After the launch of Sounddropper in September we were lucky to do a promo for the EMI and Virgin Records artist ‘Professor Green’ who launched his new album ‘To your Inconvenience’ on the 31st October. Pro Green fans have used Sounddropper app to discover specially designed markers and then listen to an exclusive tracks promo of the new album and then spread the promo throughout the UK. If you have not tried Sounddropper yet, do so: -> sounddropper.com
It’s free and it’s getting better every day!
Sonar in Barcelona was a hit! Although the music hackday was somehow strange- all that young nerds sitting in front of their laptops while wildest parties and concerts going on at the MACBA and CCCB sonar village- do they know anything about the emontional aspects of music at all?
Anyway- we enjoyed the festival and the city and made nice connections to labels and artists. If you’d like to join our impresiónes- here is a small collection of some hipstamatics.
sounddropper is almost ready to drop the app-market! Together with my longtime fellow Marcus Kirsch from Resonance Design London we developed a location based sound app. With sounddropper you can define and explore your environment through the music you hear and the sounds that are you.
We are exited to join the Sonar festival in Barcelona this year to promote our app. Especially small labels and independent musicans will benefit from sounddropper to promote their music directly in the streets. And of course the folks who want to discover the sounds of the city.
Stay tuned and join our mailinglist at sounddropper.com and follow us on Twitter!
Our massive multitouch table for the marine science cluster „The Future Ocean” will be shown in the German Museum in Munich from 23th March to 30th August 2010.
The exhibition which contains the Future Ocean Explorer is about the questions and answers of the maritime sciences again and we designed some new and impressive graphics for the walls and banners. You will find the exhibition in the „Center New Technologies” which is the latest extension of the huge German Museum, the world’s largest museum of technology and science.
Until now this is the longest period the Ocean Explorer has to perform and we (especially Chris Engler) developed some advanced features to maintain the table by internet connection and added some automatic setups.
So if you haven’t seen the beauty yet it’s time to make your way to the south. As you know, the Deutsches Museum is always worth a visit, too.
→ Deutsches Museum Munich
→ Future Ocean Explorer by iin
Greta Gröttrups large video projection on the fassade of the opera building in Kiel won the Dr. Hans Hoch Award for media art 2010.
Greta created the concept for this work as her diploma in communication and interaction design and i am very glad for both: That the creation has been implemented with the support of chiffren, forum for contemporary music, in November 2009 and now for the distinction of the Schleswig-Holstein media award 2010. Well done, Mrs. Greatrupp!
Greta has also a smart documentation of the project online where the concept and artwork is explained. So have a look behind the fassades and contact her if you got something similar large to project on.
→ Lucent Lines Project Website
Until April 11 2010 the V&A museum in London showcases latest developments in digital and interactive design. The exhibition explores three themes: Code, interactivity and network. I haven’t seen the exhibition yet, but I have experienced Mark Hansens and Ben Rubins „Listening Post” which is one of the exhibits and at the same time one of my all time favorite digital installations. It is an impressive visualization of today’s communication overflow but in an ruminant and melanchilic disposition. Exclusively to relive this artwork again is worth a visit of the exhibition.
→ V&A exhibition site
→ Listening Post
Fourteen months and 1394 photographs later after the birth of my lovely son I am ready to continue the d-load blog. What a different year…
The intention for this new season is to watch and filter upcoming technologies and developments in information/interaction design and media architecture. I hope this time I will find more time for continuous writing. We will see…
interior interactive is the new network which we established for further collective works. Founder members of iin are Chris Engler from wirmachenbunt, Manfred Schulz (MS Design & Architecture) and of course d-load.
The ambition of iin is to offer the members combined competence to implement projects in the field of digital media and spartial/exhibition design.
The site is still in development, but have a look at our new project, a multitouch-table named OceanExplorer.
Nico Uthe and Bastian Böhm, two students at Muthesius Academy of Arts and participators of my ”360° experiment” seminar won the ‘Best of Show’ award at the Domefest 2008 in Chicago. For the first time ever a student production won the desirable first prize, congratulations to them!
Their 360° - Shortfilm „Sciafobia” is a quotation to the 60ties main title aesthetics and tells the story of a person taking refuge from his own shadow. I linked the 4:3 version which gives of course only a small impression of the fulldome experience.
In our studies and researches at Muthesius Academy we are developing concepts of immersive media and new ideas for the expanded cinema. In my opinion, immersive media does not inevitably mean supernaturalistic renderings and highlevel cumputergraphics. We also did this in the science fiction persiflage „Alien Action”, but it is more important how to use the 360° projection for new kinds of dramaturgy. Unusual narratives and an artistic stage setting are more crucial to get the audience involved than massive effects and fancy multimedia fireworks. Also at the dome, fresh content is king. This is my personal interpretation of 2008 Domefest results and we are very glad to be on the right path.
„Sciafobia” uses that principles in an elaborated way, the reduced graphical images generate endless horizons (the train-scene) like there isn’t a 360° projection but a superhuge videowall with no ends. The movie is a perfect quote to Saul Bass’ graphical style of the 60ties main title trailers and the swinging beat gives a lot of dynamics and good vibrations to the image. Perfectly done, Nico and Bastian!
More on fulldome productions:
→ Immersive Media
→ ICH² - experimental fulldome dance performance
This book written by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cloe Phillips is a very fresh and contemporary look on how print an interactive graphic design influences each other. And what also makes this book different: It is not only a lookbook with stunning images but a lecture book which draws the connection from classical bauhaus compositions to generative media and visualization methods of complex structures, including Casy Rear’s processing artwork. Five stars for that manifesto of digital modernism.
→ www.gdbasics.com