ETech conference took place in Sun Diego there days (3 - 6 March). Hot topics and brightest brains in the online business gathered to discuss and brainstorm on emerging technologies.
See the keynote speakers in a presentation by Wired.com
Now that’s a tricky one. How do you see the dancer turning - clockwise or counter-clockwise?
The answer to this test is given in the Daily Telegraph page.
That was good! Could anyone see the counter-clockwise turn of the figure? I coundn’t as hard as I tried.
Later Edit: I could I could 
! But I had to keep my head turned on the left side and squeeze my eyes to actually see. It’s marvellous to experience both the two perceptions.
Panorama festival in Karlsruhe starts on Saturday and is for the next 6 months. A lot of interesting experiments are to be seen there. You might be fooled that it is a simple display of photographic panoramas collections, but you would be soo wrong: The festival gathers interactive artists that make use of panoramas display in their work.
The Wooster Group come with an interesting experiment on an interactive 360 degrees war film. Now how about that? How about choosing your own point of view, and not the director’s?Other artists, such as Bernd Lintermann and Joachim Böttger with Globorama 2005 explore inedite visualization of the Earth.
Interactivity is the key.. I want to go there. Program here… take a look.
How would you feel about a movie that lets you control not the plot, but the place you observe the action… You could listen to the two main characters 
or just slip away on the corridor and see what is happening in the garden… Do you think this shift in visualizing the film is possible in the next 5 years?
for those of you who already have a phd in information systems, computing or maths, this job might be of great interest 
deadline October 4th.
“This is an exciting opportunity to join the Multimedia Group as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the EPSRC MC² (MPEG-7 Content Modelling Communities) project. MC² aims to develop a software platform for enabling user communities, such as those found on YouTube, Flickr, del.icio.us and Wikipedia, to create multimedia metadata collaboratively. The successful applicant will work with Dr Harry Agius (the Principal Investigator), Professor Marios Angelides (the Co-Investigator) and Cambridge Imaging Systems (the project partner).
Applicants must hold a PhD in a relevant discipline, have experience with software development and research methods, and be competent with XML (prior experience with MPEG-7 is not necessary since it is XML based). Good research writing and oral presentation skills are also expected.
Situated in Brunel University’s leafy suburban campus in west London, the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics is made up of over 100 academic staff and was awarded a 5 in the last RAE for the ‘international standing’ of its research, making it an advantageous environment for researchers.”
Full description here
A project from 2002 of the same Lev Manovich, with a daring(for its time) approach on browsing video content. Tagging visual information such as: contrast, automated velocity computing, while having means to navigate through a vast database of videos and audio files enables the spectator to choose themes and switch perspectives while enjoying this new type of eclectic cinema movie.
I am not actually convinced by this project, now seeing it at over 4 years distance, even though the idea has seen implementation - google video e.g. has done something relevant in this regard. The idea is truly valuable as the amount of video content exceeds at this point the possibility of indexing it in a normal fashion, but the visuals for the project are not that impressive.
This is an interesting festival, too bad I’ve just found about it today, as the deadline is only a few days away - August 25th. This thursday…. maybe short enough, but I also have to be fast enough to submit a significant work.
That’s one of the last year’s entries. I’d like to see the final exhibits, as the concept is quite challenging.
“THIS YEAR’S THEME: SHORT & FAST. Short and fast digital animations / films / works. We are looking for work that is small in file size and quick in linear time. The exhibits will be held at various airfields in the northern Orkney Isles, home of the “The Worlds Shortest Scheduled Flight”. Continue reading »
Casey Reas and Ben Fry will release a book on their renowed program Processing at MIT Press this September. I have worked a little bit with Processing, it is really fascinating, point is Romania has no market for it. Or maybe I just haven’t got the insight so far.
The book will turn interesting to designers and developers, I’d like to have one copy when it’s released.
I’ve found an interesting project developed by those at Medialabmadrid, on the social, artistic and cultural applications of data visualization through a broad program of activities including reflection, research and the production of knowledge. The aim is to bring these interpretive keys to new fields of work where their potential uses are many (from investigative journalism to social or environmental activism) and to take an in-depth look at present day artistic production, which has taken on the role of creating this new kind of images suitable for a culture of complexity.
Sounds interesting. They have an open call for offering a presentation for the symposium and presenting a proposal to be carried out at the production workshop. Deadline October 5th, 2007.
What kind of images are appropriate for the needs of a global informational networked society – the society which in all of its areas needs to represent more data, more layers, more connections than the preceding its industrial society? The complex systems which have become super-complex; the easy availability of real-time information coming from news feeds, networks of sensors, surveillance cameras; – all this puts a new pressure on the kinds of images human culture already developed and ultimately calls for the development of new kinds.
Lev Manovich
According to the well-known blogger Jason Kottke, worldwide newspapers publish over 6,000 terabytes of data every day. Technorati, the weblog search engine, keeps up to date with 54 million blog users. Flickr, the famous photo sharing website, has amassed a file of two billion labelled and classified photos in only two years. 70,000 videos are uploaded to YouTube every day. Google now has access to almost nine billion documents and websites. Wikipedia’s volunteer encyclopaedia authors have written one million, four hundred thousand articles, fifteen times more than fit in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. We are flooded with information. And there is no end in sight… read more and contribute here
Daniel Lee is a guy that inspired me a while ago. I am very interested in color processing on digital images, and even though my work is not related to DTP and print, I almost always correct images I have to use on different multimedia presentations so that they have the proper color ratio.
I can say I’m almost obssesed with that. I don’t like cyan in my reds and yellows, nor magenta in my greens 
that’s me…. color addict, what can I say?!
So at some point, working so much on portait photos adjusting faces … i thought why not reinterpret myself? The result is somewhat strange… i can see it’s still me, but blue eyed? bonde? it’s soooo weird…
I’ve known about Lee’s work especially the one commissioned for Ars Electronica 2005… but looking on some other of his interpretations on portraits …. true art interpretation, the feeling is more accute … strange indeed. 
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