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Electronic Workshop Weekend: Arduino

Electronic Workshop Weekend: Arduino

After an inspiring lecture on circuit bending and electronics held by Edinburgh based digital artist Yann Seznec last week I decided to try something new. In this lecture we looked at some interesting possibility in using electronics separately and in combination with computers. This seemed like an interesting domain to check out, so I ordered some electronic components and an Arduino to play with the ideas from the lecture to learn more about it. Perhaps the most interesting part is…

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Non-linear Narratives and Agents in Processing

Non-linear Narratives and Agents in Processing

The last weeks my Digital Media Studio Project group and I have been spinning around ideas on how to make a non-linear narrative based on a computer model using agents. This is an interesting way of taking advantage of Object Oriented Modelling, since the agents have attributes and methods relevant to humans. The model is based upon a matrix consisting of two arrays, this model is ideal to represent geographical space, and especially maps seen from above because of the…

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Habermas and the Public Sphere

Habermas and the Public Sphere

The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas is maybe the most acknowledged philosopher living today. He is considered to be the heir of the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research where he worked early in his academic career. His first book, which was also his habilitationsschrift (A post-doctoral work done to be recognized as a professor in Germany): The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is widely discussed. In this paper he, in a Marxist tradition, discusses the rise and decay of the…

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The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

In the book the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction from 1936 critical theorist and member of the Frankfurt school Walter Benjamin discusses the work of art in modern time. He uses photography and film as examples of how the mechanical reproduction breaks with the traditional aspect of artworks, and with religious cultic aspects to be replaced by displayability. All art is reproducible: what man has made, man has always been able to make again, however the…

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2011 – What will happen?

2011 – What will happen?

Soon 2010 will be history, and a new year will begin. 2010 was a long year in which many interesting things happened (as every year). I will now look into my light ball, able to foresee the future, and come with some anticipations about what the new year will bring. As always is it impossible to judge the future, and how things are to become, so this is just some thoughts of what will happen, as a little new years…

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Your organisation and digital media

Your organisation and digital media

Many governmental and corporate offices choose to be present in social media, and to share and gather information here. Internet services such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube have enabled organisational bodies to participate on an arena where also individuals are contributing, commenting and sharing content. Are you working within an organisation being present in one of these arenas or other. Then I want to get in touch with you. On which platforms are your organisation present, and how? How…

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Please help me understand more about Social Media Usage

Please help me understand more about Social Media Usage

As a student of digital media it is important for me to stay up to date with the recent developments in the online community. Much have happened the last five years and statistics on usage is not always up to date. As a result I created this survey using the web service surveymonkey, which I have understood to be one of the major online survey companies on the web. Since I do not have much research money I chose the…

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Reserach proposal: The Digital Age

Reserach proposal: The Digital Age

The perception of our own time in history is always a topic beckoning many opinions and explanations. What is typical for the people living now? How will our culture and ways of living be described in a 25th century school book, and how does this fit with how we picture ourselves in our time? Many more questions could be asked, and they could be more specific, but until further I enjoy the comfort of a new semester to find out…

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Master studies

Master studies

After one and a half week with nervousness and uncertainty I finally got an answer to my masters application yesterday. For the next year I am going to live in Scotland, more precise Edinburgh, where I will be studying Digital Media and Culture at the University of Edinburgh. Earlier this summer I got my conditional offer, but in order to make this unconditional I had to prove that I had satisfying skills in the English language. Because of this requirement…

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Media events

Media events

Doing a semester in one and a half month sure is exhausting, but its also interesting. I´ve allready delivered my exam in popular medias and now its time for the other course media-usage, power and society. This course count 20 ECTS and has a lot of litterature, including much sosiology and jounalism. (So far.) A little, but also interesting part of the literature covers the so called media events. Typical examples on media events are the first moon landing, the…

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