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Electronic Workshop Weekend: Arduino

10/02/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 2 comments

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

09/02/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

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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Grown up digital

01/02/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Grown up digital is the second latest book signed the Canadian author Don Tapscott. Published in 2008 it was released twelve years after one of his earlier books Growing up digital. The book is a generational study of the Net Generation, and throughout the book Tapscott presents traits associated with NetGeners, and how these affect different institutions. The institutions which the computer-savvy generation is affecting includes the educational and the commercial sector, the work place, the family and the political…

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Habermas and the Public Sphere

29/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

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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Series and Films

24/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 2 comments

The study of digital media is intertwined in the study of new media, and also new media consumption patterns. Often is Internet based applications the subject for scrutiny, but also other platforms have seen changes with new media. I want to direct my attention to TV-series as I have an impression of these being particularly popular for the time being. I don’t have any statistics to reinforce this theory, and I do not know whether series has replaced time spent…

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Edinburgh in Pictures

23/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Throughout the four months I now have been living in Edinburgh I have occasionally taken some pictures. Here are the pictures I have taken in Edinburgh and uploaded to Flickr. Igjennom de fire månedene jeg har bodd i Edinburgh har jeg av og til tatt noen bilder. Her er bildene jeg har tatt i Edinburgh og lastet opp til Flickr. I have some other pictures from other places as well, if you want to check them out, they are available…

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The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

22/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 4 comments

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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Congratulations, Wikipedia

15/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

The 15th of January 2001 a new encyclopaedia was released. Beginning with Nupedia Larry Sanger and Jimmy Welsh created an online web encyclopaedia, where expert authors wrote articles which were followed up by a formal peer process, not unlike how articles in the academic world are created. Later Wikipedia was introduced and this site which was independent form Nupedia, became based on a more democratized model with an open editing model and collective correction based on consensus. Wikipedia, as a…

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A brief history of the Internet

13/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

We are living in interesting times. Even though we don’t have flying cars, eat dinners contained in pills or have vacations in space (yet) there have been a been dramatic changes the last decades. I want in this little piece to focus on the changes the computers have imposed upon information, and intellectual property. The digitalisation of various forms of communication in combination with the huge numbers of computers and computer-like devices owned and cheap Internet connections have changed the…

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2010: A (short) summary

13/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

The year 2010 began in Espen’s old flat in Odense, Denmark. After a delightful meal we (Espen, Olav, the Icelandic delegation and I) clung our glasses filled with bubbles accompanied by cheers and wishes for the year to come. It was going to be a long, and interesting year. In this blogpost I am summarizing the year from Jules’ and my little cottage in the centre of Edinburgh, and much have happened between the fireworks in H.C. Andersen’s city at…

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