS more particles to generate the level of detail i found in the analog photographs i did before. so after a few days of reading hundreds of opengl tutorials, research papers, game developers articles and 20+ p5 tests i'm finally getting closer to writing a particle system that can simulate 65k - 262k particles in real-time at 60+ fps. on my laptop (!), not a specialized über-workstation – in case you wonder. that's a drastic increase over my previous java based system that could realistically do about 2k particles (10k was pushing it - ran at about 14 fps). ill post some details on the new system soon, when its ready ...

3D voronoi using GLSL

2008-04-10T13:37:00Z

Dynamic 3D Voronoi Demo from Moniker

choque photos

2008-04-09T09:57:00Z

great atmospheric nighttime graffiti action photoset by a brazilian guy called choque