The Fourth Screen Global Mobile Media Festival Call: The Fourth Screen Global Mobile Media Festival will focus on the mobile phone as an emerging social, cultural and technological phenomenon. We invite artists, technologists, and other creative thinkers to submit creations, inventions and concepts...
Networked Publics Conference and Media Festival April 28 + 29
Networked Publics Conference and Media Festival at the Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California (April 28-29, 2006). This two-day event will bring together new media scholars and practitioners to exhibit and discuss the roles of audiences, activists, and producers in ma...
Button mashing
According to Wikipedia, button mashing is: Button mashing is the term given to repeated button presses over a short period. Most of the time, button mashing is seen in athletic and fighting video games. (...) Button mashing was first popularized by Track & Field in 1983 (...) Sometimes, random butt...
Protospace: augmented CAD
Protospace Demo 1.2 by the Hyperbody Research Group at TU Delft. Protospace Demo 1.2, successor of Protospace Demo 1.1, explores 1) the appliance of swarm behavior in an early stage of a building project and 2) the use of experimental user interfaces with motion tracking, wireless controllers and s...
Telephoning has lost its physicality
Via news.3yen: Telephoneboxing is an art installation which very clear aims: Telephoning has lost its physicality; it has literary become weightless. The smaller the telephone gets, the easier it is to communicate, anytime, anywhere, with anyone. (...) What would communication mean if a phone call ...
Odorama movie: polyester
One of my favorite movie:"Polyester" (John Waters). Almost set here, with the odorama add-on: ...
CHI2006 Workshop on Mobile Social Software
I spent the end of the afternoon reading the whole set of papers from the future CHI2006 Workshop on Mobile Social Software. They're all available (which is great, I wish other papers from other worshops could be on-line too). Organized by Scott Counts, Henri ter Hofte, and Ian Smith, this workshop...
REX: a pervasive spell-casting game on mobile phones
REXplorer is a pervasive game designed to enhance the tourist experience in the medieval city of Regensburg. More about it here: REXplorer: A Pervasive Spell-Casting Game for Tourists as Social Software by Rafael Ballagas, Steffen P. Walz and Jan Borchers. Participants will begin by renting their ...
The Flock: a musical interactive sound sculpture
the Flock is an impressing project by Ken Rinaldo: The Flock is a group of musical interactive sound sculptures which exhibit behaviors analogous to the flocking found in natural groups such as birds, schooling fish or flying bats. (...) Our Flock consists of three 9 1/2 foot long jointed robo...
"You're The Man Now, Dog!"
Among the curious trend on the web lately, I am quite fascinated by YTMND: YTMND, an acronym for "You're The Man Now, Dog!", is a website community that centers on the creation of YTMNDs, which are pages featuring a juxtaposition of a single image, optionally animated and/or tiled, along with large...