zeitkunst http://zeitkunst.org/blog Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Post Singapore/Malaysia Update http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/08/11/post-singaporemalaysia-update/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/08/11/post-singaporemalaysia-update/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:17:47 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/?p=79 Just got back last week from a great vacation in Singapore and Malaysia, the police-state nature of Singapore notwithstanding (more on that in a later post). ISEA was most definitely a mixed bag, with most of the bag holding bad, with a few good here and there. Look for a review of the conference in the next month or so. I’m now at the Values in Design workshop at Santa Clara University, returning to Ithaca next Sunday/Monday.

For the moment, here’s a copy of the paper I presented at ISEA, entitled Reinterpreting networks of people as fluid for political purposes . I hope to expand upon this paper by the time this year is out.

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/08/11/post-singaporemalaysia-update/feed/ First view of Fluid Nexus on Android http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/11/first-view-of-fluid-nexus-on-android/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/11/first-view-of-fluid-nexus-on-android/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:18:52 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/?p=78 I’ve been working on porting Fluid Nexus to the Google Android platform, partially, yes, because of their challenge, but also because I want to support a platform that aims to try and open up the world of mobile phones. Here’s a short video with some of the interface features I’ve developed so far. I still have to write the code that deals with Bluetooth sending and receiving; this is more complicated than it should be, because the emulator doesn’t support Bluetooth yet :-(


Fluid Nexus on Android, early test. from Nick Knouf on Vimeo.

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/11/first-view-of-fluid-nexus-on-android/feed/ Article about the Goldsen Archive http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/02/article-about-the-goldsen-archive/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/02/article-about-the-goldsen-archive/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:24:30 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/?p=77 I’m happy to say that my first freelance article ever is now up on the Ithaca Times website. It’s about the Rose Goldsen New Media Archive and titled Archiving the Present. The format on the website is a little wacky, but I think you get the point. Definitely check it out in print as well, if you can!

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/02/article-about-the-goldsen-archive/feed/ Upcoming and ongoing calls http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/24/upcoming-and-ongoing-calls/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/24/upcoming-and-ongoing-calls/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:57:47 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/24/upcoming-and-ongoing-calls/ Interactivos?’08 · Juegos de la visión: Convocatoria de proyectos

Medialab-Prado convoca a la presentación de proyectos para su producción dentro del evento Interactivos?’08: Juegos de la Visión, que se llevará a cabo en Madrid entre el 30 de mayo y el 14 de junio de 2008.

http://medialab-prado.es/article/convocatoria_interactivos08_juegos_de_la_vision

Call for Artist in Residence Programme 2008 at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is calling for proposals from artists to develop a research and production project at LABoral for two months during 2008.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is an interdisciplinary art centre created in Gijon, in the north of Spain in 2007. Its main objective is to become a research, educational, exhibition and production centre in the area of art, science and technology.

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/

Kitchen Budapest: 08 Return of the Periphery

Kitchen Budapest is offering guest researcher positions in 2008 for dedicated profesisonals, artist, engineers, interested in the convergence of new media and actual spaces, cultural experiences, new communities, and are highly motivated to create such projects in teams.

Beyond personal skills we are very much interested in team work and collaboration skills, as all projects at our lab have to be produced in teams. It is the task of the researchers to raise interest within our community and get others on board.

http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/2008-residency-calls

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/24/upcoming-and-ongoing-calls/feed/ Fluid Nexus Project Video http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/20/fluid-nexus-project-video/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/20/fluid-nexus-project-video/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:50:29 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/20/fluid-nexus-project-video/ I’ve already posted this on the Fluid Nexus blog, but I wanted to post it here as well: my final project video for the workshop.


Fluid Nexus Project Video from Nick Knouf on Vimeo.

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/20/fluid-nexus-project-video/feed/ FLEFF 2008 http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/17/fleff-2008/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/17/fleff-2008/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:38:08 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/17/fleff-2008/ Just as an FYI, there’s a really great festival coming up at the end of March—beginning of April called the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival or FLEFF. Coincidentally, I’m giving a talk there on Thursday the 3rd from 4-6PM on a great panel with Stephanie Rothenberg, Sharon Lin Tay, and Dale Hudson. I’ll be talking about mobile media, non-representational networks, and the Fluid Nexus project.

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/17/fleff-2008/feed/ Fluid Nexus Blog at Medialab-Prado http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/09/fluid-nexus-blog-at-medialab-prado/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/09/fluid-nexus-blog-at-medialab-prado/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:56:40 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/09/fluid-nexus-blog-at-medialab-prado/ Julian, Pix, and the rest of the great crew at Medialab-Prado set up blogs for our projects a couple of days ago, and I’ve just made the first post to it. I don’t know how much time I’ll have to post over the next few days, but I’ll do my best to put up some info as the project comes to (some form of) completion!

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/09/fluid-nexus-blog-at-medialab-prado/feed/ Circuit bending instructable http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/21/circuit-bending-instructable/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/21/circuit-bending-instructable/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:38:53 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/21/circuit-bending-instructable/ I just finished and posted an instructable about simple circuit bending for a sound-making toy. This toy was used in a piece for violin and toy that I wrote for a course in electroacoustic composition. It’s part of a broader goal to create “open-source” compositions, where not only the scores but also other components of my compositions are documented and released for others to see and modify. Soon I’ll post the score and performance notes for this piece…but for now, a nap.

UPDATE The instructable was just featured on the front page of instructables.com …yay!

UPDATE The hat trick is complete! Earlier this week my instructable was made “popular” and again was featured on the home page, and just last night I saw it in the weekly “Weekend Builder” e-mail that goes out to tons of people! I’m quite stoked about this, especially since I didn’t expect it to be that popular or interesting for people. Guess I’m going to be making more instructables in the future :-)

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/21/circuit-bending-instructable/feed/ Text messages as hate speech in Kenya http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/20/text-messages-as-hate-speech-in-kenya/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/20/text-messages-as-hate-speech-in-kenya/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:07:22 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/20/text-messages-as-hate-speech-in-kenya/ Just this morning on NPR I heard a story about how the different factions in the recent electoral violence in Kenya were sending hate speech as text messages. Some of the content is simply horrific. This is a sobering reminder that the tools we (I) create can potentially be used for similarly horrible ends…

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/20/text-messages-as-hate-speech-in-kenya/feed/ Participation in the Second Inclusiva-net Meeting at Medialab-Prado in Madrid http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/13/participation-in-the-second-inclusiva-net-meeting-at-medialab-prado-in-madrid/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/13/participation-in-the-second-inclusiva-net-meeting-at-medialab-prado-in-madrid/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:40:37 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/02/13/participation-in-the-second-inclusiva-net-meeting-at-medialab-prado-in-madrid/ I’m very excited to say that I was selected to be a participant in the upcoming workshop on Digital Networks and Physical Space at Medialab-Prado in Madrid! They selected ten projects to be developed collaboratively during the two-week long workshop, and my mobile media project, now called Fluid Nexus, was chosen as one of the ten. Now there is an open call for collaborators, so if you’re interested in working on this project, or any of the other ones, definitely respond to the call!

Also, the source code for the Fluid Nexis project is now housed at sourceforge. There’s not much there yet, but I have uploaded the first stabs at the code to the svn repository.

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